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Mistletoe Murders, Season 2, Episodes 3 & 4 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today
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  Speaker 1: we are discussing Mistletoe Murders season two, episodes three and four,
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  Speaker 1: The IDEs of December, which originally aired on the Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Channel on Friday, November fourteenth, and is currently available to
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  Speaker 1: going on with us, including dropping your first impressions of
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  Speaker 1: Let's kick off our discussion of Mistletoe Murders this week
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  Speaker 1: with a synopsis of episodes three and four. The art
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  Speaker 1: world comes to Fletcher's Grove when Sam's old partner is
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  Speaker 1: murdered guarding a high profile painting. Emily teaches Sam to
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  Speaker 1: sleuth off the grid, and we uncover more of Emily's past.
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  Speaker 1: In part two, Emily and Sam unravel a complicated web
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  Speaker 1: of lies surrounding the mystery painting, discovering the links people
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  Speaker 1: will go to to keep secrets, including Emily's. Violet crafts
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  Speaker 1: a special present, but Ken Kupris is the creator and
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  Speaker 1: writer of Mistletoe Murders. All of our regulars return Sarah Drew,
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  Speaker 1: Peter Mooney, Sierra, Marilyn Reiley, Gene Eune, Laura, Laura and Mercy,
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  Speaker 1: Kylie Evans and David Hewlett. Also, Quincy Kirkwood appears as
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  Speaker 1: young Emily Slash, Grace Evan haw Whistler as young Aaron,
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  Speaker 1: and Colton Stewart as Violet's boyfriend Kyle. Catherine Burrell appears
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  Speaker 1: as Piper. Catherine was last sen on Hallmark in last
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  Speaker 1: year's A Nineties Christmas. She will co star with Ali
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  Speaker 1: Lieber in the upcoming The Christmas Baby. Tony Napo plays
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  Speaker 1: Sam's old partner Reed. Tony appeared on Hallmark in last
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  Speaker 1: year's Trading Up Christmas. He's voiced two different characters on
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  Speaker 1: the Audible podcast series. Nikki Kiro plays Mora Wells with
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  Speaker 1: just twelve acting credits, this is her first Hallmark project.
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  Speaker 1: Julius Cho plays art influencer Harrison. Julius has fifty six
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  Speaker 1: acting credits with a ton of voice work in several
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  Speaker 1: different animated shows. He was also in the series Children
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  Speaker 1: Ruin Everything, a series that a lot of Mistletoe murders
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  Speaker 1: cast and crew have had a hand in. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of crossover there. Paulino Nunez plays Detective Mike Meadows.
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  Speaker 1: Paulino has one hundred and eighty nine acting credits with
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  Speaker 1: appearances and a ton of stuff. Though this isn't his
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  Speaker 1: first role on Hallmark. He was in the twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 1: movie Double Holiday. Jake Epstein is back as Noah. Jake
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  Speaker 1: has sixty seven acting credits and was last seen in
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  Speaker 1: the Hearts Around the Table movie collection. Worth noting, Jake
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  Speaker 1: also appeared in nearly one hundred episodes of Degrassi The
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  Speaker 1: Next Generation. It's another one of those shows where there's
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  Speaker 1: like writer and actor crossover. Yeah Yeah. Special guest star
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  Speaker 1: appearing briefly at the end of episode four is Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Ashmore as adult Aaron. Aaron has a lengthy resume, including
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  Speaker 1: stints on Lock and Mead, sky Met and as Gil
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  Speaker 1: on Jenny and Georgia. Part one was written by Jesse Gabe.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse has written for shows like Being Erica, The Spencer Sisters,
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  Speaker 1: and Working Moms Part two was written by Shelly Scarrow.
