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The Way Home Rewind S1 Ep1 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, their homies. Get ready to dive into the heart
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  Speaker 1: of your favorite show with The Way Home Rewind, where
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  Speaker 1: Megan and Wendy your guides on this nostalgic journey as
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  Speaker 1: we re air every recap episode from season one, dissecting
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  Speaker 1: the twists and turns of the hit series The Way Home.
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  Speaker 1: With a brand new season on the horizon, join us
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  Speaker 1: in reliving the moments that made you laugh, cry, and gasp.
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  Speaker 1: ten episode look back of The Way Home Rewind, where
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  Speaker 1: the past meets the present and the Journey Home is
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  Speaker 1: just beginning. Your favorite show, your favorite moments, and a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of excitement right here on Girls Gone Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: in anticipation of season two dropping January twenty first new
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  Speaker 1: recap episodes will follow. Hey everyone, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy, and today
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  Speaker 1: begins our recap series of the brand new original series
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  Speaker 1: from the Hallmark Channel, The Way Home. Before we jump
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  Speaker 1: dot com. We want to get right into our recap
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  Speaker 1: of this episode, but first let's just do a very
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  Speaker 1: quick rundown to some of the lead cast members. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk more about us we meet them. Okay, First up,
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  Speaker 1: we have Andy McDowell, she plays Dell, the grandma. We
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  Speaker 1: have Citie laflam Snow as Alice talk about great Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, she was so gosh the irol Oh I've
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  Speaker 1: as a mother of an almost fifteen year old, felt
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  Speaker 1: this deeply. Yes. We also have Kyler Lee as Cat
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  Speaker 1: the adult Cat. Yes, playing Elliot Augustine. We have Evan
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  Speaker 1: Williams and finally playing Dad. Is it Brady? Is it
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  Speaker 1: Braydon Dewan, al McAdam macadam voice memosiall send us a voice.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with a synopsis of season one, episode one
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  Speaker 1: of the Way Home, entitled Mothers and Daughters. Cat and
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  Speaker 1: teen daughter Alice move in with estranged grandma Dell. Escaping
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  Speaker 1: the tension, Alice explores the farm and finds herself on
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  Speaker 1: a surprising journey. Hey, I think that synopsis nails it.
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  Speaker 1: It does, Yeah, it definitely does. I have a question
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  Speaker 1: for you, Okay, would you consider time travel to be
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  Speaker 1: a science fiction trope? Yes? I would, Oh, yes, I would.
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  Speaker 1: And honestly, was like when I saw the previews of
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  Speaker 1: this show when it first came out, I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: it was time travel. So I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little hesitant because I don't like time travel stories. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why, because it falls into the sci
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  Speaker 1: fi genre for me, which Wendy is not a fan of,
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  Speaker 1: not a fan of. But I'm going to put that
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  Speaker 1: aside for now, just because I like where this story
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  Speaker 1: is going. All right. So this episode opens with what
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  Speaker 1: I feel is a real strong horror movie vibe. Oh yeah, right,
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  Speaker 1: We've got an unidentified woman running through the woods being
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  Speaker 1: chased by men with torches. Yeah in eighteen fourteen New Brunswick.
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  Speaker 1: If I wanted to know, who's that woman? Who are
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  Speaker 1: these men? Where is she going? And then she leaps
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  Speaker 1: over a log, hesitates, and then jumps right in. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: let me stop you right there, I swear, And I
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  Speaker 1: watched this twice I swear she says something before she
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  Speaker 1: jumps in, but I couldn't hear her, and there was
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  Speaker 1: of course I watching I'm watching it with captions, there
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  Speaker 1: was nothing there. Okay, so I don't know if I'm
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  Speaker 1: like making that up. But what did she say? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I have to imagine we have to come
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  Speaker 1: back to this moment at some point, this eighteen fourteen moment.
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  Speaker 1: We don't hear anything else about this time period in
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  Speaker 1: this episode, but I'm hoping we find out. I assume
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  Speaker 1: it's Alice. Oh but how far back did she go?
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  Speaker 1: Is this a relative of Alice? We have these women
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  Speaker 1: been time traveling this whole time? You're out there alive time. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: And she's it appears to be in pajamas some sort
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  Speaker 1: of like yeah, like a little tiny yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot that sets the scene at
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  Speaker 1: like the men with a fleaming torches and what she's wearing.
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  Speaker 1: All that very and it touches on it later, but
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  Speaker 1: it's very like Scarlet Letter or Salem Witch, Salem Witch Trials. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so what's going on here? I don't know. I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to find out more. Same and we jumped straight from
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  Speaker 1: there to present day Minnesota. We've got a dude with
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  Speaker 1: a guitar around stage. They got a nervous looking girl
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  Speaker 1: standing off stage. She takes the stage, Yeah, freaks out, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and runs off stage. Yes. Well, she sees her dad
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  Speaker 1: like texting, like he's not paying attention, you know, But
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  Speaker 1: what's funny is that? And again I'm jumping ahead just
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But her mom tells her, like you
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  Speaker 1: slayed that last year, So what happened? Why is Alice
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  Speaker 1: now freaking out? Because remember the boy comes off the
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  Speaker 1: stage or no, she I'm sorry. Alice comes off the stage,
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  Speaker 1: runs off the stage before she pulls the fire alarm,
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  Speaker 1: and he says, I knew you were just the one
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  Speaker 1: hit wonder. So like what happened? Yes? Yeah? When did
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  Speaker 1: she her mojo? Yeah? I hope we get more backstory,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope we get the backstory in flashbacks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: don't tell me about it. I want to not exposition. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I agree, yes, yes, next scene and I there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot happening in this first episode because there's so much
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  Speaker 1: set up. I'm gonna tell you right now. I felt
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  Speaker 1: like it was done really well. Me too. Pilots are tough,
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  Speaker 1: but our next scene, We've got what we will come
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  Speaker 1: to find out are Alice's parents, Kat and Braiden arguing,
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  Speaker 1: and we find out that they are no longer together.
