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First Impression- Carter · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: Today we're continuing our First Impression series where we review
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  Speaker 2: the pilot episode of the series streaming on Hallmark Plus.
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  Speaker 2: We're watching it so you don't have to, but maybe
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  Speaker 1: Don, Thank you. That's killer so good? Right, yeah, really good,
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  Speaker 1: really really good. I'm like, well, lucky for Don. I
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  Speaker 1: mean she gets an episode nearly every single day of
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  Speaker 1: the week.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, and you know, if you're burning out on Hallmark,
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  Speaker 2: We've got new stuff coming for.
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  Speaker 1: You, so keep your ears pealed for that. Yes, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about Carter. You know what's funny. People are probably going, oh,
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  Speaker 1: wtf is Carter? Right, this is nothing that's ever been
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  Speaker 1: like promoted on a Hallmark channel. I mean maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: been promoted maybe that it's on Hallmark Plus. But other
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  Speaker 1: than that, this never aired on Hallmark channel, right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. However, if you do have the
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark Plus platform, I feel like I'd come across it
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  Speaker 2: all the time, like I just is always popping up
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  Speaker 2: for me.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, hey, this is a show for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But before we before we get into Carter just
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  Speaker 2: real quick, Yeah, real quick. They Hallmark Plus just dropped
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  Speaker 2: a new yes, five seasons of a show called Private
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  Speaker 2: Eyes with Jason Priestley. Yes, I our next First Impression.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know when we're going to do more
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  Speaker 1: First Impression episodes. You know, obviously we've done them all
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  Speaker 1: this month, but I'm like, I want it to be
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  Speaker 1: on the docket because you know how I love a
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  Speaker 1: Jason Priestley.
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  Speaker 2: I know that was shared in our Facebook group, and
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  Speaker 2: as soon as I saw that Jason Priesley was in it,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, we're going to have to add
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  Speaker 2: it to the list. You know, a little behind the
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  Speaker 2: scenes here for the listeners. I'm sure they know we
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  Speaker 2: added this First Impression series because the May Hallmark season
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  Speaker 2: was so light and so we don't know what's coming
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  Speaker 2: month to month, Like we don't know how much content
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  Speaker 2: they're giving us and when we're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: do filler. So First Impressions could be like a Hey,
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  Speaker 2: there's a week where there's nothing, let's do a First
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  Speaker 2: Impressions episode, Or it could be like another, Hey, here's
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  Speaker 2: a month we got nothing for you, and we gotta
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  Speaker 2: fill it. So it remains to be seen, but First
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  Speaker 2: Impressions will continue. We just don't have a current airdate
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  Speaker 2: plan because we don't get homemark schedule far enough in
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  Speaker 2: advance to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you guys like the First Impression episodes
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  Speaker 1: and you want us to review a pilot of something
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  Speaker 1: that you love that you want us to watch, please
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  Speaker 1: email us Girlsmark at gmail dot com, Like we would
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  Speaker 1: love to hear what you guys want. I mean, how
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  Speaker 1: excited do you think they are for Sue Thomas FBI
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  Speaker 1: next week?
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  Speaker 2: Probably as much as I am. Well, let's talk about Carter.
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  Speaker 2: Can I tell you a few things about this series? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Carter is a crime comedy drama and it originally it's
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  Speaker 2: a Canadian show and it originally aired on CTV Starting
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  Speaker 2: on May eighteenth, twenty eighteen, the airing rights were acquired
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  Speaker 2: by WGN America. I remember WGN, I do, Wasn't that
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  Speaker 2: like a Chicago station? Yeah, And it began airing the
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  Speaker 2: series in the United States shortly after its Canadian debut,
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  Speaker 2: so both seasons were available in the United States as
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  Speaker 2: well as in Canada. WGN was actually the network responsible
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  Speaker 2: for renewing Carter for season two. It ran for a
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  Speaker 2: total of twenty episodes and both of those seasons. All
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  Speaker 2: twenty episodes are currently streaming on Hallmark Plus.