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  Speaker 1: Shelley wrote the final two episodes from season one, as
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  Speaker 1: well as a few episodes from the Audible series. Other
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  Speaker 1: projects have been being Erica and Degrassi. The Next Generation
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  Speaker 1: Part one and two was directed by James jen James
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  Speaker 1: has forty two directing credits. He's worked on Jenny and Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: The Good Doctor, and Wild Cards. He is also tapped
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  Speaker 1: to direct the reboot of Private Eyes West Coast I
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  Speaker 1: Do you Believe? He also directed on the original Private
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  Speaker 1: Eyes as well. He did, Well, let's take a quick
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  Speaker 1: break and we're going to come right back with our
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  Speaker 1: first impressions of Mistletoe Murders The IDEs of December. Hey, Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: what was your first impression of Mistletoe Murders? Season two,
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  Speaker 1: Episodes three and four. Violets, pre dance, panic Face, give
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  Speaker 1: this girl an emmy. My first impression is in an
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  Speaker 1: episode with many shocking reveals, none was more surprising than
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  Speaker 1: Brook's portrait. Oh my god, I had to like, I
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  Speaker 1: was embarrassed, like looking at it, like, I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to stay too long. Really, we need to
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  Speaker 1: talk about it, We need about it. Oh my goodness. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into what we liked about these this episode pair.
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  Speaker 1: I have a long list of likes me too. First,
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  Speaker 1: for me, if I can say, and I said it
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  Speaker 1: last week too, the stories are really good. The mystery stories,
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  Speaker 1: I think are really really good. This is a really
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  Speaker 1: great layered mystery that tired ties personal motives to the case.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh nice. So we have like the art influencer Harrison,
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  Speaker 1: who has like a personal motive to get the scoop right.
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  Speaker 1: Then we have Moira's motives who she to be something
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't. And then we have detective Mike who's out
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  Speaker 1: for the money, and Sam is motivated to solve it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he feels like read saved his life quite literally. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I really like the mystery too, And for me, we
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  Speaker 1: are right at capacity in terms of how packed these
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  Speaker 1: episodes can be with information. We could very easily have
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  Speaker 1: gone over the edge here in terms of perhaps throwing
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  Speaker 1: too much at us. We don't, but we get the
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  Speaker 1: overlapping storylines right out of the gate. It's a story
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  Speaker 1: that's told very tightly. The pacing is fast, but it's
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  Speaker 1: in a way that keeps the energy up. And so
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  Speaker 1: while sometimes I am almost confused, I'm like, wait, what's
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  Speaker 1: happening here? I was never bored, never, and I often
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  Speaker 1: get bored on the mystery movies because it's like either
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  Speaker 1: too much or like too complicated. And I do feel
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  Speaker 1: this was a complicated mystery, yes, but the energy is
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  Speaker 1: there all the time, like you said. And I thought
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  Speaker 1: Episode three, part one sets up episode two perfectly, like
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  Speaker 1: Episode two brings it all home. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: really done well. This is where in my notes I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: this two part structure works really well. I'm glad they
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  Speaker 1: do it this way. I need these seasons to have
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  Speaker 1: more episodes. Yeah, it's just can't be done though, because
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  Speaker 1: they're like, we're in our Christmas season. This is when
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  Speaker 1: we do it like Missletoe Murders. This is Christmas time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's only maybe if you maybe six weeks of Christmas time, right, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I would love more because when you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: to me, it's like three episodes really, even though it's
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  Speaker 1: of course it's six, it's three weekends of Missletoe Murders.
