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Where Are You, Christmas? · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Where Are You Crazy?
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what that song's from.
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark of You podcast. I'm Megan, and
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  Speaker 1: Oh not so former these days heavy on the hate.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's back and forth, back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing where Are You Christmas? The second movie
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  Speaker 1: in Hallmarks count out of the Christmas lineup, which originally
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  Speaker 1: aired on Saturday, October twenty first, twenty twenty three. We
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  Speaker 1: okay good. I've been a fan of Hallmark movies for
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  Speaker 1: years and last year discovered the Girl's Gone Hallmark podcast
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  Speaker 1: and the wonderful community they've built as best friends. They're
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  Speaker 1: But with all this humor, they provide high quality reviews.
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  Speaker 1: Yeam, I love that review.
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  Speaker 2: That's very nice.
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  Speaker 1: I have a quick Hallmark News and note to share
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  Speaker 1: the stars of the way home. Kyler Lee Sadie Lufflam Snow,
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  Speaker 1: and Evan Williams appeared at Comic Con Hallmark's first ever
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  Speaker 1: comic Con appearance, Wow to promote The Way Home. The
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  Speaker 1: Way Home does have a waiver for filming and promoting
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  Speaker 1: m HM. Season two quietly began filming in August and
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  Speaker 1: is set to wrap in December. Now, they have not
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  Speaker 1: announced an air date for season two, but methinks with
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  Speaker 1: Hallmarks speedy editing, we could get a late January launch
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  Speaker 1: of season two, much like we did of season one.
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  Speaker 2: That is going to make me so happy. But I
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  Speaker 2: just had like this gut punch, like I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know what timeframe they're going to be visiting. Are we
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  Speaker 2: going back to the eighteen hundreds, are we still in
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  Speaker 2: the nineties? What's happening? What's happening? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea that they had a waiver and
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  Speaker 2: were filming.
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  Speaker 1: Neither did I. That's exciting. That great news.
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  Speaker 2: It's exciting. Uh I'm guessing Ride is still on hold?
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  Speaker 1: No comments. Okay, let's hear a synopsis for Where Are
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  Speaker 1: You Christmas?
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  Speaker 2: When Addie wishes for a whoops, When Addie wishes for
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  Speaker 2: a year without Christmas. She wakes up in a world
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  Speaker 2: of black and white. She must work together with the
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  Speaker 2: Towns Mechanic to restore Christmas. Starring Lindsay Vonseca, Michael Rady,
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  Speaker 2: Jim O'Hare, and Julie Warner.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do some News and Notes Lindsay van Skast as Addie.
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  Speaker 1: She had fifty acting credits, including Hallmarks, North to Home
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  Speaker 1: and Next Stop Christmas. She also recently appeared in a
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  Speaker 1: feature film called Spinning Gold, which was out in theaters
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  Speaker 1: early this year, a biopic that stars Hallmark fan fave
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Jordan.
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  Speaker 2: Off topic, Jeremy Jordan is Tory. Yeah, I was surprised.
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  Speaker 2: I sent Meghan Jeremy Jordan's going to be in our neighborhood,
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood in our adjacent town anyway, he will be performing.
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  Speaker 2: And I sent it to Megan and she responded with, lol,
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  Speaker 2: I was legit. Maybe I want to go see him singing.
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  Speaker 1: What genre of music does he perform?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea to me. If I had to guess,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be like big band, sort of like that
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  Speaker 2: kind of vibe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm getting Michael Booblet vibes.
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  Speaker 2: He's real easy on the eyes. Ann is a great singer.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you want to go be the youngest person
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  Speaker 1: in the room, let's go see Jeremy Jorden perform. All right, Ah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I missed it.
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  Speaker 4: I've missed it.