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  Speaker 1: So here's a synopsis. This is. In the pilot episode
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  Speaker 1: of Carter, it says Harley Carter returns to his Ontario
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  Speaker 1: hometown after a public scandal, only to find that his
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  Speaker 1: housekeeper has been accused of murder. Utilizing his experience from
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  Speaker 1: playing a detective on television, Harley teams up with his
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  Speaker 1: childhood friends to solve the case and clear his housekeeper's name.
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  Speaker 2: For some news and notes about Carter, Gary Campbell created
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  Speaker 2: the series Carter. In addition to Carter, word I keep
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  Speaker 2: saying over and over again. Gary has written on the
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  Speaker 2: Jamie Kennedy e Mad TV and North of North, which
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  Speaker 2: is a currently airing series on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry O'Connell plays our lead, Harley Carter. Jerry got a
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  Speaker 1: start in the movie Stand By Me, and his career
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  Speaker 1: has included one hundred and thirty seven acting projects. He's
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  Speaker 1: been in iconic movies like Jerry maguire cush here do
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about? I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: he says when he answers the phone. He's like the
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  Speaker 1: football player, right, right, y Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I love
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  Speaker 1: that movie. He was also in Can't Hardly Wait, as
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  Speaker 1: well as TV series like Sliders, Crossing Jordan, and Star Trek,
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  Speaker 1: Lower Decks FYI. Jerry O'Connell is also a big Bravo fan.
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  Speaker 1: Huge heay, that's fun. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sidney to Mia Poitier, daughter of Sidney Poitier, plays Detective
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  Speaker 2: Sam Shaw. Her resume of thirty eight acting projects includes
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  Speaker 2: other crime dramas like Hawaii five O and Chicago p D.
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  Speaker 2: Christian Brune plays Dave Lee. He has a long list
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  Speaker 2: of acting credits and has been in some Hallmark projects
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  Speaker 2: like Crashing Through the Snow and Good Witch. Brenda Kamino
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  Speaker 2: plays Dot Yasuda. Brenda also appeared in The Glass Castle,
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  Speaker 2: the movie, and the series You're Never Alone.
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Akiyama plays Kogi Yasuda. Dennis sadly passed away in
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and only appears in six episodes of this series.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break, and we're gonna come right
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  Speaker 2: back with our first impression of Carter. All Right, Wendy,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk. What's your first take on this series?
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  Speaker 1: Having watched the pilot, well, I thought the pio Okay,
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  Speaker 1: hear me out for a second. I thought the pilot
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  Speaker 1: episode overall was okay. There were there were funny moments,
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  Speaker 1: funny dialogue. I'm gonna talk about that in Just the
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  Speaker 1: Little Bit too. I wasn't especially interested in that mystery
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  Speaker 1: that they were trying to solve. No, like, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: like invested, but there were elements throughout the episode that
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  Speaker 1: kept me interested. I wasn't like bored by any means.
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  Speaker 1: But what got me was the last freaking ninety seconds
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  Speaker 1: of this show where he's looking at a murder board
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  Speaker 1: in his house about his missing mother. I was like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: now I'm intrigued. Now I'm intrigued.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I loved that little hint at what's to come and
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  Speaker 1: his perhaps motivation for wanting to take on this consulting
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  Speaker 1: job with the police. I like you agree that I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't super invested in the mystery. However, I was very
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  Speaker 1: interested in the character of Harley Carter himself, and I
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  Speaker 1: really wanted more about him. So other than that first video, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, I gotta say, I did, I love
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  Speaker 1: the opening TMZ style video, saying, especially after last week's
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  Speaker 1: when calls the Heart, it's not a knock on when
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  Speaker 1: calls the Heart.
