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Lifetime's "Mommy Meanest" Starring Lisa Rinna Recap w/ Jaime & Angela plus Below Deck · Drama, Darling: A Real Housewives Comedy Podcast

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Drama Darling Drama Darling Drama Darling. Well, hello and welcome back to Drama
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Darling. What a great way to start off a Tuesday with Angela Quintana and
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Jamie Moyer. Hello, ladies, good morning, Well Marnen, we are
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here. We've shown up and here's why. Here's the important stuff today.
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Right now, we are going to be talking about the epic film that has
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taken over lifetime, and that is Mommy Meanest starring Lisa Rinna with a cameo
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of Delilah Bell Hamlin. Thank you for joining us for our Bravo Film Club.
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That is what we're going to be calling it today. All you film
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nerds out there, pull up a chair, get your pencils ready, all
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you citizen Kane lovers. Love Is of Seven, Titanic, Crouching Tiger,
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Hidden Dragon, and finally the Opus of All Films. Mommy meaness, Mommy,
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Wow, this is so incredible. Yeah. I truly feel like we
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do need to give this applause. Dj Arhorn rolling right into it. I
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just I love I love a nice like cold open where we uh you know,
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uh to to just get a throwback of the family, just seeing a
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young Lisa Rinna, you know, and how do we know she's young,
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longer hair, and a further shot A long shot offine shut off that Elizabeth
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Taylor Sybil Shepherd not since terms of endearment which started with uh, Shirley McClain
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with a baby that later became Debra Winger. Have I seen that's an amazing
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older mom younger mom lashback. Yeah, that's really funny, very just a
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little more bangs, you know. So we see that she's fighting with her
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husband and it's really they're painting the picture that he's the bad guy. She's
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like, I don't want this divorce and he's like, come on, and
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then we talk about then they talk about that they're they're gonna get divorced.
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And then the next thing, you know, you see the little the daughter
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Mia where it is to Mia just Prescio maybe one of the best actors in
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the piece. Frankly true. I mean, definitely award winning. But we'll
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get to that later because I really like the detective now foreshadow why is there
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a detective? Now? The investigator? You know, Oh, oh,
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I see what you're saying. I'm sorry, I'm so stupid. I'm like,
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you know, you're like no, I'm laying the groundwork for the listeners.
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We're reeling them in. And so we see the little girls like listening
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to their fighting. Oh no, oh no, and she's like mommy,
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and you can tell already she's against her father. He's the bad guy.
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Now we one month then we see like another pop in huge dramatic ten years
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later to where Lisa Rinna is like, open the me I know you're in
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there, and then she's pounding. She's pounding, She's like, and then
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she busts open the door. She sees the phone with all of the hate
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texts, but really quick, I'm going to stop you right there when she
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says, and this is why she says, let me and Mia, I
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hear your phone blowing up. And I had to look up the writer because
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I thought, surely this is Aaron Sorkin using an alias, and I found
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there Darren Larkin. Darren Larkin Larkin who the writer was that came up with
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all this hip young dialogue and it is who? Okay, she's showing a
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peach chemy. I was like, he was trying to act like a kid
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in high school. It's like a popular mean and he's like, what's up?
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Fellow kids. I'm steep and chemmy acting like a kid in high school.
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He's the ghost writer, ghost writer, you never know who's working at
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lifetime. It was just check phone blowing up. Sorry to interrupt, I
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just had to point out the well, no, absolutely, as well as
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we will as we will continue. So, oh, yes, so your
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phone is blowing up. Mia, I know you're in there. She opens
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the door, she sees the all the terrible texts, she leaves. Then
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she's here's the shower, and she's like, oh my god, she's done
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something terrible. You open the door and you just see Lisa. We gonna
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see the bathtub, and and she's about to pull the curtain back. And
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then cut to one month earlier. I mean Baron Sorkin double again, Flarin
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Florkindorphin. Yeah, I gotta say U plus on the Cold Open. Yeah.
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Well, at that point I had high hopes, even you know,
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I hope. Look, ye, my hopes weren't dashed. The bottom line
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is no hopes were dashed because this freaking film is based on a true story.
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Yeah, I'm so mad that I didn't write it down. What you
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did? Anybody write down? It was like wild, this is it said
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something. Yeah, this is based on a true story, but the events
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are fictionalized. And that is that essentially. And Jamie, you know there's
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some egg on our Michigan faces because this is a Michigan mom. And this
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Michigan mom I believe it's Mount Clemmons or something like that. That is bad
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Mount something. And her name is u, her name is Vichy. They
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couldn't use it. They couldn't. Kendra, Well, sorry, Kendra,
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lasarry that. Kendra, seven negative pops for you and one no bag of
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better made chips, paps, No, none of that. You're not getting
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anything. You put shame on our state. How dare you pleaded guilty of
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two counts of stalking a minor after being charged with a felony five felony accounts
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for harassing her own daughter and daughter's boyfriend and uh for more than a year
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with hundreds of text messages. Hundreds So she did some time. She paid
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for her crime. She's out. She does have some mental illness, clearly,
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And I don't know this happened in twenty twenty two. You got on
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the heels of the pandemic. How could you do that to your daughter?
