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Playing Cupid · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a bonus episode
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  Speaker 1: of Long Story Short the podcast I'm Megan, I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: Today we're discussing Playing Cupid, part of the brand new
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  Speaker 1: Love Ever After series on the Hallmark Channel for February.
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  Speaker 1: So this week's movie is Playing Cupid, and Wendy do
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  Speaker 1: you have a synopsis of this movie?
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  Speaker 2: I certainly do a you know, you ask me every
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  Speaker 2: time and I'm never ready for it, but here it comes.
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  Speaker 2: It is Playing Cupid. A modern day Emma finds David
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  Speaker 2: Martinez being secretly set up with his daughter's teacher. When
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  Speaker 2: the young girl begins a matchmaking business for a school project.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I think that's a pretty good synopsis.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Oh tell me why.
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  Speaker 2: Because the synopsis suggests that the daughter sets up the
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  Speaker 2: dad and the teacher, and that doesn't really happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they just she sends them the secret admirer.
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  Speaker 2: No no, no, no, oh no.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't send them secret aquier. No.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not matchmaking.
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  Speaker 1: Well how is it not matchmaking? She's like behind the
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  Speaker 1: scenes trying to get them together. That's like the whole
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  Speaker 1: like Emma storyline there, where she's like trying to make
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  Speaker 1: things happen. She's not saying, hey Joe, meet Susie. You
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  Speaker 1: guys should date. She's trying to like push them together
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  Speaker 1: so they think it's their own idea. I have so
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  Speaker 1: many story Kattie Stanger.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I don't watch that show. Of course I did,
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  Speaker 2: Of course I did.
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  Speaker 1: I just heard her on in an interview the other day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised to hear she's still in the game.
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  Speaker 2: She's still matchmaking, just not on reality TV.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting what happened to her show? What was that called Matchmaker?
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  Speaker 1: I think it was called The Millionaire Matchmaker.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. That's it. I wonder why they
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  Speaker 2: canceled that show. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's jump to first impressions. No news and notes.
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  Speaker 2: Google didn't give me a whole ton of news and
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  Speaker 2: notes on this movie.
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  Speaker 1: No, Like many, many, many, many many others, it was
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  Speaker 1: filmed in Canada.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: It was based on the novel Playing Cupid by Jenny Meyerhoff. However,
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  Speaker 1: the synopsis of that novel leads me to believe that
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  Speaker 1: the story is more about Clara's storyline and perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: others are incidental. I did nothing more than look at
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  Speaker 1: the Amazon synopsis, but the image on the cover, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of thought it was like a tween teen focused
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  Speaker 1: novel that was then adapted for Hallmark. It is published
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  Speaker 1: under the Hallmark imprint.
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  Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Scholastic. It has
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  Speaker 2: a Hallmark Channel now an original movie like decal on
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  Speaker 2: the front of it. All right, but it is a
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  Speaker 2: Scholastic book, which means that it's its audience is tweens
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  Speaker 2: and teens.
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  Speaker 1: No, I agree with that. And Jenny Meyerhoff did get
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  Speaker 1: a writing credit on this movie, along with Nina Wineman,
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  Speaker 1: who is a prolific Hallmark writer as well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I just have This is what makes me like,
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  Speaker 2: not irritated, but annoyed when they take like, and I
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  Speaker 2: know you say this happens all time, but they take
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  Speaker 2: up book and it took like a dash of the book,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because this book is obviously more about Clara's storyline,
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  Speaker 2: but the movie is is obviously centraled around the budding
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  Speaker 2: relationship between David and carry. So it's like they took
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  Speaker 2: a dash of Playing Cupid the book, and a dash
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  Speaker 2: of Emma and a whatever and mixed it all up
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  Speaker 2: in the Hallmark blender.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's very very loosely based on the book.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they do have the same character names, but
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  Speaker 1: other than that, I would agree they just took inspiration
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  Speaker 1: from it and then adapted it to be hallmarky. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't honestly bother me. I don't like it when they
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  Speaker 1: say it's now a Hallmark original movie because it's not
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  Speaker 1: really right. It's not like you're watching you know what.
