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Mistletoe Murders S1 Episodes 3 & 4 (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey friends, Happy Countdown to Christmas season. We originally recorded
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  Speaker 1: these reviews of the Mistletoe Murders season one episodes over
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  Speaker 1: the summer, and we are re airing them in honor
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  Speaker 1: of their debut on the Hallmark Channel as part of
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  Speaker 1: the Countdown to Christmas lineup. We will of course be
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  Speaker 1: reviewing the new episodes in season two when those drop
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy the reviews. This is a bramble jam podcast. Welcome
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  Speaker 2: to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan
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  Speaker 2: and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm Windy, I'm a
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  Speaker 2: former Hallmark hater. Summer school continues here on Girls Gone
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  Speaker 2: over there, Hey have a question for you. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 2: remember last week when we reviewed Mistletoe Murders and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I want to make an edit. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So I made one. I didn't technically make it. I
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  Speaker 2: paid my teenage daughter's friend to make it. Love it
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  Speaker 2: like knows how to do it. They're a way around
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  Speaker 2: how to make an edit. And I gotta say it
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  Speaker 2: came out really well. I'm so excited because if you
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  Speaker 2: want to see it, it is on our Instagram in
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  Speaker 2: the reels. It currently has twenty point two thousand views.
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  Speaker 2: That's wild, isn't it? And the Sarah Drew also shared it,
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  Speaker 2: which made me super excited. Yeah, she did. She knows
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  Speaker 2: she's a baddie. Yeah, I just that was like, the
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  Speaker 2: edit came out perfect. It was exactly how it was
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  Speaker 2: feeling after watching episodes one and two. So she fully
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  Speaker 2: delivered on your vision, she did. Yeah, it was great.
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  Speaker 2: Oh son, I'm very excited about it. But let's talk
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  Speaker 2: episodes three and four? Are you ready for a synopsis?
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  Speaker 2: Hit me? After a string of suspicious accidents, Emily goes
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  Speaker 2: undercover in the local choir to investigate. Sam, however, remains skeptical.
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  Speaker 2: Violet takes on more responsibility at the shop. When the
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  Speaker 2: choir attacks escalate, Emily and Sam grow closer as they
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  Speaker 2: work together to find the culprit. Emily helps a Violet
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  Speaker 2: out of a precarious situation by tapping into her dark past. Hmmm. Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: We have some new news and notes for this episode.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to run back everything from the previous episode,
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  Speaker 2: but we do have a new director for episodes three
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  Speaker 2: and four. Sherry White directed these episodes. Sherry is a writer,
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  Speaker 2: a director, and a producer, having written and produced other
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  Speaker 2: crime shows like dur In a Small Town and Law
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  Speaker 2: and Order Toronto Criminal Intent. Michelle Ricci wrote episodes three
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  Speaker 2: and four. She's written for quite a few mystery series,
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  Speaker 2: both on Hallmark and elsewhere, with projects like Curious Cater,
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  Speaker 2: Frankie Drake Mysteries, Murdoch Mysteries, and Private Eyes. Heyo reincarnated
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Walsh yep joining the cast for episodes three and four.
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  Speaker 2: We have Raven Dauda as Debbie Brannigan. Raven also voiced
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  Speaker 2: a character in three episodes of the Mistletoe Murders podcast series,
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  Speaker 2: among her one hundred and eight acting credits. Her credits
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  Speaker 2: also include shows like Five Days of Memorial, Spellbound, and
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  Speaker 2: Hudson and Rex. David Delancey Wilson plays His name is
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  Speaker 2: David Delancey Wilson and he plays Lance Indeed Wow. David
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  Speaker 2: was in twenty twenty threes, Catch Me If You Clause,
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  Speaker 2: as well as Headson and Rex and Murdoch Mysteries. Additional
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  Speaker 2: cast members in these episodes include Arlene Duncan as Via
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  Speaker 2: and Jamie Spilchuk as Adam Jamison. We're gonna take a
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  Speaker 2: very quick wake can come right back with our first
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  Speaker 2: impressions of Peril of the Bells. Before we get into
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  Speaker 2: our first impressions, a reminder to the listeners that we
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  Speaker 2: made the decision to combine our reviews, so we did
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  Speaker 2: episodes one and two together, episodes three and four, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will be doing episodes five and six because
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  Speaker 2: that's how the stories are told. Yeah. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: the listeners failed us. They should have told us that before, right,
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  Speaker 2: and we've made our schedule. Yeah, No, it's fool. It's cool,
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  Speaker 2: it's cool. I like that we're doing it this way.