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She's already gone through so much, so much. You know, the real
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life wasn't as fun as the movie, right, it never is. I
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never is. I do have a broad strokes question about you've already brought up
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the script writing, and that is my broad strokes question. And look,
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I love Lifetime and I'm not this is no shade, and like, I
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don't want to, you know, be rude about the writing or the producing
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of this, because they have to put out what they put out. But
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I am curious as to, like, what what is the reasoning behind such
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an elementary script where it's such like the writing is so generalized in you know,
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in the synopsis of things. Is that for the purpose of just making
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sure that it's simply that we can follow along? Like why is it so
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simplified? I I just think, just think about how how long Lifetime has
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been around, and how like I remember in college and maybe Lifetime was around
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in college because well that was like five years ago, so just kidding five
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years ago too totally. I do remember, like we all watched the there
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there is a niche there is people want to see very campy, very cheesy.
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It's just so that would be considered campy writing. Can't be writing.
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Is what you're saying, would you consider that me? I feel right that
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they do that on purpose, right, I mean, obviously, here's the
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deal. Here's the deal. I thought about this for hours. Frankly,
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it kept me up. I'm going back and forth because here's the deal.
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It's a good movie. And I watched him to the final drop, as
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I do with many Lifetime movies. And Celeste is a lover of our friend
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last Time movies, So I believe they know that it's bad, but they
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go all in. And the person the lynchpin of this project for me was
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her best friend. He was the only line I think Elliott was playing it
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can't be. But otherwise they go in as it Yeah, they go in
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as it's serious. The writers don't say, I'm writing all Amy to answer
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your question full stop. Yes, they're taking it deadly serious. Are we
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taking it deadly serious? No? Does Lifetime know that they produce these overly
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melodramatic things that we watch with our laughter? Yes, they understand it.
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So Lifetime movie, this is an A plus real movie. This is a
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bomb. You know, there's just you have to acknowledge the delicate balance between
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what is reality and what is expectation and what is execution. I mean,
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I think that's a brilliant explanation. And that's why I'm trying to do handle
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this with kid gloves because I'm not slamming it. I just want to know
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when these writers get in the room, they obviously execute, to your point,
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exactly what they intend on executing. So it's not that they're bad writers.
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They know exactly what formula they're using, and it's so simplified. That's
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why I'm saying, so for example, oh, you're not going to bring
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up not the restraining order again? You know these types of lines like that
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where they put out the continuity, Yeah, that's the word exposition they're putting
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out. They're constantly putting out exposition in a way that is so much of
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an eye roll. It's like, isn't there a more eloqant way you could
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do this eloquent way that you could do it, But no, they always
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lean into a campier way to do it, and they are doing it intentionally,
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and that's why I like it. So I just need to like break
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that down because I would love to talk to a lifetime writer about that,
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Yes, about the screenwriting, because it's so different than a lot of the
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things and that we are used to and there's a reason behind it. So
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I guess with that said, I do have a lot of laughs here and
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there with the way that they explain things and they put the exposition about there,
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about the restraining order and things like that, and so anyway, now
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let's get back to the plot. So we we find out that Mia has
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the again with the writing, which I absolutely love, a lot of callbacks
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to the big speech, the big speech, the bullying speech, the anti
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bully week. Talk to me about the big speech, you guys. Might
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I just start by saying that school with its fancy big speech, its fancy
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stage and it's big, fancy speech, and be rolling what school is this
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and why is this speech existing? And how it is? Yes? And
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then graduation, why is it also sexy? It's like three the sexy lighting
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curtains a twenty seven year old daughter doing a speech about believe, not even
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a senior yet, not even a senior yet. But one of my favorite
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things about the entire movie is how much the speech is mentioned in the mean
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text. Good job on your speech, remember that speech. Your speech was
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not a good speech, Your speech was pointless. Has anyone ever what that
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hard for a speed at school or gotten so many accolades for a speech because
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Josh Landon, who's the hot hotty Toddy at that school, was like,
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Hey, I loved your big speech. Yeah, what you did with that
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speech was really something else because he was cackling, you know, at the
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beginning of that big speech. He was cackling with his friends. He was
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not giving that big speech the time of day. Well he threw the pennies
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freshman year, or he was part of the group, part of the click,
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part of what do they call the jet set? Jet set? That
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actually went right over my head. I was like, why do you keep
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calling them the fucking jet I don't I don't get it. Is this like,
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it's not that jetie, It's not that, not that jets. All
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So why is it calling it the jet set group because they're rich, Okay,
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right, they've got private jets, their jet setting Okay, you know,
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I get. I don't know. I suppose it's it's off enough to
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where when that was brought up in the text that we all knew it was
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personal because nope. Not. Everybody was calling it the jet Set group,
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which was a why we were able to point it towards Elliott. But again,
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I feel like that could have gone through the right room that name a
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few times, you know, you know, like the Richies. Yeah we
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set that. I know your heart is set on it, Daniella, but
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can we just go back because this is how it was for me? They
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were the jet Set. Yeah, but you went to hide the eighties Rody
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Brody gaged me with the spoon when you're bringing up my past. My favorite
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bit of writing was them letting us know how many like sayings Mia and her
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mom had together. I wrote them when we say it together, yes to
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no man waver. I don't know why we made it so slow. I
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mean we had it. We were really protective of each other in case one
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of us did. There was a saying I didn't notice that. It was
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the watch my mouth okay, Angela. And then there was another one that
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was, uh, like you always say, what goes wrong can be made
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right. Then there was another one. There was another one where Mia says,
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like they always say, if not him, then someone better. I
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was like they do they do always say that? And the final one,
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which kills me was wait, mom, you're always telling me, what if
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all this change is the universe's way of getting you ready for the perfect guy
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and an even better job, Like she's always saying that, Like, that's
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sorry, I did not mean that. I meant the airhorn. The first
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one was better, so hilariously, even you're always telling me that. Yeah,
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someone once said Abraham Lincoln in His Friend, the one who walks through
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the door is the one who shuts the door. But that's so that the
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door can open and close again. You always say all but that again is
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an example of the perfect lifetime writing, right, because they I know that
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the writers can write better than that, but I think that they are in
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the room going no, dumb it down, make it more bland and cliche
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and a hint of campiness. That's what I think is happening, And that's
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why I think there's an art to the writing of lifetime. Yeah, it
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has to be the right amount of mindless entertainment. I don't know someone watching
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this and not thinking this though, that's my question. People watching this like
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that was a damn good movie, because we're also saying that was a damn
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good movie. That's also I thought both audiences are married, right, Yeah,
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like we both love it and we watch it all the way through and
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we loved it, you know, so so we're also wink wink, nudge,
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nudge. And I'm not trying to be a snob either, like I
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know better than you. It's like no, no, But there is there
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some eye rolling going around across America. Yeah, a certain person I think
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there is. I think they're like, oh, this, this is great.
