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Providence Falls 1: Chance of a Lifetime · 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: On today's episode, we are discussing Providence Falls Chance of
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Speaker 2: a Lifetime, the first in a trilogy of Providence Falls movies.
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Speaker 2: This movie originally aired on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, August second,
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Speaker 2: and is currently streaming on Hallmark Plus. We can currently
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Speaker 1: are planning an episode for later in August. Yes, we
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Speaker 1: your emails. Yeah yeah, so keep keep sending them if
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Speaker 1: you have thoughts on Providence Falls or anything that you
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Speaker 1: see coming down the Is it pipeline? I don't know
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Speaker 1: if it's pipe or pike, you know. The other day
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Speaker 1: I had to google is it deep seated or deep seated,
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Speaker 1: because I could make an argument for both. Regardless, it's
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Speaker 1: not irregardless, it's just regardless.
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Speaker 2: The correct idiom is coming down the pike. It means
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Speaker 2: something is approaching or expected in the near future.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but isn't isn't it similar for pipeline too.
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Speaker 2: Like, yes, it is similar, but the actual idiom is
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Speaker 2: coming down the pike.
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Speaker 1: All right, back on track, Hey, send us your emails,
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Speaker 1: girls Gone Hallmark at gmail dot com. Let's hear a
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Speaker 1: synopsis for Chance of a Lifetime. Newbie police detective Cora
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Speaker 1: is partnered with visiting Detective Liam on her first case.
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Speaker 1: Little does she know Liam is her reincarnated love, here
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Speaker 1: to change her fate. Lucy guests directed Providence Falls Chance
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Speaker 1: of a Lifetime. Lucy has directed some of our recent
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Speaker 1: Hallmark favorites, including the Santa Claus and Jingle Bell Run.
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Speaker 1: Along with directing all three Providence Falls. She has a
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Speaker 1: project in pre production called Christmas in the Alps starring
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Speaker 1: Lazy J Mayley, which could likely be for Homemark. The
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Speaker 1: mini series is an adaptation of the book series by
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Speaker 1: authors June Devereaux and Tara Sheets. The screenplay was written
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Speaker 1: by Teresa Kale. Katie Stevens plays Cora. Katie has fifteen
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Speaker 1: acting credits really, with fifty two episodes as Jane Sloane
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Speaker 1: on the series The Bold Type. She's also appeared in
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Speaker 1: the reboot of Fantasy Island, CSI Vegas and the MTV
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Speaker 1: series Faking It. This is her first Hallmark project. Tell
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Speaker 1: me why, Because she's such a great actress You're you're
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Speaker 1: floored by she only has fifteen acting credits exactly, Well,
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Speaker 1: I think she has long stints. So The Bold type obviously,
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Speaker 1: and that MTV series Faking It was like thirty plus
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Speaker 1: episodes as well. Yeah Lachlan Quarmby plays Liam. Lachlan has
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Speaker 1: eighteen acting credits with projects like This Series, Allegiance, and
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Speaker 1: Firefly Lane. He's appeared on Homemwark previously in the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one movie A Very Merry Bridesmaid. Evan Roderick co
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Speaker 1: stars as Finn. Evan has worked consistently for Hamemark the
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Speaker 1: last few years, with the recurring role as Arthur in
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Speaker 1: the reboot of the Aurora t Guarded Mysteries. He also
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Speaker 1: starred in Leah's Perfect Gift Sealed with a List in
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Speaker 1: A Tale of Two Christmases. Felicia Simone plays chorus friend Susette.
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Speaker 1: Felicia has twenty nine acting credits, with roles in The
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Speaker 1: Handmaid's Tale and Shmagadoon. She played the character named Jones
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Speaker 1: in both of the three Wiseman movies.
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Speaker 2: Amatai Marmesteine plays angel Agon. Amatia is best known for
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Speaker 2: roles in Wayward Pines, Tracker, and Family Law. He has
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Speaker 2: been on Hallmark, though appearing in Round and Round from
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three and eight Gifts of Hanukkah from twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty one.
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Speaker 1: Matti Finocchio plays Police Chief Boy Thompson. Maddie has one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen acting credits, with roles in Guiding Emily, Dream,
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Speaker 1: Moms Made for each Other, The Holiday Sitter, Just One Kiss,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Mama's Look, We could go on and on.
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Speaker 1: Maddie will Always be Allen to Us. From Date My Dad,
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Speaker 1: The one Season Wonder from UpTV.
