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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) | When Popularity Turns Deadly · Two Cents: We See Scary Movies

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Welcome back to Two Cents. We See Scary Movies, the podcast
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where you watch horror films and then calmly unpacked the poor
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life choices that led everyone here.
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This month's theme is Kills Like Teen Spirit, which means teenage
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hormones, fragile egos, and the strong reminder that
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unsupervised teens are basically a horror sub genre on their own.
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I'm Talon, the kind of person who would absolutely survive
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this movie, but only because no one would bother being obsessed
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with me. And with me is Dan, who firmly
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believes high school parties. These are terrifying enough
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without adding murder to it. Today's movie is All the Boys
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Love Mandy Lane, a slow burn slasher about obsession,
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jealousy, and what happens when being universally admired turns
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into a full time safety hazard. Let's get into it.
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OK, so Mandy Lane, she comes back after summer break, having
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developed over the summer. All the boys are kind of Gaga
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over her at this point. And the fact that everybody's
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assuming she's a virgin. And I say assuming because it's
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never really said in the beginning if she is or not, but.
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Yeah, so I was. I wasn't sure myself.
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Yeah, so that's the idea is that everybody likes her because
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she's she got hot and she hasn't been touched.
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Right. So as Mandy walks out of class,
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she's got her friend Emmett with her.
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They're always seen with each other because they are best
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friends. You can tell Emmett it's kind of
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hanging around to see if he can get with her, you know, kind of
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like the the minnows with sharks, you know, just in case
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something doesn't work out. Yeah.
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So they're going out of school, and Dylan, one of the jocks,
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drives by and he's got a bunch of popular kids with him,
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invites Mandy to his house for a party.
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She says yes, but only if Emma can come.
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And he's reluctant, but he's like, OK, fine, whatever, you
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know, because he wants to get with Mandy just like everybody
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else. So we end up going to the party,
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and it's already out of control. Everybody's there, music's
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thumping, beers everywhere. Mandy's off to the side,
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smiling, but never really getting into the chaos itself.
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She's just like an outlier. Yeah, she's she's definitely is.
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Doesn't seem like a party girl. At all.
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No, no, like a little socialite, but not like up to a point where
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she's like getting immersed into everything and.
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But she's only seems to be social.
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Like at school, whenever they had like school stuff going on,
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she seemed a little social, but at the party she just seemed
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like she just sat there just looking around.
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Maybe she was just trying to be like, you know, mysterious,
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right? OK, so Emmett is like We see
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Emmett standing in front of a mirror in his underwear and he's
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feeling a little insecure about himself because all the jocks
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are there and he's just a skinny runt.
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I was wondering why he went to this pool party with no pool
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clothes. Right.
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Yeah. It made no sense.
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Maybe he couldn't afford them. Who knows?
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Who knows? I mean, you know, I was kind of
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poor in high school, so I mean, I get it.
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So now we see Dylan, he's aggressively hitting on Mandy,
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and Emmett's is outside again and he sees us and he sprays him
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in the face with a water gun. And Dylan just clocks him and
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then drags him into the pool. And, you know, he's beating on
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him in the pool. Mandy looks on like says, hey,
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stop. And they both stop and look at
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it like, oh, no, everything's fine, everything's good, you
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know, we're great. Mandy turns around and Dylan
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pushes him off and they look at each other and disgust.
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Emmett gets away from everything by climbing up on the roof above
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the pool. And he's sitting alone just
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gathering your thoughts. And then all of a sudden, Dylan
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appears and he jumps back like he's thinking that Dylan's going
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to attack him. And Dylan's like, no, no, no,
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no. You know, I'm trying to make
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peace here. Everything's good, right?
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And they have a conversation, and it gets a little, a little
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heated. Emmett gets it in his head to
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start to push Dylan to jump into the pool.
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Now, Dylan is completely drunk. Like, completely drunk.
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Yeah. And he's hesitant to do it.
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But Emmett really pushes. It's like, hey, you know, if you
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want Mandy to like you, you know, you should probably do
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this. So Dylan finally says, OK, fine.
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You know, He laughs, and he decides to jump.
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Every girl loves a guy that's gonna jump off a roof.
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That that's my right criteria for picking men.
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Do you jump off roofs? I do.
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You're mine. I do and and it works sometimes.
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So there's some girls that are really into, I mean, the last
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party I went to, I had to beat him off with a stick because
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like every girl in that party just looked at me.
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It's like I want him now. Superman.
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It didn't matter if they were married.
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It didn't matter if they were just there as singles.
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Like they just want. Lesbians, even.
