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Unthinkably Good Things · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Welcome to you Girls Gone Hamewark, a bonus
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  Speaker 1: episode of Long Story Short the podcast I'm Megan, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Wendy and a quick refresher against a longtime Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy is the twenty twenty recruit and we share our
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on all things Hallmarks. Today we are discussing the
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  Speaker 1: movie Unthinkably Good Things, which originally aired on August twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, on the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.
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  Speaker 2: Channel across all platforms across all I know you don't
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  Speaker 2: watch commercials. I don't, so they did a lot of
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  Speaker 2: promo leading up to this movie that this movie was
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  Speaker 2: like an event across all platforms.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. So it's like Hallmark Movies now the
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Channel.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if they all aired at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: but it belongs to Movies and Mysteries.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that's its home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again people are pissed that the mysteries are
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  Speaker 2: gone off of homework movies and mysteries. I like a
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  Speaker 2: mystery movie. You know what I really want? This is
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  Speaker 1: when we're not in the same room? And we figured
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  Speaker 1: it out. Taken the world by storm, one Hallmark movie
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  Speaker 1: at a time, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Any homemark news of late that should be.
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  Speaker 1: Discussed, well, Luke McFarlane, Oh yeah, who starred in hits
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  Speaker 1: like Hits? Do attics Christmas?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Huh? Did Julie smol Yeah, I'm taking a shot at
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  Speaker 1: least duh. Yeah, I like that movie, me too. Watch that.
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  Speaker 1: He has a big screen movie coming out called Bros.
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  Speaker 1: And he says that this year's Hallmark movie, Christmas Village
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  Speaker 1: will likely be his last. I knew it. So I
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  Speaker 1: read two different articles. Okay. One the quote is I
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  Speaker 1: think I've told my story for now with these folks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how many firefighters can I play? Oh my gosh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And another was from Vanity Fair where he said I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they'll ever have me back after today.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Luke McFarland is an openly gay man. Yeah, he jokes.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, you look at my IMDb and it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of like me with white ladies, and so I
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  Speaker 1: think he feels like he said he was very grateful
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  Speaker 1: for the opportunities Hallmark gave him. He's definitely a Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: leading man, but I think he's ready to take the
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  Speaker 1: next step. I'm very happy for him me too.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it when I saw the preview for Bros.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I was like shocked. I was so
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  Speaker 2: excited for him. I mean, this is like a big
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  Speaker 2: role in a big movie. Like it's a big, big movie,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's a jet appetite Oh movie, it
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  Speaker 2: is a Jet Appatow movie. Billy Eckner, he's the other
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  Speaker 2: guy in the movie. Mm hm. Anyway, a big Jet
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  Speaker 2: Apptow movie. I'm excited for him. I thought for sure
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't gonna go back to Hallmark after this. Not
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  Speaker 2: that like people who turn are gonna be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: now I'm a leading man in a you know, theatrical release.
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  Speaker 2: I'm too good for Hallmark. I don't think that's the case.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: What you said about Rose is a movie about same
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  Speaker 2: sex couples, and he's an openly gay man. I just
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  Speaker 2: think like his Hallmark ship has sailed, like he's ready
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  Speaker 2: to step into like the roles he's maybe more comfortable playing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm here for it.
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  Speaker 2: I want to watch this movie. I think it's very funny.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very excited to look at him. He's so pretty
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  Speaker 2: on the eyes. I'm so I'm very thrilled for him.
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  Speaker 2: Me too, very thrilled.
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  Speaker 1: That's all the Hallmark news and notes that I have.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have anything else to say?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm just waiting for more. There's got to be
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  Speaker 2: like a big Christmas Christmas announcement.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I've been looking to We do know October twenty
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  Speaker 1: second is the start date for Countdown to Christmas, so
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we get some more information about that coming soon. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to do a synopsis?
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  Speaker 2: Unthinkably good Things? I will now this synopsis on the
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  Speaker 2: Homework website was super long. Oh, and I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to read that, so I'm going to read the one
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  Speaker 2: from IMDb, which is like less wordy. This movie follows Allison,
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  Speaker 2: who is at a crossroads and her career and love life,
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  Speaker 2: in need of love and support from her two friends
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  Speaker 2: after visiting her in Tuscany. Each woman will re examine
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  Speaker 2: the state of their own life and relationships.
