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A Paris Proposal · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: That's real good. Yeah, I know, and let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you why Wait? Did you come up with that on
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  Speaker 1: your own?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to a Girl's Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a lifelong Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 1: fan and I'm Wendy and this movie got me super
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  Speaker 1: pumped from my trip to Paris.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing a Paris Proposal, the second movie from Hallmarks.
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  Speaker 1: link in the show notes. Come on over quick programming Note.
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  Speaker 1: There will be no recap for The Way Home tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: because there was no new episode of the Way Home
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  Speaker 1: due to the Super Bowl. You can catch up on
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  Speaker 1: our previous recaps if you haven't listened to those, or
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  Speaker 1: you can hop on over to our other podcast, which
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  Speaker 1: is Long Story Short with Megan and Wendy. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: some Hallmark news and notes. Okay, speaking of Hallmark original series,
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  Speaker 1: we got a premier date for the Hallmark's next original series.
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  Speaker 1: They're churning them out. The series is called Ride. It's
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  Speaker 1: about a rodeo dynasty family. Well. I remember when this
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  Speaker 1: was announced months ago and I was like, Oh, is
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  Speaker 1: this gonna be like Yellowstone for hallmart And I had
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  Speaker 1: completely forgotten about it, as had I until we got
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  Speaker 1: a release date. It's going to come right on the
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  Speaker 1: heels of the Way Home. It literally immediately after The
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  Speaker 1: Way Home is actually airing an hour early that night
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  Speaker 1: like their season finale. Yes, so March twenty six will
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  Speaker 1: be the season finale at eight PM of The Way
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  Speaker 1: Home and at nine pm the new original series Ride
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  Speaker 1: will air. I think that's smart to air them back
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  Speaker 1: to back because they've got those Way Home watchers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited. Are we reviewing? We've not made a we've
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  Speaker 1: not made a commitment.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 1: Let's ask the listeners how they feel about it. Do
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  Speaker 3: Vote in the Facebook group.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Her Sleepy Kitty pop on Twitter. Tamara Maori Housley
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  Speaker 1: is set to start in a new Hallmark film called
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  Speaker 1: Dream Moms, which is directed by Jessica Harmon, who is
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  Speaker 1: the director of this movie we're reviewing today. Sleepy Kitty
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  Speaker 1: Paw also reported the ratings for Curious Caterer Grilling Season,
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  Speaker 1: which had one point eight three million viewers. It is
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  Speaker 1: the second Hallmark movie is a mysteries movie for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three, but if you compare it to viewership from
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, it.
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  Speaker 3: Would be in third place overall for all of.
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  Speaker 1: Those Hallmark movies and mysteries movies. It does have higher
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  Speaker 1: viewership than the first Curious Caterer movie, which is a
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  Speaker 1: good sign. Yeah, I mean people like the franchise or whatever. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of viewership, sweeter than Chocolate Pulled and two point
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  Speaker 1: zero two six million live viewers and zero point one
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  Speaker 1: nine of the demo, which is big numbers. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing ahead of it was sports and Fox News.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there are a lot of sports right now, basketball,
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  Speaker 1: college basketball, all that crap. You know. All these movies
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  Speaker 1: on a Hallmark channel hitting over two million is big time.
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  Speaker 3: M M, big time. That's a wrap on news and notes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did have one small thing but it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even want to waste my breath about it.
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  Speaker 1: But are you talking about Canad's Camera's podcast interview? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: yes I am, Yeah, I don't want to waste my
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  Speaker 1: breath on it. I'll leave a link to an article
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about. Moving on, please, let's talk news and
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  Speaker 1: notes on a Paris purpose.
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  Speaker 3: Can you do a synopsis or isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Remember what came next? Oh my gosh, yes the synopsis.
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  Speaker 1: Anna and Sebastian traveled to his hometown of Paris to
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  Speaker 1: land and add account of famed Derond Diamonds and end
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  Speaker 1: up in a tricky situation when the client mistakes them
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  Speaker 1: for a happy couple. Starring Alexa PenaVega and Nicholas Bishop,
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  Speaker 1: this was filmed on location in Paris as well as
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  Speaker 1: in Bulgaria. They started in Bulgaria, moved to Paris and
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  Speaker 1: as Wendy mentioned, you're headed to Paris.
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  Speaker 3: So was that exciting? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it got me excited for it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't like the travels. I know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this I was excited that it was actually shot on location.