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I'm just like mindless in the background. Yes, but I will say
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my best friend from high school, Kelly, Hi, Kelly, shout out
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Hi Kelly. She loved these movies and was kind of would be. She's
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the type of person that watches it and it's like it was the mob.
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Like she will allow herself to like it's not funny to her. Yeah,
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I like that. Yeah. Like so there are those people that are like,
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oh my god. I also think that the writing is meant to remind
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you easily what's going on, because they're like, if you're watching this in
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the background of your kitchen, continue to remind people what's happening, you know,
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that could be it well fucking entertaining. At the end of the day,
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and so they get the writers eventually for me get an A plus or
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seven golden pencils because they they made it. I want to tell you too,
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I'm not watching it and going this is bad. I'm watching it and
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going this is good. There they are. I'm sorry, this is good.
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That's what I'm thinking. This is good. This is good. Yeah,
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I agree, it's good. For whatever reason you think it's good,
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it's good. Now let me let me ask you this. Can we discuss
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how In the big speech, Mia explained her journey about, you know,
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getting pennies thrown at her when she was a freshman, and her mother suggested
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to save those pennies and start a charity to stop bullying. And they raised
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twenty thousand dollars uh and donated it to the local animal rescue twenty k I
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mean. And she was like, and some of you that through the pennies
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donated, Yeah, Now do you are? You say? She raised twenty
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twenty thousand dollars unnamed charity that is not there to accept the check that is,
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But how'd you raise so much fucking money? I can't raise fifty cents
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to get myself a lot. Take That part was absolutely but the whole crowd
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was established. She's popular now now, and I was like, he was
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so yeah, he was proud and then he got pissed. But like,
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obviously to establish that this isn't going to miss anyone's ears. You know,
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this neighborhood is wealthy, af like, they have the money. And if
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we didn't learn it from that, we were reminded in the ice cream parlor
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with the Josh Landon when she was trying to like break it off, He's
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like, tell me, this isn't about how much money my family has so
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good, No, tell me how they make their money. I always want
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to know. Yeah, my dad invented saws, big deal. Wood would
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never have been cut without my dad. Sure, what's your point? This
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ice cream counter wouldn't be here. And then they kissed, and I was
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like, you're in the middle of an ice cream parlor. There's probably children
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around. Why are you how uncomfortable to lay the first kiss in public?
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I would feel so uncomfortable. I just was like, Josh, there wasn't
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the girl. There wasn't the girl sitting at the table behind him. I
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don't know if you noticed what she was like, Yeah, Josh Landon maple
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Groves hottest or whatever. Though Josh Landon, whose dad invented the metal saw,
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to cut dating the music teacher who wears the most tailored outfits I've ever
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seen his daughter. This is unbelievable that require, by the way, that
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the most full founding choir for eight people. There are eight people, three
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boys. No wonder Renna kept skipping choir rehearsal. I mean, there was
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only fucking three people in there. One of my notes that I have comes
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later, but I'm just gonna say it. They started to recital without me,
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bitch. This has been on the calendar, bitch. This is they
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startle that from Amadeus, she goes, they started the kid me, bitch,
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you're oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you having such a hot
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and heated moment with your ex husband that you have so distracted when your whole
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life is to set your daughter up. You're going to sleep on a school
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event like you don't have a calendar in your kitchen with all the doctor appointments
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and the one recital you ever do? Ingle you ever know her? You
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guys, you guys. She had a big review coming. Yeah, I
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love her. Behind the piano, fake play the piano had the song where
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it's supposed to be like ding ding and she's like fingo with her finger.
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But then at the recital she's eight rows back just since he in the middle.