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  Speaker 1: We will revisit that. But I think there's a reason
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  Speaker 1: why these synopsies are too long. Ooh, interesting okay, my
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  Speaker 1: first news and note, which was information that is brand
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  Speaker 1: new to me, And most of this information is brand
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  Speaker 1: new to me. But Mahogany, which is the brand under
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  Speaker 1: which this movie was developed, as well as a movie
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  Speaker 1: coming out this weekend called to Her With Up, is
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  Speaker 1: actually a brand that started in nineteen eighty seven in
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark as a sixteen card promotion and it has continued
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  Speaker 1: as a year round offering. So Mahogany has been a
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  Speaker 1: brand that has existed in the Hallmark card line and
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  Speaker 1: so this twenty twenty two extension is an add on
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  Speaker 1: to that brand. They're all part of their trying to
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  Speaker 1: be a multimedia brand.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so, and the Mahogany brand originally was made to
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  Speaker 2: celebrate the cultures of people of color. Yes, okay, so, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to envision like a Hallmark store and
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  Speaker 2: they probably have like a little Mahogany section.
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  Speaker 1: Right then you want to be able to buy a
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  Speaker 1: car that doesn't just picture like a white lady saying happy,
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  Speaker 1: but sure, totally get it.
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  Speaker 2: This movie was filmed entirely on location in Italy during
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  Speaker 2: March twenty twenty two. It's kind of interesting because it's
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  Speaker 2: usually a very big deal when they film movies like
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  Speaker 2: in different countries, like for example, the Wedding Veil they
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  Speaker 2: filmed in Italy. Right, it was like a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Like prior to the movie coming out, like we knew
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of promotion that this movie was
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  Speaker 2: filmed on location. I didn't hear a lot of movie
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  Speaker 2: stuff about where they filmed this movie. Hmm, kind of surprise.
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  Speaker 1: They must have.
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  Speaker 2: Had a big ass budget for this movie, don't you think,
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  Speaker 2: with the size of their cast, especially yes, looking at
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  Speaker 2: the Hallmark channel Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Because I have two thoughts about that. One is it
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  Speaker 1: potential because the actors in this movie are not Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: big names. It's not like a Lacey Schevert or a
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Hines on location or even a Will Kemp who's
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  Speaker 1: been known to start in a Hallmark movie. It's these
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  Speaker 1: are not typically Hallmark actors and actresses, and so therefore
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's why we didn't get the buzz. Also, Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: here's my problem with what's happening here. Last year, Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: during countdown to Christmas would release three movies a weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and their Instagram promotion would always lean very heavily on
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  Speaker 1: one of those movies and sometimes to the detriment of
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  Speaker 1: movies that starre actors of color. Right, Like, you got
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  Speaker 1: these two big white leads and they're getting seven Instagram
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  Speaker 1: posts and you get one about these other movies. And
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  Speaker 1: I found it disappointing. And so when you said that,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, well, let me take a look. It would
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  Speaker 1: appear that we have one unthinkably good things as for example,
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  Speaker 1: Mary May Yosemite has oh I'm sorry, three unthinkably good
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  Speaker 1: things has one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight,
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  Speaker 1: stop and just saying they don't do a great job
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  Speaker 1: of balancing. And by the way, marry me and Yosemite
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  Speaker 1: is a Cindy Busby joint. Yeah, just a little more
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  Speaker 1: balance would be nice.
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark, you know that's really interesting because I thought the
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  Speaker 2: TV promotion, the commercials for this movie prior to its
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  Speaker 2: airing were great. I thought they were great. They're really
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  Speaker 2: failing in the social media aspect.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder, see, this is what I say. It's like
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  Speaker 1: two steps forward, two steps back. With Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: They do things like introduce to Mahogany brand and make
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  Speaker 2: all these movies with predominantly cast made up of people
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  Speaker 2: of color, which Bravo like I'm here for it. But
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  Speaker 2: then like it's like they try to like slide it in,
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  Speaker 2: like let's see if this is gonna work before we
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  Speaker 2: like put the marketing dollars into it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, don't give people on Instagram too much to
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  Speaker 1: yell about exactly. Oh, Hallmark is so woke, Like just
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  Speaker 1: put it in there. I hope people will watch it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. We don't want the backlash, right right, right?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Oh so frustrating. Is it intentional or is it unintentional?
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  Speaker 1: In which case they need to look at why one
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  Speaker 1: movie would have eight Instagram posts dedicated where another one
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  Speaker 1: has three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's Yeah. Oh that makes me mad.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like fired up about that.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of unbalanced reaction to this movie, I looked at IMDb.
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  Speaker 1: There was exactly one review and it's been a full
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  Speaker 1: nine days since this movie aired. I'm shocked.