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  Speaker 2: I was just prime for something edgier and snappier, and
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  Speaker 2: so I was like, yes, this is fun, give it
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  Speaker 2: to me. And I love like celebrity drama like that anyway.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that, and then there's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a discussion he has with his friends about how
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  Speaker 2: he found his wife with another man. There's not a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot discussed about his actual life drama. Brooke Nevin
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  Speaker 2: does go on to play his wife in two episodes
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  Speaker 2: of this series, and so it does seem like there's
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  Speaker 2: some closure coming, but it also feels like a very
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  Speaker 2: loose end that's dangling here, and I want to know
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  Speaker 2: more about that. How we're gonna wrap that up. I
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  Speaker 2: know the story is like Harley and his new life
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  Speaker 2: as a police consultant. I get that, but I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: tell me more about the drama in your life, Like
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  Speaker 2: let's meet your wife, what happened there, what's going on
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  Speaker 2: with your mom? Like I'm so interested in all these
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  Speaker 2: other things that are happening.
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  Speaker 1: Then the mystery that they give us, right, yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: that's it's always going to be secondary. Like CSI is
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  Speaker 1: not the Salan Order SVU, like people are tuning in
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  Speaker 1: for the two main characters whose names I do not know,
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  Speaker 1: but Marishka Hargatea and the other dude. Yeah, like you
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  Speaker 1: care about them and how they're managing the solving of
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  Speaker 1: the crime. You're not like as invested in like the
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  Speaker 1: week to week crime stress of it all. I don't, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah. I think we talked about this with
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  Speaker 1: sigin Stiel delivered too, and I know it's a completely
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  Speaker 1: different show, but the mysteries are always secondary and I'm
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  Speaker 1: fully invested in the four main characters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, of course. So yeah, it's called Carter,
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  Speaker 2: not Murder of the Week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly. So speaking of Carter, I freaking love
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  Speaker 1: Jerry O'Connell. Me too. He first of all, if I may,
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  Speaker 1: he's just one of those dudes that continues to look
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  Speaker 1: better as he gets older, which is so unfaked. It's
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  Speaker 1: annoying freaking fifties. Yeah. Like, but I really liked his
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  Speaker 1: character of Harley as well, and like you said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: interested in what his backstory is like as a teenager,
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  Speaker 1: but then also as like an actor leaving Hollywood. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's working for me. Yeah. I also thought It was
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  Speaker 1: very funny how he brings Harley brings his acting experience
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  Speaker 1: to this crime that he's trying to solve with his friend,
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  Speaker 1: Detective sam Shaw. But at the end, considering the end
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  Speaker 1: piece of it, I was like, huh, because I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you looked closely at like the news articles
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  Speaker 1: that they were showing on the wall, but it was
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  Speaker 1: there was a picture of like him and his teenage
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  Speaker 1: friends sam Shaw and Dave Lee, and it was like
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  Speaker 1: teenage teenage crime solver or something like that, which was him.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, Okay, well, what came first? Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: did the acting come first? Or did the crime solving
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  Speaker 1: come first? Like do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Or was he like into crime solving and then his
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  Speaker 2: mother goes missing and now he gets to apply those
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  Speaker 2: skills or was his mother going missing the catalyst that
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  Speaker 2: made him interested in all.
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  Speaker 1: Of that exactly exactly. It's enough there though for me
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  Speaker 1: to go, Okay, all right, let me see what you
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  Speaker 1: have next. So another thing I really liked about it
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  Speaker 1: was the clever quick dialogue. I mean, you and I
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  Speaker 1: raised on Gilmore Girls, so this is a speed we like, right.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that, and then I really enjoyed some
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  Speaker 1: meta moments where like Harley would to say, well, this
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  Speaker 1: is where a commercial break would go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is did you hear that?
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  Speaker 1: That's the music? That's plain?
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was very clever and funny. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: liked it.
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  Speaker 1: I liked it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I really liked our team of detectives,
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  Speaker 2: Harley and his childhood buddies Sam and Dave. However, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna let me say the whole thing. I find it
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  Speaker 2: super implausible that the chief actually offers him a consulting
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  Speaker 2: job as oh of course. However, as a viewer, that's
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  Speaker 2: easier to accept than someone who just bumbles their way
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  Speaker 2: into helping solve crimes. It just happens to be crime
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  Speaker 2: adjacent all the time, like Hannah Spenson. And it's very
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  Speaker 2: similar to the show High Potential, which I know you
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  Speaker 2: have seen and liked, where this super smart woman is
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  Speaker 2: offered this police consulting job even as she was a
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  Speaker 2: housekeeper in the police department. Would happen to like accidentally
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  Speaker 2: solve a crime and they're like, you're come work with us.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, of course that's not gonna happen, but it
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  Speaker 2: gives us a way to get these people and working
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  Speaker 2: in a logical way. So I'm willing to let it go.