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  Speaker 1: We're at finale next. Yeah, I need I need eight,
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  Speaker 1: I need twelve right, yeah, me too. So I really
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  Speaker 1: love the additional layers we're getting from Emily's past. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I really like the flashbacks with Aaron. We're kind of
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  Speaker 1: learning a little bit more about her past. She hacked
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  Speaker 1: the school system in order to change the grades, but
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  Speaker 1: her motivation was more retribution for the way the Hollies
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  Speaker 1: had treated her friend. But then we have the other
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  Speaker 1: side where we learn that there's been a theft of
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  Speaker 1: money and someone was framed for that. Now, I I
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  Speaker 1: remain convinced after watching that scene that Aaron is the culprit,
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  Speaker 1: and I think I'm not quite ready to accept the
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  Speaker 1: possibility that Emily could be acting with purely ill intentions
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  Speaker 1: because to me, stealing the money, there's no potential good
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  Speaker 1: side of it changing the grades. To me, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: don't do that. That's bad. But the intention was I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get back at them. I'm going to level
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  Speaker 1: the playing field with the way they've treated us. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: and with the money and then framing the teacher, it's
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  Speaker 1: purely bad. Sure, So I'm not quite ready to accept
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  Speaker 1: that Emily had purely bad intentions. Yeah, while watching that scene,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't quite read who the bad guy was between
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  Speaker 1: Aaron and Emily. Young Emily, I texted you, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what was your read on it? And I agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: I think Aarin is the one who did it. But
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  Speaker 1: there's a scene leading right up into that scene where
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  Speaker 1: Emily's voiceover talks about sometimes you got to do bad
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  Speaker 1: things to do good things, and so I'm like, oo,
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  Speaker 1: does that just giving me like a shadow of doubt
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  Speaker 1: sure about what her motives are or what her experiences.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I do truly think it's Aaron is
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  Speaker 1: the bad guy, and it hurts my heart that I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: is he using Emily? Like Emily's going to take the
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  Speaker 1: fall eventually for this kid and whatever he's going to
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  Speaker 1: get into. I mean, that's my read, but it is
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  Speaker 1: ambiguous and intentionally, so, yeah, we don't have the information.
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  Speaker 1: It's so good. It's so good. Now if I can
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  Speaker 1: flash forward a little bit talking about Aaron at the
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  Speaker 1: very end of the episode, she thinks she sees Aaron
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  Speaker 1: and then she doesn't see him anymore. To me, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we have casting information about this person that
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  Speaker 1: he's named Aaron in the casting he's back. Yeah, He's
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  Speaker 1: found her. Wasn't just paranoia? Yeah? Well, I hole. I
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  Speaker 1: love that scene too, since we're just skipping forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, her and Sam have this like agreement now
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  Speaker 1: like no new secrets basically, and then she sees Aaron
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, what's wrong. She's like nothing. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: Now we're gonna have a real level of distrust here. Yes. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this show is so good for some lighter moments. Can
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  Speaker 1: we talk about Emily's dropping the line? Oh yes, I
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  Speaker 1: forgot how annoying young love can be. Yeah, and then
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  Speaker 1: she also has a great deadpan moment. Sam has a
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  Speaker 1: meeting that doesn't go well with the other detective and
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  Speaker 1: she's like, well, I thought that went really well. Just
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  Speaker 1: her delivery is spot on. Yeah, Sarah Drew just nails this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's so good in this also, So let's talk humor.
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  Speaker 1: Brook's interpretive dance, which then became Violet's interpretive dance. Quite
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  Speaker 1: the choice, very funny, very fun I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: funny when Brooke did it. I thought it was even
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  Speaker 1: better when Violet does it. It goes on for so long.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, please, think it's not but she commits
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  Speaker 1: to it. She's smiling the whole time, and Zach just
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  Speaker 1: loves it. And as mentioned the portrait, what was that face?
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  Speaker 1: Her face? Yeah? I just thought when they show it,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was supposed to be funny when you
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  Speaker 1: first see it, I think so, and then June goes, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's you, and I thought it doesn't look like Broke
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  Speaker 1: because she's the blonde person. Yeah. I honestly left that
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  Speaker 1: scene wondering is it supposed to be funny? How comically
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  Speaker 1: bad it is? Because I felt like the humor was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to come from Brook painted herself instead of June
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  Speaker 1: and not. This is a truly terrible painting, right, someone's
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  Speaker 1: childs did off on set. Very funny, though very funny.