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  Speaker 1: Well you know, some of it, yeah, like the scenery
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  Speaker 1: shots of course, okay. During November twenty twenty two, it
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  Speaker 1: was filmed. I also read that Alexa Pennavega had to
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  Speaker 1: leave her husband and three children behind for twenty three days.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that's that's bad.
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  Speaker 1: This is me coming off of a weekend alone. Two guys.
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  Speaker 1: Three weeks is a long time. I think there hits
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  Speaker 1: a certain point of time. I think it's nice to
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  Speaker 1: be able to focus on your work and to have
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  Speaker 1: time to be just about you. But I do think
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  Speaker 1: you hit a certain point and you're like, wow, I
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  Speaker 1: really miss them. Yeah, but if you're doing like a
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  Speaker 1: full fledged, like movie production, you're like gone longer than that, right,
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  Speaker 1: like if you were in a mission Impossible twenty four
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, I've heard a lot of couples who
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  Speaker 1: did I just hear talking about this. Emily Blunt and
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, that guy John Kirks kraft Kinsky. They basically
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  Speaker 1: had said, like their goal is to only each of
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  Speaker 1: them only be working one at a time, and then
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  Speaker 1: the other can travel with them with their children if
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  Speaker 1: they're gone.
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  Speaker 3: For a long period of time.
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  Speaker 1: Is that like on set school then for their children, Well,
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  Speaker 1: he was saying they enroll them in school, like they
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  Speaker 1: were in Australia or New Zealand and they just enrolled
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  Speaker 1: their kids in school there for a few months. Nancy Right,
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  Speaker 1: The Life of a Movie Star. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Harmon directed this film. This is her fourteenth directing credit.
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  Speaker 1: Others include Hallmark's Game Set Love and Rip in Time
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  Speaker 1: Books from twenty twenty two. She also directed the CBS
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  Speaker 1: Christmas movie Fit for Christmas last year. Oh and she
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  Speaker 1: was also nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement by the Director's
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  Speaker 1: Guild of Canada for the Lifetime drama One I've Seen
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  Speaker 1: called Girl in the Shed, the kidnapping of Abby hernandez Ah.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched it well. Speaking of my movies, writer Andrea
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  Speaker 1: Canning wrote a Paris Proposal the screenplay, and her previous
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark credits include Christmas Bedtime Stories, South Beach Love, and
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  Speaker 1: Two for the Win, but also movies like The Perfect
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  Speaker 1: Cheerleader and Home Killing Queen, which feels right up your alley.
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  Speaker 1: They are, so that's interesting. I wonder if they know
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  Speaker 1: each other from like crossover from those Lifetime movies. Now,
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  Speaker 1: South Beach Love a movie you absolutely hated, if I
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  Speaker 1: recall I didn't enjoy it. Yeah, Okay, go back and
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  Speaker 1: listen to our It's actually a very popular episode of
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  Speaker 1: this show. And I believe it was a popular movie.
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  Speaker 1: But that episode continually gets listens a year plus later.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's because it stars a very popular actress actor. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: because he's popular in the telenovella world.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So A Paris Proposal does star Alexa Pennavega as Anna.
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  Speaker 1: She last starred in Love in the Limelight from twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two with her husband. We did not watch that movie.
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  Speaker 1: Prior to that, she was in Taking a Shot at
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  Speaker 1: Love from twenty twenty one. She is best known for
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  Speaker 1: her role as Carmen Cortes from the Spy Kids franchise. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and what do we know about Nicholas Bishop? He plays
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  Speaker 1: the bashion in this movie. He has twenty acting credits.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be real honest, nothing I've ever heard
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  Speaker 1: of You have never heard of industry on HBO. No.
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  Speaker 1: When I was reading his like acting history, I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: heard of anything else besides.
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  Speaker 3: The HBO show.
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  Speaker 1: But he's a full newcomer to Hollmark.
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  Speaker 3: What's your first impression?
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  Speaker 1: It started out shaky, but A Paris proposal might be
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  Speaker 1: in my top five. Wow, like best ever for me?
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  Speaker 1: Best ever? Yes, I don't know why, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: I did a poll on our Instagram and I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of shocked at like how lowly rated it was. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into it. My first impression is the tagline
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  Speaker 1: for the campaign should have been durand Diamonds are there
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  Speaker 1: for the fairy tale and the happily ever after. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's real good. Yeah, I know, And let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you why. Wait, did you come up with that on
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  Speaker 1: your own? Yes, because there's a scene in the movie
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  Speaker 1: just after meeting with durand Diamonds and Gabriel, the bad
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  Speaker 1: guy was like, we want to focus like outside of
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  Speaker 1: the proposal, like you dirty Americans already care about the proposal.