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  Speaker 1: We don't find out in this scene that they're not
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  Speaker 1: actually divorced, but at one point the principle refers to
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  Speaker 1: Kat as Braden's wife and they both respond ex wife,
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  Speaker 1: So we know that they are not together and they're
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  Speaker 1: kind of playing the blame game a little bit totally.
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  Speaker 1: We also learn that Kat has recently been fired yes,
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  Speaker 1: from a job that she loves, yes and well. In
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  Speaker 1: the same scene, we learned that Alice has now been
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  Speaker 1: expelled from school for pulling the fire alarm. This appears
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  Speaker 1: to not be the first incident at school. She's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a rebel or they do say, like she's hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with a different crowd this year. The dad jokes
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  Speaker 1: once he learns that Cat is not working, he goes, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like you'll have time for homeschooling. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, I was gonna punch this kuy in
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  Speaker 1: of face. My blood boiled, right, that's that moment, And
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  Speaker 1: what we know seconds later in that scene is they
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  Speaker 1: don't live together anymore, so how is she going to
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  Speaker 1: support herself and stay home and not work and homeschool
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  Speaker 1: this child? Yeah, I don't know. Come on, I really
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  Speaker 1: had a visceral reaction to oh, now, you can just
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  Speaker 1: take this on yourself. Seriously, I am like, no points
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  Speaker 1: for this guy already. I mean the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: was like texting during when his daughter comes on stage
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  Speaker 1: like that is a highlight of me. To see my
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  Speaker 1: kid do something, I would be dude, there's no way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah ooh, meaning so mad. In this exchange, we find
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  Speaker 1: out that Rachel, who apparently is his girlfriend, has moved in.
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  Speaker 1: Now I was surprised to find out later in this
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  Speaker 1: episode that they're not even divorced and he's already moved
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  Speaker 1: his new girlfriend. No points from me. They do arrive
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  Speaker 1: to what I believe to be Kat's home and Alice's
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  Speaker 1: throwing a party, I mean, just right in the holiday
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  Speaker 1: like and has the audacity when her parents kick everybody
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  Speaker 1: out to go Are you serious? Right? Oh my god?
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  Speaker 1: This has been like the parent in me with like
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  Speaker 1: my head would explode. These people at my home during
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  Speaker 1: the day, not giving a care to like music's playing,
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  Speaker 1: foods everywhere. I'm assuming they're drinking too. She doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: have the good sense to like be worried about being
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  Speaker 1: in trouble. She's just angry that they've ruined her foot.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like middle fingers up to her parents, like
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  Speaker 1: she does not care, especially on the heels of committee
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  Speaker 1: a crime and writing expelled from school? So did are
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  Speaker 1: we to assume like she pulled the fire alarm and
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  Speaker 1: then busted out of there, because wouldn't she be arrested
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  Speaker 1: for something? I don't know? Is it a crime like
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  Speaker 1: that to pull a fere? It is? And they address
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  Speaker 1: that in the conversation with the principal, And because the
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  Speaker 1: mom says it's not a crime to stay tried, isn't
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  Speaker 1: a crime and she says no, but pulling a fire
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  Speaker 1: alarm is and it comes with a hefty fine as well. Well.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that best part of that scene when they
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  Speaker 1: arrived home and Alice's having the party is where Kat
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  Speaker 1: like looks this dude up and down and it's like, really,
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  Speaker 1: this guy, he's like this full emo looking dude. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the full cliche wrong crowd, Yes, that's totally and then
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  Speaker 1: dad really bat in a thousand bails dude. I wrote
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  Speaker 1: on my notes GTFO this guy. He's just like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna handle this. I'm out of here, gotta go
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  Speaker 1: shack up with Rachel. Now He's like, I got a
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  Speaker 1: busy day at work tomorrow. It's still light out, sid, dude,
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  Speaker 1: stay here and parent. God gross, And then Alice and
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  Speaker 1: Kat and get into it. Yeah, And in the scene,
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  Speaker 1: she says to Alice, I'm worried that you were making
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  Speaker 1: the same mistakes I made at your age. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, that's super interesting because I only caught that
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  Speaker 1: on the rewatch and we get to it later. But
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  Speaker 1: Kat seems like a pretty good kid. What mistakes did
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  Speaker 1: she make? It? Yeah? Anyway, Well, I think Alice's response
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  Speaker 1: to that is, oh, now I'm a mistake. So I
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  Speaker 1: suspect that perhaps she got pregnant young. Oh maybe we
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  Speaker 1: don't know yet. I don't know. Kat's angry at Alice.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't love her response, like, why are you throwing
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  Speaker 1: your gift away? I feel like in this moment, her
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  Speaker 1: daughter clearly had something going on. She had stage right,
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  Speaker 1: she ran off stage, and the mom is reacting she's
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  Speaker 1: angry with her for that. There's a lot to be
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  Speaker 1: angry about. Yeah, but I feel like, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: not We're not mad at our kid for freaking out
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  Speaker 1: on stage. No. No, So that's why I think like
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  Speaker 1: something has happened in the past year. Is it just
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  Speaker 1: the divorce or the separation, Like what's going on? Because
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  Speaker 1: obviously Alice wasn't like on track or very much into
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  Speaker 1: music or whatever, and stop doing that. But because why yes,
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  Speaker 1: And then of course Alice is mad that her mom
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there. Yeah, next scene, Kat has a glass of wine.