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  Speaker 1: What else did you like? Speaking of funny, I actually
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  Speaker 1: really like Jake Epstein as Noah. Him and Emily have
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  Speaker 1: this great banter like it's quick, it's snappy when he's
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  Speaker 1: telling Emily like all the things that he's found on Moira.
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  Speaker 1: What a great scene. I love this dynamic. I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can use more Jake Epstein in this show, and
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  Speaker 1: he's used perfectly, perfectly, perfectly. One of my favorite scenes
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  Speaker 1: is when Emily and Sam finally have this this heart
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  Speaker 1: to heart and it's in part two, and he passively
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  Speaker 1: aggressively jokes about like her stories that she's made up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they're trying to correct that blurry picture. And
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  Speaker 1: she's like, well, I can take a crack at it.
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, is that one of the you know,
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  Speaker 1: because if you remember from season one, she's like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to use the computer, and like all
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  Speaker 1: this whatever. I thought the conversation that follows was so good.
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  Speaker 1: She tells him what I've been saying for a couple
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  Speaker 1: weeks now, Like she says, I didn't ask for your
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  Speaker 1: help because there are things that belong to me that
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  Speaker 1: I don't want you to know about, and then goes
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  Speaker 1: on because he's like pressing the Oh, this is about
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  Speaker 1: trust and blah blah blah. She's like, no, this is
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  Speaker 1: about how you look at me. And that made me
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  Speaker 1: feel special and I'm afraid if you know my secrets,
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  Speaker 1: you'll never look at me that way again. And I
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  Speaker 1: got chilled watching it. I got a little choked up
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  Speaker 1: watching it. I thought it was so good. It's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's good. And we have those moments where Sam is
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  Speaker 1: blaming himself for Reed's death. Yeah, he said he was
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  Speaker 1: too busy to be there, and she reaches across the
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  Speaker 1: table at Susteiner and comforts him. I mean, we have
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  Speaker 1: so many intimate moments with the two of them about
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  Speaker 1: it being romantic, yet that they're just Sometimes when we
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: get a relationship and a show where there's a will
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  Speaker 1: they or won't they, there's a lot of pushing each
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  Speaker 1: other away, and I like how close they're keeping each other.
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  Speaker 1: We had just a little bit of it in the
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  Speaker 1: first episode where they were keeping their distance. It went
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  Speaker 1: on for a long time off camera that we didn't see.
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  Speaker 1: And so they're so connected to each other, but they
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  Speaker 1: still the conflict still hangs over the two of them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're just like so rooting for me. I
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  Speaker 1: know totally. I just am a little I'm a little worried,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know where this should go. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about it now. When I think of
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  Speaker 1: the fact that, like we said next week, this week,
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  Speaker 1: as this episode drops, is the finale. Are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: end on another cliffhanger? I'm sure. Do we have time
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  Speaker 1: for them to get to a place of resolution with
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  Speaker 1: each other? I don't know, I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Well final like that, I have this setup and takedown
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  Speaker 1: of the Dirty Cop MIC was so satisfying because he
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  Speaker 1: was so dismissive to Emily, like that Christmas Lady. At
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  Speaker 1: one point he's like bye, like he wanted her to
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  Speaker 1: get out of there. And so you know, when it's
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  Speaker 1: Emily dressed up spoiler, you know, and they bust him
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  Speaker 1: as the bad cop he is. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: so good but but but what made that all come
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  Speaker 1: together is when bad Cop Mike and Sam are basically
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: like hashing out, like at the very end, like this
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  Speaker 1: is where they're like spilling all the details, like if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching the mystery and you didn't like catch things,
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  Speaker 1: this is all like where it's all explained. Mike asks
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  Speaker 1: basically like if the Christmas Lady Emily was undercover and
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: there's like a light that goes off in Sam, did
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  Speaker 1: you catch it? It was like a realization like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe her background is something like maybe she is an agent,
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  Speaker 1: maybe she is something like because she had did the
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  Speaker 1: undercover thing so well, yeah that you know, game recognizes
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  Speaker 1: game right, like the detectives, like, oh, she seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be like one of us, because if you remember earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the episode, Sam is like trying to go undercover
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  Speaker 1: to talk to like that guy, and Emily's like no, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna print a few out as a cop immediately. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it's funny when he walks in, She's like, one,
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  Speaker 1: did I tell you? Yep, it's great, super great. Well,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: let's talk wishes. I don't have one, not a single one,
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  Speaker 1: not a single one. Really, I don't really, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have big wishes. I just wanted to fill some space here.
