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The Chicken Sisters Season 1, Episode 1 (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hi, friends, Megan and Wendy Here and in honor of
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark airing The Chicken Sisters on Hallmark Channel, we are
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  Speaker 1: re airing our original reviews and recaps of these episodes
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  Speaker 1: that were originally recorded back in September and October of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So enjoy the Chicken Sisters and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: these recaps and reviews. This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark or Hallmark Review Podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing Chicken Sisters Episode one. Family is Family,
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  Speaker 1: streaming exclusively on the brand new launch Hallmark Plus. Outside
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  Speaker 1: of this podcast, you can find us on Instagram. We
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  Speaker 1: content and information coming out of Hallmark, we try and
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  Speaker 1: It's not only Hallmark news, but there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark movie set in Ireland or Hawaii, or along a
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark dot Hey.
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  Speaker 3: Megan, Hey Wendy, let's talk about how Hallmark Channel.
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  Speaker 2: Reposted your video from the other day.
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  Speaker 1: It's a real highlight of my Hallmark content creating career.
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, sure, I need to tell the
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  Speaker 1: people that, even though it was my face on the video,
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  Speaker 1: Wendy was like, hey, make a video and discuss these things.
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  Speaker 1: So Wendy gave me the outline and I just put
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  Speaker 1: it in. This was a real team effort. I really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate everything you talked about.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I have to say it was super exciting to see.
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  Speaker 3: I was so excited you made a great video and
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  Speaker 3: I was happy to see them share it. But in
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  Speaker 3: terms of Hallmark Plus, I have to say, so far.
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  Speaker 2: So good.
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  Speaker 3: It's not as clunky as Hallmark Movies Now was, so
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  Speaker 3: it seems like they've done some back end upgrades, which
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  Speaker 3: makes me happy, and I I really like how they
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  Speaker 3: have organized it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And if you're listening to this and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about because my app
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  Speaker 1: still says Hallmark Movies Now. One of our TVs had
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  Speaker 1: automatically updated. We turned it on and it was the
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark Plus logo, and the other one had not. So
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  Speaker 1: if that's the case and you're logging in and you're
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  Speaker 1: still looking at the old interface, go to whatever version
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  Speaker 1: your device uses as an app store and run an
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  Speaker 1: update and then you should have the new version. I
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  Speaker 1: also wanted to share early in the morning, someone had
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  Speaker 1: reached out and said, do you know if there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a way to track viewing the way there
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  Speaker 1: is with like the Hallmark Checklist app, because at that
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  Speaker 1: point Hallmark Plus didn't exist, And I actually messaged someone
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  Speaker 1: high up on the Hallmark team about that, and then
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  Speaker 1: shortly thereafter the shows did appear in the Hallmark Checklist
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  Speaker 1: app under a Hallmark Plus banner. So I am going
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  Speaker 1: to just live under the delusion that we had something
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  Speaker 1: to do with that. But regardless, if you love to
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  Speaker 1: use the Checklist app for tracking your viewing, you can
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  Speaker 1: do that for the new Hallmark Plus shows as well.
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark's like hot, damn, will you just hold on a minute.
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  Speaker 1: We sent Laer Dawn lady.
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  Speaker 2: People here, and we're doing all the work we can.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to launch an app. My goodness.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about Chicken Sisters. Is it the
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  Speaker 2: Chicken Sister? It is just it is the Chicken Sisters?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I just want to make sure that I
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  Speaker 3: am calling it the correct title. U.
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  Speaker 2: My first question is did you finish the book?
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  Speaker 1: I have about five percent left in the book. We're
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  Speaker 1: just like it wrapping up stages at this point. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So let's I'm going to read a synopsis for episode one,
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  Speaker 1: Family Is Family.
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  Speaker 2: Amanda signs up.
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  Speaker 3: Her husband's Families Fried Chicken restaurant for a reality TV
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  Speaker 3: show called Kitchen Flash.
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  Speaker 2: It will compete with.
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  Speaker 3: Amanda's mom's Family Fried Chicken Restaurant, but only if Amanda
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  Speaker 3: can get her estranged sister May to come home and
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  Speaker 3: help their mom.
