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Top Five Hallmark Movies of 2022 – Unthinkably Good Things · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan, I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you're enjoying a relaxing week time at home.
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  Speaker 1: We hope you're getting a bit of a break.
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  Speaker 2: This week we're taking a break. We are counting down
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  Speaker 2: our top five Hallmark movies of the year. But these
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  Speaker 2: do not include Christmas Countdown to Christmas movies, just straight
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  Speaker 3: I'm Megan, I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: And a quick refresher against a longtime Hallmark fan. Wendy
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  Speaker 1: is the twenty twenty recruit and we share our thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on all things Hallmarks. Today, we are discussing the movie
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  Speaker 1: Unthinkably Good Things, which originally aired on August twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, on the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.
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  Speaker 2: Channel across all platforms, across all I know you don't
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  Speaker 2: watch commercials.
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  Speaker 3: I don't, so there.
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  Speaker 2: They did a lot of promo leading up to this
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  Speaker 2: movie that this movie was like an event across all platforms.
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  Speaker 3: I like it. So it's like Hallmark Movies now the
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  Speaker 3: Hallmark Channel.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if they all aired at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: but it belongs to Movies and Mysteries.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that's its home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again people are pissed that the mysteries are
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  Speaker 2: gone off of Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. I like a
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  Speaker 2: mystery movie, you know what I really want? This is
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  Speaker 2: such a tangent, guys, I want that Goldie though. You
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  Speaker 2: know Andrew Walker and the Baker Mysteries, Nicky Deloache Death
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  Speaker 2: by Chocolate was that what it was called.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Curious Caterer Dying for Chocola. But I think
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  Speaker 1: we could get a whole Curious Caterer series going.
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  Speaker 1: We really got in the weeds, I think before we
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  Speaker 2: Taken the world by storm.
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  Speaker 3: One Hallmark movie at a time, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Any Hallmark news of late that should be discussed well.
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  Speaker 2: Luke McFarlane, Oh yeah, who starred in hits like Hits?
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  Speaker 3: Do attics?
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  Speaker 2: Christmas uh huh did Julie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, taking a shot at least.
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  Speaker 2: Duh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I like that movie me too. I'm going we watch that.
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  Speaker 1: He has a big screen movie coming out called Bros.
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  Speaker 1: And he says that this year's Hallmark Christmas Village will
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  Speaker 1: likely be his last.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it.
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  Speaker 3: So I read two different articles.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: One the quote is I think I've.
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  Speaker 1: Told my story for now with these folks. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how many firefighters can I play?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And another was from Vanity Fair where he said
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they'll ever have me back after today.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Luke McFarland is an openly gay man. Yeah, he jokes.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, you look at my IMDb and it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of like me with white ladies. And so I
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  Speaker 1: think he feels, like he said, he was very grateful
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  Speaker 1: for the opportunities Hallmark gave him. He's definitely a Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: leading man. But I think he's ready to take the
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  Speaker 1: next step.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very happy for him me too.
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  Speaker 2: I knew it when I saw the preview for Bros.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I was like shocked. I was so
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  Speaker 2: excited for him night. I mean, this is like a
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  Speaker 2: big role. Yeah, big movie. Like, it's a big, big movie.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a jet appetite. Oh movie, it is
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  Speaker 2: a jet appatow movie. Billy Eickner, he's the other guy
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  Speaker 2: in the movie. Mm hmm. Anyway, a big jet apptole movie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited for him. I thought for sure he wasn't
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  Speaker 2: gonna go back to Hallwark after this. Not that like
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  Speaker 2: people who turn are gonna be like, oh naw, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a leading man in a you know, theatrical release. I'm
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  Speaker 2: too good for Hallmark. I don't think that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: I think what you said about Rose is a movie
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  Speaker 2: about same sex couples, and he is an openly gay man.
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  Speaker 2: I just think like his Hallmark ship has sailed, like
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  Speaker 2: he's ready to step into like the roles he's maybe
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  Speaker 2: more comfortable playing. Yeah, I mean, I'm here for it.