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  Speaker 1: She's at a desk, and she's opening a letter from
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  Speaker 1: her mother asking her to come home with a family
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  Speaker 1: photo included. That was weird, right, It felt emotionally manipulative,
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  Speaker 1: particularly knowing we're gonna find out about this family right shortly, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I honestly was shocked that they get right through it.
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  Speaker 1: They don't beat her on the bush. Kat calls her mom.
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  Speaker 1: I was shocked. I would have like sat on that
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  Speaker 1: letter for like two weeks before deciding what to do.
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  Speaker 1: I like that the story moves forward quickly because I
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  Speaker 1: think there would have been more of a like, we
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  Speaker 1: know that she's in a situation where she needs a job.
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  Speaker 1: She isn't going to be able to stay here, so
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  Speaker 1: is just have one and they cut right to it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I guess like, if you're feeling desperate, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make desperate decisions, right, and if that means moving
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  Speaker 1: back home. And then we have one of the most
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  Speaker 1: what I thought, beautiful scenes in the episode. We cut
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  Speaker 1: to them driving home and we get what might be
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  Speaker 1: the opening credit song. Yeah, I'm not sure. It's called
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  Speaker 1: down by the Water by Abigail Lapel. It's a perfect
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  Speaker 1: song for the show, right, It's kind of haunting, it's
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  Speaker 1: talking about water. I don't know. Yeah, it talks about daughter,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's it's really gives me like Gilmore
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  Speaker 1: girls vibes with that opening song. And we get it
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  Speaker 1: again in the closing credit, so we will find out
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  Speaker 1: if this is in fact, Yeah, because we didn't get
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  Speaker 1: like a proper like opening, correct. So yeah, I'm curious
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  Speaker 1: to see how how it opens next week and we
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  Speaker 1: find out accordneed Alice they're moving to middle of nowhere, Canada.
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  Speaker 1: It looks beautiful to me. It does look beautiful. I
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  Speaker 1: would have loved to live on this big farm, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but not as a teenager. No. You ripped away from
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  Speaker 1: your friends and your school, and there's obviously things going
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  Speaker 1: on with your parents, your father. But yes, it was gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: If you told me you have to go live here,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, great, sign me up. Yeah, that's my
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  Speaker 1: forty seven year old dream. Yes. Oh and then as
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  Speaker 1: they're driving into town, we see Welcome to Port Haven,
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  Speaker 1: so we know we are back at the scene of
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  Speaker 1: the opening of the show. Yes, we also learned in
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  Speaker 1: the scene that Kat has lost her brother. This is
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  Speaker 1: a conversation between Cat and Alice, and and Alice says
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  Speaker 1: something to the effect of like, I can't believe you
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  Speaker 1: were so young when you lost your brother, And it
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  Speaker 1: was basically that she's been gone and has been gone
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  Speaker 1: for some time. Yes, she does talk about being gone
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  Speaker 1: for twenty years. Yeah, because you know, Alice is like,
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  Speaker 1: if this place is so great, why did it take
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  Speaker 1: you twenty years to come Exactly exactly any mcdale greets
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  Speaker 1: h at the door, and quite frankly, she's perfection to
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  Speaker 1: me in this scene. I just love her. And what
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  Speaker 1: I really love is she asks if they'd like to
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  Speaker 1: go on a tour, and Kat's like, I got to
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  Speaker 1: get settled in, and she goes, You're not invited, And
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  Speaker 1: I think there's something really special about a grandparent grandchild relationship.
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  Speaker 1: There's something about taking the element of parental responsibility out
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  Speaker 1: and grandparents can kind of have that bond with their grandchildren.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll come to find out that Dell is not
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  Speaker 1: without her relationship flaw. Sure, she's not always going to
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  Speaker 1: be warm to Alice, Yeah, but she does try and
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  Speaker 1: draw her in pretty quickly. I agree. I think Andy
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  Speaker 1: mc else just fantastic. Like, I just think she's perfect
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  Speaker 1: for this role. I love that she's just natural, like
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  Speaker 1: her beautiful, like natural gray hair gray, and she just
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  Speaker 1: looks like she has aged beautifully. I just really it's
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  Speaker 1: just a perfect role for her. It's such a good
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  Speaker 1: get perfect perfect. So while Alice and Della off on
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  Speaker 1: the tour, we see that kat is, you know, walking
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  Speaker 1: through her childhood home and having like these flashbacks. We
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  Speaker 1: don't totally see like her or her brother who has passed,
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  Speaker 1: but we see like elements of a home that used
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  Speaker 1: to be lively with younger children. And then she sees
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  Speaker 1: like the pictures on the mantle and it's just the Dell,
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  Speaker 1: like there's nothing there to represent like once was. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Stamley photos have been replaced, Yeah, which is we knew
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  Speaker 1: this was all coming anyway, because they had been in
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  Speaker 1: the like previews for weeks and weeks and weeks, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when Kyler yells at Kyler, when Kat yells at Dell
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  Speaker 1: for saying, like you've there's no pictures here, So we
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  Speaker 1: knew this was coming. And cut back to Grandma and Alice,
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  Speaker 1: and Alice is sorely as hell when Grandma says someday
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  Speaker 1: this farm might be hers, and Alice is like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not much of a farmer, right, just just be quiet.
