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The Count of Monte Cristo Episode 7 (PBS) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark and Hallmark adjacent
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  Speaker 1: review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. On today's episode,
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  Speaker 1: we are discussing The Count of Monte Cristo, episode seven,
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  Speaker 1: which originally aired on PBS on Sunday May third, and
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  Speaker 1: is currently available to stream on PBS dot Org and
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  Speaker 1: the PBS app. Before we jump into this review, I
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  Speaker 1: have an email from Mary with a recommendation. Uh oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's all good. No, I'm sure it's good, but uh oh,
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  Speaker 1: because your girls need a break. Oh no, no, no, no, no no,
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  Speaker 1: this is just a watch, she says. Hi, ladies, check
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  Speaker 1: out the three episode series of Maryland on PBS right
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  Speaker 1: down our alleys, twisty tourney with unexpected secrets and mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: As you mentions, it's only three episodes. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how long they are. The synopsis is Maryland on PBS
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  Speaker 1: Masterpiece is a three part emotional drama about two estranged sisters,
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  Speaker 1: Becca and Rosaline, who reunite after their mother's sudden death
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  Speaker 1: on the Isle of Man as they uncover their mother's
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  Speaker 1: secret double life. The polar opposite siblings are forced to
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  Speaker 1: confront their own complex relationship, family secrets, and personal identities.
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  Speaker 1: I did look at the cast, and I will admit
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  Speaker 1: that the only actor I recognized was Stockard Channing. But
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  Speaker 1: I am kind of interested in this show, so thank
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  Speaker 1: you for that recommendation. Mary. I can handle a three
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  Speaker 1: episode right, throw on twisty attorney as I'm folding laundry
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  Speaker 1: and don't have to take notes. Love it? Yes, let's
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  Speaker 1: hear a synopsis for the kind of Monte Cristo Episode seven,
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  Speaker 1: for NaN's misdeeds are made public outrate by his father's downfall.
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  Speaker 1: Albert challenges Edmund to a duel. Oh. For a full
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  Speaker 1: list of the cast of this series, checkout Girls Gone
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  Speaker 1: Homemark dot com that is linked directly in our show
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  Speaker 1: notes to this episode on our website if you want
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  Speaker 1: to see who's in that other than our boy Sam Claflin. Hey, Wady,
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  Speaker 1: what is your first impression of the duel? Well, at
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  Speaker 1: this point, Edmund isn't even hiding, He's just walking around
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  Speaker 1: like it's Edmund bitch. My first impression is yikes, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that I saw that coming. Oh, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want this show to end, and I know what's ending.
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  Speaker 1: It's so freaking good. We only have one episode to go. No,
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  Speaker 1: it makes me sad. I saw like the next episode
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  Speaker 1: was getting ready to play. I was like, episode eight.
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  Speaker 1: There's ten at least, right, and I'm like, no, there's
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  Speaker 1: only eight. It's so cool. We still got Towo people
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  Speaker 1: to take down. I know that's why it's gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be Banana's next episode, and I need some
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  Speaker 1: sort of resolution with marce Edmund. I don't think we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get well, Okay, let's talk what we liked, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I like that the hammer is finally dropping. I think
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  Speaker 1: we've been waiting for this, and it delivered for me.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, when we have for a man's life just
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  Speaker 1: getting completely blown up in front of Parliament. I thought
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  Speaker 1: Chef's kiss, that was great. Haiti's stepping forward and with
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  Speaker 1: the literal receipts, literal receipts, here is my receipt of
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  Speaker 1: when I was sold into slavery and who saved me?
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  Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, that was crazy. In London, we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking for many episodes about how Edmund's playing this
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  Speaker 1: long game. Well it's finally paying off. It is not
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  Speaker 1: quiet revenge anymore. He is there to publicly humiliate everybody involved.