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  Speaker 2: I want to watch this movie. I think it looks
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  Speaker 2: very funny. I'm very excited to look at him. He's
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  Speaker 2: so pretty on the eyes. I'm so I'm very thrilled
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  Speaker 2: for him, me too, very thrilled.
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  Speaker 3: That's all the Hallmark news and notes that I have.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have anything else to say?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm just waiting for more there's got to be
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  Speaker 2: like a big Christmas Christmas announcement.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I've been looking to we do know.
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  Speaker 1: October twenty second is the start date for Countdown to Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: so hopefully we get some more information about.
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  Speaker 3: That coming soon. Yeah. Do you want to do a synopsis?
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  Speaker 3: Unthinkably good things?
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  Speaker 2: I will Now this synopsis on the Homework website was
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  Speaker 2: super long. Oh, and I'm not going to read that,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm going to read the one from IMDb, which
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  Speaker 2: is like less wordy. This movie follows Allison, who is
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  Speaker 2: at a crossroads at her career and love life, in
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  Speaker 2: need of love and support from her two friends after
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  Speaker 2: visiting her in Tuscany. Each woman will re examine the
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  Speaker 2: state of their own life and relationships.
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  Speaker 3: We will revisit that. But I think there's a reason
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  Speaker 3: why these synopsies are too long. Oh interesting, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: My first news and note which was information that is
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  Speaker 1: brand new to me, And most of this information is
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  Speaker 1: brand new to me. But Mahogany, which is the brand
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  Speaker 1: under which this movie was developed, as well as a
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  Speaker 1: movie coming out this weekend called to Her with A
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  Speaker 1: is actually a brand that started in nineteen eighty seven
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  Speaker 1: in Hallmark as a sixteen card promotion and it has
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  Speaker 1: continued as a year round offering. So Mahogany has been
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  Speaker 1: a brand that has existed in the Hallmark card line
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  Speaker 1: and so this twenty twenty two extension is.
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  Speaker 3: An add on to that brand. They're all part of
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  Speaker 3: their trying to be a multimedia.
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  Speaker 2: Brand, okay, so, and the Mahogany brand originally was made
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate the cultures of people of color, yes, okay, so, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to envision like a Hallmark store and
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  Speaker 2: they probably have like a little Mahogany.
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  Speaker 1: Section, right that you want to be able to buy
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  Speaker 1: a card that doesn't just picture like a white lady
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  Speaker 1: saying happy.
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  Speaker 2: But sure, totally get it. This movie was filmed entirely
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  Speaker 2: on location in Italy during March twenty twenty two. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of interesting because it's usually a very big deal
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  Speaker 2: when they film movies like in different countries, like for example,
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  Speaker 2: the Wedding Veil they filmed in Italy, right, it was
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  Speaker 2: like a big deal. Like prior to the movie coming out,
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  Speaker 2: like we knew there was a lot of promotion that
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  Speaker 2: this movie was filmed on location. Didn't hear a lot
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  Speaker 2: of movie stuff about where they filmed this movie. H
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  Speaker 2: kind of surprise. They must have had a big ass
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  Speaker 2: budget for this.
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  Speaker 1: Movie, don't you think with this the size of their cast,
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  Speaker 1: especially yes looking at the Hallmark channel Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: Because I have two thoughts about that.
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  Speaker 1: One is it potential because the actors in this movie
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  Speaker 1: are not Hallmark big names.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like.
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  Speaker 1: A Lazy Shavert or a Tyler Hines on location, or
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  Speaker 1: even a Will Kemp who's been known to starw in
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark movie. It's these are not typically Hallmark actors
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  Speaker 1: and actresses.