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  Speaker 2: It works so hard sometimes she doesn't even notice, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Rady place Hunter. Hunter is not a name that
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  Speaker 2: we typically get in our Hallmark movies. I was pleasantly
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  Speaker 2: surprised by that. Anyway. He has fifty five acting credits,
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  Speaker 2: including Unexpected Grace from earlier this year. You can catch
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  Speaker 2: Rady as Chris Childs on Magnum PI Fun Programming. Note.
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  Speaker 2: We will be revisiting Michael Rady's A New Year's Resolution,
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  Speaker 2: a movie I notoriously hated upon first watch back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, and that episode will drop on January second.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Oair plays ADDIE's father. He has nearly two hundred
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  Speaker 1: acting credits and is probably best known for his role
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  Speaker 1: as Jerry on the comedy Parks and rec where he
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  Speaker 1: appeared in one hundred twenty one episodes from twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 1: to twenty fifteen. I entered acting credit nine to twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: What did you say?
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, all right. Julie Warner plays mom Sharon. She
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  Speaker 2: has fifty four acting credits and has been in movies
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  Speaker 2: like Tommy Boy and Doc Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: I love Doc Hollywood.
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  Speaker 5: Michael J.
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  Speaker 2: Fox, Oh, I remember reading an article like that's when
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  Speaker 2: he first noticed his symptoms from Parkinson. Parkinson's thank you
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  Speaker 2: side note.
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  Speaker 1: There is a documentary, Michael J. Fox Stuck. I watched
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  Speaker 1: it on so GOVY Plus. I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 1: Mandy Masten plays teacher Dana. Mandy has a short resume
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  Speaker 1: with only fourteen acting credits. She appeared in one episode
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  Speaker 1: of and Just Like That, the Sex and the City
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  Speaker 1: reboot in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew David Bridges is ADDIE's brother Connor. He's another up
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  Speaker 2: and coming actor with just nineteen previous acting credits.
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  Speaker 1: Dustin Reiker directed. This Guy's sent a ton of directing, producing,
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  Speaker 1: and writing. Some of his directing work includes two It
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  Speaker 1: Gets to Paradise, Next Stop, Christmas One Royal Holiday, as
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  Speaker 1: well as this year's a Mary Scottish Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: This guy's name is all over every project this year.
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  Speaker 2: He's either a producer or he's a writer. He's a
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  Speaker 2: director or Busy Busy Dude.
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  Speaker 1: The writing credit is shared by Michael Rice and Timothy Curriac.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Rice previously penned Sweet Carolina in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: and Timothy Curyac has six previous writing credits, but this
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  Speaker 1: does appear to be his first Hallmark gig.
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  Speaker 2: Keith Nielsen to the costumes for this movie. Another fun
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  Speaker 2: programming fact, We're gonna have Keith on the podcast on
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  Speaker 2: November second to join us as we review Mystic Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: where he also did the costumes for that movie.
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  Speaker 1: Finally, this movie, much like Mystic Christmas, was filmed in
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  Speaker 1: Connecticut in the spring. These movies were actually filmed back
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  Speaker 1: to back in late March twenty twenty three. Really for
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  Speaker 1: first impressions, m hmmm, mine is alternate title. You don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you've got till it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Oh look at that. But they need Christmas in there somewhere. No, okay,
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  Speaker 2: mine is you had me up until our two leads
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  Speaker 2: kiss oh boo. There's a lot of polarizing thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: this movie.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised by the detractors.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of people who really did not like
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  Speaker 2: this movie. I saw some three out of ten stars.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa, Yeah, no, no, I'd agree.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's hateable by any means. Actually, spoiler
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  Speaker 2: alert really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: My first like, which was my first impression until I
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  Speaker 1: came up with my clever song title is even in
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  Speaker 1: black and white, this movie shines.
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  Speaker 2: Did A I write that for you?
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  Speaker 1: It didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's all me nice. I thoroughly enjoyed how Hallmark
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  Speaker 2: ventures out be on their typical formula for this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's like, Ugh, the CGI wasn't good. Sometimes you can
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  Speaker 1: tell that, Yeah, you're watching the Hallmark channel. The budget
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  Speaker 1: for CGI isn't there. Yes, there were some distracting moments.