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  Speaker 2: It makes it makes it easier on our end. I agree,
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  Speaker 2: and I like the show. That the show is developed
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  Speaker 2: this way. I think it makes a ton of sense.
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  Speaker 2: What is your first impression of Peril of the Bells.
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is, I don't know what's more dangerous,
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  Speaker 2: the dark web or the choir room. My first impression is,
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  Speaker 2: is this choir cursed or just caddie all? My goodness?
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  Speaker 2: Real Housewives of Fletcher grows growth? Is that what it's
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  Speaker 2: called their town Fletcher's growth is Indeed, these women don't
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  Speaker 2: have enough things to do in their lives. It's pretty funny.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk what we liked. For me, the number one
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  Speaker 2: thing that I loved about these two episodes was Sarah
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  Speaker 2: Drew's monologue at the end of episode two, when she
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  Speaker 2: reveals to Sam about her parents' death. It hits all
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  Speaker 2: the right emotional beats when she says Christmas was the
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  Speaker 2: last happy time in my life. It was just a
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  Speaker 2: gut punch in the best way possible. And it's starting
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  Speaker 2: to tie together some of Emily's backstory, which gives into
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  Speaker 2: understanding why she is who she is. It was the
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  Speaker 2: perfectly placed emotional payoff at the end of this two
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  Speaker 2: parts two parts episodes. I have an interesting, potentially interesting
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  Speaker 2: take on that scene. I loved it too. I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was incredibly well done by Sarah Drew. I thought
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  Speaker 2: emotionally it hit But the skeptic in me wondered, is
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  Speaker 2: she telling the truth? Mmmm? We don't actually know her backstory.
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  Speaker 2: We did see glimpses of her looking at the family photos.
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  Speaker 2: We know something that's going on there. She did mention
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  Speaker 2: those being happy memories when she pulled them out of
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  Speaker 2: that briefcase, right, But I almost wondered, either is she
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  Speaker 2: telling the truth or is she selectively telling the truth here?
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  Speaker 2: That's a really interesting thought and one I had not
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  Speaker 2: considered because why would she give so much of herself
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  Speaker 2: up if she's so private, worried, worried about exposing herself. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because we don't know her past, and Sam is a
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  Speaker 2: uniquely positioned to access that information should he choose to
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  Speaker 2: do so. And so I almost wondered, if you know,
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  Speaker 2: she was so closed off and he's like, something's going
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  Speaker 2: on here, but clearly you're not interested, And I almost
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  Speaker 2: I really want to just take it at face value,
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  Speaker 2: but I was like, she freaked out. She realizes she's
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to give him something or he's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: like googling her in his whole police machine interesting, and
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  Speaker 2: then he's gonna be like, this person does not actually
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  Speaker 2: exist prior to twenty twenty four. So maybe if she
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  Speaker 2: gives him this information, he feels like he doesn't need
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  Speaker 2: to do that question for you. You didn't listen to
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  Speaker 2: the podcast. I did not, okay, because I was like,
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  Speaker 2: do you know, I don't know I know something. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, I don't know anything. I was actually considering
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  Speaker 2: once this is over, listening to the podcast because it's
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: got a great cast. Colby Smolders is in it. I
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  Speaker 2: can't think of a single other name's in it off
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  Speaker 2: the top of my head, but I remember thinking it
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  Speaker 2: had a good cast, so I may listen. But no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know anything. That was just the impression I got.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is so lovely, but wait wait yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I my little like hair stood up on my neck.
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  Speaker 2: When she cut her hand on the trunk, I was like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: her DNA has been on there now, and what if
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  Speaker 2: that comes back into play somehow of like whose DNA
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  Speaker 2: is it is? This? Of course, then we see a
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  Speaker 2: play out that Vera also cut her hand and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, okay, well maybe that's what they're doing there.
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  Speaker 2: But I was like, what if that is the tell
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  Speaker 2: of who Emily actually is? Look at you? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Watching too mini mysteries this summer a like
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  Speaker 2: that I had. On a much lighter note. Last episode,
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  Speaker 2: I got my wish. I was asking for more Brooke
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  Speaker 2: and I predicted that she was going to be involved
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  Speaker 2: in a up coming crime and I was correct. There
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  Speaker 2: she delivered in exactly the way I wanted her too.