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  Speaker 1: For the show, The Chicken Sister's Episode one was written
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  Speaker 1: by Annie McBaine. She's also an e key on the show,
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  Speaker 1: and her previous writing credits include Bad Monkey and Shrinking,
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  Speaker 1: both on Apple TV Plus, as well as The Goldbergs
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  Speaker 1: Community and Happy Endings. That information alone is like this
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  Speaker 1: show is operating on a higher level.
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  Speaker 3: I agree Shrinking such a great show on Apple TV.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Ending is one of my favorite two season sitcoms.
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  Speaker 3: Three season sitcom Maybe I Love It. Jimmy Gatewood directed
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  Speaker 3: this episode. Jimmy has directed twenty seven projects, including Girls
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  Speaker 3: Five Ever, Survival of the Thickest Ghosts, The Big Leap,
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  Speaker 3: and The Babysitters Club.
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  Speaker 1: The Chicken Sisters was adapted from a New York Times
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  Speaker 1: best selling book and a Reese's Book Club selection. As
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  Speaker 1: in Reese witherspoonn by the same name, written by kJ del.
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  Speaker 3: Antonia, Margo Martin Dell voices the narrator. Margo has one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty one acting credits, with six Emmy nominations
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  Speaker 3: and three Emmy wins. Listeners might recognize her from her
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  Speaker 3: role on The Americans and Justified, as well as the
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  Speaker 3: recent Peacock series Missus Davis, where she plays mother Superior.
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  Speaker 1: Lea Thompson plays Nancy. Leah has one hundred and twelve
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  Speaker 1: acting credits, including of course, Back to the Future and
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  Speaker 1: her role on Caroline in the City. This is her
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  Speaker 1: second homework project, having appeared in Next Stop Christmas Wivie
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  Speaker 1: with a Back to the Future homage.
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  Speaker 3: She also appeared in one of my all time favorite
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  Speaker 3: John Hughes movies, Some Kind of Wonderful. Wendy Malick plays
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  Speaker 3: Augusta or Gus for short for readers of the book.
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  Speaker 2: This is the character previously known as Barbara.
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  Speaker 3: Wendy has a deep resume of one hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 3: seven acting credits that include one hundred and forty nine
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  Speaker 3: episodes of Just Shoot Me, one hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 3: episodes of Hot in Cleveland, the Netflix series The Ranch,
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  Speaker 3: and the sitcom Young Sheldon. As far as we can tell,
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  Speaker 3: this is her first appearance on Hallmark. Barbara is the
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  Speaker 3: name of the character and the book. Yes, I wonder
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  Speaker 3: why they changed it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and there's a character in the book named Gus
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  Speaker 1: Who's not in the series Mmm Interesting. Skyler Fiske plays Amanda.
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  Speaker 1: Skyler has twenty eight acting credits, including a role in
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  Speaker 1: the two thousand and two movie Orange County co Starr
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  Speaker 1: and Colin Hanks. She also appeared on the CW series
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  Speaker 1: Heart of Dixie, a show that bereters a strong resemblance
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  Speaker 1: to The Chicken Sisters. I Think.
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  Speaker 3: Genevieve Angelson plays Sister May. Genevieve has twenty seven acting credits,
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  Speaker 3: which include recurring roles on The After Part, New Amsterdam
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  Speaker 3: and The hand Maid's Tale.
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  Speaker 1: Cassandra Sawtel plays Frankie. Cassandra has thirty two acting credits.
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  Speaker 1: She's previously appeared in one Hallmark project, Tipline Mysteries Dial
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  Speaker 1: One for Murder. Kelsey Moamma plays Lindsay, Sabrina's daughter. Kelsey
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  Speaker 1: has twenty six acting credits and has appeared in one
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  Speaker 1: previous Hallmark project sealed with a list. Her other acting
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  Speaker 1: credits include Life with the Walter Boys, Totally Killer, The
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  Speaker 1: Babysitters Club, and all three movies in the To All
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  Speaker 1: the Boys I Have Loved Before series. Rukia Bernard plays Sabrina.
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  Speaker 1: Rukiya has eighty three acting credits, which include her role
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  Speaker 1: as Hannah in all four Christmas and Evergreen movies. She
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  Speaker 1: also appeared in eleven episodes of Yellowjackets and what little
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  Speaker 1: I know about that series makes me seriously concerned for
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  Speaker 1: the fate of her character. After season two, episode one,
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  Speaker 1: where she no longer appears.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, I'm so happy to see her.
