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From BookTok to Hollywood - The adaptations we’re excited (and nervous) for · Gorls Unplugged

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everything that we post today. We're going to be talking about
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book to screen adaptations, aren't we?
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Which was, we've been planning on doing this for a while
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because there, like last year, it felt like every week there
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was going to be there was a new announcement.
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This was getting done. This was getting done.
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This was getting done. So actually now we're like,
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right now's the time to talk about everything coming.
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Yeah. So be honest.
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What is your first thought when you hear that one of your
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favorite books is getting adapted to the big screen?
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Like a mixture of excitement and yeah, stress. 100% I'll totally
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get it. It also depends on who the
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production team is, what the company is, If it's going direct
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to streaming on Netflix, I don't have big hopes.
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But this is your thoughts, not mine.
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I'm just like, who are they gonna cast?
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Yeah, I get really scared, I'm not gonna lie.
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Some books that I've loved in the past have been amazing,
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perfect adaptations. Some, not so much.
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Yeah, and one of them we'll actually be talking about today.
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OK. So before we talk about specific
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book screen adaptations, what's coming this year, what's coming
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beyond that? Why or do we think that book
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talk is having a massive influence on what is being moved
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from not just not just book talk books to ground like the whole
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bookish community? Do we think that's having an
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impact on what's being picked up for films or screen?
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I personally think yes and no. So I always think that books
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have always been adapted to screen forever.
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Like when we were teenagers, we had Twilight, Divergent, Hunger
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Games, like all of those massive books are always picked up to go
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to screen, especially if they have some element of action to
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them because obviously that translates really well.
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But I do think what the bookish community has influence is the
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rise of romance because there was a huge dip between maybe
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like the mid 2000s and very, very recently where we weren't
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really getting any good ROM coms.
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We don't really get many romance TV shows especially.
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And now we're starting to get some with like heated rivalry
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and other things like that. So that's personally I think my
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take on it. What do you think?
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Yeah, I mean, I do agree. And I do also feel that there
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was a bit of a dip with like fantasy stuff.
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I remember after I like finished Vampire Diaries in the Originals
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and everything, I was like, this really isn't much newness in
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this like romantic fantasy kind of genre happening on TV right
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now. And I would say that with the
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amount we're seeing coming out of like this year, I mean, it's
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wild. Literally last last year, it
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felt like every week there was a new announcement of something
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else being picked up. And you know, someone else's
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books are going to be on the big screen next year.
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And it will felt a bit like, oh, when is this going to stop?
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Like how? Like how is it going to feel
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watching all of these next year? So I do think it has, it
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obviously has an influence whether or not when those things
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release, that's a good or bad influence like we shall see.
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Yeah, I'm excited to see quite a lot of them.
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I definitely agree with you that we don't get much fantasy.
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We never have them like. Not enough.
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Things that are a massive fantasy production like Lord of
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the Rings we barely ever get. And I guess because it takes so
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much time and money to film things like that.
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Yeah, I mean, obviously Rings of Power, the TV show that came
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out, what was it like 2 years ago from Lord of the Rings?
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That's the most expensive TV show ever produced.
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Really. Yeah.
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I actually still need to watch season 2 of that.
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We're going way off topic already, but I do actually need
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to watch that because I really enjoyed season.
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One so me and Whitney got stuck with season 1 about halfway
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through. Whitney's my sister by the way,
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guys. And.
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We didn't love it, however Molly our friend said that it got
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better and she I'm pretty sure she's watched season 2 and
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enjoyed it. OK.
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So I'm going to get back to him. So obviously when you have book
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to screen adaptations, a lot of readers are the ones that are
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first there in line to see it. Do you think readers are harder
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to impress than normal watchers? 100% I would say the casting
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drama around off campus last year 100% proved that.
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And just like with everything, the amount of arguments you not
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so much now. And I don't know if that's just
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that the side of TikTok that I'm on, but you know, you always
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used to see it on TikTok. People arguing over like their
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fan cast for actor and tog and Magnolia parks and just because
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like people see things visually in their head and you're never
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going to you're never going to make everyone happy.
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It's impossible. Yeah, I completely agree.
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But also, I think even aside from the visuals and like the
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cast, when you read books, you obviously you start to get
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really strong understanding of like what a good narrative arc
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looks like, like what the story beats are, what makes a good
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plot. So then like if they miss out
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key parts in a film that you feel provide a lot of context or
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emotional death, that's also disappointing.
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And I know that people said that about one thing we're going to
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talk about later. And yeah, I 100% think it's
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harder to please. I know I'm harder to please when
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I watch a film that I've already read as a book or even just if I
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know it's a book, like with the upcoming, upcoming Wuthering
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Heights, for instance. Like that's the one we're going
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to talk about as well. But you when you know it has
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such strong source material, your expectations are higher.
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I agree. And not that we support the
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author of these books in any way, but I do remember watching
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especially the final Harry Potter film and some of the
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things left out that just, like, creates so much emotional, like,
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depth to the story that were then left out in the film.
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I was like, why on earth would they change that?
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Like, it just. It baffled me.
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Yeah. And I think I think that happens
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a lot. There are obviously some
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instance we've spoken about before where actually the film
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ends up becoming better because the books weren't that great,
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like Vampire Diaries. Yeah.
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But yeah, I do. I agree.
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Yeah. Do you actually have a book to
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screen that you've watched that you think is better than the
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book other than Vampire Diaries? Oh my God, you're really putting
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me on the spot there. I'm trying to think.
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I know that I'm trying to think because I feel like we spoke
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about this before and I actually prefer this.
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I can't remember. Yeah, cuz I was just thinking,
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although Normal People is one of my favorite books ever, I
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actually think the screen adaptation is so perfect.
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Really. Yeah, so perfect.
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And I think that's bold words, right when the book is so up
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there for you. Yeah, it's literally like one of
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your favorite books in the. World.
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So yeah. So I was really pleased with
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that one. I definitely think there
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probably have been, but there are plenty of films that I've
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never read the book of. Like Practical Magic is one of
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my favorite book, favorite films of all time, like Timeless for
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me and it doesn't doesn't need to be spooky season for me to
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watch it. But I've never read the book.
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So actually I don't know the comparison and sometimes I will
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never read the book so. Yeah, that's like I am Legend.
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I never knew when I watched I'm Legend, like back in whatever
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year it came out, that that was based on a book.
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I love that film. I think it's a really good like
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horror apocalypse film with Will Smith.
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And obviously in the film it's zombies, but apparently in the
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book it's vampires, which is completely different.
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Well, it did come out in that whole like kind of era of zombie
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movies, so it doesn't it. So it makes sense that they just
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kind of like changed it to go with that.
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Yeah. But yeah, there's so many things
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where I'm like, oh, I should read the book now.
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Yeah, but you never get around to it all, do you?