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  Speaker 1: I love the Jenny haun To All the Boys I
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  Speaker 1: loved before a series where those are adaptations of the books. Like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's some creative license taken in the movies, but they're
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  Speaker 1: very true to the books, I would say that's not
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  Speaker 1: the case here. And as a reader who then watches movies,
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  Speaker 1: I find it really hard sometimes to watch a movie
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  Speaker 1: of a book I've read, because I'm like, wait, the
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  Speaker 1: whole time, I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Was that how it was in the book?
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  Speaker 1: Was that how it was in the book? And I
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  Speaker 1: can't focus on the movie itself, So I understand what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying well.
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing, too, is I wonder if these
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  Speaker 2: characters of David and Carey exist in that book. I
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  Speaker 2: doubt they do. I don't know. I think I'm more
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  Speaker 2: interested in watching an adaptation of the book rather than
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  Speaker 2: a inspired by.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked Clara's storyline a little bit better. I
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  Speaker 1: kind of liked the younger actors and their cute little
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  Speaker 1: like matchmaking business. When I was in middle school, we
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  Speaker 1: had I wish I could remember what it was called,
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  Speaker 1: but there was like you filled out a survey and
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  Speaker 1: then you were given like your compatibility matches? What done
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  Speaker 1: around valid and Day? Yes, it was done around Valentine's Day.
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  Speaker 1: And I can remember like being part of the team
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  Speaker 1: that it was seventh and eighth grade middle school, and
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  Speaker 1: I was so inappropriate. Thinking back, it is so weird.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember what we called it, but I know
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  Speaker 1: that it was run by the Pep Club.
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  Speaker 2: I heard that a long time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we wore like cheer skirts, even though for
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  Speaker 1: no good reason. Yeah, and we I can remember like
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  Speaker 1: being in putting the information because obviously it wasn't on
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  Speaker 1: a computer, like, we didn't have the ability to collect
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  Speaker 1: Google forms. So people filled out surveys and we input
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  Speaker 1: them all and then their compatibility was spit. I don't know, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: my memory is big, but I do know that it happened.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, it seems odd that that was allowed it
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  Speaker 1: in middle school. IM pretty sure it would not be
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  Speaker 1: allowed down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds like a carnival game. It doesn't sound like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like a legitimate middle school project. So weird.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a fundraiser.
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  Speaker 1: It was like you pay, you know, to get your matches.
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  Speaker 1: Cool anyway, I goes so wrong, don't you think so?
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  Speaker 1: And honestly thinking about it now, I'm like, God, I
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  Speaker 1: would have secondhand embarrassment for imagining myself on someone's list
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  Speaker 1: and them thinking like, oh I don't want to match
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  Speaker 1: with her totally.
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  Speaker 2: Ye oh terrible m M fire That teacher. Whose ever
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  Speaker 2: I did that one? Just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, this movie claims to be a remake of Emma.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy apparently has some issues with that statement.
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  Speaker 2: But because the story is not about Clara, the story
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  Speaker 2: is about David and Carrie's I agree.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think she features pretty heavily. You know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these movies that have kids in them,
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  Speaker 1: I think she gets a bigger role than we see
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  Speaker 1: many of the other movies that have kids. She's not incidental.
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  Speaker 1: She does have a fully fleshed out storyline. I think, yes, agree, agree.
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  Speaker 1: I maybe read Emma in high school, but I know
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  Speaker 1: many adult women have a strong affinity for Jane Austen novels,
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  Speaker 1: and I haven't read any of them since I was
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  Speaker 1: in high school, and I'm starting to feel like maybe
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  Speaker 1: I should. But they remade the movie Emma in twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: and it starts Na Taylor Joy, who was the star
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  Speaker 1: of The Queen's Gambit, which makes me want to rewatch
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  Speaker 1: it because I find her so fascinating to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Hang on just a second, I think she was nominated
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  Speaker 2: for a Golden Globe for that Emma. Oh, let me
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  Speaker 2: just look here, because I think she was nominated for
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  Speaker 2: both The Queen's Gambit and Emma Anything that she had.
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  Speaker 1: Such a good Golden Globes. While you're doing that, there's
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  Speaker 1: a great episode of the Popcast that talks about the
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  Speaker 1: Golden Globes and why they're actually kind of garbage, aside
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  Speaker 1: from the fact that their picks are totally racist. Like
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  Speaker 1: the people they get to vote is such a small
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  Speaker 1: insular group, like it does not really representative of Hollywood itself.
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  Speaker 1: I highly recommend it. We'll link it in the show notes.