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  Speaker 3: Me too. She hasn't been in a ton on Hallmark lately.
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  Speaker 1: She's been working a lot, but not a lot on Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we'll come right back
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  Speaker 1: with more Chicken Sisters. All right. If you're a regular
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  Speaker 1: verson of Girls on Homework, you know we have a
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  Speaker 1: format that we use for our movie reviews, but we
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  Speaker 1: switch it up a little bit when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: our series reviews. We had a standing format for The
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  Speaker 1: Way Home, and we're using a similar format here, diving
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  Speaker 1: into some of the details of the show, our thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a full minute by minute recap, but we
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  Speaker 1: will recap some of the key events. So let's get
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  Speaker 1: into it.
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  Speaker 2: Go for it.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the pilot episode of the series. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of introductions happening here. Introduction of backstory, introduction
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  Speaker 1: of characters. We really kind of run down the line.
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  Speaker 1: So we start with, obviously the introduction of the Franny's
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  Speaker 1: versus Mimi's feud, a baby daddy based feud, if you.
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  Speaker 4: Will, And I wonder, I think the feud in the
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  Speaker 4: book was different, but I wonder if we get.
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  Speaker 1: Some resolution on that in the series, because it was
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  Speaker 1: there was some contention over the truth behind the feud.
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  Speaker 3: If the feud was based on the baby daddy situation,
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  Speaker 3: that does this mean then these two families are more
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  Speaker 3: interconnected than if they were just two rival families.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that is addressed in the book, like oh okay,
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  Speaker 1: They're like, we're gonna let that go. We meet a triarchs.
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  Speaker 1: We have Nancy played by Leah Thompson. And I have
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  Speaker 1: to say that in all of the promotion of the
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  Speaker 1: show that I saw prior to reading the book and
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  Speaker 1: knowing who the characters were, and as I was listening
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  Speaker 1: to the book and starting piecing together who everybody was
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, I was a little bit surprised to
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  Speaker 1: find out that Nancy, while a main character to me,
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  Speaker 1: is not the lead character in the show, but she
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  Speaker 1: has been almost marketed as the center of the show.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel the same way in terms of marketing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I feel like they're like, we have Leah Thompson,
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  Speaker 3: that's a big name Wendy Malick as well, but yes,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like she's been marketed as this main character.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 1: In speaking of Wendy Malick, I actually think based on
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  Speaker 1: what I know about the book, based on how this
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  Speaker 1: first episode played out, I mean, I think we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get more of a hefty storyline from Wendy Malix's character,
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  Speaker 1: who of course does play Agusta slash Gus. She's Amanda
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  Speaker 1: in May's mom. Also, she runs MEM's, the more down home,
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  Speaker 1: basic of the two chicken restaurants. And we've got Amanda.
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  Speaker 1: She's the sister who stayed but was also exiled from
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  Speaker 1: Mimi's because she married the son of the rival chicken
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  Speaker 1: restaurant owner. It's all very high stakes. Okay. We also
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  Speaker 1: have May, the sister who wanted more. She hos the
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  Speaker 1: home edit style show called Sparkling.
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  Speaker 2: I have so many thoughts if you're going to read this,
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  Speaker 2: but go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: We meet Frank Junior, who's Amanda's husband, and I need
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  Speaker 1: to point out here for listeners of the book, Frank
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  Speaker 1: Junior is only mentioned in the past because Frank Junior
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  Speaker 1: is not alive in the book. Oh. Interesting, and here's
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  Speaker 1: a major divergence from the book to the series, because
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  Speaker 1: Frank Junior is going to be a part of a
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  Speaker 1: pretty big plot line. It seems to me that we'll
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  Speaker 1: discuss in a little bit. Obviously that doesn't occur because
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  Speaker 1: she is not married. She is a widow. Amanda a
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  Speaker 1: widow in the book. Oh, I have some thoughts on that,
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  Speaker 1: but let's we'll get into that in a minute. We
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  Speaker 1: learn a few things about our characters. Of course, we
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  Speaker 1: meet Frankie, who is Amanda's daughter, who's really great at
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  Speaker 1: being a teenager. We meet Sergio, the cook at Meme's.