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  Speaker 1: And while I don't love the fallout to the other
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  Speaker 1: people it affects, it is kind of sweet sweet justice. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I had wondered all this time, like are these people
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  Speaker 1: just going to go down and never know? I love
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  Speaker 1: that at the end, Edmund make sure that they know
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  Speaker 1: exactly who he is and that he is the one
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  Speaker 1: responsible for taking them down for nand is such a weasel.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm almost glad that we saw him hit Mercedes
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  Speaker 1: in the last episode because it's like, there's there's no
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  Speaker 1: redemption for this man, right, Like you are bad to
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  Speaker 1: the core. They're all bad. Every single one of these
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  Speaker 1: guys is bad to the core. And I just love
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  Speaker 1: Edmund letting them in on this is who I am
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  Speaker 1: and this is why I have ruined your life. I
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  Speaker 1: love it. Damn. I got to read the book and
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I told you it was like fifty
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  Speaker 1: hours on audible, right, I know, I know, And someone
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  Speaker 1: did comment it was either on Spotify or on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: I cannot remember, but they said, you so a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these little questions that we have are answered in
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  Speaker 1: the book, and of course, a book is so much
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  Speaker 1: more nuanced than a television show can be, and you
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  Speaker 1: have the ability to add in so much more detail
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  Speaker 1: that I'm dying for. And I do think some details
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  Speaker 1: were changed for the series, so that'll be interesting. I
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  Speaker 1: like Albert's ark in this episode. He kind of starts
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  Speaker 1: as like I demand satisfaction, right, like we're going a duel,
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  Speaker 1: and then he gets the information. We don't see him
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  Speaker 1: get the information about his father, but we assume that
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  Speaker 1: Mercedes must have passed it along because he's sure. He
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  Speaker 1: shows up and chooses his mother, like there's not even
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  Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, like a second hesitation
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  Speaker 1: when they move out. He's just like, you're trash. I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing the right thing. And I think that all comes
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  Speaker 1: together in a way that I've been worried about Albert
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  Speaker 1: ever since we met him, and worried about what Edmund
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  Speaker 1: was going to do to Albert indirectly in some ways right,
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  Speaker 1: and I think in some ways, yes, Mercedes and Albert
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  Speaker 1: are collateral damage, But in the other sense, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like there's a part of Edmund that has saved them,
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  Speaker 1: that has freed them from fernand who is not a
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  Speaker 1: good man, and doesn't operate with goodness and the best
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  Speaker 1: interests of his wife and child in his heart. And
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  Speaker 1: so while I'm never going to cheer for someone pushing
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  Speaker 1: someone else to take their own life, I do think
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  Speaker 1: Edmund has given them some freedom. Yeah, I think I
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  Speaker 1: like that take. I like that they also realize, like
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  Speaker 1: France terrible, they learn the truth about them right, and
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  Speaker 1: there is no hesitation of like, no, we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to be associated with you. Yes, I mean I agree
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  Speaker 1: with you, like it's terrible that he took his own life,
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  Speaker 1: but I liked all the other stuff leading up to
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  Speaker 1: that that he was, you know, exposed. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it's it's handled very well. The second he goes
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  Speaker 1: home and said that desk, I knew what he was
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  Speaker 1: going to do, sure, even before he takes the gun out,
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  Speaker 1: And the acting on the part of fernand I think
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  Speaker 1: was spectacular. And then just the way they frame it,
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  Speaker 1: where you just hear the sound and see Mercedes' reaction,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost as if she knew it was coming. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she's shocked by the sound, but she doesn't seem shocked
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  Speaker 1: that it's happened, right, So I thought it was all
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  Speaker 1: handled very well. What did you think about the demanding
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  Speaker 1: of a duel between Edmund and Albert? The Hamilton frame
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  Speaker 1: of reference sits in my mind because I've you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's really my only pop culture experience with a duel,
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  Speaker 1: So I thought it was interesting. I guess to me
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  Speaker 1: it spoke a little bit to Albert's honor. Sure, Albert
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  Speaker 1: is trying to protect his family's name, and he's still
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  Speaker 1: trying to be the honorable person. And this is the
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  Speaker 1: way things were handled at this point. And even when
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  Speaker 1: he's like, oh, he's got his seconds and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: grab your friends, right, it was of the time they
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't help but envisioning, you know, Mercedes begs him like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: save my son, Save my son, and it does a
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  Speaker 1: little bit echo of Hamilton for me because it's the
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  Speaker 1: course of father son's situation in that case. And she's like,
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  Speaker 1: did you know? And I thought, what was Edmund going
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  Speaker 1: to do if it had come down to it, Like
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  Speaker 1: was he going to aim his gun to the guy? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it was fair for Edmund to be
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  Speaker 1: to tell Mercedes like, whoa, if it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be your son, then it's going to be me, Because yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I do. That's the truth. I was like, yikes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and she can't even understand that. She's like no, like,
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  Speaker 1: can't you just walk away? Like it's been called off now?