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  Speaker 1: It's very funny and very informative.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, here we go. Best Performance by an Actress in
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  Speaker 2: a Limited Series Anya Taylor Joy for The Queen's Gambit,
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  Speaker 2: and also for Best Performance by an Actress in a
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  Speaker 2: Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for It. Okay, yeah, that's awesome. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: that a stellar year for her.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I really enjoyed her. She was kind of
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  Speaker 1: brand new to me. Not kind of she was brand
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  Speaker 1: new to me in The Queen's Gambit, but she's also
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  Speaker 1: in Peaky Blinders, which I started and honestly fell asleep
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  Speaker 1: in the first five minutes, which is again not a
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  Speaker 1: judgment on the show. I fall asleep easily watching TV
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  Speaker 1: in bed, but I would like to go back and
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  Speaker 1: watch it strictly for her and the accents.
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  Speaker 2: She's also in, like a horror movie. I can't you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to watch. I know, I can't remember
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  Speaker 2: the name of it. I'll link it in the show
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  Speaker 2: notes to somebody's scoring it right now.
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  Speaker 1: My personal favorite remake of Emma is Clueless, which is
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  Speaker 1: one of my all time favorite movies. I'm a too
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  Speaker 1: hardcore Alicia Silverstone fan. Saw in the movie theater. I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember, but I've seen it hundreds of times. I
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  Speaker 1: love that movie. I used to watch it over and over.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it still creeps me out that like she
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  Speaker 2: gets together with her stepbrother at the end. However, I
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  Speaker 2: do love everything else about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're not related.
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  Speaker 2: Though, I know, but it's still weird. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: went to college with her her you wait, Busy Hillips,
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  Speaker 2: Alicia Silverstone and you all went to the same college.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, at the same time. Actually, because she and I
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  Speaker 1: took Alicia and I besties took photography, like in the
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  Speaker 1: same semester. We weren't in the same class. We were
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  Speaker 1: often in the dark room at the same time, and uh, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was my college claim to fame.
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  Speaker 2: Was this pre or post Clueless?
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  Speaker 1: It must have been post This is nineteen ninety eight,
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine, Okay, it was post When did Clues come
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  Speaker 1: out before ninety five? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you those of my college besties, you and your
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  Speaker 2: celebrity college that you went to. That's right, because wasn't
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  Speaker 2: Tom Hanks the son there too?
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  Speaker 1: Colin?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Colin, he's Louise girl. I went to college with
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  Speaker 2: the girl who played Dylan McKay's younger sister on Beverly
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  Speaker 2: Hills I two and O eric Erica. She was in
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  Speaker 2: one of my chemistry classes at school.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but what was your first impression of this movie?
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, this movie fell super flat for me. I was
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  Speaker 2: very excited for it, and I thought it disappointed big time.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't like it as much as I liked A
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  Speaker 1: Beverly Hill's wedding. I didn't hate it. It was just
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  Speaker 1: an okay movie for me. It was fine.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hate it either, you know. There. I have
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  Speaker 2: a visceral reaction to some movies that I cannot stand,
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  Speaker 2: and we have talked about them here on the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: So this was not one of them. This just was
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  Speaker 2: like super flat for me, Like I was like, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Is it almost like the Winter Getaway movie for me?
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  Speaker 1: Like I didn't hate it.
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  Speaker 2: I was just like, okay, give me yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah yeah exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So what did you like about this movie?
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything you liked?
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  Speaker 2: I do? I have a short list of things that
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  Speaker 2: I liked. First step, I thought the sets were vibrant
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  Speaker 2: and bright and beautiful. And I know this is like
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  Speaker 2: a stupid thing, but coming off of all those Christmas
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  Speaker 2: movies and the Winter movies when everything is cold and
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  Speaker 2: bleak and whatever, not that the Christmas movies were cold
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  Speaker 2: and bleak, but the Winter vies were so I just
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  Speaker 2: thought these were like beautiful. The restaurant had like all
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  Speaker 2: these like vibe colors. There was this one thing too.
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  Speaker 2: They took like the candles on the table, they were
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  Speaker 2: in a jar, but then around the jar they wrapped
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  Speaker 2: like colorful tissue paper, and I thought, what a great idea.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen that done before.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that did so noticed. But I did think
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  Speaker 1: the right thing was beautiful. I love the restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the middle school looked like a business office, really,
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  Speaker 2: but then I thought they did a great job of
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  Speaker 2: like making it bright and vibrant, like what you would
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  Speaker 2: see at school.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked the dance. I thought the dance looked great.