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  Speaker 1: At the beginning of the episode. There were so many
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  Speaker 1: threads introduced it at once. I could have used like
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: a tiny bit of streamlining, because I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's happening here, like the Harrison Art influencer
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  Speaker 1: Piper Moiraira. There's so many unanswered questions that I was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit overwhelmed by it. I do think the
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  Speaker 1: inter if dance sequences could have been like thirty percent
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  Speaker 1: shorter because the secondhand embarrassment was rough. But I do
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  Speaker 1: admire the commitment. And finally, I'm just pushing for a
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  Speaker 1: clear answer about Emily's past. I need to know. I
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  Speaker 1: need to know more. I know, I mean, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get a little bit and I just unfold, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm dying for it. I mean, we need a third season,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: so We're they're not gonna give us everything about Emily. No,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I just I just need some information. I
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  Speaker 1: know there are parts of me that I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna binge out on the Audible series. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I did hear that it's a little bit that the
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: mysteries themselves are different. Yeah, I don't know in terms
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  Speaker 1: of Emily's backstory, if that's how that plays out, I
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: don't know. There are several seasons. I know, I'm like,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: is that what I'm gonna do during Christmas? Break has
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: just listened to, like four or five seasons of Missiles
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  Speaker 1: Home Murders. Sounds like a good plan. Yeah, well, let's talk.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see that these are just thoughts? There's some
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: true did you see that's but then just some moments
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  Speaker 1: that I liked. Piper was giving Stoker vibes. Yeah, I
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: had showing up about the book signing. The line between
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: like superfan and Stalker is thin, right, right, right right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean she obviously was our red Herring, like we
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  Speaker 1: thought it was her. We see later down you know
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  Speaker 1: when she finds Harrison unconscious and it was like her
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: rag because she used turpentina. I was like, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like those were a little too obvious to me. I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's not her, Like she wouldn't be stupid enough to
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: use her own rag and admit it right there, right,
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  Speaker 1: Why would she? To me, it's like very obvious in
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  Speaker 1: that moment that it's not her, right, my other did
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you see that? This is on Mike Guy Ray who
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I like to call Jonesy lovingly, but he's giving full
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: mister heat miser hair one hundred percent, one hundred percent,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: thank you. That's exactly who it is. I couldn't really
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: figure it out, but that's exactly who it is. All
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: day yesterday I was like, I'm mister minser. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: it is and it hasn't been that big in the past. No, no, No,
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  Speaker 1: I think this was like the first time I noticed it. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I also love how he is so embedded into the community.