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, no, I gotta my honor and blah
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  Speaker 1: blahlah blah. I'm like, you mean an asshole right now,
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  Speaker 1: like you don't have to do that. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it hadn't been called off until Albert shows up and
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  Speaker 1: says like, I'm satisfied basically. But you know, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think about the way Edmund speaks to Mercedes, Because
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  Speaker 1: I stand by what I said in last episode that
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  Speaker 1: he seems very very done with her. I think maybe
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  Speaker 1: I've just been so warped by Hallmark that I feel
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  Speaker 1: like there's some sort of redemption there, that he's truly
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  Speaker 1: still in love with her and they'll ride off into
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  Speaker 1: the sunset together. But perhaps, you know, once he's made
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  Speaker 1: his decision of like, well, she married him and disrespected
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  Speaker 1: me along the way, then I'm done. So I well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess that seems plausible, but I'm hopeful for a
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  Speaker 1: happy ending. I just I don't think that's happening though. No.
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  Speaker 1: I did love when she goes to him, though, when
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  Speaker 1: she calls him Edmund, oh yeah, and she tells him
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  Speaker 1: that she still loves him and has always loved him.
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  Speaker 1: And I think his concession to that is he says, like,
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  Speaker 1: your son will live. But I don't think he can
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  Speaker 1: get past the betrayal because he even says like it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that long. I think he's cutting off his nose
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  Speaker 1: despite his face here loves this woman, but he can't
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  Speaker 1: get past the betrayal from a woman who thought he
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  Speaker 1: was dead. And I don't care if it was one year,
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  Speaker 1: one month he was dead. So we have an email
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  Speaker 1: from Jessica that I have some quotes to weave in
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  Speaker 1: as we're discussing some of these things, and she says,
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  Speaker 1: in regards to Mercedes, I do wish that we got
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  Speaker 1: an explanation about why she agreed to marry for Nande.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like there's a gap between thinking your fiance
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  Speaker 1: is dead and marrying your cousin. Did her family always
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  Speaker 1: want her to marry for Nande? Did he get rich
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  Speaker 1: in that year and they need the money. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: the book covers this, but it feels like something the
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  Speaker 1: show could have done. In the conversation between her and
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  Speaker 1: Edmund in a line and it would help her feel
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  Speaker 1: like a more full character. Now. I don't know the
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  Speaker 1: exact timeline, but was his time with Ali Pasha and
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  Speaker 1: then him selling Haiti? Was that when he was away
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  Speaker 1: before he and Mercedes married, and then he comes back
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  Speaker 1: with this fortune, good question? And then it's like, well
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  Speaker 1: that makes me like her less because he comes back
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  Speaker 1: with all this money and she's like, all right, you're
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  Speaker 1: the next best thing. I guess yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to read the book to really answer
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  Speaker 1: these questions. Right, How did you feel about Caderousse's exit?
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  Speaker 1: If I can echo Jessica, She also says she's so
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  Speaker 1: relieved that he's going to New York and not being killed.
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  Speaker 1: I was so worried for him, and I feel the
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  Speaker 1: same way. I feel like this is the best alternative
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  Speaker 1: for him. I don't think he was ever going to
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  Speaker 1: be brought into the Count's inner circle. And he does
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  Speaker 1: say he helped him restore his faith in mankind, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, look, I'm giving you safe passage, like
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  Speaker 1: go live your life. You're done, You've served your debt
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  Speaker 1: to me. I don't know, what do you think? No,
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  Speaker 1: I was happy that that's the way that that concluded.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I was worried about Cadarousse. I thought he
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  Speaker 1: was kind of disposable to Edmund at some points. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy he was like, well, here's he didn't really
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  Speaker 1: show what who he's giving him. I'm guessing it was
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  Speaker 1: like jewels or something, yeah, I agree, or gold. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, all right, be on your way, go
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  Speaker 1: to New York, start a bar. I did get a
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  Speaker 1: little worried when he says Cadarousse has been compromised. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: is he sending him away more to protect himself or
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  Speaker 1: to protect Cadarousse. Oh, you know, I don't think he's
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  Speaker 1: so concerned with protecting himself at this point. You don't,
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  Speaker 1: because we they showed him living in fear in the
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  Speaker 1: last episode. True, But on the flip side, that he's
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  Speaker 1: dropping truth bombs of who he is. Yeah, so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't think he You know that. I think
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  Speaker 1: Cadarousse being made basically exposed just lends to the heightened
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  Speaker 1: intensity of the story. Yeah. I don't think really like