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Speaker 2: Paul mcgillian plays Coora's dad, James McLoud. Paul's another busy
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Speaker 2: actor with one hundred and thirty acting credits. He's appeared
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Speaker 2: in Hallmark movies like Last Year's Falling Together, Christmas in Tahoe,
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Speaker 2: and An Unexpected Christmas. Jessica Sipos plays Meredith Brady. You
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Speaker 2: might recognize Jessica from her recent role as Ava in
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Speaker 2: Love on The Danube Royal Getaway. She's also appeared in
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Speaker 2: Betty's Bad Luck and Love, A Season for Femily, as
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Speaker 2: well as a recurring role as Sarah Mercer on Chesapeake Shores.
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Speaker 1: Keegan Connor Tracy plays Angel Samel. She has over eighty
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Speaker 1: acting credits, including the sitcom Blockbuster and thirty six episodes
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Speaker 1: of Once Upon a time as the Blue Fairy. That's
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Speaker 1: where I recognized her from Mother Superior and Zelena. Did
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Speaker 1: she play like three characters? No on that show, not Selena,
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Speaker 1: That's what IMDb said.
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Speaker 2: Hallmark fans may also recognize her from Morning Show Mysteries
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Speaker 2: and Garage Sale Mystery.
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Speaker 1: Glenn Gordon plays Trouble Team Dominic. He has appeared in
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Speaker 1: a ton of Hallmark projects, including Dream Mom's Unexpected Grace,
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Speaker 1: Open by Christmas, and Sweet Carolina, to name a few.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we're gonna come right
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Speaker 1: back with our first impressions of Chance of a Lifetime. Hey, Wendy,
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Speaker 1: what's your first impression? Chance of a Lifetime? Hey O,
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Speaker 1: Hallmark is brewing up a new trope. It's the sensitive
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Speaker 1: tea Guy. And I would just like to point out,
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Speaker 1: if you recall when we reviewed Pearl and Paradise earlier
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Speaker 1: this year, Christopher polahas character also a tea guy. Also
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Speaker 1: a tea guy. I'm a tea gal, so I noticed
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Speaker 1: these things. Makes me very happy. My first impression, I'm
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Speaker 1: calling it right now. This is going to be the
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Speaker 1: highlight of the year on Hallmark. Interesting. Well, let's get
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Speaker 1: into it, because I'm curious to see what you liked
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Speaker 1: about it. Well, I'm going to start off by telling
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Speaker 1: you that I did read the book.
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Speaker 2: I've only read the first one so far. I like
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Speaker 2: the movie so much better. I like the tone of
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Speaker 2: the movie better. The movie has more humor than the book,
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Speaker 2: especially among the angels. The angels are very classically angelic
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Speaker 2: in the book, like curly blonde ringlets appearing out.
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Speaker 1: Of the mist.
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Speaker 2: You know, they don't have this like nineteen eighties library
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Speaker 2: vibe to them.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about that. I just like the tone.
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Speaker 1: I think it's funny.
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Speaker 2: Comparing the book to the movie. I don't not this
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Speaker 2: person usually, but the movie is better.
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Speaker 1: You're typically a book is better kind of goal. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: books have more of an opportunity to develop things. They
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Speaker 1: have less of a time constraint. You know, sure you
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Speaker 1: can get more into it. But in this case, movie
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Speaker 1: killed it nice.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 1: I think the production is super elevated, don't you agree? Yes?
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Speaker 1: I think I like Hallmarks the way Hallmark is going
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Speaker 1: in terms of investing in next level storytelling. To me,
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Speaker 1: if you like the way the Way the Way Home looks,
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Speaker 1: or Miss is Toe Murders, you're gonna get that same
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Speaker 1: kind of polish here. This isn't your typical Hallmark movie.
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Speaker 2: I fully agree this movie could be lifted out of
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Speaker 2: Hallmark and would not be out of place on any
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Speaker 2: number of streamers in terms of production value. And my
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Speaker 2: notes say that Katie Stevens, she's like a ten out
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Speaker 2: of ten for me in this movie. I've always liked her.
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Speaker 2: We have we write hard for The Bold Type. I
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Speaker 2: love that series, but she's honestly better than that in
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Speaker 2: this and she was in The Bold Type. But I
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Speaker 2: also think like this is the best we've ever seen
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Speaker 2: from Evan Roderick too. Like I think everybody is like
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Speaker 2: operating at.