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  Speaker 1: She just you know, you can fully appreciate the teenager
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  Speaker 1: in her that she does not know when to shut
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  Speaker 1: up announced dinnertime and Delle wants to know what they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do. She gets right into it, what do younna
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  Speaker 1: do while you're here? And I'm gosh, there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the maternal vibe that take a minute and recover and
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  Speaker 1: find your footing wasn't there. And I really wanted that
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  Speaker 1: for Kat. You wanted her to be like, settle in,
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. Yeah, we got you. But no, she's like,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get a job plan us landry women have planned,
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  Speaker 1: and she's not on board with Kat's plan to write
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  Speaker 1: a book. Yeah, that was kind of funny because I
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  Speaker 1: was like, what does Kat have to write about? Are
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  Speaker 1: we talking novels? Are we talking what like what life
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  Speaker 1: on the farm? Or life experience as a reporter? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: just because she's a good writer, Yeah, but why wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: Dell support that? Though? Well, I think Dell's a very
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  Speaker 1: practical woman Oka, and so writing a book, there's not
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  Speaker 1: a clear path from beginning to financial success. Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: can write a book and you at the end you
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  Speaker 1: have a book, but you don't necessarily have income, you
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily have a job. For her, she wants you
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  Speaker 1: go get a job and now you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a paycheck every two weeks. Yeah. What was the place
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  Speaker 1: that she was saying that they were hiring? The point?
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  Speaker 1: What is the point? Is it a wrestler? I think
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  Speaker 1: it's actually is it where the cafe where they find Alice? Later,
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  Speaker 1: Alice wants to finish out the school you're online. Dell
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  Speaker 1: is not a fan of that plan. And not only
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  Speaker 1: is she not a fan of that plan, she points
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  Speaker 1: out all the reasons why it's not going to work.
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  Speaker 1: Because internet is spotty at the farm, She's gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to go in down work at the library and Alice
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  Speaker 1: just gets in. Yeah. I was surprised, like how easy
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  Speaker 1: she gave in, and she was like, fine, we'll start
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  Speaker 1: school tomorrow then. Yeah, and good news, Dell has already
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  Speaker 1: registered her. This woman works fast, Yeah she does. She
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  Speaker 1: definitely does. I love how kind of like gruff she is,
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  Speaker 1: Like she's not warm and fuzzy. She is not. And
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of in contrast because when we later on
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  Speaker 1: see some flashback episodes when when the kids are younger,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't she seem a lot like lighter, lighter, Yeah, softer
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  Speaker 1: around the edges, and knowing what little we know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not terribly surprising. I know she's been hardened by life,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: exactly exactly. We cut to Alice in her mom's old
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: room and she's texting and she's unhappy, and she drops
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: her phone and she finds the program from her grandfather's funeral. Yes, now,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: did you notice the year that he died? I did not,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, two thousand. That will be important momentarily,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: I think so. I think it's important. Yes, I agree,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: because it's going to establish the timeline of like things
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: that happen, and they just happened pretty quickly yes, okay,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And then we cut back to the kitchen. Cat and
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Dell are having a conversation, and this is where we
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: discovered that they're not divorced. But Kat says the separation
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: is at this point permanent because his girlfriend has moved in.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: This is the moment I was shocked, kind of Dick
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: moved to move your girlfriend in before you're even divorced. Yeah,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: even it seemed like before they were moving forward with
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: divorce proceeding right if they had been separated at that point.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: But then we get some interesting news. Dal didn't actually
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: send the letter. She seems shocked when Kat thanks her
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: for the letter, and thought Kat reaching out was the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: first step. I was like, don't they have like a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: conversation at all, like prior to this, And I wonder
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: if Kat called Dell and was like, I need to
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: come home. Oh maybe she just assumed that Belle knew
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: that it was in response to her letter, but Delle
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: just thought she was reaching out. So who sent the letter? Now?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Delle does accuse Elliott. Shortly, Yes, we got to a
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: seen that I thought was pretty heartbreaking, and that is
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Alice begging her dad to let her come home and
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: while I think she's been in a complete pain in
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the ass about this entire episode, I also do understand
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that she'd want to go home. Yeah, and she wants
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: to be wanted by her dad. She wants her dad
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: to want her to come home. YEA, really what she wants? Yeah,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: and he says no. And what would you do in
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that situation? Hypothetically if you and your husband were separated
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and you took your children somewhere and they wanted to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: go live with dad, would you want dad to support
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you in taking the children away or would you be
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: mad at dad for not offering up a place for them. Well,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: here's where my practical side comes in is there's got
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to be some sort of like legal custody situation in place.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: But maybe there isn't. This is a hard situation. I
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: don't think I would make a decision in one day. Yeah,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: here's another question. They lived in the States, in Minnesota.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: They went to Canada. Don't you get to like, isn't
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: there something about taking a minor kidnapping her? No, but
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: she had her father's permission. I've taken my minor children
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: to Canada without a father, find without my husband father,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and then we get more flashbacks Kat and her little
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: brother putting Glow in the Dark stars on the ceiling,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and we still don't know what has happened to Jacob.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: There's this sweet moment and she's looking up at the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: old glow in the Dark stars in that bedroom. Now,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Dell did not want her sleeping in Jacob's room. Yeah,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: that was didn't go over so well, did it. No?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Next morning, you know, Delle's kind of spicy as ever.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Alice comes downstairs and she's like, don't you want to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: get dressed? Now? Are you a come downstairs in your
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: pajama's kind of household? I? Yeah, yes, so were we. Honestly,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: it kind of surprised me because she seems like she's
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: pretty casual, right, but she had these rules. Like Alice
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm just gonna get coffee. I don't really
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: do breakfast, you know, because Dale's like eat something too,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I know. And then Devil plays a trick on Alice,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: which let's talk about Okay, She asked her to let