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  Speaker 1: We can talk about that. But we're the first to
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  Speaker 1: call out bad green screens and yeah, sure. I just
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  Speaker 1: think sometimes perhaps we need to overlook that.
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  Speaker 2: We have always said that sometimes when the details get
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  Speaker 2: a little murky, we just put that to the wayside. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is one of those areas. I thought
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  Speaker 2: the black and white scenes weren't flawless, but overall was
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  Speaker 2: still pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool and sent the visual message, what story are
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  Speaker 1: you telling with the visuals?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. Yeah, I also loved Jim.
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  Speaker 2: Jima, Oh my god, it's so good.
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  Speaker 1: His relationship with Addie and their challenges and their struggles.
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  Speaker 1: I really loved that storyline and how they didn't really
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  Speaker 1: understand each other and they had different kind of expectations
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  Speaker 1: for each other. I thought he was really powerful in
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  Speaker 1: that dad role.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I thought he brought a wonderful sense of
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  Speaker 2: warmth and depth to the character, and he gave some passive,
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  Speaker 2: aggressive digs that made me feel uncomfortable at home launching.
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  Speaker 1: He was angry. Yeah, oh, what's a pine tree in
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  Speaker 1: the living room?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, he was great. He was great.
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  Speaker 1: I liked the storyline of the parents feeling left behind
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  Speaker 1: by their daughter. So often this is a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a play on the classic Hallmark we want you
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  Speaker 1: to come home and run the family business, right. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel like her parents wanted her to come home.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel like they were upset that she had
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  Speaker 1: moved away. They just wanted to be a part of
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  Speaker 1: her life, in her in whatever way that meant. And
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  Speaker 1: when they came to visit, they wanted to see her
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  Speaker 1: life and what he'll be immersed in her life, and
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  Speaker 1: she I think read that feeling as no I want
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  Speaker 1: you to come be in our world.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: She wasn't seeing that they could both live their own lives,
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  Speaker 1: but they could still be in each other, right.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that story is something worth pursuing. And
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  Speaker 2: we didn't get enough of that, I don't think instead
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  Speaker 2: we got she works in the Christmas space, she does
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  Speaker 2: not want to partake in Christmas activities when it actually
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  Speaker 2: comes around, and then therefore looks like she's deserting her parents.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like there's two stories there that are not
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  Speaker 2: quite like connecting. For me, Lindsay Fonseca is a top
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  Speaker 2: tier actor for me, I thought she was great in
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  Speaker 2: this role. I'd love to see her in more Hallmark movies.
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  Speaker 2: She's only in like maybe one a year, one every
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  Speaker 2: other year. Yeah more. But to me, also, she does
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of acting credits. I feel like maybe
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark might just be like a holding space for her.
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  Speaker 2: I think she might become like a bigger stars, a
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  Speaker 2: launch pad perhaps maybe maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Freaking Rady, Michael freaking Rady, What's not to love?
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning where he's obviously going through it, he's great, He's.
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  Speaker 2: Sullen but not mean, right, and.
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  Speaker 1: You could feel that the veteran who was struggling to
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  Speaker 1: reintegrate into society, and how hard it was to live
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  Speaker 1: up to the expectations that the community placed on him
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  Speaker 1: taking over his grandfather's role, and then as he starts
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  Speaker 1: to warm up both visually and personality wise. I think
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  Speaker 1: he did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I will say it was really nice to see him
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  Speaker 2: in what I believe is an against type role for him,
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  Speaker 2: because he's like a bright sider all.