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Speaker 1: One hundred in this movie. I yeah, that's I wonder
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Speaker 1: I wonder why.
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Speaker 2: Well, I am going to go ahead and give credit
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Speaker 2: to the production company. We know that this is Juanna
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Speaker 2: Garcia Swisher's production company that created this movie, found the stories,
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Speaker 2: wanted to create it. I don't know if that's where
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Speaker 2: credit is due, but I'm going to start at the bottom.
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Speaker 2: I feel like that's the foundation of it. And like
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Speaker 2: you said, the production value is so sky high on this,
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Speaker 2: I just.
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Speaker 1: Think they did it right. I agree, it's so it's
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Speaker 1: so interesting to me that Hallmark is dropping these on
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Speaker 1: a Saturday night, just sprinkled in amongst your regular Hamewark
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Speaker 1: fair It feels like it should be more of an event,
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Speaker 1: and I wonder about.
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Speaker 2: The choice to drop it in August, like it or not.
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Speaker 2: August is not Hallmark's key time, so obviously they could
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Speaker 2: they do it during counden to Christmas. No, it doesn't
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Speaker 2: make sense. Last year, some of the best movies of
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Speaker 2: the year came out in August.
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Speaker 1: The Magic of Lemon Drops.
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Speaker 2: Was an August movie, so maybe there is a desire
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Speaker 2: for it. I don't know what Hallmark's viewership looks like
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Speaker 2: in August, but I I worry that this series is
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Speaker 2: going to be overlooked by certain viewers. And I'm here
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Speaker 2: to tell you I have not watched the next two movies,
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Speaker 2: but based on this movie alone, I don't think this
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Speaker 2: is when you should skip.
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Speaker 1: Oh No. In fact, there's been a little bit of
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Speaker 1: commentary out there about not being excited for this. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you're wrong. Those people are the ray Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think I think there's I think there's some like
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Speaker 2: you see, the people are not excited for a period piece,
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Speaker 2: which I would not say this is a period piece,
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Speaker 2: right like, we get flashbacks to their time, but it
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Speaker 2: exists mostly in present day. And I would say, don't
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Speaker 2: let the I don't really love a period piece.
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Speaker 1: I don't really love like the rogue situation because that's
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Speaker 1: yet's typically you right like that, you would not be drawn,
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Speaker 1: I think if you saw the post because the poster,
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Speaker 1: especially the first one, if I'm not mistaken, the photo
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Speaker 1: of them is from the past. Well, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: talk about that in my wish ahead too. Oh, let
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Speaker 1: me tell you something else. I like.
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Speaker 2: I like that I'm torn about who to root for
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Speaker 2: when it comes to Liam or Finn. This is another
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Speaker 2: difference in the book. In the book, Finn is written
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Speaker 2: pretty bland, pretty square. He's a good guy, he has
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Speaker 2: a good heart. But the book is also told from
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Speaker 2: the perspective of Liam and Cora, and so he's kind
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Speaker 2: of a third party. And as viewers in the movie,
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Speaker 2: we're meeting them at the same time. We don't have
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Speaker 2: the history that Liam remembers, we don't have the history
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Speaker 2: that Cora is remembering in her dreams. We're meeting them
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Speaker 2: at the same time, so our relationship with them is
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Speaker 2: building at the same time, and they're doing a nice
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Speaker 2: job of making Finn someone to root for, even knowing
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Speaker 2: that Liam's like.
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Speaker 1: She's my destiny situation. Yeah, I think it works here.
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Speaker 1: We have our good girl, our good guy, and then
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Speaker 1: our our rooting bad boy he rogue.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a love triangle that works for me.
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Speaker 1: Like I'm buying in on all three. I think there's
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Speaker 1: chemistry there, like Cora has chemistry with each guy. It's working,
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Speaker 1: It's working for me. I I agree with you. I
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Speaker 1: haven't gotten to the point yet where I'm like rooting
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Speaker 1: for one or the other, just because I don't know
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Speaker 1: enough about Finn or Liam yet. So I'm I'm excited
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Speaker 1: to see where it goes. Yeah, what else do you like?
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Speaker 1: I really enjoy that Cora she is a NEPO baby,
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Speaker 1: but I like that she is dealing with the weight
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Speaker 1: of her job, especially with her dad breathing down her neck.