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Exactly every single every single non binary gender that is
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assigned female. They wanted me.
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They did OK. So Dylan hits the water,
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everybody gasps because you don't really see him, but then
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he starts floating and you see his legs come out first and he's
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floating into frame and he's got blood, like all around his head.
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We're led to believe that he missed his mark, or maybe he'd
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hit his mark and banged his head and died.
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Mandy's staring at what's going on and Emmett like they end up
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grabbing Emmett and pulling him off and at that point their
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lives have changed. Yeah, dramatic.
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It was basically just setting up to let everybody know how hot
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Mandy is and that everybody wants her and what people are
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willing to do to get her. Yeah.
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And. And we should note that, you
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know, it's Amanda Hurd. You know, I, I didn't realize
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that at first, you know, but you know, she was younger.
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I think she's, even though she's wacky, I think she's absolutely
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stunningly beautiful. She's a beautiful woman, yeah.
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With the right makeup and the the less coke.
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Yeah. So nine months has passed and
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everybody's almost moved on from it.
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Not too much, but life seems to be a little bit different
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because you know how high school kids are.
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You know, in these movies, you know, a bad thing happens two
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days later. Oh, everything's great.
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So at this point, Mandy's a little bit more absorbed into
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the popular crowd, and the tragedy has bolstered her image
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a little bit further because, oh, poor Mandy.
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Because he did this for you sort of thing.
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So they treat her very carefully, like, like, she's
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poor a porcelain doll. And boys are still looking.
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Girls are still, you know, somewhat jealous.
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She still appears to be untouchable by everybody else.
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I mean, she's an attractive girl, but I don't think like,
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she's like attractive enough where like, everybody's like, Oh
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my God. Yeah, well, I thought it was
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interesting though, that the other girls weren't as catty as
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you would think they'd be, given how all the boys wanted Mandy.
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Yeah, they were just catty with each other.
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Yeah, yeah, it it didn't matter who they were, 'cause that one
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girl, the one chick, she was really shitty, the other girl,
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but not to Mandy. There was Chloe, and who was the
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other girl? Chloe and.
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Marlon, Marlon Marlon. We'll, we'll be introduced to
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them, sure, but they're in the locker room, you know, they're
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all talking about another party that they're being invited to,
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which we'll get to in a second. This is just to highlight the
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the cattiness between the two. Marlon ends up showing them that
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she got a belly button ring and Chloe's like, oh, you can barely
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see it, you know, insinuating that yeah, Marlon is fat.
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She's. Not insinuating.
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Any stretch? She was blatant about it.
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She's like, well, I mean, and chubby.
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Yeah, right. I mean, at first, like when her
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first, first like verbiage was like, you know, you know, it's
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going to be hard to see. And then she went into like, oh,
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it's because you're fat. Right.
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And that girl was so far from fat.
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And she was not fat at all. Right.
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I'm glad she said she wasn't right.
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I'm glad she didn't take it to to heart.
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But so they those two have a little bit of cattiness, but
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they don't really go after Mandy, which again, as you said,
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you would think that they would be after her more than each
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other. Maybe it's a thing where they
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realized, OK, so she's super popular with the guys.
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Fine. We'll just tag along with her as
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it's not as we're if we're in her orbit, we'll get whatever
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strays are around, right? Maybe it's that kind of thought
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process. Yeah.
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Again, like the minnows behind the shark and.
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Right. Maybe that's why her name is
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Marlon. So we also see another character
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named Red. He's very desperate to find out
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if Mandy is coming because no ones, no one said anything.
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Mandy hasn't accepted yet that she's just thinking about it and
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she talks to. I think this is how we end up
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being introduced to Chloe and Marlon.
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Because. Another set of girls, you know,
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they're like, oh, you know, you're weird, you know, but
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we'll, we'll ask her and he's all like, oh, she's coming, you
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know, just based on that. Like, dude, don't be an idiot.
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You know they didn't say that. He wasn't wrong.
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Right. So she does end up going to to
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this party. She does end up agreeing and
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it's at Red's father's ranch. And I do want to point out that
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Red feels more like a plot device than an actual character
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because he doesn't really seem to have much to do with the
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story when you see him every once in a while.
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But it just feels like he's just more of a plot device to get
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them to this ranch. Yeah, they need a house.
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Yeah. And it was his, his house, his
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his dad has a ranch. That is.
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I was not expecting it to look the way it did.
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Right. Yeah, he definitely is just OK.
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We need to figure out a character that'll have a house
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out in the middle of nowhere that everybody can go to.