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the dog out. Yes, Alice sets the dog out, and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: there's a bunch of teenagers working on the farm, right,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and they all kind of look at her and laugh. Yeah,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: my daughter went to camp this past weekend, and when
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: we picked her up, eighty percent of the kids getting
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: out of the van were in their pajamas. I think
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: it's just what kids wear now. If I go to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: high school right now, half of them will be in
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: pajama pants. I think that is just she wasn't naked.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I know. I just say post twenty twenty, for some reason,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: pajama pants became acceptable where during the day. Yeah, but
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying is this wouldn't have been humiliated with her,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: just because she's wearing these like fuzzy rabbit slippers and
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: like whatever. She had like smudgy black makeup under her eyes.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: She was thirty yards away. Yeah, it wasn't like she
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: walked outside naked. Yeah. Right, she was wearing a bunny costume.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I didn't think that that was humiliating. But she's the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: new girl in town, and I guess that's not the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: impression she wants to make. Yeah, but maybe we're making
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: this as a perspective of our age. If my daughter
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: would probably be mortified if I sent her outside and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: there were boys and girls, Yes, and she was that's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: her first impression. Yeah she was. Yeah, she wouldn't like that. So,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can see from both ways. I kind
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: of like, I know, Dell thinks it's funny, and she's like, oh,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I don't teach you not to get dressed before records.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I thought I was just kind of mean, because clearly
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: that was her intent. Yes, yes, but why why do
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: that to your granddaughter? Like what was what was her
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: point there to prove to her that that's why you
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: need to get dressed the rules of the garment school?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I thought, so too. Oh cool, Well Cat enjoyed it. Yeah,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: you know, I get it. She's also in a place
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: where her daughter's been reading her The Riot Act every night,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and so, you know, to see her daughter get a
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: little bit of a taste of her own medicine next time.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Waiting that Cat making some disappointed phone calls to editors
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: who are not as interested in her book as she
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: once believed they might be. That's why I'm wondering, like,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: what is the story here, Like she had a book
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: idea that was exciting at one point and then didn't
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: do it. I don't know. I think she is in
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the world and she meets people and they you know,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: she says someday I'd like to write a book, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: they say I'd love to talk about that when the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: time comes, as a throwaway comment, and whether they're actually
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: in the market for whatever type of books she would
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: write at the time, clearly they are not. Yeah, she's
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: gonna have to get a job at the point she
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: is so waiting tables. I had a timeline question, okay,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: because Delle goes outside my note, say, Dell confronts Clark
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Kent about mailing a letter Clerk Kent another glasses character
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: wearing glasses. Yeah, so it's Elliot Augustine, longtime family friend.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: It appears that maybe he's supervising this high school program
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: where the students volunteer on the farm before school. What
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: time is it. It's like six am, man. So, first
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: of all, a lot happens. I believe that he says
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: he didn't send the letter. Mm hmmm, whether he was
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: lying or genuinely unclear about who sent the letter, but
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: he says it wasn't me. I think it was him, okay,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: only because I maybe he just says, I don't know
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about, because I in his adult life,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: he knows that Alice is going to return. So he
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: had to send the letter to get her there. I
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: don't know. Yes, good point, good point, I know. Spoiler
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: alert skipping the head. Elliott and Kat are reacquainted and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Mom says, oh, you have a lot in common what
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: with your divorces, and oh my god, so shady you're
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: both single. Shay Cat and Elliott chat for a minute,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: and then apparently Alice is all of a sudden miss conscience.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: She's about getting to school on time, and she barrels
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: out the door. I was like, Mom, we gotta go. Yeah,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I gotta say, my own fifteen year old is does
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the same thing. Mind does too. You know. He takes
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: his time, takes this time, takes his time, and then
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's like, everybody, are you ready? Yeah,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I'm the one. I yeah. The whole My question is
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: if Alice is leaving for school in that moment, why
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: is it, mister Augustine already I know it's it's kind
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: of messy hair. Yeah, the teachers need to get to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: school before they don't the other students who are working
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: in the farm, don't they need to get to school too, right,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: So I did see that. Elliott, he has a peculiar
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: reaction to Alice seeing her. I think this is his
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: first time night he sees her, or that we see
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that he sees her. Okay, there's something weird there, we'll see. Okay.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: She does meet a few of the farm teens at school.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: They seem like nice kids. They seem like these are
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: potential friends at first. Yeah, I hope. So now Kat
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and Braiden are yelling at each other, and Kat is
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: super mad that he turned Alice down. I'm kind of
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: surprised by that because I don't think there's any way
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: he could have done the right thing in this moment. Yeah,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: he either says come home and now she's like, what
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: are you doing to me? Right, or he's breaking their
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: daughter's heart, right, so damned if you do. Here. I
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: do feel that he did empathize with Kat's return at home,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: like he understand I mean, they were like teenage loves right,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: so he he knew Dell at one time, or he
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: knew what their home was like at one time and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the tragedy that unfolds, and he's so he feels empathy
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: for her that she's back there and having to deal
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, And she tells Dad and Jacob have
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: been a race from the house. Yeah, and how weird
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: it is. He thought it was such a jery, a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: moment of redemption. Yes, I agree, and we find out
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Delle's keeping bees. And this is my favorite line of
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the entire episode, when Kat's like, why did you change
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the house? It's like an Airbnb in there, right, And
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I thought, like the shells on the tray. Yes, I