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No, because then you feel like you know the story and you're
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like, yeah, so let's move on to the things that are kind of
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coming this year that we're already a little bit emotionally
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invested in. And whether or not that's
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because we're excited, scared, or just curious to see how it's
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going to go. We're not going to go through
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everything, but we will provide a list like in the notes of the
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episode. Maybe we'll post it over on
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Instagram, like a full list of everything that we know that's
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coming. So.
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Obviously this is already out. It technically came out in the
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US at the end of last year, but it came out here in January.
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I'm talking about this because I've seen it, but Paul hasn't,
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and I need you guys to help me persuade her to watch it.
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And that's heated rivalry. Obviously, it's based on books.
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Personally, I actually haven't read the books, and I also
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haven't read any MMM romance books.
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I don't know if you have. Not where it hasn't built into a
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story, like not where it's like specifically, MMM, romance, but
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it has built in, you know, obvious ones.
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But. Yeah, that's the same as me.
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I haven't specifically read like they're the main couple.
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It's a specific MMM romance, But so I haven't read these books.
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Apparently the books are not great.
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OK, apparently they're written like quite fanfic vibes.
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I don't know how true that is. That's just what I'm seeing
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floating around on the Creeds. Take that with a piece of salt.
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But the show, I've rewatched it already and I've made Whitney,
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my sister, watch it. She loved it too.
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She doesn't even like romance. And guys, it's sports romance,
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which Tom loves. It's ice hockey, you know?
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But anyway, this is, I think, the perfect example of where we.
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I've watched the show but haven't read the source
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material. And then it blew me away.
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Would I have felt the same if I'd read the books?
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Who knows? Yeah, Because I would have had
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different expectations of maybe what they look like, what the
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bits that were cut from the story, as we mentioned before.
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But as it stands, I think that is the most amazing TV show I've
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watched in a long time. Everything about it, from the
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cast, the acting, the romance, the score, the soundtrack, the
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way it was shot, even though it's on a really small budget
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apparently. I feel like she feels really
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passionately. About this six star watch guys 6
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star really, and you know I'm about to.
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Blow you away because I started watching it and I turned it off
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about halfway through the 1st episode.
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You've got to get, I'm bored. You've got to get through the
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first episode because Whitney was the same.
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And then I was like, you know, you need to cut.
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It's a slow burn. There's too much other stuff
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going on for me to watch at the moment and I'm not a big like
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considering we're talking about TV and film.
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I'm not a big TV film person. I have like specific shows that
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I do watch that, you know, I don't watch a lot of it.
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So maybe I'll just save it for a time where there's a lull and
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thing that I am that I don't have to.
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Watch it is only 6 episodes as well but it is a slow burn so
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you have to like invest but I will eat my socks.
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Actually, I shouldn't say that because.
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We've been through this. There's always something.
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But I will eat my socks if you don't like it.
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OK, fine, OK, fine. So the other one that we're
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going to talk about that was recently just released, which
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again you've seen, I haven't seen it yet, is People We Meet
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on Vacation. The new M Hen film was your
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least favorite M Hen book known. She's the big Emily Henry lover.
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I am, she's one of my faves. So I haven't read the book and
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haven't watched the film. I'm not being very useful to
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this episode, but I do really like the look of the film so I
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am going to watch it soon. I think, again, Tor will really
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like this because it's cheesy. It is a bit cheesy, yeah.
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Knowing the types of romance films that Tor likes, I think
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this plays into it. But we have very different
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tastes in that regard. So I didn't like it.
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I gave it three stars. But the book or the show, the
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show, the film, the film on Netflix, the book I gave four
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stars. But the more I think about it,
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the less if I read it now, it would have been less than that.
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It's by far my least favorite of hers.
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I'm not a big friends to lovers person anyway.
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That's not one of my favorite tropes at all.
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So you know, it was never going to be like up there would be
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treating Happy Place, which do have my favorite tropes in.
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But my biggest issue with that adaptation to screen was
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actually the actress who plays the main character, because I
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just didn't like her and I don't she's she's in.
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I know, I'm really sorry guys, I'm being not very nice here,
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but she is in what's it called my like my Lady Jane or
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something. Oh yeah, yeah.
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That fantasy one, I'm prying. All the girls in our group chat
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loved it. I didn't like it because I
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didn't like her and that either. Oh, OK, fine.
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So it was so sad that they didn't do a second season of
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that. I can't say I was sad, but I
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just felt like she turned the main character of people we meet
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on vacation into like a caricature almost.
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It didn't feel believable to what we'd read.
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And personally, I think what is so special about Emily Henry
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books is they're not cheesy. They have this like almost
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element of melancholy to them. Especially like Happy Place in
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Beech Read. They kind of had this sad
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undertone. Sort of book lovers.
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It was the first romance book I had literally literally read as
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an adult and I was just like, this is just so great.
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It didn't because I am a cheesy romance type of girl, but I just
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I did love book lovers because it did have you know, more of
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like a serious underclined parts of it.
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Her books have a lot of depth. You know, they look at like,
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family relationships as well as the romance.
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And I felt that's what the film adaptation lost.
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It was just pure romance, really happy go lucky.
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Which I don't mind in a film. She was, yeah.
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So that's why I think you'll like it.
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It was kind of, to me, anyone but you vibes.
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Is that what it's called the Sidney Sweeney one?
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That's. My favorite?
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Yeah, so I think Tor will like it.
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Me, I just thought it was fine. Yeah, I was a bit disappointed.
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So 1 you have seen. Well.
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Not the new season. Well, Bridgeton, I started
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episode one last night and I'm about to blow you all away.
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You didn't like it? I turned it off with 20 minutes
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left to go on the first episode because I was like, I'm bored.
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Maybe this is a mood you're in then if you're finding this
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with, maybe you're not in a romance mood.
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There's probably a reason for it and we're going to talk about
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that show next. But I mean, don't get me wrong,
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it was fine, but I just wasn't like with Colin and Penelope's
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season, I was just like, so invested already.
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Like really, I'm so invested. I think it's probably partly to
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do with the fact that I love the actress.
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I love Nicola Lachlan. Is that how you pronounce her
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last name? I fucking adore her.
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Yeah, I really like. Her so and I just liked their
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whole again. I mean, I'm not actually a
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friends lovers person, but it was this whole kind of like
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longing, the yearning. It was just, I don't know, it
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was something about it that I've really loved.
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But yeah, with this season so far and I have given it less
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than one episode. Not think I don't like it and
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I'm not going to watch it, but I just I was retired and instead
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of being like I need to finish, as I've said first I was like,
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I'm just going to turn it off and read my book.
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Yeah. So have you started it yet?
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Not yet. I'm going to start it tomorrow.
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OK. I've got a book to edit for a
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client guys. I need.
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I need to be sensible before I start binging.
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That I'm so excited because Benedict is like a character
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throughout the previous seasons has really intrigued me.
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I will say again, me and Tor kind of have opposing favourites
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and preferences in this show. Queen Charlotte the spin off is
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my favorite. Then season 1.
