Who watched? Arden read her porn like a civilized person, thank you.

"Okay, yes, that's true," she acknowledged, kindly leaving off the part about how white women were terrible at looking after their own self-interests because this wasn't the time to introduce Cal to American politics. Instead, she was going to shift until she was leaning with her back against him, arched slightly so she could look up at his face while they talked. Like normal friends. "That's one genre of romance, like how dumb car movies are one genre of action flicks. There are plenty of romances where they're about the main characters finding strength and resilience in their relationship, because the outside world is just so much." She paused. "I'll grant you, a lot of movies do have plots that could just be solved by people talking about their feelings openly and honestly."

Which was nothing like real life, obviously.