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All of a sudden, they can do it without her accompaniment, you
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know, showed up for that. I'm sorry. Oh okay, so we're
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a cappella for the recital. And then also, what banger did they choose
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from the eighties? Because I didn't recognize that song? Did you? I
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didn't either, No, no one, no one did. This was so
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meta. That was the school couldn't afford because Lifetime couldn't afford because the school
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because the rights to a banger song that they started the recital. That bitch.
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She was at a dinner like, oh wait a minute, there is
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something. Oh yeah, the one thing I do here for my page.
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Oh no, my big review. The principal, Oh my god, the
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principal was excellent, nailed it, nailed it, and sailed it. Principal,
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can you stop hanging out with the students and more with the teachers.
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Kind of want to give you a heads up before your big review. I
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mean they she does have either relationship with those kids, I mean redit eggs
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By when she talked to the two girls in class, do you have zinger?
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She says, not that I'm aware of. Do I need to see
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a doctor? And then they were all like, anyway, bitch, we're
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not here for you. They were literally just ripping her to shreds two seconds
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ago. And that's that she's the cool teacher with a great relationship with the
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kids. That's right that she showed us that. She's like, I'm just
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open my pocket book and I'll pay for it myself. I'll get one of
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my credit cards out and pay for the rights to a Journey song. Look
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at the eighties girls, You won't be dragged on social media singer anymore.
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Yes, I was hoping for some impressions. You all are starting my day
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off so hot, right, I know, I know, Well, I
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I'm going to text you guys both a monologue that the detective did, you
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know, which we will get to. But I really truly feel like I
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need for you guys to reenact it. You know both. You know,
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I would love to to have both of your uh what you McCall it's take
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on it, okay, I mean really just like uh what you might call
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it, I would say, uh, creative, creative, take you know
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you're each gonna give it a shot. Uh so hmm, okay, So
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let's let's talk about how essentially, at this point the police are involved because
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she's getting a ton of threatening phone texts. Okay, because things are escalated.
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Uh, clearly we all know that it's Lisa Rinna doing this because she
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wants to keep her daughter home from going away to school three thousand miles away.
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But she and she also said, remember, I mean she did a
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lot just for them to stay home and watch Gilmore Girls, Like, oh
31:18
my god, the amount of Gilmore Girls shout outs was epic. Now,
31:22
how did they get the rights to just use Gilmore Girls? Willy Nilly,
31:26
we blew all our music Budgetmore Girls nine times? Fuck? Fuck fuck that
31:33
was my fuck. I thought, Daniella, damn it, this is on
31:38
you. I told you, But we knew. I mean, by this
31:44
point we knew it was her mom, but I don't know if you guys
31:45
caught one of the texts because they kept showing the bullying texts and one of
31:48
the text one of the text press your mom seems cool? Are you adopted?
31:56
Can I tell you my favorite text? This is my favorite text.
32:00
Maybe I've ever seen a bullying context. It is stunning. Okay, thanks
32:09
for normalizing being fat. Oh my god, these are so savage. So
32:24
the writer's room, we're going back to the Lifetime writer's room and we're asking
32:29
these questions. They had a breakout group that only wrote the bullying text for
32:35
this film. Yes, only one group were churning and burning these texts and
32:43
they killed it. Yeah, it's like when improvisers have to write. Just
32:50
there was just a writer's room for the text. Are you doing No,
32:53
I'm I'm kind of serious, Like I'm wondering that. It was like,
32:58
Okay, like teams, you know, how they break up the team sometimes,
33:01
So I would say that, you know, and that's probably not all
33:05
they did on this incredible film, but they were definitely there was a team
33:09
that was like in charge of doing the bullying text, no doubt, right,
33:14
that team gets an a plus. I call them all stars. I
33:17
thank you for sharing those written down my favorite. It's like weeks after the
33:24
speech and every fifth text is like no speech not spek no, Like I
33:32
know the speech was like three months ago. Can we move on from the
33:37
big speech? Very current, current language and topical with this speech? Did
33:42
exe else give a speech? I mean, I hate to go back to
33:44
the beginning. I know, we move like this is just well, then
33:49
where's the big check for the veterinarian office. Now here's the thing. I
33:52
think she was talking about the accomplishments of what she did with bullying. I
33:55
think she raised twenty thousand dollars maybe the year prior. And I think I
34:00
was wrong. She is a senior, right, I think I was wrong.
34:06
Is she a soft? Is she a junior or a senior at this
34:07
point? I think she's a senior, right. Yeah? I said she
34:10
was writing like a like recommendation letter. Yeah, the big recommendation letter,
34:17
the big anyway. Okay, So I also want to mention before moving on
34:22
that Lisa Rinna is dating Scott with one t who is the teacher another teacher
34:29
there, and he has really taken up with her about like you know,
34:34
it's weird, like you are hanging out with the students more than you hang
34:37
out with the teachers. So I don't think we can move forward. Okay.
34:40
So but he comes on board once he finds out everyone finds out about
34:45
the cyber bullying. He comes back to her, he's super supportive. The
34:50
ex husband comes back, he's super supportive. Now I want to mention that
35:00
we get the police involved. Okay, And they go to the police because
35:09
after this, a big the photo of them kissing was sent to the entire
35:14
French ap class. Okay, how ironic French kiss And so Lisa Rinna is
35:22
like, you know, they take her out of class because it's this huge
35:25
thing, and she's like, how about Maddie's, Patty's and sushi and me?