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Season 2 I do. I did like a lot more on
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rewatch. Season 2 is and never will be
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beaten in my eyes like Anthony and Kate.
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I just love them. That's how I feel about George
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and Charlotte. Oh they're so cute.
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Penelope and Colin I didn't enjoy and I still didn't enjoy
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it and rewatch. Just finished the rewatch,
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didn't enjoy it so I'm intrigued to see what I'll think.
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Have you read any of the Bridgeton books?
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I have, but I'm not going to carry on.
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The series didn't love. I enjoyed them when I was
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reading them, but I felt like I was reading them because of the
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show and I was like, actually like, I don't love them to read
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them. So yeah, I'm just, I'm just not
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going to carry on because there were loads of things that I
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actually really do want to read. And I felt like I was in a phase
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in life I was reading because I felt like I had to because of
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book talk, when actually I don't fucking have to.
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I really like the show and that's enough for me.
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Yeah, I haven't read the main Bridgeton series, but I read the
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Queen Charlotte book, but obviously that was a bit
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different because it came out after the show.
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They wrote it like from the show.
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Yeah, And it there wasn't much difference between the show and
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the book. I did really love it.
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I think I gave it five stars. Oh OK, I did it on originally.
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Loved the yeah. Yeah, it was just like
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comforting, I think. But I have no interest in
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reading the books. Weirdly.
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I don't know why because I love the show.
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But what? So this was what I was going to
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ask. Why do we think because
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Bridgeton is literally like a worldwide phenomenon.
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And I think it's not even just like women that love it because
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actually when Kyle, he won't specifically be like, wait for
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me to watch that. But when he sits down and
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watches it, he really enjoys it. And the first season that didn't
17:45
ever come out, he was like, don't watch an episode without
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me. It was obviously during COVID.
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And what do we think it is about Bridgeton that makes it work so
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well for a book to screen? I think this is where the magic
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of Shonda Rhimes comes in. Oh, she's.
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So talented. I mean, we've got obviously
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Bridgeton, Grey's Anatomy scandal, How to get Away with
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Murder. Like, she is phenomenal.
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She's a powerhouse. Yeah.
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Bridgeton itself, I think, is such a perfect blend of like,
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using all of your sensors. When you watch it, you know we
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have all these pop songs turned into orchestral.
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Pieces. I think that's one of my
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favorite things about the TV show.
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Me too. The costumes, the settings like,
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and then the actual plot itself is part mystery.
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Like you do have a mystery underpinning the romance because
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until season 3 you don't know who you miss.
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Lady Feather, internal, whatever not.
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Who is it, Lady Whistle? Down.
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That's it. You don't know who that is.
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There is bits of plot that are separate to the romance as well,
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like different friendships and things going on in the
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background. So there is something for
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everyone, I think. I think that's what it is.
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It's like it hits all of the points.
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There is something about the music specifically, like I'm not
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a big music person. Like Bronte's like she's into
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film, she's into music, she's into, you know, breeding.
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She's very like artsy fartsy. I'm not.
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I'm just like, if I like it, I like it.
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Like with Vampire Diaries, I think the person that does the
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music for Vampire Diaries, like the perfect song's always
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chosen. But like same with Bridgeton.
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Like there are certain things about the music that just stay
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with me. Like I have the instrumental
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Pitbull give me everything on my phone because it just, it was
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just placed so perfectly with that moment between Penelope and
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Colin and it was just done so well.
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I was like, this is so fucking good.
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Even though there's those songs to sing along with, I love it.
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And do you know what song's been included in Season 4?
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Hayley Williams. Paramore all I wanted.
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Yeah, my guys, that is in my top five songs ever.
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I am so excited. I literally just saw that on
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gems Instagram story this month. Was it?
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I'm sure it was gems Instagram. So I was like oh OK, nice.
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Love that. So I'm really excited for that.
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But yeah, I agree. It's just like so beautiful.
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And that specific scene in Season 1, right where Daphne and
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the Duke dance in the rain, the rain starts pouring.
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It's very Pride and Prejudice and they have that Four Seasons
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song. That comes on in the background
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and it's like, oh. It's so cute, just makes it
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perfect. Yeah, it's very well placed
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music. Very good choices.
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I love them. Yeah.
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OK, we're moving on to a show that I have been screaming at
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Bronte to watch for the last couple of weeks because I
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literally just binged it all the way up until what's airing right
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now, and that is Tell Me Lies. I am seeing everyone talking
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about this. It is fucking wild, like I've
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never watched ATV show like it. It is fucking crazy.
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But I didn't know it was based on books.
20:53
So again, this is like a I've got no, I've got no comparison
20:57
for what the books are like. But let me tell you, it is ATV
21:00
show that everyone should watch. So what is it?
21:03
Is it romance? Is it drama?
21:06
So about going too deep into it, it is there is romance and there
21:11
is drama. It's setting and it's a mystery
21:14
as a kind of mystery because it's it, it basically starts
21:18
with these people that are in their 20s, they're at a wedding
21:20
and then it's it's flashing back to them in college.
21:22
But there's something going on in the present that you're like,
21:24
what the Hell's going on here? But I think as women, the thing
21:30
that you relate to, everyone that I know that has watched it
21:33
is that the the relationships are so toxic.
21:38
It is the most toxic thing I've ever watched.
21:40
You can't look away. But everybody has a Stephen.
21:45
Like everybody has one of those people.
21:47
They look back on that relationship from like their
21:50
younger years where they're like, Oh my God, like I relate
21:52
so heavily to this right now. It's just, it's so fucked up.
21:56
But you just cannot look away. And everyone wants a Wrigley.
22:02
A Wrigley. That's his name.
22:05
I feel like I'm giving parts away from people that are going
22:07
to go back and watch Season 1. But yeah, just, oh, it's so
22:11
good. You have to watch it.
22:13
OK, I am going to wash it guys. I'll report back on this.
22:17
I feel like I want to read the books as well.
22:19
I mean, I'm not fussed about it. Again, it's like, because I'm
22:22
like so obsessed with the show, I'm like, are the books ever
22:24
going to live up to it? And from what I've heard, people
22:27
that have now watched, have read the books and are now watching.
22:31
I think season 3 is starting to very much deviate away from the
22:34
books. OK.
22:36
So I'll be, yeah, I'll be intrigued to see what happened.
22:40
But why do we think that? Toxic relationships viewers get
22:44
so hooked on the toxic ones more than like the everyone.
22:50
What's that, Google? Box Quote Everyone loves a bad
22:52
boy, Chris. It's so true, I know, but on a?
22:58
Serious level I think there is something really exciting about
23:00
like danger and things you know are wrong for you.
23:03
Your body sort of gets addicted to the adrenaline, doesn't the
23:06
adrenaline, doesn't it? And the drama I.