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  Speaker 1: We learn Amanda and frank are potentially not all that
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  Speaker 1: happily married. Frank Junior kind of sucks. We also learned
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  Speaker 1: that May and Sabrina, the host of Kitchen Clash, some
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  Speaker 1: what it's called. It's called something different in those US,
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  Speaker 1: called food wars. In the book, by the way, they
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  Speaker 1: have history, but we don't know what it is. So
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  Speaker 1: they give us something to look forward to. And perhaps
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  Speaker 1: the heaviest part, we learn that Gus is a hoarder
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  Speaker 1: and that this has affected her children in different ways,
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  Speaker 1: but probably had a stronger effect on May, the older
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  Speaker 1: daughter who experiences panic attacks since her childhood.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, can I give you some of my thoughts.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that they did a really great job in
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  Speaker 3: getting so much information into.
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  Speaker 2: This pilot episode.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's like forty three minutes, right, but they
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  Speaker 3: packed it, and I thought it was great that they.
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  Speaker 2: Used the narrator. Was there a narrator in the book?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's told from the alternating perspectives of Amanda and
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  Speaker 1: May in the book.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting, Well, I love that they use the narration because
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  Speaker 3: it does help like enhance who the characters are, and
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  Speaker 3: I think like gives more context, especially when us as
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  Speaker 3: viewers are coming into a story that has like years
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  Speaker 3: and years of history. Yeah, so I really like the
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  Speaker 3: choice that they did that. But back to like you said,
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  Speaker 3: in this pilot episode, we get so much. We get
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  Speaker 3: the backstory of the feud between the restaurants. We get
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  Speaker 3: how Amanda, I know, it's kind of stupid about how
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  Speaker 3: she ends up working at Franny's, you know, falls in
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  Speaker 3: love with.
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  Speaker 2: Frank Junior.
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  Speaker 3: We get that we have an understanding that Amanda feels
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  Speaker 3: isolated and unfulfilled, in her life, which to me, I
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  Speaker 3: was like, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're going somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: You just mentioned about how May has panic attacks and
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  Speaker 3: is like dealing with childhood trauma from her mom's hoarding situation.
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  Speaker 3: Like these are like topics not commonly seen on Hallmark,
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  Speaker 3: and I really really like it. I feel like there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot to unpack with the story of these two families,
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  Speaker 3: and especially like Gus and the daughters and whatever. But
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  Speaker 3: I feel like marketing wise, Hallmark was just like kind
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  Speaker 3: of glossing over, like, oh, it's rivalry between these two
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  Speaker 3: chicken restaurants, which interested in me. But now that I'm
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  Speaker 3: into the first episodisode, I'm really into it.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely a character driven show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we might get sort of like how we've
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  Speaker 2: seen in Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen like you know, rival bakers, Piemakers, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, this is head and shoulders above any of that.
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely agree. And we have been talking a lot
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  Speaker 3: about quality versus quantity on Hallmark lately, and I feel
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  Speaker 3: like this is a plus quality. This is on par
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  Speaker 3: with The Way Home, different story, but on par.
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  Speaker 1: With quality wise. Yeah, I'm right there. With you, let's
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  Speaker 1: dive into our thoughts on some of the characters. Can
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  Speaker 1: I tell you who stands out to me the most
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  Speaker 1: watching this first episode in terms of spot on casting,
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  Speaker 1: and it's Wendy Malick as Gus. I first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I think, top to bottom the casting was really well done.
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  Speaker 1: And I say this as a person who just read
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  Speaker 1: the book, so I had visions of these characters in
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  Speaker 1: my head and seeing them come to life on screen
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, I'm like, that's exactly who it should be.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I knew the casting of this series before
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  Speaker 1: reading the book, but I didn't know every single character,
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  Speaker 1: and watching the way they bring these characters to life,
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  Speaker 1: I think Wendy Malick, though, is running away with it.
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  Speaker 1: I just love her as the hard to love Gus.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very similar to Dale.
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  Speaker 1: Yes not Dale Dale Odell. I write her name when
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  Speaker 1: you said that, Yes, it is Dell. This character of Gus.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid of her a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Wendy Malick plays this character so perfectly, intimidating with that nasty,
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  Speaker 3: mean streak. But I'm into it, like I want to
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  Speaker 3: know why is she so angry?