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Speaker 1: Like it's an interesting angle. There's a lot of depth
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Speaker 1: and tension here. I like that she has this important job.
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Speaker 1: She's a strong female character. I like that she's not
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Speaker 1: some sort of like baker or you know, hmmm, yeah,
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Speaker 1: she's a baddy. I Yeah, she's a battye. I like Also,
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Speaker 1: while I was watching this, I was like, this feels
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Speaker 1: like a mystery. Mm hmmm, like a Hallmark. Miss like
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark. It's in that genre. They're really not like
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Speaker 1: defining it though, are they No, because the mystery is
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Speaker 1: secondary to I think the ultimate destiny of it all. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I like Cora a lot. I like her character a lot.
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Speaker 1: I love Katie Stevens, but I like Cora a lot
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Speaker 1: as well, so watching her is is entertaining enough for me. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I really like both Katie Stevens and her character as well.
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Speaker 2: Here's another book versus movie, if I may. A choice
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Speaker 2: that the movie has made that was not made in
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Speaker 2: the book is that we have history repeating itself with
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Speaker 2: many of the same characters. Now, much like in the book,
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Speaker 2: we have these characters that have all been reincarnated.
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Speaker 1: It's not just Cora and Liam. We do have Meredith Brady,
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Speaker 1: but the choice to where her husband dies.
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Speaker 2: That does happen in the book, but it's not a
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Speaker 2: repeat of history. Like what we're seeing is like everything
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Speaker 2: is happening the way that it happened in the past.
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Speaker 2: I like that choice, and I think it adds to
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Speaker 2: the drama of Finn's needing to make a decision that's
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Speaker 2: best for Cora as opposed to his needs.
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Speaker 1: And what she wants. I have some thoughts on the
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Speaker 1: whole destiny of at all in my.
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Speaker 2: Wishes, but I do think it adds some drama to
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Speaker 2: his choice, particularly in the cliffhanger ending of this episode
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Speaker 2: where Core comes clean to him and she's like, I'd
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Speaker 2: like to find out what this can be, right after
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Speaker 2: he has committed to getting her together with Liam, knowing
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Speaker 2: that's the only thing that's going to save her.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that was great. That was great. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: Matty Finocchio for a minute. Oh my gosh. So happy
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Speaker 1: to see him, Like we always get him as like this,
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Speaker 1: like lovable goof m I I'm into this kind of
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Speaker 1: smart ass detective version. Yeah. He plays it so well.
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Speaker 1: More of this, please, more of this, more of this. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's one of those actors that we have been calling
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Speaker 1: for for a long time. Give this guy a bigger role,
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Speaker 1: give this, give him a lead role. This is a
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Speaker 1: pretty big role. Yeah, his police chief role. Yeah. I
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Speaker 1: love it. I love seeing him and I also really
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Speaker 1: enjoy the friendship between Cora and Susette as well. I
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Speaker 1: like that we just don't have. You know, every Hallmark movie,
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Speaker 1: our female lead needs a sounding board. She needs an
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Speaker 1: insert bestie here. Susie's great. I like Susette a lot.
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Speaker 1: I love Susette. I also I want Cora's haircut. Oh,
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Speaker 1: Cora has great hair, like the way Katie Stephens like
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Speaker 1: her bangs fall out of her bun. It's perfect, It's great.
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Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, I know, she looks so good.
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Speaker 1: I read that she had a baby at oh some
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Speaker 1: point too. You know, we reference it a lot the
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Speaker 1: series The Bowld Type. I can't remember the actress's name,
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Speaker 1: Megan Fahee is that her name? Who was in The
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Speaker 1: Boll Type, who was like completely blowing up all over
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Speaker 1: right now, And so I was waiting, like for Katie
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Speaker 1: Stevens to get her moment. But like obviously she was
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Speaker 1: building a family or whatever, which is great. I'm happy
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Speaker 1: to see her in this role. I would love for
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Speaker 1: her to be in more homes. I think she's just
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Speaker 1: a phenomenal actor. I think she's a great fit here. Oh, now,
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Speaker 1: can you see Katie Stevens in like a regular one
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Speaker 1: off Hallmark.
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Speaker 2: Movie or no, Yeah, I could see her. I could
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Speaker 2: see her in a Christmas movie.