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  Speaker 1: And Sebastian and Anna are talking, and Anna's like, all
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  Speaker 1: anybody ever talks about is the fairy tale. Nobody ever
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  Speaker 1: talks about the happily ever after, Like that doesn't always happen.
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  Speaker 1: Because she had what she thought was the fairy Traine
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  Speaker 1: and I turned to my husband, who watched this movie
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  Speaker 1: with me, and I said, the tagline should be here
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  Speaker 1: for the fairy tale and the happily ever after. It
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  Speaker 1: was a total missed opportunity because that's the.
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  Speaker 3: Direction that they went with the campaign.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to make an ad campaign for
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  Speaker 1: our Instagram this week. This is this new thing that
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  Speaker 1: we've been doing that are like born out of these episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Is really fun to me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh good, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And that totally plays into like the owners, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I've been together for so long, and then ties into
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  Speaker 1: the end scene that they now have their own happily
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  Speaker 1: ever after. Yes, Yes, I hear you, good job me,
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  Speaker 1: thank you? Man's available for ad lines? Or what are
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  Speaker 1: the ad campaigns? You guys? Amazing? All right, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about what we liked about this movie. I have a
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  Speaker 1: very luckless Oh, I cannot wait, I'll start, Okay. I
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  Speaker 1: absolutely loved Alexa Pennavega.
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  Speaker 3: Oh me too.
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  Speaker 1: And I had read on Reddit yesterday that a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't like her because she's too bubbly. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen her in anything other than taking a
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  Speaker 1: shot at Love, and I love taking a shot out love.
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  Speaker 1: We did, so I thought she's I liked her a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I did not find her too bubbly in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think so, and I wrote this down. I
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  Speaker 1: think she delivers believable lines with the ease and likability,
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  Speaker 1: like she was like someone. I was like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: see that you're very I have the book sort of
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  Speaker 1: like that kind of character, but you're also very fun
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  Speaker 1: and you have all this little depth to like you're
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  Speaker 1: struggling with this like divorce that she had, and she's
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  Speaker 1: very guarded, and I just really liked her in this character.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I thought Anna and Sebastian had great chemistry, and the
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  Speaker 1: kiss in the dress shop was steam itate, dude. I
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  Speaker 1: wrote the same thing as I was watching this movie,
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  Speaker 1: like as he goes this is costume jewelry, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, that's sweet. And then there was something so
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  Speaker 1: sensual about the way that the necklace got pulled out
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  Speaker 1: of the box and she has this very long hair
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  Speaker 1: that she like moves and he like slowly drapes it
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  Speaker 1: on her and she just whamo kiss. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I watched this movie alone on Saturday night and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, that is the sexiest, steamiest scene I've ever
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  Speaker 1: seen on a Hallmark movie. That was in percent agree,
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  Speaker 1: So bravo to the director Jessica Harmon. Wow. I was
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  Speaker 1: still these actors because they really sold it to me. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you stop you there, like I think
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  Speaker 1: I might have told you off air. I thought her
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  Speaker 1: husband was originally in this movie, and I kept going like,
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  Speaker 1: is this her husband in real life? Like this the
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  Speaker 1: nat star and movie right there in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: MOVI together, and that would explain why this kiss seems
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  Speaker 1: so steamy because they are an actual couple. But then
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  Speaker 1: I realized, oh, no, that's not her husband. No, wow wow, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and too our comment about Sebastian being new to a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark that's not his name to our comment about Nicholas
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  Speaker 1: and Bishop being new to a Hallmark more Nicholas Bishop.