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  Speaker 2: This is exactly the person I wanted Brooke to be
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  Speaker 2: in this series. She has lines like two glasses of rose,
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  Speaker 2: sucrew it's off for what the hell, let's go Cork.
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  Speaker 2: I also love when she finally gets that solo moment
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  Speaker 2: when Vera is taken away. She she like celebrates a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. She's like, that isn't how I want it
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  Speaker 2: to get it. I love it. Like she's just she's great.
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  Speaker 2: I thought she was really fun. I was glad we
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  Speaker 2: got more of her. I was suspicious of Brooke at first,
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  Speaker 2: and at the top of the third episode, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: is she are a bad guy? Is she our a culprit?
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  Speaker 2: But then I was like, no, she wouldn't be standing
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  Speaker 2: underneath this potential, you know, display that's going to fall
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  Speaker 2: on them, Like if she knew what was going to fall,
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  Speaker 2: she wouldn't be standing there. So she can't be our culprit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad that she's not a bad guy, and I
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  Speaker 2: hope she doesn't end up being a bad guy. I
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  Speaker 2: just like her being this kind of vapid townsperson exactly
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  Speaker 2: with some comic relief. Yeah, I'm into Brook. I like Brook.
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  Speaker 2: Something else I really liked I want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: We talked about it a little bit, but Sam and
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  Speaker 2: Emily's chemistry is finally you know we watched these shows,
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  Speaker 2: we know that there's going to be a love interest.
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  Speaker 2: When we watched Mystery one on one, it took them
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  Speaker 2: forever to get there right. We were like, when's it
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  Speaker 2: gonna happen? When's it gonna happen with Sam and Emily?
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  Speaker 2: Like I feel like they're in episodes one and two,
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  Speaker 2: like they obviously have some chemistry. I think we see
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  Speaker 2: that a lot more in episodes three and four. So
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: it's not like will they won't they, It's but it's
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  Speaker 2: building that a natural progression that I'm enjoying as a
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  Speaker 2: newer I like that their flirtatious way isn't forced by
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  Speaker 2: any means it. As I'm watching it, I was like, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: these are two people who are vibing, for a lack
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  Speaker 2: of better words, like they're into each other totally. And
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  Speaker 2: when they have like that almost kiss at the end
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  Speaker 2: and they're just like face to face, their bodies are
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  Speaker 2: pressed up against each other, I'm super into it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The episode three, oh, early on they have this real cute,
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  Speaker 2: like flirty banter. They're talking about hockey and the bells
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  Speaker 2: and they're just like they're leaning into each other and
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  Speaker 2: their vibe is so fun, and then we end on
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  Speaker 2: that sweeter or more romantic vibe. I love the progression, Like,
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: and they only have six episodes, so I am assuming
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to get everything all tied up in
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  Speaker 2: a neat little salmon Emily bow at the end of
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  Speaker 2: episodes five and six. But I do like that they're
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  Speaker 2: giving us enough to get into. Yeah, when they have
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: that conversation when he makes that joke about spiding her parents,
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: like he's like, they must have loved Halloween and this
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: is why you leaned into Christmas or whatever, I thought
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  Speaker 2: was so funny. Yeah, such a great line, great writing there.
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  Speaker 2: It's very good, very very good. So some parts of
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  Speaker 2: this episode are like real campy and silly, like oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, yes the sleigh, Like when the sleigh straight
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  Speaker 2: up like crushes Debby and she just watches it happening.
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  Speaker 2: I actually thought it was fun. I didn't. I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: bothered by it, but I they also the closing scene
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  Speaker 2: with the message to Emily with her cryptic chimerasearch happening.
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  Speaker 2: I don't fully know what's going on there, but they
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  Speaker 2: nailed the creepy and I like the balance there, like
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: we're still hallmarkified but I'm buying it. That's so funny
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: you said the word hallmarkified because it isn't my wishes.