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  Speaker 1: The decoorse for that, I agree. Agree.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me some things you liked. I have a few more,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm curious.
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  Speaker 1: I loved the Ain't no Mountain high enough Dan scene,
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  Speaker 1: Like I watched part of this movie while I was
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  Speaker 1: getting ready and was totally dancing. Love that song. It's
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: a real remember the Titans moment for me like that.
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  Speaker 2: Megan didn't like it, No, I hate it.
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  Speaker 1: Fun, I loved it. I will not be brought down
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  Speaker 1: from this moment. I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to talk about that specifically in our
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  Speaker 2: next segment of what I would have wished for, But okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a fan. No.
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  Speaker 1: I also enjoyed all of the food talk, Like there
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  Speaker 1: was so much food talk and it wasn't like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: let's have eggnog and sugar cookies like boring, right, It
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  Speaker 1: was like unique and he was talking about family recipes
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  Speaker 1: and it made me want to go to that restaurant
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  Speaker 1: and have the abwellas angria and have a burrito, Like
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  Speaker 1: give it to me now, I loved it. I like
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  Speaker 1: when they make food almost a character in a book
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  Speaker 1: or a movie. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that's good writing when you can like
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  Speaker 2: make your viewers want to eat what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. I love that. Okay, what else? That's
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  Speaker 2: all I have?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Okay, that's not true. I did love
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  Speaker 1: Nicholas Gonzalez.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. I thought he was great.
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  Speaker 1: Real I thoct him.
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  Speaker 2: He was great. I have some notes about him too. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So what else I liked was, with the exception of
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  Speaker 2: the main female lead, I thought the cast was pretty diverse.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed that. I appreciate that. I liked that there
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  Speaker 2: was an early kiss scene like it wasn't not only
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  Speaker 2: at the end, but it was like almost an hour
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  Speaker 2: and a half in when they were in the was it?
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  Speaker 1: Where were they they were in the restaurant immediately after
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  Speaker 1: they ain't no home out and high I've seen.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but hold on, hold on. I like the kissine
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  Speaker 2: hold on. I have thought I will get to those.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the tortilla scene when he was like, you
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  Speaker 2: need some more oil now, a little bit of flower,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, this is almost sexy. But it didn't
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  Speaker 2: quite get there, but it was.
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  Speaker 1: Their their breathy talk was quite a bit. Yeah, real
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  Speaker 1: heavy in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: I just that's why I was like, oh, hello, Nicholas Gonzalez,
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  Speaker 2: what else can I find you? Man? I just loved him,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, that's all. That's how I got for what
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  Speaker 2: I liked.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, shall we talk roadblocks placed in the way of
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  Speaker 1: our movie couple?
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  Speaker 2: Is that? Oh? Oh, you know, I don't have many.
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  Speaker 2: The only one I have is the ex wife seems
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  Speaker 2: to be a problem. And then uh oh the ex
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: wife shows up?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah I have Oh Eva is back. I also have
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: very early on, oh, Carrie has a long term boyfriend
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to have to get rid of before
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  Speaker 1: we move on to the real story.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there also too was the uh oh, she might
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: have to move back to where to her mom?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, but why we've talked about this before,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: but this is a all what we think. But the
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: families are like, you need to come home, like you
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: went there and it didn't work. What part of it
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: didn't work? She broke up with her boyfriend, so now
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: she can't stay in this city as an adult employed woman.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I don't understand.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: That's so annoying.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: She has a full life there, she has friends and
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: a job she's obviously great at. I know that could
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: have been cut out of the movie for me. I
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: also have uh oh, Carrie and David are at odds
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: over a school project.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, Dad, that too.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Which was manufactured drama for me because all of his
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: objections seemed completely absurd. When he's like, this isn't going
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to succeed, I wanted her to be like, dude, it's
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: a fake school project. All she has to do is
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: like go through the motions. She doesn't actually have to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: make any money.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: I know. Well, the whole thing where he was like,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: this is not going to succeed, I was like, dude,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: we have e harmony. We have these are matchmaker services
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: that people are making a shit ton of money off of.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: So hey, maybe it is going to succeed in the
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: middle school level.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Capitalize on all those raging hormones. Come on, right, all right, Well,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling you have several in this next category,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: which is what we wished for. So I'm gonna let
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: you just hop right in.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, So I the two leads lacked any chemistry for me.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I just thought they were so mismatched. Okay, no way,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: and plus like, she's a couple inches taller than him,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: and I didn't like that. I thought it was very obvious.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: It just bugged me. It just bugged me. I would
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: have rather seen and I even wrote this down. I
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: would have rather seen Alexa Panavega as Carrie in this role.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Do you remember Alexa Panavega from.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Sure from Taking a Shant of Love? But yeah, I