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  Speaker 3: Please, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was a good actor. Yeah, I would
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  Speaker 1: watch him in other movies for sure. For sure. The
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  Speaker 1: writing in this movie had some real zinger of lines. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that had me, elo Ellen, you were great and legally
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  Speaker 1: blondelegally blonde. When she walked into that scene, I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: she's Elwoods And the fact that he did that line
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  Speaker 1: a moment later loved it, so I didn't even realize
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  Speaker 1: but she, yes, she was dressed head to toe and
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  Speaker 1: like that pink like outfit or whatever. But and it
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  Speaker 1: was such a throw the way he said it too
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  Speaker 1: was such a throwaway, and I died. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was so funny. However, I have some comments in our
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  Speaker 1: wished section, some lines about a broomstick, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk more about that, Okay, and a bit. Absolutely loved
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  Speaker 1: the dress tryon scene for the gala. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you watched it closely. I watched it
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  Speaker 1: very closely. First of all, the music was really good
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  Speaker 1: in it. I was like, I don't like Paris Parisian pop? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: And the scenes were so fun, like she Alexa Penevega
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  Speaker 1: was like dancing in scene and drinking champagne and like
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  Speaker 1: it just seemed very natural. And I wonder if the
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  Speaker 1: director would just was like, whatever, have fun here and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll just spice all this together. Those are my
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  Speaker 1: favorite kind of scenes in movies. Yeah, I don't what
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  Speaker 1: are they called what montage? A montage scene? Yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm pretty and pink when she's like making
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  Speaker 1: her dress one of my favorite scenes ever.
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  Speaker 2: I just loved it.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, Okay, it was a fun scene. What else?
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to go back to that kiss because we
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  Speaker 1: had an email from Facebook group member. Group member, Oh Mike,
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  Speaker 1: he had a lot of thoughts about this movie and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't want to put him in the group because
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  Speaker 1: he didn't want to spoil it for any cout like
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  Speaker 1: went really into it. But one of the things he
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  Speaker 1: pointed out was after that kiss. He was like, here's
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  Speaker 1: my problem with that kiss is I guess we could
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  Speaker 1: talk about in the wish, but we're here. I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it now. He's like, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: that one of the following two things hasn't happened. A
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  Speaker 1: they go back to their hotel and that moment continues,
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  Speaker 1: or B they talk about it, because the option was
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  Speaker 1: see she wakes up alone the next morning, and there's
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  Speaker 1: we don't have any evidence of anything we're to believe
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  Speaker 1: they just go back to the hotel.
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  Speaker 3: Let's it, and they.
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  Speaker 1: Never They're like, we're not going to talk about that
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  Speaker 1: super hot moment we just had anyway, Okay, fair points.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember what exactly did happen after that. They
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  Speaker 1: get interrupted, and then the next scene is her waking
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  Speaker 1: up in the hotel and she looks over and he's
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  Speaker 1: not on the couch, and then she sees him. She
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  Speaker 1: sees him in the hallway. He's got coffee, But there's
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  Speaker 1: no indication that they've had any sort of conversation at
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  Speaker 1: that point. They just about a kiss that you had.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever had a conversation with a dude after
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  Speaker 1: you've kissed them? If you're out the kids sleeping in
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  Speaker 1: the same hotel room and this dude is your coworker
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  Speaker 1: that you're pretending to be married to, I do think
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  Speaker 1: this warrants a conversation. It would be like, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: should get your own room because I'm afraid of what
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  Speaker 1: might happen next. And if we're trying to be like
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  Speaker 1: on the up and up because we're coworkers, or is
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  Speaker 1: something happening here, or we're just gonna pretend like we
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  Speaker 1: did at kiss and never.
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  Speaker 3: Be like, is something happening between us? Do we need
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  Speaker 3: to talk about that kiss?
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  Speaker 1: I say that no, No, I wouldn't. I would just
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  Speaker 1: be like, more kisses, please, Okay, But that's the point
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  Speaker 1: that they just not neither of those things happen, Keep going,
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  Speaker 1: all right. I love the maternal figures in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Sebastian's mom, uh huh was quite lovely. His dad was
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  Speaker 1: a real jerk.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And the diamond owner lady I forget her name.
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  Speaker 3: Marie, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: She's not credited on the IMDBs.
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  Speaker 3: Nora is his mother.