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  Speaker 2: Uh oh, I'm going to talk about it there all right.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely agree with you. Was that a like though
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  Speaker 2: for you? Like you are okay with the hallmarkified of
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  Speaker 2: the more sinister storylines. I like the balance because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't like scary. Yeah, so for me, it's like
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  Speaker 2: just scary enough to be interesting. I have some thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on the actual crime happening here in my Wishes, don't
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  Speaker 2: you worry, But the sleigh falling from the roof was
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  Speaker 2: funny enough for me to be into it. Okay, No,
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I mean, just it just so
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  Speaker 2: happens to get Debbie in the perfect it doesn't actually
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  Speaker 2: hurt her. Yes that possible? How yes? Anymore likes just
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: one small one. I enjoy watching Emily go like full
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  Speaker 2: spy mode. I like watching It's exciting for me to
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  Speaker 2: see like this double life kind of unfold that and
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: we're just getting like pieces of it. I said it
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  Speaker 2: in last episode two, like, I think that's the most
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  Speaker 2: thrilling part of the series, learning who Emily is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we got as much of it in
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  Speaker 2: episodes three and four as we did in one and two,
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  Speaker 2: but it's it's enough to keep me interested going forward. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I agree. One thing I think this show is doing well.
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  Speaker 2: We have dual storylines happening here. Even more than that,
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  Speaker 2: like we have whatever the mystery of the double episode
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  Speaker 2: happens to be, but we also have their everyday lives
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  Speaker 2: running in the background. And so that's Sam and Emily
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  Speaker 2: and the mystery of Emily's past. And we also have
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  Speaker 2: what I think is really nice Violet and Emily's relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Violet has a mom, she's just not on screen, and
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  Speaker 2: Emily is kind of serving that maternal figure, particularly when
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  Speaker 2: she says to her, you're allowed to make mistakes when
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  Speaker 2: she's lost the key, and she she turns it into
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  Speaker 2: a you know, just let me know, let me know
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  Speaker 2: next time, but don't make promises. You can keep like
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: I'll never let it have it again. You are a human.
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  Speaker 2: I really enjoy their seeing where their relationship is going. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: don't you go. I wish I could have a mom
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  Speaker 2: response like that, yes, where you'd be like freaking out instead. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I also think that Emily is positioned to be
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  Speaker 2: able to have a response like that, because she's not
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  Speaker 2: Violet's mother of course, so right, like, don't you think
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  Speaker 2: you could give grace to someone who's more grace? This
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: is terrible to say out loud, more grace to someone
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  Speaker 2: who's not your child than someone who is. Sometimes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: because there's less at stake, right, So I think Emily's
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  Speaker 2: in a position to be able to do that better
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  Speaker 2: than Violet's mother would be. I agree, I agree, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk wishes. Okay? For me, speaking of Violet and the
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  Speaker 2: lost key, this is a subplot that didn't really go
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  Speaker 2: anywhere for me. I'm going to talk in a minute
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  Speaker 2: about Emily approaching that teenager or hiding in his car
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  Speaker 2: in a minute. I'm going to get there in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: But what is the point here? This is like a
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  Speaker 2: thread that has no payoff other than to show us
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  Speaker 2: that Emily has a dark past. But I thought it
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  Speaker 2: would lead to something more. Yeah, that's a really good point.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't serve any other purpose other than to maybe
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  Speaker 2: move Emily on Violet's relationship forward. I think I think they.
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  Speaker 2: I think Emily asks too much of Violet, like she
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: leaves her alone in that store a lot. I was
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: wondering that too, And they even said at one point
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  Speaker 2: by like goes, what happened to a couple of errands?
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  Speaker 2: You've been gone for three hours? Yeah, you have a
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  Speaker 2: teenager running this store like all by herself. Seems a
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  Speaker 2: lot to ask, It does seem. Now. When I was
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  Speaker 2: in high school, I did work in a clothing store
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  Speaker 2: and I did close that store by myself, shut down
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  Speaker 2: the register. Blows my mind that I was tasked with
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  Speaker 2: such a job. But even watching it, I think girl
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  Speaker 2: needs a break, Like, what if she needs to go
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  Speaker 2: to the bathroom. She I think we're putting too much
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  Speaker 2: on her. Nobody's actually going like she needs her fifteen
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  Speaker 2: minutes here. I mean, what's she supposed to do? She's
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  Speaker 2: got a page's like hold it until Emily comes back.