35:30
And the daughter's like, mom, I cannot believe that you're doing this,
35:32
Like, we have to go to the police. So they go to
35:36
the police and enter the female investigator, who had one hell of a performance,
35:42
had one hell of a monologue, and Madeline starts this off by saying,
35:47
like, these messages aren't about you, they're not personal. Meanwhile,
35:52
it's like they're all personal, clearly so personal. And we have the female
35:59
investigator who who does this glorious monologue? And I'd love for Jamie if you
36:02
could begin and do your interpretation. Go ahead, all right, so this
36:07
is like my lifetime audition for the investment. Yeah, and put your own
36:12
spin on it. Put a well stank on't it? As they say it
36:17
every cast? No one's ever said that in the world. Can I have
36:22
the prompt? Please? Damy? Wait? I'm sorry? Perfect? All
36:30
right, here we go. Your mom is right. Look, I know
36:35
what it feels like to be told you don't fit in. You would be
36:37
surprised how many men around here were put off by my promotion. Acknowledging what
36:45
happened doesn't mean the message that finds you. It makes you stronger than the
36:50
hate you're receiving. Can you understand that? How many messages are we talking
36:54
here? And then mir goes, I don't know hundreds and then her reaction
37:04
was sick. She's like pen to paper, ready, and then it's like
37:07
hundreds, I don't know hundreds, and she's like, fuck, this is
37:14
serious shit. This will be my case that puts me on the books.
37:23
All right, Angela, are you ready for your lifetime? Okay, here
37:30
we go. My best Okay, your mama's raight. I know what it
37:37
feels like to be told you don't fit in. You'd be surprised how many
37:40
men around here were put off by my promotion. Acknowledging what happened does it
37:45
make doesn't mean the message defines you. It makes you stronger than the hay
37:52
you're receiving. Can you understand that? God many messages were talking about here.
37:58
I don't know. It's okay, wow, taking it to the south.
38:10
Come on, I investigator booked and blessed. Yeah, booked in blast.
38:16
That was amazing. I'm so impressed. Oregon. Yeah, that's right.
38:23
We we failed to mention where they are. Remember at the end,
38:27
she goes, now, I'll never teach in any southeast or northwestern Oregon town
38:34
Regional Quarter of the uh Plasodia area of Benching just across the tracks from Hamilton
38:46
Province. Okay, let's the bridge separate us from the river. I can't
38:53
teach on either side. Because you turned me in for the thing I did
38:59
to you. You made it public. Oh my, oh my. By
39:09
the way, we also need to mention that Lisa Renna's character Madeline, because
39:16
we haven't mentioned her name. Her name is Madeline. She actually got this
39:22
job as the music teacher so that her daughter could go to the private school
39:25
because they are so poor, and which is why she's carrying a burkin and
39:32
wearing the most tailored outfits I've ever seen, living in the most gorgeous house
39:37
rentals. She did point out that yes, it was a rental. She
39:43
did point that out, so we knew that she couldn't afford to buy a
39:46
ten thousand dollars a month rental. She has a walk in closet to do
39:51
her terrible bidding it as a single music teacher, single music, single extracurricular
39:58
activity, music teacher hunting a house with a walk in closet with a broken
40:01
bag, with several rooms high ceilings. Are we supposed to believe that Eric
40:07
is paying some sort of support right care We get into Eric for he's hot.
40:15
Eric is like rough around the edges, let me let me have some
40:19
you know, she kind of type and Scott were very similar, Yeah,
40:23
very similar. Eric, talk to me about Eric. Okay, again,
40:30
not right or bashing here, but the Eric, the Eric character, the
40:34
daughter is mean to him, calls him Eric, and yet does meet him
40:37
once a month for breakfast, and that whole breakfast. She's a little bitch
40:40
to him every year for however many years because I met somebody. She's like,
40:50
thanks again for breakfast. Eric. I'm like, at least he's a
40:54
month. What's a month? He takes your little butt out for breakfast because
40:59
he walked to be a dad. But also, Eric, you're a little
41:01
too passive. You don't ever tell her her mom's the one who put the
41:05
restraining order. You only see her once a month. You could step it
41:08
up a little, and then later she's like, sorry about how I left
41:12
you with that mom yours. She was the one who I had a restrainer.
41:15
I never wanted you to know. It's like what a human being,
41:20
including father, would want to sit across from a sulky little brat all under
41:24
misunderstood circumstances and then pay for her breakfast once a while. Meanwhile, over
41:30
in the prep school that apparently is so prestigious, they didn't do one background
41:37
check to find out that Lee Madeleine had a restraining order against her Hello,
41:45
because she probably told him all about the restraining order made him think it was
41:47
about Eric, and they were like, well, we don't need to look
41:50
into that. She told us the truth clearly. Oh my god. I
41:52
loved how they just pull back and sell it, like put her on a
41:57
pedestal. The principal when she showed up late to the again the only job
42:01
he has to do all year, and she's like, that was great,
42:06
right, And then they're the principals looking at like given just stank face to
42:09
her like you're in trouble. Then she goes to the office. He's like,
42:15
uh, Lisa Renna, we found out that you're also being cyberbullied.