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  Speaker 1: Really, there's five actors credited on IMDb for this entire movie,
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  Speaker 1: some intern kids. There's a huge guest. I just thought
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  Speaker 1: they were so loving and carrying to Anna. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: just loved it. I loved it because she didn't marry
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  Speaker 1: Marion Marion, Okay, so she Anna didn't have anybody, you
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  Speaker 1: know in these movies, like there's usually like some Oh
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  Speaker 1: she did. She had her friend that lived in Paris,
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  Speaker 1: So I take that back, Carol. She had a friend
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  Speaker 1: who worked for the posh dog Like. Yeah, anyway, I
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  Speaker 1: have two more things. I loved all the music in
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  Speaker 1: this movie, all of it. I knew it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be kind of like Parisian, like this is what
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  Speaker 1: you would expect in like a bakery or something, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. But there was just I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It made me happy. I just loved
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  Speaker 1: it so much, so so much, and finally I felt
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  Speaker 1: and maybe this goes back to the kissing scene. I
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  Speaker 1: the scene or the relationship between Anna and Sebastian happened
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  Speaker 1: very naturally. Yes, you know, and I start out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of rough, but then like they really leaned on
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: each other, like she realized like he needed somebody because
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: his dad was such a jerk and his brother was
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: such a jerk. And then they leaned on each other
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: for getting the ad campaign. I just thought it was
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I was rooting for them. I agree, all right, I
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: only have one thing that I wished for. What that
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: at the moment where Anna and Sebastian's lie is discovered,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: that everyone would have just taken a breath because everyone
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: loses their sahiit in that moment. Seriously, they're at the
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: bottom of the stairs, right, and the diamond Lady's like,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we have to fire you. And then the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: next person was like, you're an imbecile, the dad yes,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: and then their boss is like, you're fired. I was like,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: just pile it on all these people, like, really, like,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: just take a minute, take a breath.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: What really matters, right, I know?
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: But they had to have this like villain with Gabriel, right, yes,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: which to me was not necessary. I don't we don't
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: need a villain in every like storyline. I think all
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: of those things I actually really liked Gabriel as the villain.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I think he's the classic villain. Yes, but I think
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: he's the classic villain. I think he plays the villain
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: so well. I hated him a lot. I think he's
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the perfect villain. I don't think he needed to be
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: in all of these scenes, like why is he in
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: these meetings? Right? I didn't. But I think all of
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: those things could have happened. The durround people could have
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: fired them, his dad could have yelled at them, their
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: boss could have fired them. I think maybe what we
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: needed was another montage, like it didn't all need to
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: happen on the stairs, because we did need all of
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: those things to happen to get to the conclusion of
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: them being a part potentially blaming each other. Anna going
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: to Sebastian's family and talking to them, right, I just didn't.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: That seems like calm down, everybody calmed down. Well. I
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: hated that Gabriel was like gets up on the stage
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and it is like, God, He's gonna put them on
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: blast in front of everybody, Like who's the villain here?
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Like he's trying to play them as the bad guys?
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Right exactly? Yeah, I really wanted Marry to be like,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: actually you suck and you're fired.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Right, But that did not happen.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, I asked you if he was French. I did
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: look at the actor who played Gabriel, and he's from Switzerland.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I also had read on Reddit that a lot of
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: people were like, the French accents in these movies, in
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: this movie are so bad, and I'm not, like, I
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: don't I couldn't tell you like a good French accent
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: from a bad French. So I would love to know if,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: like people who actually speak French, like was it terrible?
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Like was he speaking bad French? Is Nicholas Bishop? Like
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: do we know where he's from? He's from the UK
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and then he moved to Australia when he was six
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: months old, so he's not French.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Oh he's not French.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So they all have like accents. But well, I'll report
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: back when I come back from France. Okay. Another thing
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I really liked about this movie is that they did
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: speak so much French in it. Yes, and I read
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: with subtitles and luckily like the subtitles translated translated, so
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I just loved it. I thought it was so good.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: And finally here's my biggest wish for This started out
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: really shaky for me, m hm, because we have that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: instant conflict between Anna and Sebastian, and he like repeatedly
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: insults her for like not being like this go with
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the flow creative like he is right, you know, like
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: he's very different than her or she's very different from him,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: uh huh. And I was like, oh god, we got
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: one of these movies again. We're like they're gonna hate
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: each other and then they're gonna love each other, right,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: But he said and one of the early scenes, he's
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: like you forg you forgot your broomstick or and I
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm so sick of this narrative where like
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: someone who's like responsible and on time is.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: A bitch is a bitch?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like it's such an easy low fruit, Like, yeah,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: can we stop doing that in these movies, Like stop
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: making someone who's responsible, who's just a type A compared
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to like a creative type A bitch? It drives me crazy. Yeah.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: And if we reverse the roles, if she was the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: one like flitting in as the creative, she would be
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: painted as like an airhead, yeah exactly exactly, not like cool.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: So just stop with that narrative.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I agree, let's stop. Did you see that?
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I have a couple Okay, me too.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: What I learned is Alexa Pinevega does not speak French.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And there is a moment earlier in the movie where
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Sebastian speaks French to her and she says, what did
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: you say? And he lives and then she like calls
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: him annoying in French and it rolls her tongue, like
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: her accent is in my untrained ear, impeccable, so she
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: could have folded me. But she says, nope, we're just
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: lucky that those words worked out well. As someone who's
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: been listening and working on Babbel to learn sometimes, yes,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: it's a hard language. I agree, especially as someone who
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: what language did you take when you were in high school?