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  Speaker 2: Either they are deleting comments on there, or reviews on
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  Speaker 2: there that are negative, negative, or people didn't watch the movie.
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  Speaker 1: As much as I dislike when the reviewers get in
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  Speaker 1: there and say Hallmarkets too woke, I also think it's
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  Speaker 1: a good gauge. I want to see what the Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: community thinks of these movies, right, and so I hope
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  Speaker 1: that they're not editing reviews that are uncomplimentary, assuming they're
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  Speaker 1: not blatantly racist.
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  Speaker 2: Right. This movie was directed by Terry J.
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  Speaker 1: Vaughn.
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  Speaker 2: She's an actor, director, producer. Previous and directing credits include
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  Speaker 2: a ton of holiday movies. She also has seventy two
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  Speaker 2: acting credits, including shows like The Neighborhood and HBO's Insecure.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's a busy actress too.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Chasing Waterfalls, Joyful Drake, who plays Molina in
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  Speaker 1: this movie, also played a role in Chasing Waterfalls alongside
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  Speaker 1: Cindy Busby.
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  Speaker 2: I know I had a good check when you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: Chasing Waterfalls earlier. I was like, I wonder if you
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  Speaker 2: saw that note too.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny. And Karen Pittman, who plays Alison, had a
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  Speaker 1: large role in the And just like that series on HBO,
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  Speaker 1: Max not I hated Oh you hated it, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: hate it.
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  Speaker 2: Not only that, she's one of the leads on the
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  Speaker 2: morning show on Apple TV. She's been in Yellowstone Homeland.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she's been in some big shows. She's definitely
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  Speaker 2: most recognizable, I think compared to the other actors in
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  Speaker 2: this movie. I was not familiar with anybody other than
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  Speaker 2: Karen Pittman.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I have one last note.
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  Speaker 2: The writer of this movie is Kaz Singer's Beatles. I
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  Speaker 2: hope I'm saying that right. She's an established writer both novels.
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  Speaker 2: She has got like eight or nine novels, and a
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  Speaker 2: writer for television and movies cool and has worked with
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  Speaker 2: director evonn a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't she the writer of Sugarplum Twist?
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  Speaker 2: She was it?
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  Speaker 1: Stars Ector rivera star of ground as well. Yes, fun
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  Speaker 1: little tie in there. Yeah. What was your first impression
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  Speaker 1: of this movie?
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is I want more.
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  Speaker 1: Movies like this nice. Mine was I need to step
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  Speaker 1: up my vacation wardrobe. Oh my gosh. I have a
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  Speaker 1: note about that later. What did you like about this movie? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Well I have a kind of big list of things
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  Speaker 2: that I like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I love that this wasn't just a
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  Speaker 2: typical Hallmark movie, felt like a real movie to be.
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  Speaker 2: And when I say that is because when we first
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  Speaker 2: started doing these Hallmark movie reviews, the ones that stood
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  Speaker 2: out to me, I would say, this is like a
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  Speaker 2: real movie, Yes, you know, like one you would find
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  Speaker 2: on a streaming service. So I really thought this had
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  Speaker 2: like the feel from top to bottom with like a
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  Speaker 2: good cast, It had a good soundtrack, It was beautiful
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  Speaker 2: to look at, like it felt like a real movie.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that I liked the best about it, though,
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  Speaker 2: is that its focus was on friendship, yes, rather than romance,
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  Speaker 2: which romance was a you know, storyline, but the through
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  Speaker 2: line was friendship and it was very similar to me
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  Speaker 2: or I had the same feelings towards the wedding veil, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: where you have like a group of adult women who
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  Speaker 2: support and care for each other, and we're so inundated
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  Speaker 2: with like shows on Bravo that are just like women
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  Speaker 2: fighting all the time. Like, So it was so refreshing
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  Speaker 2: to see like a group of women who really cared
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  Speaker 2: for each other and cared about each other's lives. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I want more of.
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  Speaker 1: And in that vein, I liked that they loved each other.
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  Speaker 1: This movie was about that kind of love. But they
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  Speaker 1: were not afraid to call each other out and to
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  Speaker 1: break promises that they had made when it became clear
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  Speaker 1: that it wasn't in the best of their friends to
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  Speaker 1: keep these secrets because they needed each other to pull
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  Speaker 1: their heads out of their asses in a way. It
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  Speaker 1: was nice.
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  Speaker 2: I felt it was refreshing, super refreshing. I really liked
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  Speaker 2: the inside jokes that's okay with each other. They had
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  Speaker 2: like an easy conversational feel, like the acting was so good,
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  Speaker 2: like just the way that they would bounce off each other.