42:19
And you know what, forget about that review. I want to give you
42:23
flying colors and promptly gave you a raise Bravo switch. Yeah, you are
42:32
amazing, Lisa Renna. And the he's like, why didn't you say that
42:39
you were being cyberbullied too, And she's like, I don't know. I
42:43
just wanted to make it about my daughter. It's not about me or Elliott.
42:47
Oh my god, we should talk about Elliott. And he took some
42:51
campy lines and he put turn them on their head and he delivered in such
42:58
a good way. It Yes, Yes, intense intensity plus seven intense stairs
43:08
for him, he had a range, unlike the likes of any Lifetime movie
43:15
has ever seen. He had to come off as the nerdy, you know,
43:22
a scared, vulnerable guy to the jealous guy who's who's on the cusp
43:28
of sharing his love to get out of the friend zone with Mia to then
43:31
we need to start questioning is he the stalker? So he's got to put
43:37
some stink on it, like he's psychotic. Then he's got to pull back.
43:42
Then was what And you're forgetting the most important thing, the most important
43:46
thing, and you've missed it. No devastating birthmark. Ever, he has
43:58
a devastating birthmark that keeps him from wearing shorts. And that was its own
44:02
arc bigger than the state of Oregon. You are the only one who knows
44:07
I don't wear swimming chunks because of my devastating birthmark. And here someone has
44:13
texted me, nice birthmark. It was your mother. Wait, shakspearean the
44:20
bullying text about his birthmark? Did it say it's the size of Oregon again?
44:28
Again? Yes, state shout out, just to remind us where we
44:31
are, these Lifetime writers are. She was sponsored by Travel Travel Oregon.
44:45
Travel Oregon. We have anti and crazy moms come to Oregon. So yeah,
44:57
Elliott was amazing. I I think that he and Angela the black flower,
45:07
poor guy, and he got a black eye. He also had to
45:10
like physical stuff that party. Greta's Yeah, she would have saved him at
45:20
the party, but instead he got his ass kicked. Yeah, she would
45:23
have saved Everyone knows when you bring your twenty six year old best friend to
45:28
a party, they're the oldest one there and so then they can make sure
45:32
that everyone knows there's an adult present. I loved one of his lines.
45:40
I wrote it down. He's mad obviously at Mia because she didn't show up.
45:49
You know, he's not calling she's not calling him back, and and
45:52
he's calling her out for hanging out with the cool group and he's like lunch
45:57
with the jet set. Oh, I'm acting weird, says the girl who
46:00
did a one eighty after her big speech. One of my favorite moments.
46:07
Amy, thank you, thank you. Oh another shout out to the big
46:10
speech. What did you guys think about those two wacky teachers that were like
46:15
all team Lisa Rinna, Hey, so you got Scott all the other teachers
46:20
wanted a data before you know Salla's exposition and the flowers from Eric Eric,
46:34
Yeah, okay, So my other favorite part was when they go to the
46:38
mobile phone store so she can get a new unlisted number and an upgraded phone.
46:45
And they are heading out and the phone store guy goes, hey,
46:50
let me know if you need any more of those burner phones. She goes,
46:55
that was weird. I mean, I will say, like I was
47:00
waiting for like a very noticeable like what are you talking about? What?
47:06
But she played it so she was that's yeah, she downplayed it was brilliant.
47:13
Well, by the way, now it was a good time to mention,
47:15
Rinna you ate this was good. I was going to say, yes,
47:19
let's talk about her acting. I thought she did great. Yeah.
47:21
I thought she did the crazy eyes, the smiling every other place. Yeah,
47:25
going down the hallway with them, when she stood in the hall and
47:30
listened to her daughter over her daughter in the school, that was yeah.
47:36
Face that she really was able to thread the needle between lifetime acting and real
47:44
acting but with like a grounded reality to it. Yeah, and I think
47:49
they all did. The acting was was actually pretty solid. Yeah me,
47:52
it was Bell. Delila Bell did great. Delilah Bell. She showed up
47:58
as Yeah, that's right, summer the kind of the cool girl who showed
48:00
some vulnerability in the restroom. That's right, I'm going to google how I'm
48:06
going to google how old she is? Delila Bell or Mia del La Belle.
48:12
I want to google ho both of them are okay, yeah, yeah,
48:14
do it too. Can you give me the name of the other daughter.
48:19
Oh, not Mia, but oh Delilah Bell. You mean I can
48:23
google La Belle. I'm sorry, Unfortunately I don't have the other actress's name
48:28
off the tip of my dad. Oh you want, because she's done so
48:32
much that I'm seeing, so I feel Yeah, ask Lila Bell. Lilabelle
48:38
is twenty five. Oh, mommy minas, she's twenty five. Okay,
48:43
well she plays a good Okay. Her name is Brianna Sky, and uh
48:51
let's see what are we looking at here? Brianna s guy okay, so
48:54
yeah, oh okay, twenty three, twenty three. Okay, well she's
49:00
not to me, that's me, I said, twenty five. Okay,
49:07
mm hmm all right. So now we uh we find out towards the end
49:14
that uh, the detective is calling out Lisa Rinna. Oh. We they
49:17
find sorry, they find MIA's journal in Elliott's locker, so he was framed.