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: totally agree, and Dell spends it right back on Cat.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: She's like, you're floundering, and Kat's like, of course I'm floundering.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: You erased my life. It's kind of sad. It's really sad.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And I thought, again, where is the warm, fuzzy mom, Like, yes,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I'm floundering. My marriage has ended. I've had you uproot
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: my life and move back home because I've lost my job.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: It's very clear that I'm floundering. And I come back
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: home a place that is supposed to feel welcoming and
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: warm and like home. Yes, and it doesn't feel like that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I just think that some people are not capable of that. Yeah.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: So again wants me to know more about what happened
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to Dell. Yes, of course something has hardened her up
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: over the years. Yes, she has healing to do. Yeah,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: she's obviously had some trauma too. Yeah, and then shocker
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Alice is in mister Augustine's classroom and he offers to
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: talk to her any place, anytime. Yeah. And my daughter
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and I were watching this together and I go, eh,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: you hear that? And then these real shitty classmates, Oh
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: is it getting hot in here? And they pretend to
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: pull a fire alarm. Yeah, damn, that's not even funny.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: It's not the time for a creepy basement. That was
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: kind of scary. When was the last time anybody was
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: in here? Lamps are on their side, it's a full mes.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Kind of surprised Dell kept a basement in such a disarray. Yeah,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: it was kind of funny because Kat pulls out like
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Jacob's one box of memories. It's just like one cardboard box, Jacob.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: She was going through that, but she was just looking
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: at like there was like a box and a ball.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: And we get to that little mysterious box later on. Yeah,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a little tin. He's gonna be use for his treasures. Yes,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And we see a flashback of her dad and Jacob
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: fixing a clock together, a real sweet moment, and then
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: we find out miss Alice skips school pieced out. Yeah,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I probably would have two, Like that was probably it
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: for her, Like the kids making fun of her. She's like,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: I'm out of hair and doing that. So she's been
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: spotted at the Point cafe and income's mom, Yeah, I
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: really love that because Alice is sitting at a table
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and she's watching a birthday video of herself and she
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: has these huge like beats headphones on right, like which
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: AirPod maxes it was? Is that what they were? I
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: don't know, but big headphones, huge headphones, And I was
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: kind of like, what a fifteen year old really? Oh,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: let me tell you. The AirPod max is very popular. Okay,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Arry six and her dollar headphones. Oh my gosh. So anyway,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the mom's like, headphones off. Yes, cat, you can tell
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: who we relate to in this show. And she's mad
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: that Alice hasn't given it a chance. And we see
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: them back at home arguing about Alice moving home, and
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: in a real dick move, I think, tells Alice that
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Rachel has moved in. You think that's a dick move
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: because it's not appropriate for the mom to tell the daughter.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I think she was kind of trying to hurt her
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: daughter a little bit. Oh you think so? It felt
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: like it. She was like, you can't move home because
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Rachel has moved in, Like Rachel has taken your place.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And I guess the question here is if this is
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: her dad's new girlfriend. If he's moved in, things are serious.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: At some point, Kat and Rachel are going to have
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: to coexist. They're gonna have to live together at some point,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: or at least have a like a life that overlaps. Yeah.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: But to me, but like her mom wasn't getting through
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: to Alice and she wanted to land a blow, I
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: think that's fair. I also think perhaps she could be
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: like she needs Alice on her team and let's be
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Matt dad together, and this is the reason why. Yeah,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: but I don't know. Alice runs into the woods, throws
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the bracelet that we know her mother had given her
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: into the pond, and then pretty much she instantly regrets it.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah right, she checks it in and then she walks
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: out onto the step or the rock, whatever it is,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and like she's looking, looking, looking, and I gotta say,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: like they made the pond look really kind of not
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: desirable to swim in. Murky and even Delle ha says
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: earlier in the episode that she's like, it's more of
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: like a sinkhole than it is a pond. You know,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: there's like stuff floating on it and whatever. Would you
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: ever just jump into a pond? No, I don't know
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: what's in there, Absolutely not anyway. So she's like reaching in.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: This is the part that's a little bit unbelievable to me.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: She's like reaching reaching the bracelet has sunk, it's not
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: going to be floating on the top, right, And then
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden she falls in head head over feet,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, and the sea weed gets her, which
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: looks like fern, you know what I'm talking about. The
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: fern is her up in her legs and she's flailing
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: underwater with the big eyes and she's you know, panicking,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I guess. And then a hand reaches out pulls her
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: out of the water, and it's Cat. Yeah, young Cat, Yes.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: And back to present day, We've got Cat and Elliott
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: talking in the kitchen and can't can't believe the old
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Alice isn't back. And at this point I yelled at
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: my TV. After one night, Cat she thought bringing her
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: back home would bring the old Alice back it's going
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to take a minute. Yeah, I mean lower your expectations.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Kat Elliott like reference a song. They reference Everybody's Free
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: by Rosala, the spoken word hit of the nineties. I
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: don't even know that song. Hold on, it's from nineteen
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: ninety two. I was a sophomore in high school. Guys,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I was sixth grader. Shut up, weird song to reference?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I know there were some nineties deep cuts in this episode.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: That is a weird one to me. I think so too. Yeah,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I think a better song reference there would have been
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: like some sort of rim song like everybody hurts sometime.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about? That arim song. So
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know everybody cut back, Young Cat and Alis
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: are walking, Alice is soaking wet, and baby Elliott pops
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: his head out of the top window of what I
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: believe is a barn, and they meet Elliott, her best friend,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and then we have the first wowie zowie of the
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: way home. That's not true, because I actually think adult