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Speaker 1: I wonder if she can do comedy. Yeah, because her
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Speaker 1: bold type role was real serious, like she was not
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Speaker 1: the silly one at all. Yeah, I wonder if she
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Speaker 1: can do comedy. I would be interested to see her
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Speaker 1: in something. You know, like Bethany Joy Lynz can can
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Speaker 1: do a lot of comedy. Her movies are kind of elevated.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, just wondering, anyway, do you have any
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Speaker 1: more likes? Just one, just a little baby like I
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Speaker 1: think they did a nice job. Really liked the zipper scene.
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Speaker 1: Thought it was hot or Liam zips up her dress
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Speaker 1: with the music. You know what it reminded me of
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Speaker 1: is that movie from the early nineties with let Me
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Speaker 1: Get There. Hang on just a second, the brain is
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Speaker 1: working Demi Moore or Indecent Proposal, Indecent Proposal, where they
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Speaker 1: had a scene where like he's unzipping the dress. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it was the same kind of tone. Obviously he's sipping
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Speaker 1: up the dress in this scene, but there was something
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Speaker 1: about it that I was like, this feels very familiar.
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Speaker 1: It was just like the same kind of tension. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was real sexy. Yeah, let's stop wishes. Okay, here's
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Speaker 1: my biggest one. There was too much past, not enough present.
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Speaker 1: I know you said earlier, You're like, there's not it's
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Speaker 1: not that bad. It's mostly in present day, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know me like, I don't like historical pieces however,
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Speaker 1: but that said, I love the Way Home and I
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Speaker 1: love when they go back to the eighty hundreds. So
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Speaker 1: I was like going into this going like, Wendy, you
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Speaker 1: don't hate it, like, just be open to it. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I prefer the present day stuff, but we need the
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Speaker 1: past stuff to tell the story. But they don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is though. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if it's the way they talk. Yeah, I don't. I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I wish I could articulate, like what I
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Speaker 1: don't enjoy about it. A lot of it I can
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Speaker 1: tell you has to do. The scenes are very dark,
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Speaker 1: they are, and I don't know full disclosure. We got
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Speaker 1: these on a screener, so I don't know if I
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Speaker 1: think they're done. I think you think this is a
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Speaker 1: final I do. There's the scenes are so dark they
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Speaker 1: are agreed greed, So I don't know if that's like
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Speaker 1: if I just can't like, I'm like, what's happening. I
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Speaker 1: can't really see and as I'm watching on a screener.
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Speaker 1: We don't have up titles either, so hard time hearing
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Speaker 1: exactly like what is being said. So that's a me problem.
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Speaker 2: Well, one of my biggest wishes comes down to the
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Speaker 2: whole destiny of it all. They Liam was a bad
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Speaker 2: dude and to keep from going to hell, basically, he
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Speaker 2: has to make sure that Kora achieves her destiny. My
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Speaker 2: question is, if it's her destiny, wouldn't it happen no
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Speaker 2: matter what. Yeah, that's the confusing part to me is
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Speaker 2: they're like, no, her destiny is to be with Liam,
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Speaker 2: and she dies, right, she dies in the past, and
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Speaker 2: the history is going to repeat itself. She's going to
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Speaker 2: die now if she goes with you instead of with Liam,
21:44
Speaker 2: if with Fenn. With Fenn, you're right, her destiny is
21:47
Speaker 2: to be with Finn. Thank you to four letter vaguely
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Speaker 2: Irish names.
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Speaker 1: But if if that is her destiny, then that should
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Speaker 1: be what happens no matter what. You shouldn't be able
21:58
Speaker 1: to interrupt it. You shouldn't need a reincarnated past love
22:02
Speaker 1: in order to guide her on her destiny. Okay, but whatever,
22:06
Speaker 1: I'm here for it. My other wish is the angels
22:10
Speaker 1: needed to give Liam more information to live in the
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Speaker 1: present day. In the book, they like frontload him. He's like, Oh,
22:18
Speaker 1: the angels have given me enough memory so that I
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Speaker 1: understand what I'm doing here. He's not, like, why is
22:22
Speaker 1: my pocket ringing? Yeah, he needs to understand cars, he
22:27
Speaker 1: needs to understand phones, he needs to understand gender equality,
22:29
Speaker 1: like some basic information needed to be loaded into his
22:35
Speaker 1: little past brain. Well, we have the same the same
22:40
Speaker 1: criticism of the Way Home as well, like we have
22:45
Speaker 1: oh my god, what is that character's name? Jacob? Yeah,
22:48
Speaker 1: we have Jacob returning to present day and he doesn't
22:52
Speaker 1: he isn't aware of all the present day luxuries we have. Right,
22:56
Speaker 1: it's kind of the same idea. I agree. Why didn't
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Speaker 1: the angels unload him? I don't. I don't know, And
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Speaker 1: in the in the book they do.