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And it would be that guy. Yeah.
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So they end up going off onto their road trip in two different
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cars and it's very isolated and there's a lot of land.
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There's no neighbors, and there's one when they get there.
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There's one ranch hand in Garth, and he looks like he's in about
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his 30s, which is important. A little later, right?
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And he watches them arrive, and it already has a little bit of
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an uneasy tension, like they're trying to build up, like, hey,
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you know, maybe he's dangerous. Right.
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Yeah. So Chloe ends up leaving her car
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behind because she doesn't want to damage the tires.
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So Amanda gives up her seat so she can get into so Chloe can
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get in the car. She decides to walk and a
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character named Bird joins her. I don't think they really
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discuss his real name, but his nickname is Bird.
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Don't know why. Yeah, because this is the
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obligatory black kid, right? That really make any sense?
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I wasn't sure his name was Bird or Bert, but and I was going to
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look at the credits and they were backwards, yeah.
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It. Yeah, it.
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Bothered. So as they're walking, you know,
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he's telling her that everybody wants to get with her this
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weekend, but he's totally different from the rest.
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Yeah, he's the one that's different.
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Not. Because he's black, but because
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he's got a different personality, he asks to hold her
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hand, and she reluctantly does so.
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And then he asks for a kiss and tries to go in for one.
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She's so different. And she turns her head so he can
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only kiss her on the cheek. And all of a sudden, Garth shows
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up. Here's Garth.
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He's driving a truck, and he offers them a ride.
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And Bird is kind of pissed off that Garth is there.
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You know, because also Mandy's kind of giving like a little bit
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of googly eyes. Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah, definitely not the Super
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Garth, right? The 30 year old guy.
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You know, and it's, and it's not, you know, party on Garth,
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right? So they get into the truck and,
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and they, they drive off back to the, the main house.
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They start to settle in. They end up deciding to go for a
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swim and they're drinking alcohol and they're having like
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all this, you know, partying. When they went to, they went to
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the lake. Mandy ended up going on for a
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run and then she came back. So she starts to undress and
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joins them. And while they're out there,
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Garth ends up shooting a water snake that was headed towards
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them. So again, kind of giving that
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ominous like, oh Garth, like weird.
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Right, and he totally killed the mood, but they were all thankful
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for it. Right, right.
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You know the sexy time was over, but safety time kicked in.
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Exactly. So now they're back at the house
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and they're playing a drinking game.
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They're playing Truth or Dare but making it a drinking game
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and it ends up in an argument because when it was asked of
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Marlon, who has the smallest penis in the group, Marlon
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points at Jake, which he didn't really feel comfortable with and
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so he gets pissed off and storms off.
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As he storms off, Chloe is there also taking it too far.
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So Marlon gets up and she starts to break Chloe for her attitude,
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which causes Chloe to retaliate and call her fat again.
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Allen throws a drink on her and leaves to find Jake.
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Also in this Jake is talking about how he slept with one girl
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for every state he's ever been in and he's up to 40.
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Yeah. Which, in reality terms, it's
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probably one. Yeah.
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Not every state, just one. So they're outside, and he's
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like, Jake ends up finding his way to a barn.
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Marlon chases them, and she finds them at this bar, and she
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tries to comfort them. The way she's, like, offering is
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like, hey, you know, I'll give you a blowjob to make everything
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all better. He agrees.
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Yeah, I don't know who wouldn't, but right, He agreed.
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And she finishes and suggests that, you know, he goes down on
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her and he's like, Nah, I'm good.
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And he ends up walking away and she's all pissed off and starts
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calling them names. But when he's, she realizes that
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she's completely alone. She's scared.
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And so she wants to she wants to leave to go find them, but all
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of a sudden she's knocked over the head by an unknown
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assailant. We see the barrel of a shotgun
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going into her mouth. The person is like really
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pushing down on it and she ends up waking up and she's got blood
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coming out of her mouth. Of course she's like trying to
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scream, no, don't, what are you doing?
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But it's all muffled because the guns in her mouth.
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Then all of a sudden the person pushes down so hard where it
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basically cracks your jar open and just hanging off to the
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side. Yeah.
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So. So now we flash over to Mandy
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and she's sitting alone across from the other three boys.
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Red Bird and I forget who the other guy's name was.
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No, it's just her and those two in.
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Chloe Yeah, OK. Oh, no.
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I think this is where Drake ends up being back at the house.
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Yeah, he does. He comes back, Yeah.
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Because Jake does go back to the house and so he goes to the
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kitchen and gets some beer when the power suddenly goes out.