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  Speaker 1: The time, boy next door, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, Like I can't help but think back to the
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  Speaker 2: Nikky Deloache movie Love to the Rescue.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he's just like this nice guy and
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  Speaker 1: golden retriever energy.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent yes, And so it was nice to
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  Speaker 2: see him as this like blue collar who's really struggling
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  Speaker 2: with something. And I do have more to add to
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  Speaker 2: that in my wish category, but I really enjoyed him
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  Speaker 2: when he turned around when he first when Addie comes
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  Speaker 2: into the shop to get her car fixed and he
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  Speaker 2: turns around and he's like hey, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I sent Megan like a melty emoji like I, Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy him a lot.
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  Speaker 1: On a lighter note, hat tipped to costume designer Keith
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  Speaker 1: Nielsen because Hunter's black and white outfit.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like he's in black and white. I understand
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  Speaker 1: the costume is black and white. There's something about the
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  Speaker 1: giant scarf and the way it's done and the gradients
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  Speaker 1: in it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, was that funny when he was all wrapped
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  Speaker 2: up and he was wearing sunglasses at the school? Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, I laughed so hard. I laughed so hard.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a genius costuming. It looks black and white.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you have anything else you liked?
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  Speaker 1: I just said, this is going to be the season
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  Speaker 1: of celebrating big risks.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look, not all right on homemark on homework?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what you wish for?
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  Speaker 2: So, in my opinion, it seemed like repairing ADDIE's relationship
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  Speaker 2: with her father would have been the solution to her
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  Speaker 2: restoring her color. Yes, rather than finding true love or
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  Speaker 2: like whatever the angle was there, there were deep wounds
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  Speaker 2: between Addie and her dad, and I just think it
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  Speaker 2: would have made more sense.
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  Speaker 1: Like that perspective. I think also, a story that deserves
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  Speaker 1: more weight than the love story is a Hunter as
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  Speaker 1: a vet, Oh my god, struggling in society.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I have lots of thoughts on that, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Think the resolution to that is too quick. That's going
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  Speaker 1: to be an ongoing thing, and I wish it was
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  Speaker 1: more like I think, I wish it was more than
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  Speaker 1: I made a new friend and now I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be okay. The town needs me, so I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: be okay. I think it's okay to talk about mental
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  Speaker 1: health and say hey, I'm I'm getting help totally. One
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  Speaker 1: of the ways I'm doing that is, yes, I'm immersing
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  Speaker 1: myself into the town because I can't hide in my
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  Speaker 1: shop all day long, right, but I need more help
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  Speaker 1: than this. You know what?
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  Speaker 2: That is so interesting as we have yet to see
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  Speaker 2: a Hallmark movie kind of tackle mental illness. Right, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just going through my file folder my brains. Nothing comes
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  Speaker 2: to mind, And this would have been an excellent opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: I feel that he was under used in this role.
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  Speaker 2: This movie could have been about him. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: could have gone either way. Like I think, like you said, like.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't need the brother's proposal. That could have been
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  Speaker 1: cut perfectly, fine, storyline could have been cut exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that if they would have given his
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  Speaker 2: struggles more depth, it would have resulted in like a
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  Speaker 2: richer ending.
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  Speaker 1: And I almost have this vision of this movie where
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  Speaker 1: him returning to color isn't a permanent solution, like he
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  Speaker 1: kind of is glitching between color and because it's not
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  Speaker 1: a I remember Christmas with my grandfather. Those happy memories
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  Speaker 1: have healed me.
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  Speaker 2: Right, it's a process. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I did at times find the black and white to
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  Speaker 1: be distracting. Doesn't mean I didn't like it. I just
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  Speaker 1: there were moments where I thought, I can't stop looking
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  Speaker 1: at her black and white hand touching his outfit in color. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's I don't know that there's necessarily a better way
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  Speaker 1: to do that. It's just something worth noting.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So at the top and my first impression, I said
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  Speaker 2: that this movie had me until the two kissed. I
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  Speaker 2: absolutely hated that Addie kiss Hunter because that's what she
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  Speaker 2: thought the solution was to getting her color back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he needed to give her a harder time about that.
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  Speaker 2: I think so too.