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  Speaker 1: Well? And I think we know a little bit right,
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  Speaker 1: and we know that she has a hoarding problem, and
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  Speaker 1: so that probably I would imagine that something she carries
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  Speaker 1: shame about. I would imagine that something she feels very
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  Speaker 1: protective of. That's information that she doesn't want people to
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  Speaker 1: know about, and so I think she for that reason
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  Speaker 1: puts up a wall. They're also hinting at something else
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  Speaker 1: going on with her that I suspect has something to
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  Speaker 1: do with why she's challenging. But these do not seem
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  Speaker 1: to be new developments with her. I mean, she you
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  Speaker 1: see young May and young Amanda, and she's angry even
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  Speaker 1: when they're children. So yes, what happened to make her
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  Speaker 1: that way?
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  Speaker 2: Now, going back to what you said, what hints are
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  Speaker 2: they hinting at? What did I miss? I mean she
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  Speaker 2: was fooling around with bad dude in the refrigerator.
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  Speaker 1: But other than that, I don't think they were fooling around. Now,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's the image that they gave you, and of
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  Speaker 1: course I have information from the book, but I did
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  Speaker 1: not get the impression that they were getting freaky in
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  Speaker 1: the oh.
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  Speaker 3: I thought the impression they were fooling around and the
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  Speaker 3: deep freeze, I will be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Interest is I actually think that guy has a husband
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  Speaker 1: on the show. Oh, I don't think we've fully their characters.
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  Speaker 1: But you know the guy that runs the coffee shop?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, boy from Ride Yeah, And just quick a little aside,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: We did not run through every single character because there
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: are a lot of them. We will have additional news
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: and notes coming in future episodes for those who are completionists.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: But I do believe I think that's his husband.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: Interesting now, if I think about it, was he standing
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: behind the counter with him? The guy that was in
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: the deep freeze with Gus, Yeah, I thought I saw
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: him in the key shop.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: He was you are I'll pay closer attention.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: What other characters stood out to you?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Well, Amanda.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: I really like when Homark gives us characters I have
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: a lot of depth and who are very relatable.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And I feel like.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Amanda is in this kind of transition in her life.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: She's not super happy at home or her teenage daughter
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: is challenging. She misses the earlier ages.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Of her daughter.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: She wants to know what's next, and I feel it's
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: very relatable. It's very interesting to me.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Another character that stood out to me is the character
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: of Frank Junior, and I just want to say he sucks.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Frank Junior does suck.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: He sucks so much, he's so unlikable. Obviously, that's the point.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I want to bring it on home in our next segment.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: But well done on the part of that act. Really
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: sending it through unthinking likeability is spawn.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: One more thought, Nancy, Frank Junior's mom, actually feel real
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: sad for her. I am rooting for a romantic storyline
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: for her. I just feel like, if this show is
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: going to have any sort of romantic storyline, who are
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: they going.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: To give it to.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: It has to be it has to be Nancy.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't don't even say it. It is red
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: flag warning over here. It better not be between Amanda
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: and Sergio.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Can we move on to some additional thoughts we have?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Sure?
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: When I saw the way Sergio was looking at her,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: now knowing from the book she is widowed, she is available.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: She does have a love interest by a different name,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: who perhaps plays the same role in the restaurant. So
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: when I see them have this intimate moment where he's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: sharing food with her and watching her walk away, I'm like,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: hold on, this woman is married with a child, happily married. No,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: but she seems to still very much want to find
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: happiness with Frank Junior. While she maybe disillusioned with the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: path of her life. I don't think she's one foot
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: out the door.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I think she's unhappy with the lot that she's been given.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: But I yeah, I am all caps nervous about this
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: storyline me too, and I can understand her because they
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: set that scene up. She comes home with dinner and
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: he's like, is that what you brought home? And you
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: know she wants to have like sexy time with him,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: and he's like, I'm going to bed or whatever, so
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: to be seen by another man, of course, Like yes, but.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: If you're heads aren't being met at home, you're gonna
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: find someone who meets your needs. What are we doing here?
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, it happens in all kinds of entertainment, it
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: happens in real life, So like, am I gonna sit
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: here and grab my pearls?