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Elliott is quite a cutie. I agree, but there is
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: something about Colton. But Colton turns around with the cutest
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: smile I've ever seen, and man, this is Jefferson Brown
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: hot or what. Yeah, we did a little dive on
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: him today. Jefferson Brown forty seven years old, yep, age appropriate,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: super cute, so as I'm like, whoa, And I think
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: he's the perfect actor for this because what I'm guessing
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: is like he was the real heart of that home.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Like there just was like ye warmth emanating from this
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: actor on screen, like oh, they have such a nice fam. God.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I just hope we get more of him, I know,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: and flashbacks, you know, I just hope, like it's not
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: just to establish like the story in this episode. I
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: hope we get more of it. I think we will.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I think we will, Okay, And then Alice enters Young
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Cat's bedroom lands of the calendar, and that's when we
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: learned that it is nineteen ninety nine. And this is
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: why it is important that that program said two thousand.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: We don't have a lot of time to work with here, right,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: It's kind of interesting. Something has to go bad. Alice
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: knows that her grandfather passes away, and she probably knew
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: when he passed away. I'm wondering when she's gonna make
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the connection of how little time she has left in
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: this past before she loses him. Right, and did was
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: it established if Jacob died before Colton, not that I'm
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: aware of, or if they died at the same time. Yeah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think so based on the
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: conversation happens later. But let's get back to it. Okay.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: This was one of my favorite scenes because young Cat
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: is getting some clothes for Alice to change into, and
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: she says something about her like clothes not being great
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and Alice says, it's okay, the nineties are
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: totally back in style anyway. Yeah, and Cassick what never mind?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Well I picked up on that too. But what I
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: loved about that scene is earlier, when Alice is leaving
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the house, She's like, I don't even know what's weird
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: to school. I hate everything I own, and then Cat
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: basically says the exact same thing. She's like, here, I
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: hate everything I own. Yeah, yeah, I think that's pretty
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: typical of fifteen year old girls. Of course, of course
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: forty three year old women. Do we ever grow out
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: of that? I don't know. And then we see Dell
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: at the kitchen table with young Jacob looking at his
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: polaroids and telling them that he has a beautiful eye
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: for photography or shadowing, lay in the groundwork there, and
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: then leagat Alice in the baby doll dress. Yes, yes,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have a little bit more to talk about
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: that baby doll dress. Yeah, yeah, yeah at the end
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: in our new segment noticed in the nineties, Noticed in
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: the nineties. So we're at the dinner table. It's kind
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: of crazy because we're in the same home. We're in
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the same it's the same dinner situation, and it's very
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: lively and fun and and you know, they're talking and
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: they're talking about Cat getting a job at the camp,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and of course she has to go because you never
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: know who she's gonna meet. Of course that's where she
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: meets her future husband. Do we then go to the
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: scene in present day? Yes, we do, because then we
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: go back to this scene. Yes, So now I got
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Cat and Dell at the kitchen table in present day, right,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: And this this is what's wild to me, is because
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: we it's we're comparing and contrasting. Like the scene, it
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: takes place in the same place. Yes, and one is
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: lively and full of life, and I guess those two
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: things mean the same. And then we have like it's
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: almost like the coloring of it is even like darker.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: She's sitting in the same chair Dell. Yes. Also side note,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I had read an article from Annie McDowell and she
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: said that she was a little bit worried about shooting
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the scenes with her. She's wearing a wig in those scenes,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: and she was a little bit worried because she's like
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: her neck was going to give away her age. Oh interesting,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: And she's like, but luckily, like the director shot it
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: with like kind of like an outer focus, you know,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: filter or whatever. And I was like, oh god, I
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: feel your pain with this nest situation too. But that's
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: how I remember Annie McDowell with like this dark curly hair. Yeah,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: she looks great. Great, I thought either way, she looks great.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: She's so gorgeous. One thing I really noticed in this
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: scene is Della's calm and Cat's freaking out because Alice
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: is missing, and delsa she'll be fine, and Kat says, well,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Jacob wasn't out. That's below the belt, don't you think so?
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: So that ally's me to believe there was an accident.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: I hope he didn't drown in the pond looking for
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the White Witch foreshadowing Oh my goodness. Back to nineteen
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: eighty nine, Dad's playing guitar, and is this where Alice
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: gets her musical talent from Oh my Gosh A Voice
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: of an Angel? Singing along with Colton. They were singing
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: better Be Home Soon by Crowded House. I mean that
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: is a nineties I don't I'm not familiar with that song,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: but crowded House a ninety staple. Yeah. I thought it
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: was really sweet because you know, she like apologizes for
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: singing along, and I, from the perspective of a parent,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I loved the idea of, like any of my kids
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: friends feeling that comfortable in our house. Totally like to
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: be that part of the moment. I don't there's no
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: parent that wouldn't like love that moment. And then Colton says,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: never apologize for talent. Now here's what's interesting to me.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Alice is gonna go home and Delle's like, oh cold
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: and to walk you and she's like, no, no, no,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I'll be fine, and they just like give it up. Yeah,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: because obviously just got to go jump back in the pond, right, Yeah,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: but first Jake takes Polaroin. Yes, but wait he did
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: he does mention the White Witch did you not catch
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: that part? I did, so Jacob says to her, like, oh,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: don't let the White Witch get you on the way home,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: and Dale says, oh, for the lore, Yeah, so I
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: mean obviously he's referring to like this lore of this
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: girl being chased and jumping into the pond who maybe
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: then drowned there. Perhaps we don't know. Is she haunting people?