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Speaker 2: And even in the book he like, he's like, I
23:05
Speaker 2: need he doesn't understand computers, and he like asks them,
23:08
Speaker 2: y'all need to help me out here, like I need
23:10
Speaker 2: to need some computer knowledge to do my job. It
23:13
Speaker 2: seems like it could have been like a funny line
23:15
Speaker 2: here too in the movie, because the movie is so
23:18
Speaker 2: much more comedic than the books are, it could have
23:20
Speaker 2: been something where he could have been like, yo, help
23:22
Speaker 2: a dude out. It's just so incongruous what I'm sitting
23:26
Speaker 2: here thinking about the way home. And at least in
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Speaker 2: the way home, there's like a couple of people who
23:30
Speaker 2: know Jacob's origin, so they understand that he doesn't know
23:34
Speaker 2: the way of the future. Liam's all alone, so he
23:37
Speaker 2: doesn't have anybody to like help.
23:39
Speaker 1: It doesn't Argon come.
23:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. Maybe that's how they Yeah,
23:44
Speaker 2: Agon comes and that's his name, Egon and exists, which
23:49
Speaker 2: is another weird thing, like nobody wonders where this who
23:52
Speaker 2: this dude the police officer came from that nobody recognizes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just some incongruities. The Angel stuff is is weird
24:01
Speaker 1: to me. It's not weird, it feels out of place.
24:04
Speaker 1: I think while I was watching it yesterday, I sent
24:07
Speaker 1: you a text. I was like, this seems like completely
24:09
Speaker 1: weird because we have these like bright stark, very like
24:13
Speaker 1: liminal spaces right that I'm like, what what's happening here
24:18
Speaker 1: between you know, the past, the Ireland stuff in the
24:23
Speaker 1: past and the present day. And then it reminded me
24:26
Speaker 1: of the movie My Dreams of You remember, where they
24:30
Speaker 1: were like manufacturer that they were like tinkering in the
24:33
Speaker 1: in the dream space and these like unworldly places and
24:38
Speaker 1: they had like the VHS tame. Yes, I'm like, why
24:41
Speaker 1: is everything like so outdated technology wise? Like why is
24:45
Speaker 1: this what it looks like? Uh huh, yeah, you think
24:47
Speaker 1: they'd have like a high tech situation room situation and
24:50
Speaker 1: not this like four inch TV. Yeah. Yeah. And then
24:55
Speaker 1: I wondered, I was like, could this story work without this,
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Speaker 1: without the angels, without this layer?
25:03
Speaker 2: Then what's the motivation? Right, like because the whole point
25:06
Speaker 2: is he's trying to save her and himself.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I'm not an author of fiction, so
25:14
Speaker 1: I don't have an answer for you. But I don't know.
25:18
Speaker 1: It just feels too multilayered to me. It's like it's
25:21
Speaker 1: a lot for me to find it all believable. Yeah,
25:25
Speaker 1: for sure, it's not a realistic movie like this is
25:28
Speaker 1: definitely lives in the fantasy realm for me. Yeah, and
25:32
Speaker 1: I like that genre. I just needed to be a
25:35
Speaker 1: little bit believable. Maybe I don't know. I was all
25:39
Speaker 1: in I'm jumping in a pond, so I don't you know,
25:41
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know either.
25:44
Speaker 1: I do say I think that you're very pleased that
25:47
Speaker 1: they did the angels this way and not the way
25:49
Speaker 1: they were described in the books, with their like blonde
25:51
Speaker 1: ringlets and they're flowing robes and they appear out of
25:54
Speaker 1: the mist, and you know, it's a lot it's real
25:56
Speaker 1: like angelic. I don't know. Maybe that would make it
26:00
Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I wonder as a viewer, like, does that make it
26:02
Speaker 2: easier or are we enjoying this like the Good Place.
