Long Game: a Heated Rivalry Podcast
Hosted by Declan and Silvan · Declan & Silvan
4.9from 203 ratings
- 39
- Episodes
- 27
- Transcribed
- 203
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Long Game: a Heated Rivalry Podcast
Long Game: A Heated Rivalry Podcast is a re-watch and deep-dive podcast dedicated to Heated Rivalry, hosted by Declan and Silvan. In each episode, we revisit key moments across the series, unpacking the slow-burn tension, character development, and emotional beats that make the heated rivalry world so compelling. Through thoughtful discussion, close reading, and a fan-informed lens, we explore themes of competition, intimacy, identity, and growth over time, celebrating not just the heat of the rivalry, but the long game it takes to truly understand these characters and their relationship. New episodes published every Sunday
- Publisher
- Declan & Silvan
- Category
- society & culture · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Dec 2025
- Latest episode
- 20 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
27 of 39 episodes have a transcript.
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Book Club Review: Tough Guy Part 2: Ryan & Fabian vs. Shane & Ilya
13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Heated Rivalry Book Review: Tough Guy: Part 1 - First Impressions
6 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Alex Cross: The Story Behind Echoes of Us & Becoming Us
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Book Club Review: Tough Guy Part 2: Ryan & Fabian vs. Shane & Ilya
Published 20 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Like the way in which I view relationships now compared to whenever I was like 21 is completely different now. So I like that she is looking at older characters. And it's funny in the next book, they're even older again. Well, one of them is and the other one is younger. So you get to play around with a bit of an age gap. So she's asking more questions of like, different types of relationships at different points in times with different ages and I really like that element of it but yeah I like the way the way that age influences so much of these two in particular I think is really cool now I wanted to have a look at these couples in terms of very particular things that people look for in relationships right and also we look for in MM romance books as readers So I'm going to give a like a subtitle, let's say, of, for example, chemistry. […]
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- Jenn
- Alex Cross
- Scarlett Drake
- Bri
- Alicia
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Declan and Silvan host the show. Published by Declan & Silvan.
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