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  Speaker 2: And I had a criticism last week in grounds while
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  Speaker 2: where I felt it was very stilted, like I'm reacting
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  Speaker 2: to you while you're reacting it just this was heads
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  Speaker 2: and tels above that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the chemistry between the women was great.
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  Speaker 2: Right exactly did you catch the TikTok mention in this movie?
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  Speaker 1: I don't recall I'm paraphrasing, but there was a joke
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  Speaker 1: made about TikTok and one of them just said, like,
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  Speaker 1: we're too old for TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: And I just thought it was so freaking funny because
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  Speaker 2: because that's how I feel often. Yeah, TikTok, I'm too
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  Speaker 2: old for a lot of things, especially TikTok.
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  Speaker 1: M H. I thought this movie was visually stunning set
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  Speaker 1: on location in Italy. Of course, the scenery provided a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful backdrop to this movie, but I also think wardrobe
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  Speaker 1: deserves the highest of fives because these women were beautifully dressed,
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  Speaker 1: and they each had their own style, but they made
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  Speaker 1: it so that their styles were complimentary to each other,
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  Speaker 1: so that then were walking down a street together. You've
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  Speaker 1: got this like beautiful array of color. And I thought,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be the kind of person who brings
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  Speaker 1: beautiful dresses and pantsuits and outfits so that I look
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  Speaker 1: camera ready at all times when I'm traveling, although I'll
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  Speaker 1: be with my family who's in there like T shirt
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  Speaker 1: and cargo shorts, but I want to have a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: vacation wardrobe. It felt very aspirational.
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  Speaker 2: I've never had a beautiful vacation order. I would love
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  Speaker 2: to go to Paris or Italy and dress to the
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  Speaker 2: nines every single day and look like I fit the part.
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  Speaker 2: The script to me so the difficult conversations that were
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  Speaker 2: sprinkled throughout in this movie, and I thought that it
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  Speaker 2: really probably hit for many of the people who watch,
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  Speaker 2: like the demographics, like we're talking about infertility, and we're
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: talking about health and cancer and career change and divorce.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we just talked for an hour on our
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday podcast about career you know, parenting and career change.
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  Speaker 1: Once our kids are older coming next week.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, So I think that I want homework to
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  Speaker 2: make more movies like that. Like I realized that people
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  Speaker 2: like to watch movies to escape. But a movie about
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: a twenty something who falls in love with a prince
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: like is so unrelatable for me that I can't get
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: into it. That's why I like scoff it like to
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: me when we say Homer, maybe that's what I think of,
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I can't, I can't do it. Give
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: me something that I can like hang my hat on
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and feel relatable to. I hear what you're saying. I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: like a balance. I do like an escape. I read
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of books that are very unrealistic.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I read a lot of romance. There's always a happy ending.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: There's always these you know, over the top relationships, and
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I like that in my movies sometimes too. But I
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: like a balance. And I liked that these women, while
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: making a Hallmark movie, while you know we're going to
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: get a happy ending across the board, they weren't afraid
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to go there, and I couldn't always predict where they
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: were going to go, and I wondered Alison was so
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: reluctant to take this job in spite of the fact
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: that she loved living in Italy, she loved the people
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: she worked with, She had this relationship that she was
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: clearly invested in but really wanted, felt compelled to take
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the ten year track position and they she explains to
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: her friends and tell Luca, as a black woman, I
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: don't feel like I can afford to take these chances
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: on my career. This is offering me stability that I
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: feel like I would be foolish to turn away. And
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: it didn't occur to me because they were both great jobs.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like she was like, I'm just gonna Instagram
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. But I liked that perspective,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and I think that is another reason when the woke
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: police get upset. Not only is it important for people
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to be able to turn on the TV and see
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: a world that looks like their's reflected back at them,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: but it's also important to see storylines that reflect struggles
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: that you have reflected back at them, and stories that
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: are not like I'm the big town real estate developer
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: coming to mow down your candy store. So I liked
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: that they went there.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, my next note is I don't have like the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: perfect place for it, So I'm gonna put it here.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: There has been some critics that this movie had too
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: much going on, like too many storylines.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, that's I have.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: My thoughts on that is that life is full. Yes,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: and then you multiply that by three women. Yes, a
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: very full two hours of stories. Right.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: So if it was a singular.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Storyline just about Allison and choosing the job, we would
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: just have a very watered down look at life. And
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: so I appreciate that there was multiple stories, multiple layers,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: and depth to this movie, even if it was too
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: much for somebody. But let me also add I do
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: hate those Hallmark movies that have like your main storyline
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: and then they throw in these like weird side stories