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  Speaker 1: I just hated that it didn't work and now that
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  Speaker 1: kiss is meaningless.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just I felt terrible for him.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that was an interesting scene where he
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  Speaker 1: was like, we don't know what the solution is. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know how you're going to get your color back,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll get through it together. Like, if this is
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  Speaker 1: the way it is, we'll find a path forward, right,
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  Speaker 1: instead of being like, there's only one path forward and
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  Speaker 1: it's got to be me getting my color back, right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm trying to think back to the chronological order.
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  Speaker 2: She was one of the last, right too, and tell
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  Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong. It was truly because she hadn't
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  Speaker 2: ben true love yet, right.
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  Speaker 5: She said, I have another Christmas wish. I look to
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  Speaker 5: kiss you for the right reasons this time, and she
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  Speaker 5: changes color. Was it the on screen chemistry of the
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  Speaker 5: kiss or the reasoning behind the kiss?
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  Speaker 2: Both?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think there, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they lacked chemistry. I did think the
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  Speaker 2: kiss was kind of not great, but I didn't like
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  Speaker 2: in the story that it.
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  Speaker 1: Was her kiss finding love. Yes, yeah, it doesn't really
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: make sense.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: No, it doesn't with the rest of the story. No,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I enjoyed all this movie until like
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: that scene and going forward.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I think we could have gotten his like
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: you're beautiful in any color. They could have had their
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: kiss rearranged. The sequence of scenes and her resolution with
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: her father. She could have already had her moment with
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Hunter m They're good. He's good with her, she's good
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: with who she is, and her moment with her dad
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: is what.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, I agree, I just think that was a real misstep.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: But Okay, I have another comment and I don't know
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: where to put it at, so I'm gonna talk about
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: it here. Hm.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: We have this.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Story that is devoid of religion, and I feel like
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I could see how this Christmas movie might not land
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: with like Hallmark's biggest fans. Really yeah, but.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Most of their movies are not faith based.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I know, but we're talking about a religious holiday. Yes,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: that is maybe only seen as like celebration devoid of
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: religion because Leo's look at the bigger picture. If Christmas
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: was gone, then what's that say about Christianity?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Yeh, that's an excellent point.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: So, and I know like they're not they weren't touching
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: that with this movie at all. But I think there's
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: some people who saw this movie and they were like,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: WHOA hold up, this doesn't make any sense.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an interesting point.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I have seen some pushback on this.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Movie, and to me, I remember the times with their
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: opinion I've liked lots of dislike lots of movies that
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: other people have liked. That's what creativity is and entertainment is.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: But what's interesting to me is that the pushback that
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I've seen on this movie I don't see on every
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: other Christmas movie. And I don't see the difference. Tell
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: meymore like people talking about, oh, we were pushing Christmas
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: on this town. Yeah, every Hallmark this year is making
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: forty movies. One of them is about Hanukah, right, thirty
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: nine Christmas movie. So this is an issue that you
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: actually have with the Hallmark isn't inclusive in their movie
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: making of people of other faith or beliefs, or no
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: faith or belief or they don't celebrate anything. Why are
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: we picking this one to be bothered by?