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  Speaker 3: And so therefore.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's we didn't get the buzz. Also, Hallmark, here's
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  Speaker 1: my problem with what's happening here. Last year, Hallmark during
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  Speaker 1: countdown to Christmas would release three movies a weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: their Instagram promotion would always lean very heavily on one
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  Speaker 1: of those movies, and sometimes to the detriment of movies
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  Speaker 1: that starred actors of color. Right, Like, you got these
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  Speaker 1: two big white leads and they're getting seven Instagram posts
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  Speaker 1: and you get one about these other movies. And I
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  Speaker 1: found it disappointing. And so when you said that, I.
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  Speaker 3: Thought, well, let me take a look. It would appear
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  Speaker 3: that we have.
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  Speaker 1: One unthinkably good things, whereas for example, Mary May Yosemite
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  Speaker 1: has oh I'm sorry three unthinkably good things has one, two, three, four, five, six,
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  Speaker 1: seven eight. Stop just saying they don't do a great
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  Speaker 1: job of balancing. And by the way, marry me and
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  Speaker 1: yosebody's a Cindy Busby joint.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just a little more balance would be nice. Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: You know that's really interesting because I thought the TV promotion,
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  Speaker 2: the commercials for this movie prior to its airing were great.
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  Speaker 2: I thought they were great. They're really failing in the
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  Speaker 2: social media aspect. I wonder see.
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  Speaker 3: This is what I say. It's like two steps forward,
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  Speaker 3: two steps back. With Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: They do things like introduce to Mahogany brand and make
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  Speaker 2: all these movies with predominantly cast made up of people
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  Speaker 2: of color, which Bravo like I'm here for it. But
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  Speaker 2: then like it's like they try to like slide it in,
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  Speaker 2: like let's see if this is gonna work before we
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  Speaker 2: like put the marketing dollars into it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, don't give people on Instagram too much to
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  Speaker 1: yell about exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Hallmark is so woke, Like just put it in there.
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  Speaker 3: I hope people will watch it. Yeah, I don't. We
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  Speaker 3: don't want the backlash, right right, right, right, so frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: Is it intentional or is it unintentional, in which case
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  Speaker 1: they need to look at why one movie would have
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  Speaker 1: eight Instagram posts dedicated where another one has three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah yeah, Oh that makes
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  Speaker 2: me mad.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like tired up about that.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of unbalanced reaction to this movie, I looked at IMDb.
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  Speaker 3: There was exactly one review.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been a full nine days since this movie aired.
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  Speaker 3: I'm shocked.
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  Speaker 2: Either they are deleting comments on there, or reviews on
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  Speaker 2: there that are negative, negative, or people didn't watch the movie.
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  Speaker 1: As much as I dislike when the reviewers get in
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  Speaker 1: there and say hallmarkets too woke, I also think it's
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  Speaker 1: a good gauge. I want to see what the Hallmark
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: community thinks of these movies, right, and so I hope
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  Speaker 1: that they're not editing reviews that are uncomplimentary, assuming they're
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  Speaker 1: not blatantly racist.
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  Speaker 2: Right. This movie was directed by Terry J. Vaughn. She's
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  Speaker 2: an actor, director, producer. Previous and directing credits include a
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  Speaker 2: ton of holiday movies. She also has seventy two acting
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  Speaker 2: credits including shows like The Neighborhood and HBO's Insecure. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she's a busy actress too.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Chasing Waterfalls, Joyful Drake, who plays Molina in
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  Speaker 1: this movie, also played a role in Chasing Waterfalls alongside
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  Speaker 1: Cindy Busby.
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  Speaker 2: I know I had a good chuckle when you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: Chasing Waterfalls earlier. I was like, I wonder if you
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  Speaker 2: saw that note too.
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  Speaker 3: That's funny.
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  Speaker 1: And Karen Pittman, who plays Alison, had a large role
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  Speaker 1: in the and just like that series on HBO Max Not.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you hated it, I didn't hate it. Not only
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  Speaker 2: that she's one of the leads on the morning show
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  Speaker 2: on Apple TV. She's been in Yellowstone Homeland. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she's been in.
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  Speaker 3: Some big shows.