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  Speaker 1: We're like, yes, raise shady at best, but he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this fundraiser. It's like being guilty in
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  Speaker 1: plain sight? Is that that's not the same, But you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like he's does some shady stuff,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: but he's like, but I'm a man of the community too. Yes,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I love it. I thought about your teenage daughter. When
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Violet shows her cute socks and she's wearing Mary Jane
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Doc Martins, Yeah, we have those shoes. I just like,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: this is total teenage perfection. Yeah. I was like, that's costuming,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: well done. They got it dialed, and Detective Mike was
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a walking red flag to me, Like all his comments
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: about like, oh, this looks like it just was a
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: random job. I was like, you look guilty to me. Yeah.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: And when we find out he didn't question the security
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: guard that Reid had hired to help, He's like, wow,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: he hasn't come to talk to me. Well, that's a
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: big giant red flag right there. Yeah, totally. The adjacent
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: story of Moira taking advantage of an Alzheimer's patient was dark. Yes,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I agree, she led her to believe that she was
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: her biological daughter. I thought, well, that is disgusting. Good
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: storytelling by the writers here, Like I thought that was
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: really Wolf Wolf. My final one. I loved the Ocean's
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: eleven style scene where Ray, Noah and Sam I'll sneak
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Emily into the exhibit to steal the hairs from the paintbrush,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: which kind of grosses me out, but I think they
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: do these little high stake moments so well. We saw
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: it last week too, when she was like snooping around
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the principals off this this one was like bigger. Now.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I have just rewatched for the very first time Oceans eight,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: which is like Ocean's eleven, but it's like the all
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: female pass. And when she was like sneaking in, I
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: was like, Oh, this is like Ocean's eight and then
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: she says the Ocean's eleven line. I just loved it
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: so much. Yeah, I really liked that whole scene. The
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: choreography of the diversion that they in order to get
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: her in there, and all the different people that kind
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: of came to make that come together. I thought that
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: was very well done. The security guard looking at his fountin,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: He's like, what a weird night? So great? O great?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: What did you have? Just a couple of little things.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Emily's hair is blown out very smooth when she goes
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: to that party, and then midway through the party you
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: can see her curls fighting her way back in, and
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: then the next scene she's back to smooth hair. Yeah. It's
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: giving Taylor Swift Era's tour editing and they edited between
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: shows and sometimes there's a lot of humidity, so her
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: hair's curling up and sometimes it's not. And it's just
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: something I noticed. Oh, I really loved this is a
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: only we would notice it the way the live stream
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: is done. It's actually done quite well. Yeah, Harrison's got lighting,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: He's got a gimbal. We see on like the likes flowing.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: The only thing I didn't love is that it was
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: in landscape for I noticed. And if he's live on TikTok,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: if he's live on Instagram, those are all going to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: be portrait. I suppose he could be live on YouTube,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: it just seems less likely to be doing an on
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: location live on YouTube. Does YouTube have like the reaction emojis?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know that. To me, it looked like Instagram, Yeah,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: but in the wrong format. Yeah yep. But other than that,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: he was giving live influencer to me, totally, What did
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you rate these? It's a five star. It literally cannot
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: get any better. It's I agree, it's five stars. It's
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: so good. I feel like I wish I knew what
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the viewing numbers were on this show. They're good and
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: going up. That's more people need to be watching this show.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It is so incredibly good. I even was considering pitching
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: it to my husband because he, hmmm, I know my husband.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I tried to get him and he's like, well, but
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: he'd have to start from the beginning. See, my friend
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: we were just talking about Mistletoe Murders on our recent
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: episode of a Listener Mailbag, and my friends had asked
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: if she should watch it and I she said, do
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I have to watch the first season? I said, yes,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: you do, yeah, but it's only six episodes. No, I know,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: but I said, you know, like, could you understand? It's sure,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: but you're not going to appreciate the backstory, right, It's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: so important. And I got to tell you, like the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: end of this episode when she sees Aaron, I was like,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: if if I was, if all the episode had had dropped,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I would just cruise right into the next one, like
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I would need to see it happen. Same. First of all,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Finding Mister Christmas this week four hundred and eighty six
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: K live viewers up seventeen percent last week, yay, twenty
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: percent from the premiere Mistletoe Murders. The season two launch
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and seventy one one thousand and seven hundred
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and sixty six Live Plus same day, which is a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: twelve percent bump from the season finale, So it did
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: well on Friday. Okay, good yeah good. Up from the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: finale is not a surprise because this aired on Hallmark
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Plus originally and many people have seen it already. Right,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: so I'm so excited I need an announcement on a
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: third season. I know me too well. Hey, thank you
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark, a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Bramble Jam podcast. We'll be back with more Hallmark reviews
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: all week long, so tune in for those. We'll see
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you next time. Goodbye, bye, all right friends, before we go,
• 24:49
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• 24:51
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