23:08
Think that's the thing like when you think about when I think
23:11
about my most toxic relationship and I was talking to Amy about
23:15
this because she's been begging me to watch the show for a
23:17
couple of years now and we were sat talking about it.
23:20
I was like, you do like that is literally you're watching you're
23:23
like, why are you doing this? But then you think back to your
23:25
young self and I think I was so addicted to the drama in my most
23:29
toxic relationship. It wasn't actually madly in love
23:31
with him. I was just hooked on the
23:34
constant spikes of all my happy sad hormone.
23:37
Yeah, that's why. It's crazy, I feel like I
23:40
probably shouldn't watch this at the moment if it's talking about
23:44
past relationships. Hint hint nudge nudge, right?
23:49
What else we got on the list off campus?
23:52
Oh, and if you've been here a while, you'll have seen us talk
23:54
about the off campus casting drama.
23:56
Yeah, which was. Just that we can't even go into
23:59
that because I was talking about.
24:00
It was wild. Yeah.
24:01
We're just going around so excited for this show.
24:03
I'm beyond. Excited, especially after
24:06
watching Heated Rivalry because, again, ice hockey, yeah, so very
24:09
excited about that. I personally don't mind the cast
24:12
as well because at the end of the day, they're college age
24:15
anyway, so I'm never going to be like, wow, you're so thick
24:19
because they're just going to feel so much younger than us.
24:21
Yeah. And I just.
24:22
Think as well, I think I said this before, it all comes down
24:25
to like their personalities and how well they can act as to how
24:28
much you fall in love with the characters, so and the guy
24:31
that's playing. Garrett is in a film called
24:34
Along for the Ride on Netflix, which is an adaptation of a
24:37
Sarah Dessin book that I loved as a teenager.
24:40
And he was great. He was great in it, Yeah.
24:42
So I have full faith that he'll be able to deliver Garrett.
24:44
I have faith in it as well. I feel like most of the like
24:47
Amazon Prime obviously don't do as much as Netflix, but I feel
24:51
like the ones that I've I have watched, they've done them
24:54
really well. So I'm like, I'm excited for it.
24:57
Yeah, I'm really excited too. And I agree, actually the Amazon
24:59
Prime ones I think are actually really good, especially compared
25:02
to Netflix. If you couldn't tell me Netflix
25:04
got beef. Oh wow.
25:07
OK, moving swiftly on because we are doing a real torn brunty
25:11
yapping session right now. Wuthering Heights.
25:14
I know you're excited as well. Semi excited, not excited for
25:17
this. I have.
25:19
Thoughts on Emerald Fennell who is the director right, because
25:23
she will just like scrap racial context.
25:27
She'll make it very she's just she's just something.
25:33
OK. Anyway, so for an instance with
25:36
her first film that she did, Promising Young Woman, which is
25:38
about this woman that tries to protect women who have date
25:41
raped. The message of the film is the
25:43
police will just fix everything, even though we know that's not
25:46
true. Oh God.
25:47
Then Saltburn came out. Saltburn was like really like
25:50
classist and not great. Although I do actually love the
25:54
film and I think she did. She did, and I think the
25:57
cinematography is great. And then comes Wuthering Heights
26:00
and she released the cast. Margot Robbie's about 10 years
26:03
older than the role should be. Jacob Elody, even though I love
26:06
him, everyone knows how much I love him.
26:08
Is White now? In the book, it's not explicitly
26:12
stated what race Heathcliff is, but there is a serious thread of
26:18
racial context throughout it. So he's continuously sort of
26:21
like degraded and made out to be different and othered because of
26:25
his skin colour. And he comes into the country
26:29
through the Liverpool ports, which is obviously where a lot
26:31
of immigration happened in the British imperialism empire sort
26:35
of time. I feel like I'm having a
26:36
history. Lesson right now so.
26:39
The fact that she's cast him, I'm not keen on anyway.
26:43
And then she's done interviews about it where she's like, yeah,
26:46
it's just like how I imagined it when I was reading it when I was
26:49
like, 14. And, you know, this is like, a
26:52
really great love story. And it's not a romance.
26:55
Anyone who's read it knows it's not a romance.
26:56
I mean, granted, I read it 15 years ago, so my memory is not
27:00
fresh. So take this with pinched salt,
27:02
but it's not a romance. And everything from the costumes
27:06
that I've seen so far looks like it's just going to be the most
27:08
outlandish, outrageous thing. I mean the trailers.
27:11
I've seen of it are wild. Me and Amy are going to go to
27:13
the cinema to see it, but yeah, it looks wild and I think that's
27:17
what she just. Does with all of her films.
27:19
It's like what can I do that's the most how can I make it?
27:21
Eccentric, yeah, rather than. Like what's the best way I can
27:26
explore these themes, which works in some ways?
27:29
Like I did actually really enjoy Saltburn.
27:32
I said it was. Visually.
27:34
Stunning as well. So I'm excited for the visuals
27:36
of Wuthering Heights and I do actually love the quirky
27:38
costumes and stuff. I don't really care about them
27:40
being historically accurate, but do I think it's going to be like
27:43
actually Wuthering Heights? No, not like with Amy with.
27:46
Bridgeton Yeah, she does, my friend.
27:49
Amy does not like the win win Penelope.
27:51
Had like, really like, lovely, like almond shaped nails.
27:58
Yeah. Amy was like, what's going on
28:00
with her nails? That's not historically
28:02
accurate. I was like, wow.
28:04
And she's got eyelashes. On.
28:06
And her makeup shimmering. Yeah.
28:09
Which I don't. Mind too much with I literally
28:12
don't even notice. Things like that.
28:14
It's so, so like so far over my head.
28:18
So one I'm very excited about and I actually didn't know about
28:21
until Bronte told me for when we were planning out this episode
28:24
is the magic Fire Away tree is getting what is made into a film
28:27
that's coming out March. Yeah, I think so.
28:30
End of. March, I'm sure.
28:31
I saw it was like the 27th of March or something like probably
28:34
lines up whenever. The next kids half term is
28:36
because obviously it's Oh yeah, Easter holidays is going to be
28:39
actually, yeah. One of the.
28:41
Best kids books of all time 107 Loved those books when I was a
28:46
kid. I think it's literally what
28:47
probably. Got me into reading fantasy as a
28:50
child. Me too.
28:52
And the fact that it's Enid Blyton, it's just, like, so
28:55
timeless. Like, my parents loved it.
28:58
We read it, and then kids, now we're going to get to see this
29:00
film. Well, Zola listens.
29:02
To the audiobooks literally every night.
29:03
She actually, the day that Bronte told me about this, I'd
29:08
just given Zola the because she's she's only just about to
29:12
turn 6 in a couple of weeks. And she so obviously she's not
29:16
reading the book because it's a little bit above her, but she
29:19
listens to the audio books every night.
29:21
And she actually took the book into school that morning and
29:23
gave like a little talk at show and tell about the story and the
29:26
characters. Oh my God.