49:23
The detective goes Uh to the school and then calls out Lisa Rinna is
49:30
like, it's important that you stop hindering my investigation. Ms Keith. We're
49:32
getting close to the perp and they're going to mess up. And then Madeline
49:37
Lisa Renna tells the principal not to write the recommendation letter, that Mia is
49:42
not ready to be three thousand miles away. And then ultimately Mia finds out
49:47
he's not writing the wreck. Then she's she's alone in the house. She's
49:54
she's so upset. She finds, Uh, the phone makes a no and
50:00
this is outside of the closet, brilliant, clearly. So she went into
50:04
her mom's room looking for her yes, and the phone is not like in
50:07
her closet. She has been messy and has been reckless and left like four
50:12
or five phones in a dresser drawer, to which she finds that. She
50:15
goes into her closet, finds the computer, and all the rest of them
50:20
comes up with a plan with Elliot, and Elliott says it wasn't you,
50:24
it was your psycho mom, and the epic line of mea being like my
50:30
mom is my cyber bully. They plant a story where she writes in blood
50:37
pretty dark, a bloody bathtub, saying like mother, I know you are
50:44
my cyber bully. Then she shows up. She is recording the call and
50:49
she hears the whole confession from Lisa Rinna and you know, end of story.
50:55
She posts bail and her ends up for Scott. Mean, let's just
51:05
go back to the bats for a second. That was amazing. And what
51:09
was that material supposed to be? That's a great question. I think it
51:14
was supposed to be blood right, where did she get it? And why
51:19
did Lisa Renna not turn off the water? You're in a rental. This
51:22
is going to cost you thousand, and she's not going to be able to
51:28
work in the Pacific northwest of the Palagen region. Every rent not going to
51:36
be able to rent. Think about every movie that like. Think about Fatal
51:39
Attraction, for example, there's a very famous part at the end where the
51:43
water is on and there and their beautiful country home and Glenn Closes turned the
51:47
water on, it's dripping down. What's the first thing he does? Turn
51:51
the water off? Then of course Glenn Close comes out. There's a big
51:55
tussle, but but turn the water Another great film, The Water Off turn
52:01
it off. And also what there was so much blood and the water was
52:05
so red, so red. Nia is lucky to be alive If that was
52:09
from her own vein. Did she slaughter a pig? How did she get
52:14
that much blood? I'm just die Maybe or she goes to a very wealthy
52:22
high school. Maybe she into the theater department. They have blood. Now
52:25
you're talking, and you know what, that's the scene that hit the cutting
52:30
room floor. It was Elliott and it was Yah planning this extraordinary ruse to
52:37
catch them on. You can only that that Lisa Renna was so shocked that
52:44
her daughter discovered it was her that she was frozen. She could have turned
52:47
the water off, like it was just like yeah, I just would like
52:52
to say, you know, to think of this. You know, here
52:54
we are hooting and hollering, but this is a based on a true story.
53:00
It really at what point, how sick are you to be sending your
53:05
own daughter these hate messages and messing with their own like suicidal thoughts, because
53:13
this is where this gal was getting to the point where she was like her
53:16
own life. You know, how do you live like this? It's awful?
53:21
Even when in my phone rings, no matter who it is. I'm
53:22
terrified. I don't like that, and so all those text messages are Jamie,
53:32
you know you know what I mean. That's like the the the dinging,
53:37
the dinging, the dinging, which, by the way, brings me
53:38
to one thing I have to mention when she found the first of all,
53:43
kudos to the writers again on the low battery. That being the way she
53:45
found the phone was so smart. Smart. But here's the part that's so
53:50
dumb. How are you fucking kidding me? Mia pulls out the computer,
53:55
it's some of the messages and then pulls out her phone to compare the two.
54:04
You your speech was bad, and then she looks at the computer,
54:07
Yes, it was. Did you know that those messages are the ones you've
54:09
been receiving? What do you think You're gonna pull your phone out and they're
54:14
not the same message? Did? I did? But I also noticed that
54:19
on the computer, I'm like, oh, lower case, and her messages
54:25
were all upper case. So I was like, Angelat not good, nice
54:35
catch and wow, fair roasted better than you? Oh my god, it
54:40
was? But also so is it would would this be considered like Munchausen by
54:47
proxy? Kind of like yeah, in a way, I think so.
54:51
I agree. That's what I thought too, which is ironic considering the Munchausen
54:55
uh storyline between Lisa, because I totally thought about that. I was like,
55:02
this is a level of Munchausen, you know, and in a different
55:07
way, you're causing harm to your kids, so you can be the Also,
55:13
yes, we'll go ahead. Just that the boyfriend was also bullied,
55:16
and in this we found out he was discovered that he was being bullied,
55:20
but he didn't say anything. And in real life it is true it was
55:22
the daughter and the boyfriend. But oh, shout out to the live story.
55:28
Speaking of shout outs, Eric sits at breakfast with her and she gets
55:32
to go to college because he borrowed money from his credit union. Shout out
55:37
credit unions. Shut out, they do care, they do care about the
55:39
money sponsored by Oregon Credit Union. And I think we need to end.
55:55
But this was a delight, Uh, Jamie, we have to you go.
56:00
Angela and I are going to do a mini recap of below deep anything
56:07
else you want to mention terribly, I think I hit everything I wanted to.
