The Cut: Love on Lockdown

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Love on Lockdown: A Quarantine Romantic Comedy
Two people sitting close share a bowl of popcorn.
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In this episode,The Cut brings you a real-life quarantine rom-com starring Tamara and Frank. They met on an app during New York’s stay-at-home orders and spent two months FaceTime-dating before deciding that they wanted to meet in person, pandemic be damned (but safety precautions very much not damned.) They planned to go on their first date … which lasted two weeks. To do that, they found an apartment where they could quarantine together and see whether their chemistry translated to the non-digital world.

The Cut is a weekly audio magazine exploring culture, style, sex, politics, and more, with host Avery Trufelman. Love on Lockdown: A Quarantine Romantic Comedy from the Cut and host Audrey Trufelman comes real-life quarantine rom-com starring Tamara and Frank. They met on an app during New York’s stay-at-home orders and spent two months FaceTime-dating before deciding that they wanted to meet in person, pandemic be damned (but safety precautions very much not damned.) They planned to go on their first date … which lasted two weeks. To do that, they found an apartment where they could quarantine together and see whether
their chemistry translated to the non-digital world.

Headshot of Avery Trufelman. She has brown hair in a pixie cut and is wearing a white tshirt.
Image courtesy of New York Magazine and Vox Media Podcast Network

Avery Trufelman is an alumna of the award-winning design podcast 99% Invisible In September of 2018, she launched a limited-run series about clothing and fashion called Articles of Interest, which was declared one of the best podcasts of 2018 by the New Yorker, and the finale was called the “best podcast episode of the year” by Vulture. She is the host of Nice Try! a podcast from Curbed about utopian experiments, as well as the host of the podcast for The Cut, from New York Magazine.