29:29
So I. Was so.
29:30
Excited that day I got her she when I got her home, I showed
29:33
her the trailer and she was like, oh can we go to the cinema
29:36
together, Mummy? So I'm so excited to go and see
29:39
it and it's got Nicola Lachlan in it, yeah, which is so
29:41
exciting. And Andrew got.
29:43
Like loads of big cast, actually.
29:45
Rebecca Ferguson, I think, as well as the body in it.
29:48
It looks so good. I actually wanna go see it at my
29:50
grown age with no kids. Maybe you should come and see
29:53
it. Yeah, I will.
29:56
Okay, okay. So the other thing that we have
29:58
coming is a couple more Co hosts and I feel like I just feel like
30:04
all of the films are gonna be cursed with all this Blake
30:07
Lively and Jason Baldoni, whatever his name is, drama
30:11
still ongoing. I just feel like every film that
30:15
released is gonna be overshadowed by Blake Lively and
30:17
Jason Baldoni drama and just also like.
30:21
Overshadowed just by how much book talk Don't like her.
30:24
It's wild because it's a big. Divide because some people
30:27
absolutely love her, but they're most people are like, Oh no, I
30:30
don't recall her. Yeah, and she's not.
30:32
For me, I gotta say however, what I will say credit where
30:36
credit is due is I did read reminders of him back in like
30:39
2020-2021. I bloody loved it.
30:42
Oh now did I think it was stupid that she called her daughter DM
30:46
like carpe diem, Yes I did. Did I think it was cheesy as all
30:50
hell? Yes I did.
30:52
But did it make me cry? Yes.
30:54
Am I ashamed to admit that? Maybe slightly, but.
30:58
It was, it was five years ago, it was five years ago, but we
31:00
can let it. Go the world.
31:01
Was a different time. I've watched the trailer for
31:04
that one. Yeah.
31:05
And I was like, hmm, this is not all how I imagined the cast.
31:08
OK, so then I sort of felt like the off campus lot disappointed
31:14
with the cast. Obviously I didn't make a tick
31:15
tock video about it, but yeah, I was like, that's not how I
31:19
imagined it. But I probably won't go and see
31:21
it anyway. I don't think I.
31:23
Will like at some point if it's on Sky or if it's on Netflix or
31:26
something. I probably would if I had
31:28
nothing else to watch, but it's certainly not a film I am
31:30
rushing to the cinema to go and see.
31:33
However, I do think when Verity comes out I will go and watch it
31:38
at the cinema because I quite like the casting, I really like
31:43
Anne Hathaway, I love Anne Hathaway and I actually also
31:46
quite like Dakota Johnson. I know a lot of people don't,
31:49
but I actually quite like her. So I think I think that the
31:53
casting was done really well. They actually look very similar
31:55
to how I imagined them in my mind.
31:58
And Verity is the only coho I've ever read and really enjoyed the
32:02
kind of like that other one we read Heartbones.
32:04
But it was so early in my like romance reading era that I'm
32:07
like, if I read it now I wouldn't have liked it.
32:10
But I am excited for Verity. I'm excited for Verity.
32:13
That is her other book that I enjoyed.
32:15
I actually think she should write more thrillers in that
32:17
genre because I think she was really good at it.
32:20
The books I didn't like were ugly love IDNF that one and
32:25
that's when I stopped reading it.
32:26
But Verity? I agree.
32:27
I'm really excited for that. I personally don't love Dakota
32:30
Johnson. I don't think she's great, but I
32:32
feel like that will be a role she'll be OK in because it's not
32:35
like the main kind of creepy role in it is Verity herself,
32:40
right? So I'm excited for it.
32:43
I will probably go and see that one, even though I don't love
32:45
Colleen Hoover. So that's what's coming out this
32:48
year. But there's a lot more that are
32:50
coming out beyond 2026 that we just don't have a date yet for.
32:54
There's so many that we're excited for.
32:56
Personally, what I'm excited for is the rest of the Emily Henry
32:59
adaptation. Tor hasn't read all the books,
33:01
but I have and I'm particularly excited for Beach Read, which I
33:06
have read, yeah. And you did enjoy.
33:08
That one, right? I did enjoy that one, yeah.
33:10
Happy place. I'm a little.
33:11
Bit nervous for because I found out that Jennifer Lopez is
33:13
producing it. Questionable after she did that
33:16
weird musical film about herself last year.
33:19
Did she? Yeah.
33:20
You're not, did you not? See all the viral videos where
33:23
she was like describing herself as like a crazy kid in Brooklyn
33:26
even though she was like from a private school.
33:29
Anyway, that's a whole different story.
33:31
But I'm a bit nervous about that, I can't lie.
33:34
So I'm just hoping they're a bit better than people we meet on
33:36
vacation. And are we getting all of?
33:38
The M hands next year or we don't know.
33:41
We don't know because we know we're actually getting all of
33:43
them so far, aren't we? They've all been picked up apart
33:46
from the most recent one. Yeah, exactly.
33:48
But. I don't know if we know the
33:49
dates. Interesting.
33:52
Yeah, because we don't actually have.
33:53
Official cast. I don't think for any of them
33:55
either. OK.
33:58
I don't know, I'm thinking about something different, but we, we.
34:02
I mean, we touched on this. Earlier we're getting a lot of
34:04
romance coming with some huge ones as well.
34:08
Which Bok talk? Talk are going to be so.
34:12
Invested in, we've got 2 of Elsie Silver's series, we've got
34:16
Rose Hill and Chestnut Springs coming, which I think again,
34:20
people are just going to be so hard to please.
34:23
So I'm really excited for them because I'm not going to get
34:26
worked up over castings. I'm just not.
34:28
I would still give them a chance, see how I feel about
34:31
them after I watch them. We've also got Rebel Blue Ranch
34:34
coming. That's what I'm.
34:36
Excited for and you never. Know you might like the TV,
34:39
depending on who does the TV series and how they do it from
34:41
the books because you don't like her writing.
34:44
So it could be that you actually end up don't minding the series.
34:48
You don't know, you don't know. I'll give it an.
34:51
Open mind because in terms of like themes.
34:53
Of the book of like Chestnut Springs and Rebel Blue Ranch.
34:55
They're so similar. Yeah, like, obviously the
34:58
writing's completely different. It's not like they've copycatted
35:00
each other. But in terms of like overall
35:02
vibes, romance, kind of westermy, Yeah, they're very
35:05
similar. They are.
35:06
So actually, you don't know what is gonna.
35:09
You're gonna have to give it a chance.
35:10
If it if it comes out on the TV, fine.
35:13
I will give it a chance, guys, guys.
35:18
On top of that, we also have the Twisted series by Anna Huang.
35:21
Yeah, guys. I've never read them, never read
35:24
them. I've read them, enjoyed them not
35:26
nothing like not the best in the whole world, but I do really
35:29
enjoy reading Anna Huang when I'm just like I need some I need
35:32
to just like mindlessly read some romance.