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  Speaker 1: It's so funny that you bring up that shows. What's
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  Speaker 1: it called again, High Potential?
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to think, I'm like, what is.
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  Speaker 1: This show comparable to you? Because I wanted to tell
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  Speaker 1: listeners who are not familiar with Carter, like, what is
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  Speaker 1: this show comparable to? And so I did a Google search,
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  Speaker 1: Actually I asked chat GPT and it said that Psych,
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  Speaker 1: the show Psych was a comparable equivalent. And I actually
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  Speaker 1: think High Potential is an equivalent to it as well.
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  Speaker 2: I do too. I do too.
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  Speaker 1: So if you like those kind of shows, like this
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  Speaker 1: is that kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of show, And in High Potential, she has the same
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  Speaker 2: ulterior motivation where she's looking for the father of her
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  Speaker 2: eldest child, like that person has gone missing and she
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  Speaker 2: believes there's more to that story. So they both have
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  Speaker 2: this external motivation to their detective right right, all right,
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  Speaker 2: anything else before we move on to the Hallmark test?
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  Speaker 1: Nope?
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  Speaker 2: All right, well let's talk is it giving Hallmark? Look,
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  Speaker 2: I think there are some minor elements that we see
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  Speaker 2: repeated in like a Hallmark mystery here.
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  Speaker 1: But for me.
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  Speaker 2: Mostly this is not passing the Hallmark test. That's not
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  Speaker 2: a negative. There are questions about Harley and Sam hooking
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  Speaker 2: up drunk at a holiday party that obviously we wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: see in our standard Hallmark fair. Harley uses the lying,
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  Speaker 2: tiny little hate crime to describe a lawn jockey, which
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  Speaker 2: a I thought was hilarious and be like, casual racism
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  Speaker 2: is not called out super blatantly and Hallmark either. I
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  Speaker 2: caught that, So I just think it's edgier than your
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  Speaker 2: standard Hallmark Fair. That said, I don't think it's offensive
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  Speaker 2: in any way. It's certainly not like premium cable offensive,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like, we live in a
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  Speaker 2: world of streaming, so when I think of like anything
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  Speaker 2: goes on streaming now, but when I think back to
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  Speaker 2: my younger years, like, it's not an HBO level show, No,
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  Speaker 2: it's like a basic cable level programming exactly things they
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  Speaker 2: can get away with exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I thought. In terms of the Hallmark test, I was like, Okay, yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's elements we have like a small town setting and
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  Speaker 1: we have this protagonist who returns home to rediscover himself
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. Right, But like you said, like there were
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  Speaker 1: some little moments like there was some edgier dialogue that
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  Speaker 1: at one point says something about like sleeping with Lucy
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  Speaker 1: Lou and I was like, they would never ever say
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  Speaker 1: that on Hallmark. So but I wanted to be clear,
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  Speaker 1: like I'm not like grabbing my pearls, like.
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  Speaker 2: No either, no no, no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: This was so mild on so many levels. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's highly enjoyable. Nobody is going to be offended by anything.
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  Speaker 2: Agree, Agree, All right, let's talk about the cast.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I was enjoying Harley and Sam. There are characters,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the addition of Dave that took it
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  Speaker 1: to the next level. For huh when Harley tries When
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  Speaker 1: Harley figures out that he needs like a I don't
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember what he called it, what the agent
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  Speaker 1: called it. The agent was liking it to his character
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  Speaker 1: having like a right hand band to help him or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: right kick, a sidekick, and then he's like, oh, I
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  Speaker 1: know who to call, which is funny because obviously, like
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  Speaker 1: he has deep relationships with these people. It's not a
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  Speaker 1: random like dude you went to school with Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 1: The whole scene where he goes to Dave and Dave's
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  Speaker 1: setting up his coffee car or whatever. Whole scene so good,
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  Speaker 1: so funny. Well, and I love the backstory about how
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  Speaker 1: he had like co opted Dave's character to use in
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  Speaker 1: his show. Totally.