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Red Tails bird to go out and start the generator.
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And so he does, and he leaves to go fix the power, and he's
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trying his best to restart it, but then all of a sudden, Garth
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appears right. That damn Garth.
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He keeps showing up. I got to talk about this
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generator for a second. So this generator felt like it
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was a mile from the house and it was up against a tree.
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And I was like, who puts their generator?
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I mean, it felt like it was really far away, but who puts
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their generator that far away and up against the tree?
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Why isn't it near the house? It was weird.
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There are there are a few things in this movie that I was like,
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what is going on? Why are they doing it this way?
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But I was like, I was like, why is it taking so long to get to
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this generator? And then he gets there and I'm
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like, what? Sit next to a tree?
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Dumb. But I guess they just wanted to
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put him out far away where it was dark.
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Yeah. Yeah, to to give that yeah
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feeling. Yeah, so as and when what's his
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name Garth shows up, it's like. Garth jump scare and so Garth is
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being helpful and tells him, hey, you know, the generator is
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not going to work because all the power that's running to the
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to the house is from a grid, not the not the actual generator.
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And so bird is pissed off at this point that Red sent him
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out. You know, there's a lot of
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pissing off it in this section. Well, the reason he was pissed
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off is because Garth was like it's not going to work because
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the power is out because someone made the power go out.
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Basically referencing that someone did something he said
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did I think he said did red check the breaker box and that's
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and then he put two and two together and was like oh
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motherfuckers and headed back, stormed off to the house.
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So now we're back to Jake and Mandy.
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Jake tries to proposition her and she would reject them and
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he's all pissed off. See again, this whole section is
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a lot of pissed off people, right?
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He's angered by her rejection and takes a bottle of whiskey
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and a shotgun and strips down to his underwear.
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This is logical behavior, even for a teenager.
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Yeah. He takes the keys to the truck
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and drives off to look for Marlon because he wants to hook
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up with her. Because, hey, you know, she's
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easy, I guess. At this point, Marlon is slumped
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over by the lake after Jake finds her, and he gets out to
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check on her and offers her a drink, but she's not responding
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at all. I think at this point, you know,
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to kind of give a little bit of a mystery to it, we flashback
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over to the house, and this is shortly after Jake leaves.
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Chloe does some coke, you know, because that's always fun.
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And she ends up seeing a figure out outside and she freaks out.
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But then she calms down relatively quickly because she
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thinks it's the drugs, and she goes upstairs to shave her weird
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pubes because Marlon told her that, you know, she's got a, you
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know, she's got basically a, a forest down there.
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Took me a second to figure out what she was doing there.
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I was like, what's she gonna kill herself?
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And then I was like, oh, she's cutting her pubes.
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Right, so Mandy goes upstairs to focus on Chloe and comforts her
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because she's feeling insecure about her lungs.
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And so she intimate bonding moment, not sexual intimate,
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but, you know, friends. Yeah.
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And they're interrupted by Red and Bird, who want to join them.
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You know, of course, going back to Jake, she ends up going up to
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Marlin because she ends up slumping over and she sees her
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face is all fucked up and she's barely alive.
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So he freaks out and he jumps into the water.
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All of a sudden, the man with a rifle comes out and we see that
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it's Emmett. He ends up shooting Jake in the
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water. There was no long speeches.
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There was no, no hay. You know, it was just, boom,
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he's done. Yeah.
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They end up going outside, and there's a mysterious stranger
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that is driving in a pickup truck driving off, and he's
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shooting fireworks at them. They end up going inside
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because, you know, they believe it's Jake, but Bird rushes off
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to confront him. So Bird is furious, and he
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catches up to the truck and he sees that it's Emit inside.
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He's covered in blood and he's taunting Bird.
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Bird grabs him like he ends up getting a hold of him and beats
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him up onto the ground while he's talking about killing
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people. Like, how dare you kill these
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people? And Birds trying to make sense
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of the whole thing. And then Emit ends up slashing
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across the eyes. Yeah, that which?
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Really sucks that look poof. Yeah.
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And so we see Bird on the ground flipped over and he's crawling
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to try to get away, but he ends up getting stabbed to death by
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Emmett multiple times. You know, I'm kind of surprised
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that they did the big reveal of Emmett so early.
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Yeah, I went because. It's about halfway through.
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Yeah, I was like, they're going to show who it is.
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And I was like, this can't be because I had my thoughts early
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on as to what was what, who the bad guy was or what was going to
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happen. And then it changed to Emmett at
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some point in before they revealed it was Emmett.