56:12
Uh, you know, shout out to anyone who has a birthmark on
56:15
their leg. It's Okay, it's fine, we all have them. And
56:20
also the Scott. I'm just looking at my list to make sure I hit
56:23
everything. Yes, Scott bailing her out of jail but not giving her a
56:30
ride home A plus Lifetime movie. You have done it again, Lifetime.
56:38
I would highly recommend watching this and great name too, Mommy meaness mommy?
56:45
Yeah, very good, all right, I love you so much. Bye,
56:51
Jamils Hoppit wow wow, Angela hard to follow that act, I know,
56:59
truly hard to follow that, but I just want to do a quick
57:04
checking with Below Deck, which was you know, obviously we are wrapping up
57:08
the season, we have one more episode to go, and this was teetering
57:14
on. There was no reason for them to leave this episode in there,
57:17
although I know they need to document having this charter and all the events that
57:21
happened, but there is no drama that went down in this at all.
57:25
That it. Captain Carrey was forced, I mean his hand was forced into
57:31
doing a sneak cabin check, and that was the drama. I mean,
57:36
we have like so good, but also like I don't think I've ever seen
57:42
a Below Deck where the all the crew is like a case of senior itis.
57:46
Everyone's like everyone's like fucking done. They're done. The guests are like
57:52
this is way too salty, and Barbie's like there's not enough salt. No,
57:57
no, no, she said the opposite life. They're just checked out,
58:00
like checked out. Oh my god, that soule thing. It was
58:05
hilarious past her break time, like no one cares. Nobody cares. It
58:10
was amazing, And I'm like thinking, Captain carry is feeling this. Uh,
58:16
he gets it. The production is probably like shooting their pants because they're
58:22
like, there, we've never actually seen the likes of this before. Get
58:25
glamorous shots of the food. Oh my god. The fact that we got
58:29
to see toast popping up in slow motion told you everything you needed to know.
58:35
The fact that Captain Carrey had to get so amped up about the littlest
58:39
things. He's like, the Floyd Bridge is a miss. We don't eat
58:44
unless the gift area has been cleared. I mean it's really not that big
58:47
of a deal, I will say. Like to me, I was like,
58:51
yeah, this Ben, this is a super yacht. Ben. You're
58:54
like, you think you're like the coolest best poson. They had to kind
59:00
of focus on that a little bit more right. There was nothing going on.
59:04
But I was totally on Captain Carrey's side, where I was like,
59:07
first of all, he's the captain, do it like but it was just
59:12
so much more amped up than it needed to be because we got nothing.
59:15
We have nothing right now zero. It was amazing. And the fact that,
59:20
like the dinner, the cooking was amazing. Other than the fact that
59:24
they don't like a rugal a salad, which a lot of people don't but
59:28
I do. That looked great. It looked amazing. Also, Paris ate
59:32
the crumber let. Oh my god, that was so funny. You knew
59:36
that was coming, Like you knew that was coming. I love the beach
59:39
picnic uh and the yeah that the fact that like they were like, oh
59:45
yeah, they don't want this. Paris is like the guests, you know,
59:47
the guests send this back, so these are ours. Obviously didn't say
59:52
at that point in editing they said we could eat it, so that we
59:54
were all on our toes. Oh they know. They showed that. They
59:57
showed her, they showed her go you should have it, oh before you
1:00:02
should. But I thought the guest was talking to like another guest. Oh,
1:00:08
but she apparently she was talking to Paris like you can have this one,
1:00:10
like you you should eat it. And then Paris coming back being like
1:00:14
you said I couldn't have it. I was like a little bitchy, much
1:00:19
rude. She's over it, she's I mean, they're all over it.
1:00:22
They're all done. And do we think Barbie and Kyle are going to make
1:00:25
it? Cause they're they said, I love you to each other. Yeah,
1:00:30
there's no way. I think it's like more of like a love I
1:00:31
love you like love, you love you like almost like friends. I don't
1:00:35
it's not real love, he says. I'm falling for her, but it's
1:00:38
not real. Next week does look really good though. It looks like they're
1:00:42
all going to break down. Oh they are. I mean it's starting right
1:00:45
now. We're starting to see them like I loved Captain carry in the bridge
1:00:51
with Kyle and Ben kind of like this is disrespectful, speaked the night a
1:00:58
night so yeah, Dylan and Ben or no, I'm sorry Ben and Kyle.
1:01:02
They didn't clean their cabin at all, they didn't give a ship.
1:01:07
No, that's a lot of nerve, so much nerve. I was,
1:01:12
I was it was funny to me, but like you said, it was
1:01:15
like this is way more dramatic than it needs to be, truly, but
1:01:20
also it's so it was so frazy to be like it could happen every week,
1:01:22
it can happen every month and yeah, and this is a safety hazard
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it and it did, and it shows how much you respect the vessel.
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Yeah he did. They that the producers they typically probably don't have to get
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this involved, but they were like, I'm sorry, we have to fan
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the flames of this. Yeah. So and Carrie. It gave me a
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little respect for Carrie as a reality performer. He delivered because he had to
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like really amp it up. So, you know, kudos to Captain carry
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for, you know, getting mad about cabin cabin check. Yeah, and
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we're and and next week's the finale. We're gonna find out like Barbie and
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I mean Sonny and Ben like yeah bad. Listen. We have all kinds
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