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  Speaker 2: She's definitely most recognizable. I think compared to the other
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  Speaker 2: actors in this movie, I was not familiar with anybody
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  Speaker 2: other than Karen Pittman.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, I have one last note.
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  Speaker 2: The writer of this movie is Kaz Singer's Beatles. I
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  Speaker 2: hope I'm saying that right. She's an established writer both novels.
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  Speaker 2: She has got like eight or nine novels and a
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  Speaker 2: writer for television and movies. Cool and has worked with
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  Speaker 2: director Terry vond a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't she the writer of Sugarplum Twist? She was stars
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  Speaker 3: Ector rivera star of Ground as well. Yes, fun little
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  Speaker 3: tie in there. Yeah. What was your first impression of
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  Speaker 3: this movie?
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  Speaker 2: My first impression is I want more movies like this nice.
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  Speaker 1: Mine was I need to step up my vacation wardrobe.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I have a note about that later.
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  Speaker 3: What did you like about this movie?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well I have a kind of big list of
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  Speaker 2: things that I liked.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I love that this wasn't just a
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  Speaker 2: typical Hallmark movie, felt like a real movie to be
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  Speaker 2: And when I say that is because when we first
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  Speaker 2: started doing these Hallmark movie reviews, the ones that stood
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  Speaker 2: out to me, I would say, this is like a
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  Speaker 2: real movie, you know, like one you would find on
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  Speaker 2: a streaming service. So I really thought this had like
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  Speaker 2: the feel from top to bottom with like a good cast,
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  Speaker 2: It had a good soundtrack, It was beautiful to look at, like,
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  Speaker 2: it felt like a real movie. The thing that I
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  Speaker 2: liked the best about it though, is that its focus
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  Speaker 2: was on friendship rather than romance, which romance was a
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  Speaker 2: you know, storyline, but the through line was friendship and
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  Speaker 2: was very similar to me or I had the same
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  Speaker 2: feelings towards the wedding veil.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, where you have like a group.
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  Speaker 2: Of adult women who support and care for each other,
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  Speaker 2: and we're so inundated with like shows on Bravo that
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  Speaker 2: are just like women fighting all the time. Like, so
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  Speaker 2: it was so refreshing to see like a group of
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  Speaker 2: women who really cared for each other and cared about
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  Speaker 2: each other's lives.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want more of.
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  Speaker 1: And in that vein, I liked that they loved each other.
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  Speaker 1: This movie was about that kind of love. But they
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  Speaker 1: were not afraid to call each other out and to
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  Speaker 1: break promises that they had made when it became clear
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  Speaker 1: that it wasn't in the best interest of their friends
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  Speaker 1: to keep these secrets because they needed each other to pull.
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  Speaker 3: Their heads out of their asses in a way. It
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  Speaker 3: was nice.
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  Speaker 2: I felt it was refreshing, super refreshing. I really like
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  Speaker 2: the inside jokes that's okay with each other. They had
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  Speaker 2: like an easy conversational feel like the acting was so good,
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  Speaker 2: like just the way that they would bounce off each other.
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  Speaker 2: And I had a criticism last week in Grounds While
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  Speaker 2: where I felt it was very stilted, like I'm reacting
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  Speaker 2: to you when you're reacting it. Just this was heads
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  Speaker 2: and tels above that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the chemistry between the women was great.
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  Speaker 2: Right, exactly did you catch the.
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  Speaker 3: TikTok mention in this movie?
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  Speaker 2: I don't recall I'm paraphrasing, but there was a joke
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  Speaker 2: made about TikTok and one of them just said, like,
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  Speaker 2: we're too old for TikTok, and I just thought it
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  Speaker 2: was so freaking funny because that's how I feel often. Yeah, TikTok,
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  Speaker 2: I'm too old for a lot of things, especially TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: M H.