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But then I was like, I wasn't expecting him to reveal it being
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Emmett that soon. I was like, well, And then I was
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like, OK, well, it can't be Emmett.
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Even though it was Emmett. I was like, it can't be Emmett
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well. The way that they're showing
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his, like when he had his hood up and he couldn't see his face
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but he can. Only see his hair, yeah.
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It kind of made it look like that it was Dylan that maybe
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Dylan survived because they never really said Dylan died.
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Dylan, he's the one that jumped off on the pool.
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Oh yeah. Oh, that.
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I didn't think about Dylan. So they never really said
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anything about him dying, right? They just said it was nine
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months later and that everything changed.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. What I added was that he died in
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the review, but because that's what we know it to have happen.
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Right. Yeah.
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Based on the rest of the movie. But in that moment you didn't
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really know that he was dead, right?
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Right when I saw the hair, I'm like, OK, so we're going to get
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some big speech or like you guys moved on your life, now it's
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without. Right.
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Yeah, I. Was in rehab.
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Or yeah, and, and but the hair was so much because at first I
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thought, oh, they're trying to make it look like it's Garth.
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And I was like, I mean, Garth had decent amount of hair.
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We didn't have a lot of hair, not like Emmett did.
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And so I was like, well, they're doing a really bad job of trying
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to make this look like Garth, because that's a lot of hair for
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Garth. And then I was like, and I
20:03
thought I was like, could it be Emmett?
20:05
And then I was like, but why would they show it so soon?
20:07
I was like, that's weird. And.
20:09
I was kind of going through the same process.
20:10
Yeah. So now the remaining people are
20:13
passed out at the house and Mandy stays awake a little bit
20:16
longer and she's sitting in the kitchen and Garth comes in and
20:19
cleans the rifle, you know, which makes you again think, you
20:22
know, that it could have been Garth.
20:24
But we already. Well, at one point is this OK,
20:28
so this is the gunshots went off when he killed Jake and Garth
20:32
came in and was like pissed off because there were gunshots or
20:37
whatever blah blah blah. And he threatened to.
20:39
If I hear any more gunshots, I'm going to call your dad or
20:42
something. Yeah, because of all the drugs
20:44
and everything. Yeah, and the gunshots.
20:48
So grass comes in to clean the rifle, their eyes like Mandy and
20:51
his eyes meet. And honestly, this movie should
20:55
really be called All the High School Girls Love Garth Ranch
21:01
because all the girls had googly eyes for.
21:04
Her Which? Is weird because they're for
21:06
writing the movie this way because they're all high school
21:09
girls and she he's like in his 30s.
21:12
Yeah. Or at least later.
21:14
Late 20s, yeah. So she ends up like Mandy ends
21:18
up finally falling asleep, and she wakes up and there's blood
21:20
in her hair and there's a handprint on the fridge and
21:23
Garth tells them that they need to leave now, right?
21:26
And the sun is rising. Mandy and Garth are waking up
21:30
everybody because there's something like that happened.
21:33
Of course, there's no blood in her hair at this point.
21:35
That blood just disappeared. Yeah, well, I mean, she probably
21:38
stopped at the kitchen sink. Yeah, you know, you know, I
21:40
mean, Dawn is some incredible shit.
21:42
Yeah, dries your hair and everything.
21:44
They start to leave the house but Garth ends up getting shot
21:47
in the arm. He falls on the floor.
21:48
Chloe in red panic and they decided to go out the back to
21:51
try to get to Chloe's car to get help.
21:54
Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me because they left
21:57
Chloe's car and like away from the house.
22:00
Yeah, it's all the way at the end of the.
22:02
It's like a mile to the end of the the driveway and that's when
22:05
she left it, Yeah. So they're running down the dirt
22:07
track, and they encounter the dead bodies of Jake and Marlon.
22:10
Of course, you know Chloe screams.
22:13
Yeah. And Red is trying to comfort
22:15
her. They share an intimate moment as
22:17
well. They're leaning to kiss each
22:18
other because, you know, death makes you horny, right?
22:21
And, you know, just like dead cows, you know, so does your
22:24
dead friends. Yeah.
22:26
And at that point, Red gets shot by Emmett and falls to the
22:29
ground, you know, and he's dead. So lesson learned here is don't
22:33
stop to kiss your friends because you will die if we learn
22:36
nothing. From Friday the 13th, if you're
22:38
having sex and you're doing drugs, you're gonna die.
22:41
You're gonna die. That's.
22:42
It's always the ones that don't partake in that stuff that live.
22:46
Unless it's Cherry Falls. Unless it's Cherry Falls, yes.