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: So many unanswered questions. As Alice leaves, she looks back
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: into the window and it's a very sweet family tableau
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: that she looks upon. Tableau. There's that word. Anyway, we
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: did mention that Jacob takes a picture, right, Jacob takes
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: a poloroid? Yeah we did. And we see Kat back
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: in present day, calling Alice, leaving her a message begging
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: her to come home. Here's my issue with that scene.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: What no teen listens to their voicemail? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not even sure my son has an outgoing message
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: set up on his She doesn't have Life three sixty
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: on there where she can like find find my phone,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: find my friends, something where she can locate her daughter.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: An Apple air tag on this girl who's obviously been
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: in trouble the last year, like something to find her.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I just think, like they're living in a different lifestyle,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: like out in this farm, like you. She'll be home
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: when she gets home. Nothing bad happens here, you know.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: But I don't. I don't think she feels that way. Shit,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I don't literally freaked out. Kat doesn't feel that way. Yeah. Yeah.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: And then Kat opens Jacob's jar of treasures and finds
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: a stack of photos. And this is the moment I
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: thought we've lost Wendy. No no, no, no, you didn't. I
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, it's a real Marty McFly molt. Yeah.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I was into it. I was super into it. She
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: flips through the photos and of course she sees the
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: one that he took with Alice in it, and there's
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: something blogging her, so she can't see her face, but
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: you do see her dress. Yes. So I'm wondering, like,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: does Cat have memory of this, this event pulling this
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: girl Alice out of the water, Like this is where
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: time travel gets real sticky for me, right because it
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: hadn't happened, But of course it had already happened. Elliott
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: remembers her. Yes, and Elliott says, don't worry, Alice will
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: find her way home. Yes, This is when we now
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: see Alice climbing up into the barn to go talk
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: to Elliott and she's like, I need your help. And
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: he's like, what we've just met, what are you talking about?
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: And she's like, you got to trust me. You told
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: me you'd help me anytime, any place, and you just
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: help me right now. The next scene down by the
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: water is playing adult Elliott waiting for Cap to return
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: to the present day. Yeah. Yeah, and now you have
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: to wait a whole week for another episode. I know
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I was. There was part of me that was like,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: oh my god, I wish this was a two hour premiere.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: I wish I could binge watch all of these like
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: it hooked me. It hooked me. Good me too. We've
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: definitely watched shows. We're at the end. You're like, mm,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: but I'll give it another one or two to see
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: if I get into it. I did not feel like
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: that at the end of the day. We have a
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: couple of recurring segments that we're going to include in
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: these episodes. I'm excited about these. First is noticed in
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: the nineties, Yes, ma'am. We don't spend a lot of
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: time in the nineties in this episode, but I would say,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: what was the standout, It was the baby doll dress.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Thousand percent. It was the baby doll dress. We had
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to do a little googling. I mean, I was in
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: the nineties. I graduated high school in nineteen ninety three.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I remember wearing a baby doll dress myself in nineteen
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: ninety four around that time. Yeah, so they're saying, this
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: is nineteen ninety nine, and I don't think the baby
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: doll dress was that popular. No, A little research told
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: us that the baby doll dress was a little more
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: popular in the early part of the century. But I
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: will say as a fashion statement of the nineties, I
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: do think it's maybe the most standout piece because a
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: lot of what we have, you know, nineteen ninety nine.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: The look of nineteen eighty nine is like black pants.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Anybody who was a young adult nineteen ninety nine knows
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: what that means. What are you wearing? Black pants? Yeah,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: and probably like big black sandals with it, h and
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: a going out top. Black pants and a cute top
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: was an outfit and has how you would describe it.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think that translates as well, because on screen
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: it just looks like a very basic outfit, and I
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: think a lot of what else was popular at this time,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: you know, like cropped tops and Adidas style sweatpants. I
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: think the baby doll dress is more of a look
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: that communicates nineties. I did think it was interesting, and
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I didn't talk about this in that moment because I
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: knew we were coming to it. If you were going
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: to borrow clothes from someone, wouldn't it just be like,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: it's sure, it would give me a full out of it.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: But again, they were trying to make that ninety statement.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Next up, every week, we're going to crown a homie
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: of the week, Homie of the Week. During the premiere
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: of this episode, Hallmark was like in their Instagram stories
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: trying to come up with a name for their fans.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Did you see any of it? I didn't, But are
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: they calling them homies? Homies was an option? Ponders no,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Vita another ponderers no it was another And there was
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: one more Hallmark Channel unofficial poll for a name for
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: the way Home Hallmarkies Homies, Ponders, ponderers and wadeters w
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: A Y D R S with a double entendre there
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: because you wade into a pond. Yeah, I don't like
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: that one either, I mean Homies. This is a clear choice,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: right A. Hallmark responds way Homies has also been suggested
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Homies was the clear winner with fifty percent of the vote,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: So we named this segment prior to the airing of
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: this episode. We're going with Homie of the Week, Yeah,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: because I feel like there was so much set up
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: in this episode. I think there's there's potential for every
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: single person. But the person who grabbed us Yeah is
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Jefferson Brown for his qut cutie smile Dad Colton. Yeah, man,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: he turned around seriously. I know, I know, I know.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I thought it was just me. I was like, am
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: I into old dudes? Oh dude, he's my age, I know.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: And in the episode he's the father of a teenager
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: and like an eight year old, so he's our age.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: I know. I know. It's just weird. I'm in my
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: own weird time travel like I can't you know. Yeah,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: he's nice to look at. Yeah, Colton is our Homie
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: of the Week. That wraps up our recap of episode one,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: the pilot episode Mothers and Daughters of the Way Home.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: We will be recapping The Way Home every Wednesday. We
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: believe We've got a ten episode season coming at us,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: so prepare for that for the next ten weeks. Of course,
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: every Tuesday you can listen to our Hallmark movie reviews
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Way Back next week with the Wedding Veil Journey and
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: episode two of The Way Home until it hopp into
• 47:31
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• 47:34
  Speaker 1: what should think. Goodbye, everybody, Bye,