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  Speaker 1: Edmund's that concern. I think he was more concerned about
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  Speaker 1: maybe he was more concerned about Cadarousse being killed perhaps
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  Speaker 1: by maybe that's a tiny bit of goodness in him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe. Did you like the storyline with the Villefort's
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  Speaker 1: baby who's now a young man? Kind of well, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's just giving us nuggets of like, Okay, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to fall into I think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: fall into next week's conclusion obviously, certainly hope. So, I
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  Speaker 1: can't imagine even if villefor Kid's eyes on this kid,
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  Speaker 1: he's not going to be like, oh wait, are you
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  Speaker 1: my child? He looks just like me? Right, I mean
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  Speaker 1: the casting is kind of great. They do kind of
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  Speaker 1: looks similar. But yeah, I'm interested to see how that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna play out and wrap things up. What I actually
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  Speaker 1: really like about that storyline is Yako Hoo doesn't like
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  Speaker 1: it when the Count's like, we're gonna set him up,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna get him arrested, and Yakapo's like, he's he
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  Speaker 1: pushes back a little bit, and I kind of agree
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  Speaker 1: with him. There he's once again using Gast on this
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  Speaker 1: kid as a pawn in his game against Villefort, when yes,
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  Speaker 1: Gaston is a thief, he's not like a contributing member
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  Speaker 1: of society. But also you certainly have to blame some
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  Speaker 1: of that on the circumstances of his childhood, and so
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  Speaker 1: I think it's I'm curious to see where we go
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  Speaker 1: with Yakapo in the finale and if he's his conscience
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  Speaker 1: starts pushing against what's happening with the Count. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be interesting. I haven't given his character much
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  Speaker 1: thought in terms of how it ends for him, So
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  Speaker 1: very interested to watch. I need like a two hour
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  Speaker 1: I hope that episode's like two hours. It's probably not, No, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: probably it's the same. I also did like when Caderouse
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  Speaker 1: is talking to Gueston, He's like, the Count doesn't give
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  Speaker 1: second chances, and I was like, yeah, no, one knows
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  Speaker 1: that better than Cadarousse, who's been paying for his crime
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  Speaker 1: for years now, exactly. All right, is that all your likes? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we will come right
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  Speaker 1: back to talk wishes. All right, Wendy, let's hear some
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  Speaker 1: of your wishes. I don't have many other than the
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  Speaker 1: speed of fer NaN's downfall. It happened so quickly in
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  Speaker 1: this episode. I kind of wish we could have maybe
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  Speaker 1: started it one episode before. I just like, is this
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  Speaker 1: happening over days? Right? Weeks months. What it just happened fast,
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  Speaker 1: like he the whole parliament thing happened so quickly and
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  Speaker 1: then and it's been so like several episodes of setup,
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  Speaker 1: and now all the dominoes are falling right. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why I feel like the finale episode next week is
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  Speaker 1: just going to be like boom boom boom boom, right,
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  Speaker 1: boom boom boom, you know, and maybe that makes for
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  Speaker 1: a good finale. I don't know. Time will tell. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be back next week to talk about that, but
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  Speaker 1: it just happened quickly, quickly, quickly. My other little wish
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  Speaker 1: is that Haiti says it best when they say Haiti
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  Speaker 1: and the Count say goodbye to each other, and she
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  Speaker 1: says something like but at what costs? Yes, but at
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  Speaker 1: what cost? And I was like, oh, see, Edmund has
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  Speaker 1: you know, sought out all this revenge for years and
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  Speaker 1: years and years, but at what costs? Like he's not
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  Speaker 1: thriving as a human right, He's in a terrible way.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing drugs and he's not sleeping at night, and
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  Speaker 1: he's not happy. Like so I just, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I want a happy ending for Edmund, but I just
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna happen, and I think that's probably
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  Speaker 1: my biggest wish. I'm telling you my brain has been
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  Speaker 1: altered by Hallmark. Yeah, I think. Sure. We're always waiting
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  Speaker 1: for that last minute, happy ending and resolution, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure we're going to get it in a Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: sort of way. I do hope there's some sort of
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  Speaker 1: resolution for the count at the end of this and
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  Speaker 1: that it's not tragic, but I genuinely don't know which
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  Speaker 1: direction we're going. And I apologize to anybody who's screaming
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  Speaker 1: up their phones right now. I think it's interesting to
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  Speaker 1: watch this both with knowledge of the story of the
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  Speaker 1: book and without. I think there's value in both. When
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  Speaker 1: Haiti says that it unlocked something in me, because there's
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  Speaker 1: a huge cost to Edmund in exacting all of this revenge,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this alters his brain chemistry. It couldn't not.