22:48
So Garth tells Mandy to get the keys from truck from his cabin
22:52
and she rushes off to get them. While the cabin she sees a
22:55
bloody knife and picks it up. She sees Chloe in distress being
22:58
she's probably mysterious figure in her car.
23:00
Now they're like on a fence area at this point, not that that
23:05
really makes much difference, but but so Chloe's running away
23:07
from this car and Mandy signals her to come to her and they
23:11
embrace and she's like, oh, everything's going to be OK.
23:14
And then all of a sudden you see like Chloe jump back with the
23:16
big eyes on her and her face. And she steps back and Chloe has
23:20
the knife in her abdomen. Mandy is the one who stabbed her
23:23
because they were hugging. And so, you know, she kissed her
23:26
friend. So she had to kill and she just
23:31
watches her fall unless her bleed to death.
23:33
At that point, Mandy and Emmett greet each other.
23:36
He gets out of the car and discusses their brand grand
23:39
plan. Right to kill all the popular
23:41
kids and that everything's done, everybody's dead.
23:44
And it's like, you know, now it's time to prepare the final
23:46
part of our plan. You know, because this was all
23:48
supposed to be a murder suicide, but make it look like that Garth
23:52
is the one that killed everybody.
23:53
So he gives Mandy the sad thought.
23:57
He had the pills. He had another set.
24:00
He had another set of pills. OK, so he gives Mandy some
24:03
pills. I'm not sure.
24:04
It doesn't really say exactly what they were, but apparently
24:06
they were supposed to be lethal, right?
24:08
So she takes some. They have a little talk like
24:11
Emma. It's like saying that what?
24:13
You take the pills, shoot me in the heart because I need to be
24:15
sure that you took the pills. Andy's standing there for a
24:18
second and you know, she's like, I would never do that.
24:21
And she dumps the pills out. So Mandy double crossed Emmett,
24:27
so Emmett's mad and she ends up calling out to Garth who had
24:31
just happened to appear. Yeah.
24:34
He shoots Emmett and Emmett wanders towards him because the
24:37
bullets didn't quite stop him. He ends up stabbing Garth in his
24:42
in his fall, Mandy runs at him with a knife and ends up
24:45
stabbing Garth as well. Is that the way that worked?
24:47
No, I. Think that's how that worked?
24:48
No. Is she?
24:49
And she, she has some sort of affinity for Garth.
24:53
I wonder if that's what made her change her mind about the plan.
24:56
Because she's like, oh, there's this other guy.
24:59
Yeah. So those two, she ends up going
25:01
over and attacking Emmett. They get into a big tussle.
25:04
They end up falling into this this mud pit with a bunch of
25:07
dead cows. Oh yeah, the dead cows.
25:09
Yeah, that's why everybody was horny.
25:12
I forgot about the dead cow pit. That's why everybody wanted to
25:19
fuck her. Yeah, yeah.
25:21
So I can't remember. I can't remember how she killed,
25:24
how she had killed Emmett. Did she stab him?
25:26
Yeah, she's that. That's where I messed up.
25:28
That's what she called out to Garth.
25:30
He appears, shoots Emmett, Emmett lunges towards Garth and
25:33
stabs him, and then Mandy runs up to Emmett and stabs Emmett
25:37
with a knife with another. Knife, yeah.
25:39
And so now we're at, you know, Garth is down on the ground and
25:43
she's trying to make a run for it, you know, But somehow
25:46
Emmett's still alive. And she faces after her.
25:49
And I think that's when she. Yeah, she ends up falling into a
25:52
mud pool, which we learn is the cow, the dead cow pool, Right.
25:56
And Emma and Mandy fight a little bit because I, I never
25:59
understood this. Why is it like, like the side
26:02
characters like Jake and Marlon, like, it only takes like, 1
26:04
gunshot or, or one crack of the jaw and they're dead.
26:08
But the killer, you could stab him to death.
26:10
You can slice his neck open. You can shoot him in the head.
26:13
But he's still coming. Yeah, and we're not even talking
26:17
about the supernatural friend Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers.
26:21
We're just talking about normal little weekly Emmett.
26:23
Yeah, regular kid. And so they're in the cow pit
26:27
and Mandy's fighting him, and she manages to overpower him,
26:30
and that's when she ends up finally killing him.
26:33
And Mandy gets out of the dead. The dead.
26:35
Carpool. Cowpool.
26:39
That's an Marvel movie. Dead cow pool.
