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October 27, 2025

Don't Date Brandon is an engaging look at female solidarity and toxic masculinity

the true crime that's worth your time

brandon johnson

I didn't expect to like Don't Date Brandon as much as I did. The three-part series, which dropped on Paramount+ today, is pitched as a fairly standard love fraud story, and there are certainly elements of that in the case. But it's also a story about women who were pitted against each other — and who ignored that catfight convention (and, let's face it, decades of societal conditioning) to support each other in the face of an allegedly deceptive, manipulative, and creepy man.

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