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  Speaker 2: That's so funny. I am glad you brought up Dave
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  Speaker 2: Christian brun He's given me real dandy Jaeger vibes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, who is a character who excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: an actor who I really enjoy on screen. And I
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  Speaker 1: was getting the same, like, oh yeah, I really like
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  Speaker 1: this like buddy sidekick role for him.
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  Speaker 2: I think the three of them are really well balanced out.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, and by that I mean Dave and Harley
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  Speaker 2: and Sam. I really like the three of them together,
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  Speaker 2: with the exception of Jerry O'Connell. This cast was all
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  Speaker 2: new to me, and I thought it was a good mix.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of our sassy Dot Yasuda.
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  Speaker 1: Oh same.
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  Speaker 2: However, I'm preemptively sad that we are going to have
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  Speaker 2: to deal with the loss of Dennis Akayama as Kogi Yasuda.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the IMDb, Dot is in thirteen
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  Speaker 2: episodes and Dennis is in six, So I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: could understand why they wouldn't necessarily need to be in
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  Speaker 2: every episode. But obviously we are going to deal with
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  Speaker 2: Dennis's loss, and I am I'm a little like premptively
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  Speaker 2: nervous about that, like knowing that it's coming.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, how did I handle that? Well?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like if you're a west Wing watcher, especially I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: did not watch West Wing in real time. Uh, and
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Leo dies during the filming of that show and they
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: got to deal with it, and knowing that it's coming
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: is a hard watch. So not quite the same level
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: of Grandma here, but I it's it's sad to know.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: That's sad.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Sad any more.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Casting thoughts, I you know what, we didn't talk about him,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: but that the actor who plays Harley's agent who comes
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: to do and basically I thought he was very funny.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And the scene where he was trying to.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Do like a one turn or what if I say
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: they won't what you say they will? That scene, I laughed.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I just thought it was so funny.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I thought it was funny too, although I was like, Harley,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: everyone's replaceable, man, I'm like, they will absolutely drop your
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: ass for disappearing like this.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was funny because at the beginning where he's like,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not in Hollywood, I'm in Canada, And I was like,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: why would they have him run off to Canada? But now,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: of course it makes sense because that's where his hometown.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: So yes, no shade to Canada. I just was like,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that's why would he rent a The Bally Show? Yeah?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, why wouldn't he rent a BALI all right,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: keep it or skip it, Wendy, I would keep it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: It's twenty episodes. Yeah, so funny. That's such that's such
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: a key factor. It's well, especially for like something like
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Wynn calls the Heart last last week. I'm like, yeah,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna watch one hundred and fifty episodes or
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: whatever it is.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I'm not doing it, But I kid you twenty and.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I don't have to be like that invested in the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: mystery part of it. I just want to see what
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: happens with Carter, so agree to keep.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my feeling was, I don't feel compelled to immediately
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: binge this series. I think if we're like ranking these
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: in terms of the four first impressions we've done, the
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: show that made me want to keep watching more immediately
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: of all of these, with Chesapeake Shores. Absolutely. However, I
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: am curious about a lot of things, including Harley. They
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: talk about did they or did they not hook up
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: at this holiday party, and she's like, no, we didn't.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: But I thought, is she lying? Is she lying? I
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: wondered about that. It's also the kind of show that
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I think is so easy to throw on when you
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: need like a low stakes entertainment distraction. It's easy to
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: watch a couple episodes here and there and it's not
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: you know me, it's not stressful, it's not going to
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: make you cry. M So it's a it's a mild
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: keep it for me awesome. Hey, thanks for listening to
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: this episode of Girls Gone Homework or Bramble Jam Podcast.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: That's it for our first impressions. Now go for them
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: your own. We'll be back with more or homework reviews
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: next time. Goodbye.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Bye.
• 22:15
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• 22:17
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• 22:23
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