26:41
Dead cow Pool. I'm sure there's one in there
26:43
for Deadpool. He was doing all kinds of weird
26:45
things. So she gets out of the out of
26:47
the and Garth is still with us. He managed to survive all the
26:52
attacks. She takes him to safety and the
26:54
two get into a car and drive away, and he thanks her for
26:57
saving his life. Yeah, he's like you saved.
27:00
Me and that was all the boys love Mandy Lane, so you're.
27:07
Well, I know it's a slow burn movie, which, you know, I get,
27:12
but there was a point in this movie where I was like, how much
27:15
time is left in this fucking movie?
27:16
This is taking forever. And I was like halfway through.
27:20
I was like, fuck. So it wasn't awful.
27:24
It wasn't a horrible movie. It did take a long time.
27:28
It did have really good gross out scenes like the slicing,
27:31
like the the breaking of her jaw, the slicing across the
27:34
eyes. It had some good gore in it.
27:36
And and it did end up being because I was like, because my
27:38
initial thought was all these guys were going to be in love
27:41
with Mandy Lane, but she was going to be deadly like they
27:44
were. She was going to be killing
27:45
them. And yeah.
27:47
More. More than how?
27:49
More than how it played out. Right, Yeah, I didn't even think
27:51
of Emmett at 1st and then I thought OK, because because the
27:56
way it was when things were going on, I was like, well it
27:58
can't be Mandy. So I was like maybe it's Emmett.
28:01
And then of course it was revealed to be Emmett and I was
28:02
like, well this is too soon. Why they showing it being Emmett
28:05
now? He's got to be working with
28:07
Mandy. It's and it's not Garth who they
28:10
want you to think it is, but it I wasn't expecting the twist
28:14
where she turned on Mehmet. That was a slightly surprising
28:17
twist. I wasn't expecting that.
28:18
I really don't have a whole lot to say about this movie because
28:22
it was just, I don't know, like there wasn't anything.
28:26
There were a lot of there were things that were mistakes and I
28:28
thought were mistakes, like the hair.
28:30
Her hair had blood all because Emmett had come into the kitchen
28:33
while she was passed out of the table and what's his name, Garth
28:35
had gone upstairs because there was ATV blaring all of a sudden.
28:39
So he had time to go over and stroke Mandy's hair and, you
28:42
know, say all this stuff to her and got all this blood in her
28:44
hair. And then next thing you know,
28:46
after Garth says you got to get out of here because he sees the
28:49
blender hair. So they go out into the hallway
28:50
and she suddenly has no blender hair, like it was just gone.
28:53
So I mean, there were just, there were some mistakes here
28:55
and there, some things that were just logically didn't make
28:57
sense. But I don't know, I might give
29:00
it. I thought about watching it a
29:01
second time because I did not I watched it with and I forgot to
29:05
write down my comments, you know, do my comment thing.
29:08
And I was like, I don't think I can get through it a second
29:10
time. I'll know what it is when Dan
29:13
talks about it. I'll remember whatever it is
29:15
that I need to say. I'd give it maybe a 3-3 cents.
29:21
It wasn't like, yeah, I wasn't like, this is, you know, great.
29:26
I don't there in thoughts of other movies that you know, I've
29:31
seen and I thought what I gave them in terms of sense I was
29:36
like, I can't give this one more than that.
29:40
I mean, it was OK. I mean, it wasn't horrible.
29:42
I definitely would not care to watch it again just because it
29:44
felt like it took forever. Now a second run through might
29:47
seem faster because I already know what the end is.
29:50
So it might seem a little faster, but it just was it was
29:53
such a slow burn that I but it wasn't a slow burn in the tense
29:58
way that I like a slow burn very much like that other one.
30:00
We watched the House of the Devil that the slow burn that
30:03
that had that was even worse of a slow burn.
30:06
I thought that this one, at least this one, there were some
30:08
tense moments or it made it seem like there were tense moments
30:11
and there were things that did happen, but it just wasn't
30:13
something that I was just like when I was done watching it, I
30:16
was just like, oh, OK. I was kind of relieved that it
30:19
was over. The acting was fine.
30:22
There was nothing, you know, the acting was good.
30:24
I didn't have any issues with anybody's acting per SE.
30:26
It was just your typical, you know, teen movie, teen gore and
30:30
drama. But I don't know, maybe three,
30:32
maybe 3 1/2 cents. I, I will say for all the Lake
30:35
Mungo people out there, that Lake Mungo was the movie that I
30:39
thought about. I was like, I gave that 1-4
30:41
cents and they thought because Lake Mungo technically has a
30:46
good story. It does.
30:48
It just isn't a horror movie, I don't think.