26:06
Speaker 1: Vision of the angels. Yeah, I like it more personally,
26:11
Speaker 1: but it is like maybe almost too realistic to buy it. Yeah,
26:20
Speaker 1: I would be interested to hear what that conversation was
26:23
Speaker 1: like with their choices of how are we going to
26:25
Speaker 1: navigate this whole angel's thing, because maybe they don't want
26:30
Speaker 1: to touch it in terms of it being too faith based. Yes,
26:35
Speaker 1: you know, the stereotypical imagery of what an you know,
26:40
Speaker 1: an angel might be. So that's interesting. It's very interesting.
26:47
Speaker 1: My final wish is I did think this episode was
26:51
Speaker 1: a little bit slow, But I think, like you said
26:56
Speaker 1: at the top of the episode, the first book you
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Speaker 1: reference the first book, there's a lot of like context,
27:03
Speaker 1: like there's got a there's a lot of like stuff
27:06
Speaker 1: that they have to build out first for this multi
27:11
Speaker 1: arc like this. You know, so I think we're gonna
27:14
Speaker 1: get there, Like I can tell it's like going to
27:16
Speaker 1: be the long game, and I'm interested. I didn't think
27:18
Speaker 1: it was. I didn't think it was slow to the
27:22
Speaker 1: point of like, oh my god, I want to stop
27:24
Speaker 1: watching this. I think that it in my mind. I
27:28
Speaker 1: was like, this isn't your one and done Hallmark movie,
27:31
Speaker 1: your hour and forty minute movie. Like this is obviously
27:34
Speaker 1: like multi episodes, so I can buy into it being
27:39
Speaker 1: like a little bit slow to start well.
27:42
Speaker 2: And I also think one important thing for people to
27:45
Speaker 2: realize watching this, this is a true trilogy. This isn't
27:49
Speaker 2: a collection. These movies build on each other. Whereas The
27:53
Speaker 2: Groom's Been the Wedding Veil, those each standalone. Yes they
27:56
Speaker 2: have connections to the other movies, but they tell a
27:58
Speaker 2: complete story, and that's not what we're getting here. Like
28:00
Speaker 2: you really need to watch one, then two, then three
28:03
Speaker 2: to get the.
28:04
Speaker 1: Full story right right? Right? Are you ready for? Did
28:09
Speaker 1: you see that? Sure? I don't have any true did
28:13
Speaker 1: you see That's just just some thoughts? Okay, go ahead.
28:18
Speaker 1: One when Cora catches Jake when she confronts him about
28:23
Speaker 1: his gas station dealings, and he fakes her out and
28:28
Speaker 1: takes off running and then fumbles his keys. I didn't
28:32
Speaker 1: love it. I felt very poshly. I was like this,
28:35
Speaker 1: this guy is not giving me tough guy, yeah, yeah
28:40
Speaker 1: at all. Like Cora is a bigger baddie than this guy.
28:45
Speaker 1: He's really like fumbles.
28:46
Speaker 3: Yeah.
28:47
Speaker 1: That it was rough. I was like, uh, okay, two
28:50
Speaker 1: more quick takes.
28:51
Speaker 2: I was watching this movie and my husband walked in
28:53
Speaker 2: the room, took one look at Eggon and he says
28:54
Speaker 2: he looks like a short Ross Geller.
28:57
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he does. I was like, that's going
29:02
Speaker 1: in the notes. I love it. Finally, our boy Finn
29:06
Speaker 1: took Katillion, which is why he knows how to ballroom
29:10
Speaker 1: dance and has manners. I went to Katilion six dang
29:13
Speaker 1: years of it. So Finn, I see you, bro. You
29:17
Speaker 1: know it is so funny. You know what I thought
29:18
Speaker 1: about It was a full Gilmore girl's moment when Lauraai
29:23
Speaker 1: tells Rory that Luke can dance, and she's like, Luke
29:26
Speaker 1: can dance, Luke can dance, And I was like, Ben
29:29
Speaker 1: can dance dance? Yeah, my only did you see that
29:33
Speaker 1: is at the top of the episode when Cora wakes
29:37
Speaker 1: up from her nightmare and girlfriend's got a full face
29:39
Speaker 1: of makeup and I'm talking like a full lip like okay,
29:44
Speaker 1: all right, all right.
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Speaker 3: That's all.
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Speaker 1: I'm a little nervous to ask, what did you rate?
29:49
Speaker 1: Chance of a lifetime? Don't be nervous. I think it's
29:51
Speaker 1: a promising start. I gave it four stars. Oh interesting,
29:54
Speaker 1: me too, Okay, yeah, cool.
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