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Would be like, oh my.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: God, they're gonna get together and she's married.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know what they're gonna do.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I'm excited to see how it plays out, but I'm like,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: I can't believe we're going down this road.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do either, and it
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: could just be a very nice way to add a
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: ton of conflict on screen with these characters. I'm really
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: excited about the introduction of the character Lindsay. This is
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: not a character that existed in the book. Lindsay is
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Sabrina's daughter. This gives Frankie, Amanda's daughter a counterpart. Look,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna turn a book into an eight episode series,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to flesh things out a little bit more.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: And so I like the elevation of Frankie. I like
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the introduction of Lindsay as an unlikely friend.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and especially like opposites too, now well, and not
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: total opposites, just opposites from like where they come from,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: the opposite experiences. Yeah, I like that too. I mean
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: the gal that played Frankie, whoa. I was like, are
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: they living in my home?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Right now? You nailed it, nailed the teenagers totally.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about your questions.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm curious in the book do they go into
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: depth about the childhood of May and Amanda.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: And there is one kind of extended scene in the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: book that sets up a little bit more of the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: rivalry and why her mom was so protective of Meme's
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: it's unclear to me whether they're going to go that
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: route at this point. Interesting.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: And then my other question is why do you think
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: they didn't make Amanda a widow in the show?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I think it makes it more interesting. There's more conflict there.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I think doing a nice job of setting herself up
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: as someone who's struggling with her place in life, and
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I think that's going to include struggling with her marriage
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and the state of it, either finding her way back
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: or finding her way out. I just think there's it
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: sets us up for some more choices.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Do you think this is going to be beyond eight episodes?
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Will it come back for a season two?
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Oh? You know, I do. I think the way that
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the book ends again some divergence there, sets it up
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: for the ability to continue. Got it?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Got it?
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Those are my questions.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk some cluckworthy moments, some moments I loved.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: There were some great one liners in this episode that
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: things I've never heard on Hallmark before ever.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: If I may quote white.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Trash, never heard that at work before, ovulating, never heard
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: that on all before, wouldn't kick him out of bed,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: never heard that before and two more pissed never heard
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: the word episode never, And finally the one that actually
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: made melol was when Amanda asks Nancy, is that a
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: push up bra you're wearing? I couldn't believe it, but
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: loved it, Like you, I have some great lines that
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I loved.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: The writing was spot on the line. When she's talking
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: about writing into kitchen class and they're like on TV,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: she goes, it's technically streaming. Loved it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, that was great.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Amanda talking about wanting a baby and frank Tiner's like,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I already gave you one, and she's like, but she's
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: only mean. Now a parent of a teenager right here,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I can fully relate. I loved her inner action with Frankie.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: First she walks in and she like tries to see
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: what's on her computer. She's like it's weird, preferred stuff
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: as excellent. And then as Amanda leaves, she's like, whatever,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: just do whatever you want, and Frankie's like, you should
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: write a parenting book.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, so good.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: When she's meeting with the execs from Sparkling and they're
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: talking about advertisers and they're like, you know, you kind
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: of have an anti stuff attitude, and we have advertisers
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: who sell stuff. I just love the cadence. And finally,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: when Amanda is scrolling on her phone in bed and
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: she opens an ad and the music blairs from her phone,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: among us has not done that as their partner is
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: asleep in bed and you shut it under the covers,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: so good?
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, hey?
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Did you also notice that she was actually looking at Instagram?
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it. That wasn't some fake app that
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: she was looking at. Forgive the puns, but we like
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: to call it a character every single week who really
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: brings it. And it will be no surprise that my
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: feathered friend of the week is going to be Gus
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: slash Wendy Malick, who is bringing the drama in episode one?
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Who is it for you?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I think it is God?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, I think it is Frankie played by Cassandra satl
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: I thought she played a perfect teenager.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Truly, I agree. I am was running through the bios
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: of these actors to prepare for this episode. And of
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: course we have the narrator Margot Martindale way of Lea Thompson,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: we Wendy Malick. But beyond that the rest of our
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: supporting cast, uh not Rukia. Rukia is pretty solid, but
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: they're new ish, and I just am like, please let
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: this be such a vehicle for these actors because I
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: think they're all in such great roles. So my first
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: impression of this episode is gimme more.
• 28:55
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• 28:59
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• 29:03
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• 29:07
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• 29:09
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• 29:15
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• 29:16
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• 29:20
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• 29:25
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