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  Speaker 1: I thought this movie was visually stunning, sat on location
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: in Italy. Of course, the scenery provided a beautiful backdrop
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: to this movie, but I also think wardrobe deserves the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: highest of fives because these women were beautifully dressed, and
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: they each had their own style, but they made it
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: so that their styles were complimentary to each other, so
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: that then were walking down a street together.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: You've got this beautiful.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Array of color, and I thought, I want to be
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the kind of person who brings beautiful dresses and pantsuits
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and outfits so that I look camera ready at all
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: times when I'm traveling, although I'll be with my family
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: who's in there, like T shirt and cargo shorts, But
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: I want to have.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: A beautiful vacation wardrobe. It felt very aspirational.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I've never had a beautiful vacation warder. I would love
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: to go to Paris or Italy and dress to the
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: nines every single day and look like I fit the part.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: The script to me, I so appreciate the difficult conversations
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: that were sprinkled throughout in this movie, and I thought
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: that it really probably hit for many of the people
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: who watched, like the demographic, Like we're talking about infertility,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: and we're talking about health and cancer and career change
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: and divorce. I mean, we just talked for an hour
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: on our Tuesday podcast about career you know, parenting and
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: career change once our kids are older, coming next week.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: You're right, So I think that I want Homework to
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: make more movies like that. Like, I realize that people
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: like to watch movies to escape, but a movie about
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: a twenty something who falls in love with a prince
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: like is so unrelatable for me that I can't get
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: into it. That's why I like scoff At. Like to me,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: when we say, Homer, maybe that's what I think of,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I can't, I can't do it. Give
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: me something that I can like hang my hat on
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: and feel relatable too.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. I like a balance. I
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: do like it an escape. A lot of books that
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: are very unrealistic. I read a lot of romance.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: There's always a happy ending. There's always these you know,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: over the top.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Relationships, and I like that in my movies sometimes too.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: But I like a balance. And I liked that these women,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: while making a Hallmark movie, while you know we're going
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: to get a happy ending across the board, they weren't
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: afraid to go there, and I couldn't always predict where
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: they were going to go, and I wondered Alison was
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: so reluctant to take this job in spite of the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: fact that she loved living in Italy, she loved the
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: people she worked with, She had this relationship that she
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: was clearly invested in but really wanted, felt compelled to
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: take the ten year track position and they she explains
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to her friends and tell Luca, as a black woman,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like I can afford to take these
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: chances on my career. This is offering me stability that
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I feel like I would be foolish.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: To turn away.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: And it didn't occur to me because they were both
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: great jobs. It wasn't like she was like, I'm just
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: gonna Instagram for the rest of my life.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: But I liked that perspective.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: And I think that is another reason when the woke
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: police get upset. Not only is it important for people
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to be able to turn on the TV and see
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a world that looks like their's reflected back at them,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: but it's also important to see storylines that reflect struggles
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that you have reflected back at them, and stories that
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: are not like I'm the big town real estate developer
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: coming to mow down your candy store.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: So I liked that they went there.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, my next note is I don't have like the
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: perfect place for it, so I'm gonna put it here.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: There has been some criticism that this movie had too
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: much going on, like too many storylines.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, that's I have.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: My thought on that is that life is full. Yes,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: and then you multiply that by three women, yes, very full.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Two hours of stories. Yeah. Right. So if it was
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: a singular storyline just about Allison and choosing the job,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: we would just have a very watered down look at life.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: And so I appreciate that there was multiple stories, multiple layers,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: and depth to this movie, even if it was too
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: much for somebody. But let me also add I do
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: hate those Hallmark movies that have like your main storyline
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: and then they throw in these like weird side stories
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: because they need to move it along. Yes, so, but
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I think those are two very different movies. I like
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the perspective that life is full and there's a lot
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: going on. Let me offer you an alternate perspective, and
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: with that, I hope we're transsitioning into our wish because
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: this is my one and only wish in this movie.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Comparing this to The Wedding Veil, where we had three
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: women and three of their own stories that got three movies,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: and here we have three co stars with three very