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  Speaker 1: But also there are innocent bystanders that we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: that are collateral damage. In Haiti is one of them.
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  Speaker 1: I think because she was forced to relive her father
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  Speaker 1: was murdered, then she was sold, she was sold again
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  Speaker 1: to Edmund, and for Edmund's satisfaction, she was forced to
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  Speaker 1: share that very publicly, and what a humiliating thing to
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  Speaker 1: have to stand in that chamber of men and say,
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  Speaker 1: here are the receipts of me, a human person, my
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  Speaker 1: sale for this man's financial gain. Was she a willing
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  Speaker 1: participant in that? I don't know or did she feel obligated?
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think you can remove the obligation. He
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  Speaker 1: saved her, he bought her, and freed her. Whether you
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  Speaker 1: tell yourself or he says, there's no obligation to do this,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't have any of that knowledge. There's some
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  Speaker 1: obligation there that you're gonna feel for sure. My other
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  Speaker 1: wish goes towards the Eugenia and Louise thread. It's a
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  Speaker 1: little thin. Eugenia breaks down because she's to Mary Count Spota.
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  Speaker 1: Louise is there to comfort her. They have a nice,
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  Speaker 1: meaningful moment. There's a little affection between the two of them.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think we could dig into this a
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: little bit more, because I think they're a huge example
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: of how these innocent lives are affected by these men
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: manipulating them for their own gain. Totally. There's in Valentine,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: who we don't hear about at all in this episode.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: So there's another one that my Hallmark brain hopes for
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: a happy ending. I'm not sure that a happy ending
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: for the two of them exists in this time period.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: But once again, we shall see, we shall Do you
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: have any more wishes? That's it? I wanted to read
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: a couple more notes from Jessica's email if I may. Yeah,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: she says, I love the opera scenes. I would love
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: it if the Foresights could do something like this with
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the opera. Maybe not leading to a duel, but with
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: people spying on each other, especially now with the possible
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: triangle between June Philip and Irene. June and Philip met
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: at the opera, Rene loves it seems like a good
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: place for that predicted storyline to come to a head. Finally,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: she says, I love that he is setting up for
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: nand and Doanglars to bring each other down. I kind
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of wish that he had been able to keep himself
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: out of it publicly, but I think he wants to
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: be involved in their downfalls. This episode clearly shows that
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: he doesn't just want his revenge. She wants them to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: know it was him and why. Okay, so let me
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: ask you this, if you were plotting a revenge of
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: your worst enemy, someone who has done you so dirty. Right,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: when they go down, don't you want them to know
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: it was you that did it? Absolutely? Yeah, I know
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: there's I hear what she's saying, and do agree, Like, yeah, Edmund,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: dial yourself back a little bit, don't expose yourself, like,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: don't be involved in it. But on the other side
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: of it, yes, he wants these men to know that
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it was him to remind that sailor that they sent
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: to prison, who they thought was disposable or a threat
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: or whatever, is the one to take them down. Yeah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: And Edmund has not been unaffected by the money and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the power that he has because of the money. The
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: key is absolutely a changed person from whom he was
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: in the beginning. Agree. Yeah, And that makes me kind
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: of feel icky a little bit because I want to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: root for somebody who is good, and I'm like, all
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: this kind of the way we've gotten here isn't great, right,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: But damn, it's a good show and it's a good story.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Do kids have to read this in high school or college?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Do know? I don't know, God, they should, it's so good.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's part of some curriculum a literature major.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah. Reading it in high school be rough because
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: it's so long. But I know, but kids today would
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: just chat GPT this up right, I know, right, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: then they'll come across our podcast someday then listen to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: our hot takes on it. Oh my gosh. Well, we'll
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: be back next week with the season and series finale.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I know that breaks Wendy's heart so much of the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Count of Monte Cristo, who knew that this is where
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you would be after two PBS seasons? Can you believe it? Truly?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I cannot thank you to those of you who have
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: been listening and enjoying this PBS D tour. We'll be
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: back next time with more reviews. Goodbye bye. All right friends,
• 22:40
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