30:50
I think it was a drama movie with a scary part in it, so.
30:54
But the story itself is a good story, yeah.
30:56
And and and the scenario you know, is a horrific scenario in
31:00
the sense of this girl being, you know, manipulated and a
31:05
sexual toy you. Know by a grown.
31:08
Adult. So I mean, that in itself is
31:10
horrific, but that doesn't make it a horror.
31:12
Movie, right? I was like, I can't say that
31:15
this one's better than just because Lake Mungo was a decent
31:19
story. It was a good drama.
31:21
Yeah. So yeah, three 3 1/2 cent.
31:24
Well, I mean, I didn't find this movie to be terrible.
31:28
I I liked it. I mean, I wouldn't own it by any
31:31
stretch, you know, because as you know, but other people might
31:35
not like, I'm very big into physical media, especially
31:37
since, you know, we feel like that we're on the cusp of losing
31:40
it. So I've been buying a lot of
31:42
stuff that that I like, but I wouldn't buy this one.
31:46
Yeah. Watching it once is enough,
31:50
right? I don't need to watch it again,
31:52
but I did find it somewhat enjoyable, you know, because
31:56
again, like you said, the acting wasn't terrible.
31:59
I think the biggest issue I had with it was, you know, I mean,
32:04
granted the character Garth, he didn't really play into the
32:07
girls looks or anything like that.
32:08
In fact, he very much seemed disinterested, which was fine.
32:14
But I always find it to be somewhat creepy when movies are
32:17
written like this. And I don't know if it's because
32:19
it's just creepy or because I have my own daughter now, right,
32:23
you know? But I just find that kind of
32:26
stuff written into movies kind of weird, no matter what context
32:29
it's put in. So that part I didn't really
32:32
care for too much. I didn't like how Emmett was
32:35
revealed so early. Yeah.
32:39
And honestly, I still think it probably would have been better
32:42
if they did Dylan instead of Emmett.
32:45
Yeah, it definitely would have been better.
32:48
It would have. Because it wouldn't have been
32:50
expected. Not not that I was fully
32:52
expecting Emmett. I don't know why, because, I
32:55
mean, everything was right there for it.
32:57
Yeah. Because usually I'm pretty good
32:58
about picking that kind of stuff up.
33:00
I don't know if I wasn't paying attention enough or, or
33:02
whatever, but Dylan would have been a better pick.
33:06
You know, if they added, like, the storyline of I've been, I've
33:09
been laid up for nine months, you know, you guys never came to
33:12
see me. You know, it's your fault that
33:14
this happened, you know, because there was a story there for him
33:16
to do that, right? So there were some parts of it,
33:19
like I think it could have been better if they, if they wrote it
33:22
in that way. But I'm, I'm going to go on a
33:24
limb and give it actually $0.05. It wasn't fantastic, but it
33:29
wasn't it wasn't baddy. Right.
33:31
Yeah, I I think that it would have been kind of your classic
33:35
horror of that genre to have it be Dylan.
33:39
The only thing is about that would be how would they tie it
33:41
in? It would be even more shocking
33:43
if they did tie it in where Mandy was still in cahoots with
33:45
him. Yeah, that would have been a
33:48
little more shocking than it being Emmett.
33:50
Yeah. Yep.
33:51
Absolutely. And then maybe get some kind of
33:52
back story as to how that happened, like how do those two
33:55
connect? Like a little bit of a flashback
33:57
scene, like maybe she went to go see him in the hospital or
34:00
something. And like she was the only one.
34:03
Right, right. And yeah, so that would have
34:05
been, that would have been, yeah, You know, we got what we
34:08
got. Right.
34:10
All right. Do you have anything else you'd
34:11
like to add about this movie? We can put a sock on it.
34:13
All right, sock has been applied, and that wraps up our
34:17
discussion of All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, a movie that proves
34:20
obsession is creepy, popularity is dangerous, and high school is
34:24
a nightmare even without a body count.
34:26
Next month, we're switching gears to the brand new theme You
34:29
Make Me Sick, where the horror doesn't come from masks or
34:32
machetes, but from infection, contamination, and the
34:35
unsettling realization that that the real threat might already be
34:38
inside you. We're kicking the month off with
34:40
The Bay, a found footage nightmare about a small town, a
34:43
spreading outbreak, and what happens when every warning sign
34:46
gets ignored. You can watch The Bay on Plex,
34:49
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physical media becomes the only remaining currency.
34:58
Or so he hopes. It's funny that you brought that
35:00
up because I had it in here. Until next time, be scared.
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