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: cannot believe you're height shaming him.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not shaming him, I'm really not. I just it's
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: it just bothered me.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's so funny to me.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, but but I did write down here. I thought
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Nicholas Gonzalez, who played David, was belo believable. I cared
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: about his character as a single parent, you know, I
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: really liked him. I just thought it was a mismatch
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: between him and Laura van der Vut, who played a Carrie.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I wanted more of the scene when Eva, the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: long lost mother arrives to find David and Carrie kissing.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: All we have is what do we have here? And
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: then cut to commercial and then it come back and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: it's the next day. That story just led to nowhere.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: It was like, not even relevant that she came back.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: It didn't it didn't even matter as a whole.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: It didn't even matter.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Well, I like that there was some resolution there because
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: they have her off screen the entire time and up
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: until you know, the last fifteen minutes, and I had wondered,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: are we going to see her because she was just
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: kind of this invisible conflict happening between David and Clara
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and not really between the two of them, but I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: think she was creating conflict where it didn't exist. And
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the mom also was like, why are you letting her
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: do this project if it's you know, she's going to
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: be embarrassed when nobody shows up at the restaurant, which
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: was so I've never seen two parents like less invested
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: in supporting their eighth grade daughter in their fake business resurtion.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: And it was like and the daughter was okay with
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: like she's back, We're a family in a different way now.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I liked that there wasn't that like trying to tear
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: them apart anymore when she moved back.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: To the area. Listen, I just did not care about
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: that character or her coming back.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I didn't like her when she answers the door to Carrie,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and I felt like she had that moment of like,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: we're having family time right now, and I was like,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: but you're not getting back together.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Right My whole problem with that scene was didn't they
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: just spend the entire evening at the restaurant doing her
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: singles speed dating thing and then now, oh, they're having
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: family time at home? Like what time of night is this?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of time continuity issues in this movie.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, she was at the dance waiting for her secret
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: admirer at seven o'clock and then boom, she's at the
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: restaurant hosting the speed dating. There was just a lot
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: of Am I wrong?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Were those different night day before Valentine's Day? I was confused,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: But I do think the dance was the day before.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Well, they did not explain that very well. I thought,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I agree. I will get to that lip singing part
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: in a second. But this is what I really would
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: have liked from the story. I would have loved if
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: they would have flipped this story upside down and made
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: the single dad a gay man who meets his daughter's
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: teacher who is also part of the LGBTQ community. Wouldn't
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: that have been a great.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Movie, Yes, but it would not have featured a gay
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: man who was also not super white in the Hallmark world.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Oh you think I just choked.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: I think I think Hallmark is making baby steps. I
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: don't think they're like I think they're like, whoa, that's like,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: we can give them one thing, but we can't give
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: them too many. I just I would have loved it.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I yes, I would have loved that as well.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Like if if Clara was trying to set up her dad,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: who was newly single with her teacher, I would have
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: loved that. That would have been so cute.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Somebody rte that. I mean, you know what, we know
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: somebody I'm gonna sure this idea. I mean, I just
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: maybe you're just not going to see that on a
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Hallmark movie yet. Hopefully in the future we will see that.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, have we gotten I don't think we've had a
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: gay lead couple. I know we've had some same sex
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: couples that are soup even strong supporting characters, But I
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: don't think we've had a lead main couple yet. I
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: don't think so Lifetime did. Hallmark is like dipping their
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: toe in real slowly.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I want to give more credit to the people who
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: watch these shows. I don't want to think that Hallmark
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: is cow telling to their audience, do you know right?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: But they are yes, And believe me, there are people
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: in my life who feel who are very upset with Hallmark.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Not people that I like enjoy, but people that we
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: know who are upset about the direction Hallmark is taking
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: their movies. And I think at some point, I think
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: at some point Hallmark is going to have to say,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: this is the world we live in. We're going to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: represent real people and be okay with losing people who
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: are homophobic and racist and like, is that the audience
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that you want? At some point, you're gonna have to
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: look at what the bottom line means to you.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we're here for your homemark. We want that. Okay,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Now let's get to your favorite scene. Which was my
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: least favorite scene.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: I can't wait.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Ain't no mountain high enough? Now? Okay, when they just