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Got it? So we're saying like, oh, we have this
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: town of people who only believe in Christmas.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, but I don't know that I will admit that
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: as a person who celebrates Christmas, I probably don't have
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the right perspective because when I'm like, ooh, a town
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: that's all in on Christmas. My streets all in on Christmas? Right,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the decorations go off. If we had a person move
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: in who was like, we don't celebrate cool. Would that
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: make them uncomfortable that for six weeks out of the year,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: our entire street is lit up like the Fourth of July.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: All night long. I mean it might, right, Yeah.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: So that's an interesting thing. I have not really looked
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: deeply into how like this town is all about Christmas
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and the whole thing is like they're at the Christmas
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: paget and all the town's getting their memories back and
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: getting their color back. But we don't really see the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: what's happening to the other members of town who may
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: not be all in on that and how this affects them, right,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And what would have been interesting is if there were
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: people in color walking around while the rest of the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: town was in black and white to symbolize that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: That would have been cooler. Yeah, I can see that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: But for people to like have a bone to pick
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: with this movie because of that, Like, like you said,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: we get so many movies that are based around the
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Christmas holiday.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I call it count Down to Christmas exactly.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Got a DM I want to read it to you,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I was responding to. I think it was a three
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: point five star out of ten rating on this movie,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: and I wrote, like, this rating is blowing my mind,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: and the person responded back, I'm just going to keep
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: them anonymous at this.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: The person who reviewed it is not the person you're talking.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: To, right, they shared it, Yes, exactly, so, she says
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I think the potentially racist elements brought it down for her,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: the person who originally reviewed it, but then goes on
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: to say, when I saw those two scenes, I cringed
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: because I knew people would read into that, even though
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: in context it doesn't have anything to do with race
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: in my opinion. But you can find an allegory anywhere
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: if you're looking hard enough. So I'm not even quite
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: certain which two scenes she might be referring to. There
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: was one where teacher Dana like wiped Michael Rady's face.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's like it doesn't come off.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Right, and that felt very reminiscent of something, and I
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: can't put my finger on it, like something I may
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: have seen before in terms of people of color, But
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I don't have enough background or backstory on it to
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: complete the thought.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I didn't read racists to me. I would be curious
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to hear someone's argument about scenes that might have been
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: specifically racist. But that wasn't my read.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me neither. But then I keep questioning myself when
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: am I missing? Like? Am I missing it because I'm
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: a white woman? Right? I would love to dig into
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: this movie deeper, like yes, and better understanding from the
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: rioters what the initial goal was like maybe things were cut,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: maybe they weren't. I don't you know? Yes, So anyway,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: are you ready for digite that I am?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: That Jack Frost drink that she drinks in the beginning
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: with her friend is horrifyingly blue.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I would never I was like, that would turn my
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: mouth blue, and then that would be a real look.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: There's no way that. Also in the opening scene ADDIE's
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: giving his feet, she looks like a hologram.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: That green screen is real bad. It's real bad.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I was like, what is she a hollow ground? Didn't
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: look like I was like, are you Tupac?
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: That's the real throwback.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I couldn't think of a single other hologram moment.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: My gosh. At one point I could see Lindsey von
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Seca's tattoo, which is behind her ear here. Her hair
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: was down in almost every scene, and at one point,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: like I could see the hair was moved and she
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: has a tattoo behind her ear, so I googled it
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and she she does. In the home where ADDIE's parents live,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: She's sitting at the kitchen table with her mom and
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: there's this round wooden tray in the middle of the table.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I have the same one it's from. I was like, hey,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I have that and this one I can't take credit for.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: But Sleepy Kitty Pop pointed out on Twitter that in
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: the scene where Addie and her father talk in her bedroom,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the bed comforter is green at one angle and then
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: black and white in another.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I saw that comment and I actually did notice that.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Did you.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I'm going to add a photo to our show notes
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: if you want to see what it What it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Looks like, Yeah, a little green screen glitching.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Sometimes she can't get it all right. The turnaround time
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: on these is you.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Can just imagine the editor watching it back. They're like,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let it go. I gotta let it go.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Exactly love it and leave it. Are you ready to
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: rate it? I am.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I gave it four stars.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Three point seventy five.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: I thought this was a solid, solid attempt.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: I'm really floored that people like checking it twice better
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: than this movie.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Anyway, no way. We've had so much fun kicking off
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: count down to Christmas here on girls got homework and
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: we are just getting started. We'll be back with three
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: reviews next week. It's still holiday whiplash around here. We
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: got Halloween and and then we have two Christmas movies,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: including the aforementioned chat with Keith Costumes. Come back for that.
• 26:06
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• 26:08
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• 26:10
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