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  Speaker 2: She can't leave the store unsupervised. Yeah yeah, yeah. My
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  Speaker 2: next wish is and I feel like you might have
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  Speaker 2: some hot takes on this. It's back to the hallmarkifying
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  Speaker 2: of things. So when Emily is hiding in this kid's car,
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  Speaker 2: which is actually a terrifying like thought to be, like
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  Speaker 2: if somebody's hiding in the back of your car, Like,
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  Speaker 2: so I kind of liked that, but it was way
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  Speaker 2: too campy with her doing this like menacing voice to
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  Speaker 2: his kid to scare him. I was like, what is
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  Speaker 2: happening here? This has gone too far? Like I couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't. It wasn't believable to me. I thought it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was equal parts silly and over the top and
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  Speaker 2: also way more than was warranted. Like, Okay, the kid
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  Speaker 2: broken to the store, I get it, but this vigilante
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  Speaker 2: justice like I'm gonna scare him straight thing I thought
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  Speaker 2: was maybe a little bit over the line, like he
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: is still a child, and granted a child who had
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: committed a crime. I get it. But I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe pump the brakes a little bit here, Emily. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I a literally I really like laughed out loud and
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  Speaker 2: said what is happening when I was watching it, Hey,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: you better never do anything with that again? Or oh no, Yeah,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: it was too too cartoonish for me. When in the
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: previous episodes in one and two, I thought Emily came
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: off as this like real batty vigilante you don't want
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: to mess with, and this just felt like, oh, this
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: felt like somebody's mom trying to scare some kid. You know.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I think the voice is what ruins that scene for me,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: because the hiding in the back seat scary, the way
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: we don't see her coming scary, the fact that she
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: like gets them around the neck scary. It's just the
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: voice that like pushes it into the hookey side. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Do you think she was like, oh man, how am
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I gonna pull this off? Like when she's doing this scene? Yeah,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I wish they had there was a way to give
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: her one of those like voice changers. Yeah, why didn't
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: they do that? Well, I don't know how you do
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: that live like you they're still gonna hear your voice? Yeah, true, trure, true, true, true.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Tell me what you wish for. I would like a
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: clear timeline on what's happening here. It does seem like
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: we're days away from Christmas, but also potentially weeks. Like
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I know we're in the holiday season because in the
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: last episode they had Christmas karaoke, and they had the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: the hot cocoa situation, and now we've got the Christmas
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: tree lighting. We have all of this, but I don't
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: have any idea when we are, Like maybe it just
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: seems like a lot of time passes in these episodes,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: but also, not much time passes. I know, it's like,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: are we like six weeks out from Christmas? What's happening?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: But even then, it just seems like that whole last episode,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you know, June was in prison. They had to you know,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I the time was a little wonky for me, my
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: big wish. However, Era had no choice but to murder
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: two people because the choir group might lose. Yeah, we
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: haven't even talked about the whole situation. Thank you for
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: bringing it up. Yeah, that was kind of a weird motivation.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: It's similar to mistery one oh one, where the guy
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: kills because he doesn't want his girl to be hired
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: for the job. Yes, job or winner. It's like, ett
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: it unbelievable. You're so invested in your choir that you
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: had to kill someone who might go to another choir
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: and make them better. The believability has been stretched to
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: its very limits here. Yeah, I agree. I mean it
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: is if you roll it back to like, is this
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the ultimate Hallmark crime? My holiday choir might lose, so
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: therefore I have to murder the person who's going to
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: be responsible for that. Okay, but I think I think
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: we're pushing it here. Do you have any more wishes? No,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: that's it, all right, let's talk. Did you see that? Okay?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I don't have any true digit see that. I have
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: two thoughts on things, and then one actually like did
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: you see that? But it's not like a continuity issue?