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: showed him doing it, I thought, oh my god, this
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: is adorable. This is the music montage that I love
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: that I want from every movie. But then when she
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: jumped in, I was like super cringe the entire time.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: It went like too long for me, and I can't
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: believe I'm gonna say this. They used carrots for the
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: microphone and it was far too phallic. And I'm twelve
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: years old, so I'm sorry they needed to use a
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: wooden spoon. I just was like, I'm laughing, uncomfortable with
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: this man.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: With a scene. I agree that it was long, and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I was thinking, like, I wonder if they needed to
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: make this to fill this. Also in the opening scene,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the opening moment where it's like the opening notes of
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the song or playing, did it feel like it played
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: more than it actually does in the song?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Wait, ever going to get to the words of this song?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Are we just getting instrumental totally?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Because I like came in to sing like the first line.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I was like, wait, that's where the first line goes.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Why didn't they play it?
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: That's what I thought too. I was, wait a minute,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: they're not going to use the actual song, We're just
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: going to get some like instrumental of him dancing. I
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: did think it went long. I wondered what they were
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: going to do with those carrots afterwards, like are we
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: going to throw them away? Not in that sense, but
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I was hoping, Oh, my god, God gosh, Yes, I agree.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: That is where my mind went. They were not going
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: to be used for consumption, that they were going to
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: go into the trash. I wasn't being dirty with these parrots,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: that's what you were suggesting. Now, you know, dancing around
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: a restaurant kitchen just feels unsafe for me too.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Well, then she hops up on the cunner. I was like,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, you can put your butt where ed
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: hot things go and be on the surface that it's
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: supposed to be sanitary.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, it would. I don't know. I was
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: so uncomfortable by the entire thing, with the exception of
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: his very solo part at the beginning.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was admittedly focused on him in that dance scene.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: He had more of the moves than she did.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: She just is So I'm not trying to shit all
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: over these movies and the actors and the actresses. I
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: just she's just it was a mismatch casting, That's what
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going back to. I don't think that she's like
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: a terrible actress. She was fine. I just think it
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: was a mismatch in casting.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: How about we want to digit you that questions, plot
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: holes and things we need to discuss.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, I got a few shocker.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I have a big question.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: M hm.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: How can a restaurant afford to be closed on Valentine's Day?
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: How much are these people paying for this speed dating
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: program that allows them to just say, like you, we're
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: not gonna be open on Valentine's Day, We're gonna let
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: you have your project.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she should have did the project like at lunchtime,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and then the restaurant could have opened for dinner time
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: or pre Valentine's Day, Right, you want to meet somebody
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: before Valentine's Day.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: There's also a lot of times like okay, there's a
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: lot of continuity issues. I have not continuity timing issues.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: But the tortilla making night, Clara is at basketball, which
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: we know from my previous scene ends at maybe nine o'clock.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: What time are they making tortillas that the restaurant is
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: completely clothes and empty of people? Or is this the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: restaurant that they just only open occasionally?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, see, that's the Joy's been crazy too. Mm hmm.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: So this movie takes place in Seattle during early February.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I don't think they were dressed for it. It's a
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: lot colder and rainier in Seattle during this time of year,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: and we were like, she's in her beautiful jackets, which
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: I love every movie when I have the beautiful jackets on.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: And they had that kid mowing the lawn before school, Like, no, no.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Right, sunshiny day.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not happening.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: There's a there's a day in the movie. In the morning,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the dad comes into the classroom and it's upset with her.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: In the afternoon, she and her friend are out running,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and then at night they're like at a PTA meeting
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: and she's back in her work clothes. I was like,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, Yeah, what is happening here when she
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: cause And the only reason I knew it was the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: same day because she's like, oh, he came to my
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: classroom this morning. They didn't need that this morning to
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: make that PTA meeting believable. Could have been any night.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I just thought, how many hours do you have in
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: your day and why would you change back into your
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: work clothes for PTA meeting.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I also noticed in that scene too, either in the
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: morning her hair was pulled back and then at the
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: met PTA meeting it was down. Yeah continuity. Those those
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: things drive me crazy, and I don't know why I
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: always notice the I'm like a dog, you know what
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I mean. I just noticed this crap another thing. I
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: actually post this on our Girls Gone Hallmark Instagram this morning, Sennaharts.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I looked it up.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Isn't it actual candy?