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Spanish?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah? So did I So like I gets I get
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: super tongue tied with English. I mean, have you listened
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to the podcast? So imagine me trying to like speak
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: in French. How bad. One scene, it's breakfast and she
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: gets a croissant for a Sebastian. She's buttering it. This
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: is way past the scene where she calls him out
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: for buttering his croissant, because like, why are you there
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: so much butter in it? Anyway, she goes to grab
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: it and the croissant, one croissant was as big as
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: like a loaf of bread. She grabbed it with one
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: like a claw hand. It was huge. I was like,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: if I could eat chrissans like that, because I'm here
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Did you catch the straight up homage to carry Bradshaw?
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I did. Oh, I loved it. So we'll drop I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: have the photo right here in front of me. We'll
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: drop a side by side in our show notes.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Yes, but Alexa as.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Anna wears a striped flower top with a striped skirt
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and it is straight up doupe, as they say of
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Carrie Bradshaw in Paris. When you see them side by side,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: it's really something special.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I loved that dress.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: It's a great dress. I really liked all of Alexa's
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: wardrobe in Paris too. I thought they leveled up. She
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: brought the right clothes to show off in Paris. I
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: absolutely agree. Now let's talk about the end, the very
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: very end, when the couple is talking to camera like
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: we've seen in the wedding Veil movies. Yeah, I know
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that it was for like an ad. It was like
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: their commercial. But I saw and read it like a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: lot of people were like, are we doing this now
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: in every movie?
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I think the three wedding Veil movies
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and this movie were kind of all made at the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: same timeframe. I don't think there was any like, oh,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: they're doing it in the movies, let's do it in
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: ours or I mean it made sense in this movie
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: because it was an ad for the diamonds. Yes, right, yes,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: to me, it didn't make sense in the other movie. Agree, Okay,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: are you ready to read this? I am.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I need it three point seven five stars.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I gave it four point five. WHOA Like when it
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: was over, you were sad. I was smiling, I said
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: out loud, I love this.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: What the listeners of this podcast might not know, but
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you would know if you listen to our other podcast,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: is that Wendy had the luxury of having a weekend
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: all to herself this weekend, and I thought of you
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: because I watched this Sunday morning. But sometimes when I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: watch these movies, I'm going to be honest, I think
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I just want to watch this so I can watch
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: something I want want to watch. I really enjoyed this.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: That was not the case. But sitting down, I.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Thought, oh, Wendy has to use.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Part of her alone time to work, but I'm so glad.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: It was a highlight of the weekend for me, and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I even DMed a listener of the show, Michelle. I
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: was like, I loved tonight's movie because I don't want
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to tell you this stuff usually because like I wanted
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: to be like an organic situation here when we talk
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: about it and she's like, oh, I'm getting ready to
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: watch it right now. So then I felt kind of
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: bad that maybe I spoiled it because I said I
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: loved it so much, but I.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Didn't tell her anything.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't tell her anything. And I have to say
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: that I think we're plagued with the terrible promos for
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: these movies. You know, we're just getting like these like
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: sneak Peaks scenes where it's just like a full cut
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: scene that because it was did you ever see the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: commercial for this movie? It was like when they were miming,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and I was like, that is a movie I do
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: not want to watch. Yeah, question if the person you're
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: with starts miming. Do you just pretend you don't know
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: them and keep watching cringe so hard? I would never
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: in one million years. I am hashtag no fun. Hand
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: me a web blanket. I am not miming with you.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I am not doing it. Do not tell me to relax,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Do not tell me to chill out, Do not tell
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: me to just like smile and have no. No, I'm
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: not miming with you on the street. Ever, I thought
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I'm no fun either, But I also thought, like, good
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: for her for just like leaning into the moment with him,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: And yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: I'm never leaning in.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I liked it. You tell me if you mime on
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the streets with your husband and Harris, I'm going to
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: look for a mime. Are there mimes? Is just whoaming
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the street? I really was like, is this so stereotypical
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: that they're doing this like fashion campaign with these two
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: mimes in the background.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Is that really a thing?
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because they were. The photographer gets all mad
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: at them for like, yeah, using the mime. Whatever. The
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: mime loved it. I love this movie. I'm so glad. Well,
• 26:57
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• 27:00
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• 27:03
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• 27:05
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• 27:09
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