35:35
Yeah, 100% so and but there is a beloved on book talk as well.
35:40
So that's going to be and I think that's also been being
35:44
done by Prime. So that will be interesting.
35:47
And also we have that's. What I was thinking about
35:51
earlier when I. Was thinking of M hen it
35:53
happened 1 summer. Tessa Bailey is releasing Nina
35:56
Dobrev spin cast in it. The only thing she ever did
36:02
well, I don't like. Guys, other.
36:05
Than Rebel Blue Ranch we're definitely heading into a bit of
36:10
a romance era with television like this year, next year, which
36:15
I'm excited for because. Even though it sounds like I
36:17
hate it, I actually do love romance more than anything.
36:21
I just hope that they give us 2000s and 90s ROM com vibes
36:26
where it's not so cheesy. Like I love things like The
36:29
Holiday or Devil Wears Prada or Clueless.
36:34
I mean, we're getting Devil Wears Prada 2 this year as well,
36:36
actually. That's a book to screen
36:37
adaptation and we're very excited for that one.
36:39
But yeah, I like things where they're not quite so cheesy, so
36:42
I just hope that some of them are not too over the top.
36:46
Yeah, I mean. Realistically they are going to
36:49
be over the top, but yeah. And I don't mind because stuff
36:52
like that, to me, as always, you watch to watch, whereas I'm
36:58
normally watch to kind of relax and have a bit of background
37:01
noise. It's not, I'm not, I'm not
37:04
analysing what I'm watching. I mean even when I try.
37:07
Not to. I am, yeah, exactly.
37:09
But I. Just my brain doesn't work like
37:10
that with TV and film, so. Count yourself lucky.
37:13
It's actually a curse, guys. It's like, even last night when
37:17
I went to see Marty Suprem in cinema, my brain the whole way
37:19
through was like, this is wrong. That's what Ellie's like.
37:22
Really. Yeah.
37:23
It must be a Leo. She judges everything.
37:25
It must be a Leo thing. Oh, you both just weird.
37:29
Another thing we do have. Coming out, I'm not sure if it's
37:31
this year or next year, is Family of Liars, which is a
37:35
sequel to We Were Liars by I think the author's name is El
37:39
Lockhart. Oh yeah.
37:41
This was a prime. Adaptation.
37:43
Now when the book came out, it was a bit of a Marmite book.
37:45
People either loved it or they hated it.
37:47
It's a why, a sort of mystery with a bit of a romance subplot.
37:51
I loved it and I read it in 2019, so I was not a young
37:54
adult. But the show was also really,
37:59
really good. The prime adaptation.
38:00
I haven't watched her. And do you know who produced it?
38:03
Julie Plec No. Way so I've been waiting to.
38:07
Tell Tor this because she's obviously huge Julie Plec fan I
38:11
like. Everything that she's done, to
38:12
be fair. Well, everything I know that
38:14
she's done. If you don't know, it's Vampire.
38:16
Diaries Originals Vampire Academy, the TV version so I
38:21
think Tor should watch this. If you've watched it, comment
38:25
below. If you think Tor should, yeah,
38:28
tell me. Because she's Julie Plec has
38:29
also picked up, which we haven't gotten the list to talk about
38:32
today, but the new Stephanie Garba, Secrets of Alchemy, she
38:37
has been pegged to produce that. And I can't remember if it's
38:40
going to be ATV series or a film, but yeah, she's doing
38:42
that. Interesting.
38:44
And you know, in If We Were Liars, Who's in it?
38:48
One of the cast members. Oh, it's got Caroline.
38:51
Yeah, it's got Candace. Candace Akola.
38:54
Yeah. King.
38:55
No. Yeah, she's just is.
38:56
She got remarried. She's King, I think.
38:58
Yeah. No, she's not they're.
38:59
Divorced and she's now with one of the guys that was in the
39:03
originals, one of the wolves. But anyway.
39:05
Candace, whatever her name is, who plays Caroline in Vampire
39:09
Diaries is in We Were Liars, and she's going to be in the sequel
39:13
Family of Liars. Okay, interesting.
39:15
And she's really good in it, I think.
39:17
I will watch that then. Actually, I'm going to watch
39:19
that. Fine.
39:20
Moving on to the fantasy heavyweights.
39:22
Yeah, before we go into specifics, do we think that
39:26
fantasy readers are harder to please?
39:29
Absolutely. Even when you just said fantasy,
39:32
my stomach goes a bit because I'm more nervous about the
39:34
fantasy adaptations than I am romance or drama or any other
39:38
genre. Yeah, me too.
39:40
I just. Think there's so much?
39:41
Harder to get right with from everything, like the plots, the
39:44
special effects, the casting, you know, like so much of the
39:48
casting in fantasy is important because often they're like
39:51
bigger or taller or they look a certain way, like they look
39:54
majestic and ethereal and it's so hard to cast that.
39:57
Yeah. So I'm.
40:00
I think people are definitely harder to please with fantasy,
40:02
but for good reason. Yeah, I actually.
40:05
Think my biggest thing when people adapt fantasy is how they
40:08
change the plot. Yeah, that is what irks me more
40:11
than anything. I think that casting is one
40:15
thing, but changing the actual storyline to something
40:19
completely different I think is then where you it's a risky
40:23
business, it's a hugely risky. Business and quite a lot of the
40:27
ones that have been optioned for films or TV shows, I'm a bit
40:30
like, I don't think that's actually going to translate that
40:34
well to screen, but you know, to each their own.
40:37
I mean, for instance, like Cruel Prince was, the film rights were
40:40
brought in 2020, in 2017, and it's just never been made.
40:45
And I actually think that's a good thing because I don't think
40:47
they'd be able to nail card and with a tail.
40:48
Do you know what I mean? Like in a good way?
40:50
I think it would just look weird.
40:52
But when you read about it, you can sort of get your head around
40:55
a bit. I kind of would imagine.
40:56
Cruel prints being made with like, labyrinth vibes, like a
41:00
bit weird and one yeah, that I can see that actually.
41:04
And I think it would be better if it was like firmly YA yeah,
41:07
100% I. Completely agree, but I don't
41:09
think that they would do it like that.
41:10
I think that's the reality of it, isn't it?
41:14
Some of the other like really like big hitters that we got
41:18
announced last year, maybe even the year before. 4th Wing This
41:22
one I am. Excited about and I'll tell you
41:24
why even though I'm a bit funny on Rebecca Yaros bit mixed
41:27
feelings on her. The book I actually had read
41:30
before I knew about any of the stuff she'd done.
41:32
And I really love the book, largely because Violet in it has
41:37
Ella's Danlos Syndrome, which is what I have.
41:39
So it was the first time I'd ever experienced that on page.
41:41
Like kinship in that way. But the thing I'm excited about
41:45
with it being produced is Michael B Jordan's doing it.