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: full lives outside of their relate I would say, honestly,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: they have more going in their lives than the women
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: in the Wedding Veil did. And I felt like we
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: weren't fully able to do justice to each of those
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: storylines in this hour and twenty minutes that we actually
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: got to see them on screen. Yeah, I agree, So
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I would just have liked to see more from them.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I think you could very easily do a sequel because
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: as much as all three women had their storyline, we
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: were in Allison's turf most of the time, and so
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of the splinters were meeting her boyfriend's mom
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: and meeting the people that she works with. And I
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: think you could do another movie where you have Molina
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: and the restaurant is the center of the story, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the other two women are involved, and you have Resa
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: discovering life with or after infertility.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I do think there's more to do with this movie,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: is all I'm saying. And these characters, I agree. I
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna happen, though I don't either.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I think I think they the movie had a big
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: get with Karen Pittman. I don't think she's gonna become
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: a regular Homemark star though I love it. I mean,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: so would I. I mean I want to watch good
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: actors on Hallmark. Yeah, and that I'm saying that it's
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: beneath her. I'm just saying that I think it was
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: a maybe for this first movie, they needed like a
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: very recognizable actor. I only have one thing that I
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: wished for. I felt this movie was a tad bit long,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: and I know it was probably only one hundred and
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: twenty minutes, like you said, but the later third of
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: the movie, like I just felt it dragged a little bit,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: especially and this is I'm conflicted about saying, especially when
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Alison was going back and forth about the job stuff.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: But like you said earlier, it was a very you know,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: interesting perspective for her to weigh those things. But it
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: needs for me the movie to drag just a smitchem.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Time for did you see that?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't. I don't have anything in particular
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: other than it was such a dreamy location in gorgeous clothing. Yeah,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: I want I love that. That felt very like nice
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to look at.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I have a few things to say, Okay.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: One, a restaurant of viewer is not going to let
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: you schedule the review. Oh a restaurant reviewer wants to
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: know what it's like to come eat in your restaurant,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: not when I know you're coming, So I'm going to
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: provide the perfect experience. What's it like when you've got
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: all the other pressures of running a restaurant? That's what
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: their review wants to.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Geah, isn't it like always a surprise?
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Oh? Please come when I know I'm going to be there. No,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: you know, I love to dig into the tweets.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: About these movies, and so I've got a couple tweets
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: i'd like to share. One is a quote from the
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: movie that I forgot about, and I remember being affected
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: by the quote when I heard it, and I.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Was glad to see that someone had tweeted it. And
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: it's from at One Dry Kiss, which is another Hallmark viewer.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: The quote is, I have a job. I can't play
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: with you all day.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Oh that's funny, And that's what Reese's husband says to
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: her when she's like I'm bored.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, ooh.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I kind of hits home close to home.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Another is Karen Pittman tweeted film factoid. I literally filmed
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: the kissing scene with Luca on day two of our
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: filming in Italy. It was so crazy and odd, the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: romantic to kiss a stranger. But by the eighth take,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I think we figured it out.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Isn't that funny how they shoot all these things out
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: of order? Like imagine having to like kiss someone on
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: the first day that like you're working together.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: But I mean they are professional. So I have one
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: more thing.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do not believe that Reesa, who's a badass
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: retired military doesn't have the ability to have a conversation
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: with her husband about the fact that she's nervous about
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the next steps. Like she goes to the extreme like
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna move to literally and get an apartment because
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I'm so afraid that my husband's gonna leave me if
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: we can't have a baby, instead of just saying like,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid you're gonna feel different about me if we
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: can't have a baby, like she'd rather run away and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: get an apartment.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: I think she's tougher than that. Hey, I mean, yeah,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: maybe those could just be hard.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Those are hard conversations, they.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Are, but I think she can handle it. Okay, what
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: did you rate this movie?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I thought this was a strong start.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: I gave it four stars. Oh three point seventy five stars, Oh.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Look at you? Three point seventy five.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Next week we have a doubleheader of Hallmark movies. We
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: have Mary Go Around m A R R Y and
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: To Her with Love, another Mahogany offering.
• 27:58
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• 28:01
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• 28:02
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• 28:05
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• 28:08
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