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: No, which is why it's so weird that they zoom
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: in on the name of them over and over again
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: several times.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, that was so bizarre, right, And I swear they
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: were using Hershey kisses in their candy grams.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Oh probably, I mean I have the Hershey sponsorship, so
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they're not gonna s.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: There was a line there they said that the PTA
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: candygrams made enough money for field trips for the rest
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: of the year. I was like, holy crap, where are
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: they charged. Look, Megan and I have both been integral
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: parts of the PTA in our children's respective schools. You
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: don't make that much money on Chiser.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: They bought all that candy and all the supplies, plus
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: what they're selling them for, plus how big is this school? No,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: field trips are expensive, the buses are expensive. My kids
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: are paying no shit, forty five dollars a kid for
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: field trips last year, which blew my mind. I don't know.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: That seems like a lot for regular field trip. You'd
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: be like eight dollars. Yeah, anyway, I'm just saying, no,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I don't believe it. Also, who bought I know, like
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: he David and his ex bought her a new laptop?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Who bought her a desk and a chair? Okay, they
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: bought them with the fundraising money that's supposed to go
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: to the school. But now the teacher's getting a new
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: desk and chair.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know she makes a joke about it at
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: the very beginning. But then they're at that awards ceremony
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: or whatever, and they just like push out this desk
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: and push out this chair. We bought you this furniture,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Like how did you get it there? Like what?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: And you were going to win?
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. And then they give her this laptop. It's
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: like a refurbished laptop with a bow on it. It's
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: not like in a box, it's not brand new. So
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: bizarre it was.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I did think, I will admit though, I did enjoy
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: that moment as much as I'm tearing it apart right now,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I did think it was a sweet moment where they
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: gave for those things as unbelievable as I think it is.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's because your husband does a similar
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: program at his own school.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: No. Yes, and he's been on like the receiving end
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: of surprise gifts, like he was helpful Honda Teacher Appreciation
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Week recipient, which was a fun experience. So like the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: you know, I cry when I see teachers.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Of course, teachers need to be recognized. I absolutely stand
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: behind that. I just thought it was so weird.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, it didn't make any sense, like where did the
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: money come from? And of the school is supposed to
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: get it, but like no, no, the teacher gets a
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: new desks. Sorry, kids, you can't have the computers that
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: you need. No new books?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: All right? Is there anything else? That's all I have
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: time to rate it.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I'm a little nervous.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: You to go first.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I am giving this movie two and a half stars. Wow,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: perfectly average, serviceable.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Fine, what did you give Beverly Hill's Wedding three stars? Three?
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Me too. I loved Beverly Hill's wedding in comparison to
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: this movie. I gave this one and a half stars.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, stuff there.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I did the characters, I mean not the characters, but
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: the acting. The casting just killed it. For me.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: All right, So next week we have Mixed Up in
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the Mediterranean featuring Jeremy Jordan. Not alright and.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I had a posted a poll on our Instagram stories
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: and the vast majority of people, even though the majority
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: were nine two and o fans, did not remember that line,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: which I was disappointed because it's such a burned in memory.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: They're not true nine two and o fans. And you
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: know you can search at half tag on Instagram Jeremy
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Jordan Alright, things come up. Sadly, that clip does not
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: come out. It just does not exist anymore. It's got
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: to somewhere on the internet.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: If you missed it. Yesterday we publish an interview with
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Julie Sherman Wolf, the writer of Taking a Shot at Love,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: among many other Hallmark movies. You would love it if
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: you would give it a listen. She was an absolute
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: delight to talk to and we're looking forward to more
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: movies from her. Of course, you can catch our regular
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: podcast every Tuesday, and while you're here, if you would
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: leave a rating or a review, we would absolutely love it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: If you enjoy us, and until next time, have a
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: great week.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Bye bye.