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: So are you ready for it? I am Emily wears
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the brand Mother Jeans, and those jeans are two hundred dollars.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I'm like, nice catch. How did you wardrobe saw the label?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: It has an M on the pocket and I just
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: those have been on my radar for some time and
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I just can't link. Two hundred dollars for a pair
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: of jeans is bonkers to me. But I'm like, Wardrobe
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: must have had some money here. I mean, maybe she's
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: wearing them and like sat I noticed them in episodes
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: one and two as well, but she could obviously they
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: might be repurposing them in for the show, like maybe
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: they just have one pair of premium denim jeans for
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: our actress to wear. But yeah, anyway, I noticed that,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: all right. The other thing, here's a question. So Emily
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: has this store, right, and in the montages we see
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: a lot of her selling things like snow globes and ornaments,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that, And I was like, who is
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: going to a specialty Christmas shop to buy Christmas decor
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: type items? Like I kind of thought this might be
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: a regular like retail space and then they wrap the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: gifts for Christmas giving. Do you know where I'm getting to? Yeah,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: so I'm going to push back on that because we
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: live in Orange County, land of the chain store. We
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: do not have cute, little small town Christmas shops just
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: in our cruising radius. Yeah, so we wouldn't shop there
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: because they don't exist. But there are places like by
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: my mother in law's house or as a place that's like,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: it's not just Christmas. They sell whatever the holiday happens
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: to be, but it's like a full store of like
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: ornaments and decor and that's all they sell. And it's
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: little more u unique than you're a big box store.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: So I think people in a small town where there's
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: not a Target and a home Goods and whatever wherever
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: else people are shopping for these things on every corner
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: probably would shop in a place like this. I don't
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: think it's sustainable twelve months of the year. When she
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: says two Violet's friend, I'll let you know if we're
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: hiring during this summer busy season. Yeah, I was like,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: what what busy season? That's weird. I don't know that
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: it's sustainable year round, but I do think people are
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: like looking for like unique holiday finds. Yeah, and it
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: might just be a me thing. I just wouldn't go
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: to a specialty store and buy a snow globe for somebody.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: First of all, I would never gift anybody a snow
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: globe either, which is a me thing, and then ask
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: them to wrap it. I don't know, it just seems weird.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I like, I'll go to a Christmas shop and like
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: poke around and like because I like browsing at things.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't know. I don't know why I'm
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: so hung up on it. If I'm going to buy
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: somebody a gift, it's not going to be holiday decore though. No. Well,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people gift ornaments during the holidays. Yeah,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of people like hostess gifts or yeah, my
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: last did you see that? Is our character Debbie. She
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: leans in real hard to her singing right now and
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: you probably haven't seen it, but there is a TikTok
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: of these girls and they are on stage and they're
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: clearly like sisters. And there's two younger ones who are
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: getting ready to sing and they're gonna sing a Cranberry
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: song and the older one is like just being so
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: extra and it completely reminded me of Debbie. I'm going
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: to share it with you. I may share it in
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: our Facebook group too, just to be like, this gives
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: off Debbie vibes because Debbie was interesting to watch. Yes,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: it just it just made me laugh, that's all. Yeah,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: I think I totally agree like her choices, which is
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: how my theater daughter would say. The choices that she
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: made were very interesting, and I think, you know, I
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: think the whole point is to highlight like her role
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: as a soloist wasn't earned, it was uh huh stolen
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: because of her financial support. And she's obviously not the
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: most talented person there. So I mean, even Sarah Drew's
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: singing was better than Debbie's. Kind of surprised by Sarah Drewcey, Yeah,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I loved it. Yeah, I don't have like you said,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: true Digitsu. That's I just wanted to point out that,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: you know, Emily tries to connect with Adam to get
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: more information about him, and she's like, hey, I have
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: some junk I need hauled away, And when he kind
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: of calls her bluff, he's like, oh, I'll be in
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: the area, I'll come pick it up. She gives him
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: a box a boxes. Yeah, yeah, you couldn't have taken
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: that out of the trash yourself. You needed a junk
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: call to take that away. Yeah. I need a junk collar.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Got me too, get all the junk at my house? Yeah,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, speaking of tiktoks, you see those videos that
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: are like, this is a a gen x ER's dream
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: and it's a dumpster pulling up to the curve. It's empty,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent my dream. I love doing that at
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: least once a year. Time to verge. Yeah, what did
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: you rate this episode of Mistletoe Murders. I gave this
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: episode four and a half stars. Last episode this week
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: four point seventy five. Okay, this one ticks down just
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: a little bit because they got a little hokey. Yeah,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: so I gave last episode five stars. I'm giving this
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: one four point to two five stars. Ooh, it really
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: fell for you. Now, let's be clear, I don't find
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: four point two five stars to be a bad rating,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: and nobody else should either. We just this is a
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: classic middle of the trilogy episode mm hmm, moving things along,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: but it's not there's no fireworks. Yeah, That's why I
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: want to listen to the podcast because I'm like, is
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: there any difference here? What does the story did home?
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Did Hallmark get their hands on making it a little
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: more Hallmark mystery? Yeah, with the exception of when she
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: opens the trunk and Adam is dead in the trunk,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, which is like, I'm at Adam's
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: house and so is he? You were like, what nice? Nice? Yep, Hey,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: thanks for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark.
• 29:37
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