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: because they.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Need to move it along.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, so, but I think those are two very different movies.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I like the perspective that life is full and there's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: a lot going on. Let me offer you an alternate perspective.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: And with that, I hope we're transpositioning to our wish,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: because this is my one and only wish in this movie.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Comparing this to the Wedding Veil, where we had three
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: women and three of their own stories that got three movies,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and here we have three co stars with three very
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: full lives outside of their relation. I would say, honestly,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: they have more going in their lives than the women
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: in the Wedding Veil did. And I felt like we
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: weren't fully able to do justice to each of those
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: storylines in this hour and twenty minutes that we actually
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: got to see them on screen. I agree, So I
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: would just have liked to see more from them. I
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: think you could very easily do a sequel, because as
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: much as all three women had their storyline, we were
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: in Allison's turf most of the time, and so a
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: lot of the splinters were meeting her boyfriend's mom and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: meeting the people that she works with. And I think
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you could do another movie where you have Molina and
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the restaurant is the center of the story, and the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: other two women are involved, and you have Resa discovering
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: life with or after infertility. I do think there's more
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to do with this movie, It's all I'm saying. And
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: these characters, I agree. I don't think that's gonna happen,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: though I don't either. I think I think they the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: movie had a big get with Karen Pittman. I don't
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: think she's gonna become a regular Homewark star though I
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: love it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, so would I. I mean, I want to
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: watch good actors on Homemark. Yeah, and that I'm saying
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: that it's beneath her. I'm just saying that I think
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: it was a maybe for this first movie, they needed
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: like a very recognizable actor. I only have one thing
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: that I wished for. I felt this movie was a
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: tad bitlong, and I know it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Was probably only one hundred and twenty mine. And it's
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: like you said, but.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: The later third of the movie, like I just felt
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: it dragged a little bit, especially and this is I'm
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: conflicted about saying, especially when Alison was going back and
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: forth about the job stuff. But like you said earlier,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: it was a very you know, interesting perspective for her
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: to weigh those things. But it made for me the
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: movie to drag just a snitch time for did to
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: see that, you know, I don't. I don't have anything
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: in particular other than it was such a dreamy location
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: in gorgeous clothing.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want I love that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: That felt very like nice to look at.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Oh. Yeah, I have a few things to say okay. One,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a restaurant of viewer is not going to let you
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: schedule the review. Oh, a restaurant viewer wants to know
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: what it's like to come eat in your restaurant, not
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: when I know you're coming. So I'm going to provide
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: the perfect experience. What's it like when you've got all
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the other pressures of running a restaurant? That's what their
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: review wants to do. Is I like always a surprise? Oh,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: please come when I know I'm going to be there. No,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: you know, I love to dig into the tweets about
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: these movies, and so I've got a couple tweets i'd
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: like to share. One is a quote from the movie
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: that I forgot about, and I remember being affected by
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the quote when I heard it, and I was glad
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: to see that someone had tweeted it. And it's from
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: at One Dry Kiss, which is another Hallmark viewer. The
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: quote is, I have a job. I can't play with
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: you all day. Oh that's funny, And that's what Reese's
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: husband says to her when she's like I'm bored. Yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, I kind of hits close to home.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Another is Karen Pittman tweeted film factoid. I literally filmed
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the kissing scene with Luca on day two of our
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: filming in Italy. It was so crazy and add the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: romantic to kiss a stranger. But by the eighth take,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I think we figured it out.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Isn't that funny how they shoot all these things out
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: of order, Like imagine having to like kiss someone on
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: the first day that like you're working together.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: But I mean they are professional. So I have one
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: more thing. Yes, I do not believe that Resa, who's
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: a badass retired military doesn't have the ability to have
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a conversation with her husband about the fact that she's
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: nervous about the next steps, Like she goes to the extreme,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: like I'm gonna move to literally and get an apartment
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: because I'm so afraid that my husband's gonna leave me
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: if we can't have a baby, instead of just saying
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: like I'm afraid you're gonna feel different about me if
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: we can't have a baby, like she'd rather run away
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and get an apartment. I think she's tougher than that.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Hey, I mean, yeah, maybe those could just be hard.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Those are hard conversations, they.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Are, but I think she can handle it. Okay, what
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: did you rate this movie.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I thought this was a strong start.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I gave it four stars two point seventy five stars,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Oh look at you three point seventy five. Next week
• 27:04
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• 27:07
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• 27:10
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• 27:13
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