41:49
And if you look at the films he's done with Ryan Coogler, so
41:53
Fruitvale Station, Creed, Creed Two, both the Black Panther
41:57
films and now Sinners, he's getting more and more
42:00
experienced in producing these incredible blockbusters.
42:04
Yeah, I mean I. Loved Creed, I loved both the
42:09
Black Panther films and I just genuinely love him.
42:12
And I'm really excited to watch Thinners.
42:13
I'm hoping and I'm hoping to watch it with Kyle this weekend.
42:17
I'm actually thinking about watching it tonight and feeling
42:19
like I'm on my period. I want to order a pizza.
42:22
It's payday. Yeah, watch Thinners.
42:24
Like I'm feeling that tonight because I'm so excited for it
42:26
and so many people have watched him and I totally love her, I
42:29
really think. All like it because it's it's
42:31
marketed as horror, but it's not scary at all and it's just very
42:36
it's very emotional, but it's also like simple and not overly
42:40
complex at the same time and beautifully shot like yeah, I it
42:45
was one of my favorite films of. Well, actually I watched it this
42:47
year. It was like the first film in
42:48
January and it was a five star for me.
42:50
I loved it. Yeah, I can't.
42:51
Wait to watch it. So I am excited for 4th Wing,
42:57
but nervous at the same time. Yeah, because again, it's one.
43:01
That's going to take a huge budget, so are they going to
43:04
deliver on like the Dragons and the Thing?
43:07
Is, and this is, this is something that people are saying
43:09
like can they make the Dragons like look realistic?
43:12
And actually anyone that's watched Game of Thrones, I think
43:14
will tell you they can. And that was like 10 years ago.
43:17
But is it going to have that? HBO budget you would.
43:21
Think so with someone like Michael B Jordan doing Yeah and
43:23
it is prime. Right.
43:24
It's going to prime. Yes, I think it is.
43:27
Yeah, so when you think Lord of the Ring of Power like you.
43:29
Know Wheel of Time, which is on there and plus one good thing I
43:33
think is Rebecca Yaros is involved in the production team.
43:37
Yeah, and the screen. Writing essentially, so it's
43:39
going to be fairly. True to the plot?
43:41
Yeah, you'd hope so. Yeah, she's also got another
43:44
three like romance ones coming, like The Last Letter, Things We
43:49
Left Unsaid and in the likely event, which I'm actually
43:53
listening to at the moment, funnily enough.
43:56
So she's got a few coming, one of the other huge fancy ones
44:00
that got picked up this year, which we actually didn't talk
44:02
about when we were having this episode, but came to me
44:04
Quicksilver. This is the one I'm not excited
44:07
for. Why I?
44:09
Don't think this is going to. Translate to screen very well,
44:11
OK, particularly because there's a lot in the middle portion of
44:16
the book that's just like romance and character building
44:20
where the pace dips slightly. I just also think they're not
44:24
going to get the vibes right. I think they're going to make it
44:28
really cheesy. I don't know why I think that.
44:31
I've got no grounds of like evidence to believe that.
44:33
I just can't imagine them portraying this kind of, you
44:36
know, because in Quicksilver as well, the language is quite
44:39
modern. I think they're going to make it
44:41
really cheesy and like almost a bit yai feel like it's.
44:45
Not going to end up getting made.
44:47
Yeah, I can actually see. That as well.
44:48
Do you know what I mean? I think that the the books have
44:52
lost a bit of momentum as well. Like 1 Brimstone came out, I
44:56
listened to it, I enjoyed it. But again, it had the same with
45:00
Quicksilver. This kind of like whole middle
45:01
trunk where the pacing was just totally off me.
45:04
So actually my thoughts on Quicksilver and a little bit of
45:08
disagreement with you here that I might actually enjoy it
45:12
because I think if it can be picked up by the right
45:15
screenwriters and they can improve the pacing of the plot.
45:20
It's the type of book that I wouldn't care if they changed it
45:24
because I actually think that there's a strong plot in there,
45:29
But the pacing of the whole story is so fucking off that I
45:34
actually think it could be better on on film if it was, if
45:39
it was done by the right people. Do we know if it's?
45:41
Going to be a show or a movie, I can't remember I.
45:44
Think it was a film that scares me because.
45:46
I always feel like fantasy is better translated to series
45:49
because you've got more room to explore things, but I could see
45:52
them squeezing that. That book into one film.
45:55
I mean it would be an. Improvement because the middle
45:57
section was extremely long. Yeah, that's, but that's what I
46:00
mean, I'm like. It's the kind of thing that I
46:03
wouldn't be like, Oh my God, I'm so excited for it, but it is the
46:08
kind of thing that I'd be like, I'd happily go to the cinema and
46:10
watch it with the girls. Like if they improve the.
46:12
Pacing and stuff like that. I'll be happy with that element
46:15
of it for sure. I just think they're going to
46:16
really cheapen and make it cheesy.
46:18
Like I can imagine them doing it a bit like the Mortal
46:20
Instruments film. I don't know why, I don't know.
46:24
What leads me to believe this but.
46:26
It's just a feeling, a good instinct.
46:28
Yeah, OK. Fine.
46:29
I mean, there's like we said, there is so much more coming.
46:32
So we will put a list somewhere when we post the episode so that
46:37
everyone can look up what's coming who's because there's so
46:40
many things that are already being casted already in filming
46:43
etcetera. So we will put a list somewhere.
46:45
OK, so forgetting about what Hollywood is actually doing
46:48
right now, what would we green light right now at everything
46:53
thing you've read? If you could pick anything, what
46:55
would it be? It would be beautiful.
46:57
World Where Are You? By Sally Rooney.
47:01
Fucking cool. Shit.
47:02
Because it's Sally Rooney. Because the.
47:05
Adaptations of both her books that do exist, Normal people in
47:08
conversations with friends were like the most perfect screen
47:13
adaptations. Like they were very faithful to
47:15
the book. The cast was just how I imagined
47:17
them. They broke them down into like
47:19
mini series with half an hour episodes.
47:22
It was just perfect. So I'd just love to see her
47:25
other books do the same and they might be I don't know maybe I'm
47:28
missing something. Updated info on beautiful world.
47:33
Where are you an Internet so. But I would just love to see all
47:35
of them developed because the first two were so good.
47:38
And then anything else is like quite difficult because like we
47:44
said before, I'm nervous about fantasy adaptations.
47:48
Yeah, but say. In it's like the perfect world,
47:50
it's like you could choose, not that I'd have any idea what I'm
47:53
talking about with this, but you could choose the director, the
47:56
production, the budget's not an issue.
47:58
Like everything. What?
48:00
What would you have Sword of Kaigen?
48:03
Which Tor hasn't read. Yeah, yeah, it's.
48:06
The most? Cinematic fantasy, but when
48:09
you're reading it, like everything plays like a movie
48:12
and it's this Asian inspired world on top of a mountain with
48:16
elemental magic and I can just imagine it being really well
48:20
done. There's a lot of, like, Asian
48:21
historical TV shows that are beautiful to watch, and I think
48:26
this would be the same. But then it would have that
48:28
slight fantasy element that would make us fantasy lovers
48:31
happy. I would love to see that,
48:33
especially because the main character is a female main
48:36
character in her 30s and a mom of like 4 kids, which is a bit
48:39
unusual. Yeah.
48:40
I would love to see that one. Yeah.
48:42
Interesting. You.
48:43
What about you? I've got a few.
48:45
That I feel like could translate quite well if again, like, there
48:49
was no limitations. There was no limitations.
48:52
The first is Zodiac Academy. Yeah, I think it could be a
48:56
really, there's no way it could be movies.
48:58
It would have to be ATV show. It would have to be like.
49:01
Vampire Diaries. Like in the structure.
49:03
Exactly. Exactly.
49:05
It would have to be done very specifically, very well because
49:08
there's so much. The the biggest part about that
49:11
is the relationships. It's not just the it's not just
49:14
the plot and it's not just a romantic relationship.
49:16
It's the friendships and all the drama of things that go on in
49:18
between that make that series what it is.
49:20
Yeah. So actually it could at Corby a
49:23
fantastic TV show. I'd also love to see the Legend
49:29
Born series into ATV or film. I feel like they could be
49:32
fantastic, like young adult films.
49:35
That is a really good one. I feel like they could just be
49:37
so fantastic. And the last one is Sang for
49:42
Keeps, the Becca Mack, Hoggy Romac.
49:45
I think that the again for ATV show, like the relationships,
49:50
the things that happen in them, like if they could weave a bit
49:53
more like plot through, like the romance and the relationships
49:56
depending on like how they do off campus, I think it would
50:00
just be such a lovely, comforting, cute romance series.
50:06
Those are really good ones. From you, Yeah, I really thought
50:09
hard about it. Yeah, I agree with all of those
50:11
actually. Maybe Zodiac Academy a bit I'd
50:14
be a bit nervous about but. I'd be nervous about all of
50:17
them, but if it was, if you could like make everything
50:20
perfect, they would be the best ones, yeah.
50:23
That I have to say. This as well actually, because
50:24
there was talk about this actually happening.
50:27
I I'm sure I heard that it got picked up by BBC but there was
50:31
talk about Her Majesty's Royal her.
50:34
Majesty's Royal. Cabin and because.
50:36
Juno Dawson does write for BBC, doesn't she?
50:38
So I'm like, what's happening? With that, because I actually
50:40
think it would be fantastic. Yeah, she writes for.
50:43
Doctor Who. So I'm surprised she.
50:45
Yeah, yeah, she's like a TV writer as well as an author.
50:48
So they would be great because she's already experienced in
50:51
screen writing. Well, when I first read.
50:53
HMRCI always said it for me. It's like this blend of like,
50:57
fancy world mixed with like a really gritty BBC drama, like
51:01
how I always kind of imagine it in my head, yeah.
51:05
I will never forget in the first book there's one specific scene
51:08
and you'll know which bit I mean with, like the cars and the
51:11
truck near the end with them. Oh yeah.
51:16
That played out in. My mind, like, the best action
51:19
movie scene you've ever seen. It was just so well done.
51:23
Yeah. I would actually really love
51:25
that one as well. OK, so we talked about the ones
51:28
that we want to see, but what book would you be absolutely
51:31
terrified to see adapted to screen?
51:35
Pretty much. Anything Sarah J Maas.
51:37
Mine's the same but. Throne of Glass.
51:39
Specifically like I feel like a Qatar could be done and it could
51:42
be done quite well. I would be petrified to see
51:45
Throne of Glass get butchered. I feel the opposite.
51:49
I really throne of. Glass would be.
51:51
Easier because of it being less romance and more action fantasy
51:57
plot. I almost think they'd be able to
51:59
do it like Rings of Power in that way.
52:03
I think a Qatar would be really difficult and I don't think any
52:06
of us would be happy with whoever they cast as the boys.
52:10
For me it is. It's so funny because these are
52:13
the authors I try not to talk about anymore, but they are
52:15
still the books that I love deep down because I've read them
52:18
before they were problematic. So for me it would be Red Rising
52:23
because these are these. Big.
52:26
Well, the first book is like quite dystopian bit Hunger
52:28
Games. Then books 2 and 3 and beyond
52:31
and more like these big space operas.
52:35
They kind of feel a bit like Star Trek, a bit like Star Wars,
52:38
but also not at the same time. I just don't know.
52:42
And they have, I'm pretty sure they have been.
52:45
The film rights have been sold, so I'm pretty sure it is being
52:47
made. But I just don't think Red
52:50
Rising, unless it has the biggest budget ever, is going to
52:54
be as epic and big on the screen as it is in my mind.
52:59
Because to me, it's like when I read those books, it was like
53:03
when you watch Avatar. Yeah, you know, there's the
53:05
scale of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
53:06
And how? Beautiful it is.
53:07
And like, how much is happening? That's how I kind of feel like
53:11
those films need to be. So unless James Cameron's free
53:14
to direct, I don't think I'd be happy.
53:16
And then? We'll be waiting 20 years for
53:18
it. Yeah, exactly.
53:20
Yeah. Fair, fair.
53:22
OK. So that's everything we've kind
53:24
of covered. So to wrap up, yeah, what are
53:27
you most excited for? I think I'm most.
53:30
Excited for Rebel Blue Ranch, you know guys, purely because AI
53:34
absolutely loved the books. Dusty Tucker as Tor knows, one
53:38
of my favorite book boyfriends ever, but also because I love a
53:42
show that's like easy watch. And last year we had Ransom
53:46
Canyon, which was really good actually.
53:48
Really good and I. Think this could be like that.
53:51
So I think I'm most excited for Rebel Blue Ranch.
53:54
I also think it would be the most difficult to, like, get
53:56
completely wrong. Yeah.
53:58
So. Yeah, that's mine.
53:59
What about yours? So I.
54:01
Feel, I feel like I'm most excited right now for off campus
54:07
because we know it's soon. So I'm really excited to watch
54:10
that. But like, looking ahead, I think
54:12
definitely Chestnut Springs, although I'm also really nervous
54:16
for that. And fourth thing, I can't wait
54:18
to just like hear a date or any scrap of news about what's
54:22
happening with that. That's probably what I'm most
54:24
excited for. Yeah, I.
54:25
Completely understand that because that's such a big one as
54:28
well. Guys, don't forget to comment
54:31
below what you're most excited for because we would love to
54:33
hear and also don't forget to comment to persuade Tor to
54:36
watch. If we were liars, we relies.
54:39
If we relies can't remember what it's called, whatever, it's good
54:41
you know. The one we mean.
54:42
But yeah, we'll be back soon with another episode.
54:46
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54:50
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