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To Barcelona, Forever · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls gott Hallmark,
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Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I Magan and I'm a longtime
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Speaker 1: Hallmark fan.
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Speaker 2: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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Speaker 1: On today's episode, we're discussing to Barcelona Forever, which originally
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Speaker 1: premiered on the Hallmark Channel on Saturday, June fourteenth, and
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Speaker 1: is currently streaming on the Hallmark Plus streaming platform. We'd
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Speaker 1: love for you to hang out with us after the podcast,
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Speaker 1: where we are Girls Gone Hallmark on Instagram and coming
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Speaker 1: up a little later in the episode, we have a
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Speaker 1: visit from a very special guest. You're gonna want to
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Speaker 1: stay tuned for that.
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Speaker 2: Hey, if you who are looking for a Facebook group
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Speaker 2: with fellow Hallmark fans, we have one for you. It's
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Speaker 2: called Girls Gone Hallmark in Facebook groups. You know, I
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Speaker 2: peeked in there last night. We're recording this on Monday morning.
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Speaker 2: I peeked in there last night, last Sunday night. It
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Speaker 2: was kind of quiet.
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Speaker 1: No one was talking about this movie, and I wonder
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Speaker 1: if they're scared.
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Speaker 2: Come on, are you for real right now? Did you
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Speaker 2: think I gave them a lashing in there?
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Speaker 3: Night?
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Speaker 2: Wasn't even close to it.
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Speaker 1: No, I thought you were very fair in your post,
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Speaker 1: which we'll talk about in a little bit later in
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Speaker 1: this episode. But I was surprised that there wasn't a
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Speaker 1: single comment about this movie, particularly given that there was
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Speaker 1: a ton of talk about the first one. So if
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Speaker 1: you're in that group, get in there and make it happen, y'all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I also think it speaks to the fact there's not
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Speaker 1: like a whole lot happening. You know, there's this movie,
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Speaker 1: but there's not a whole lot happened on Hallmark right now, a.
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Speaker 2: Whole bunch of reruns if you didn't know, that's what's
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Speaker 2: coming to Helmark in July reruns. Oh and also Christmas
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Speaker 2: at See I'm gonna talk about it later.
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Speaker 1: Oh in this episode.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I watched this movie live. Oh you did? Actually,
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm just gonna talk about it now. Okay,
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Speaker 2: it's in my digit see that. But since you didn't
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Speaker 2: watch it live, you watched it on Hallmark. Plus I'm
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Speaker 2: guessing yep, while watching live, how many times can Christmas
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Speaker 2: at Sea pop up at the bottom two thirds of
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Speaker 2: mice and not to mention the Norwegian gym? Like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: I get it You're a star now. It's like this
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Speaker 2: giant picture of the boat and then like Christmas at
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Speaker 2: Sea and I'm watching with subtitles because that's what you
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Speaker 2: do when you're old, and so you can't see it.
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Speaker 2: So frustrating, but I'm like, okay, I see you're like
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Speaker 2: four part dark docuseries is coming out. Okay, show me
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Speaker 2: one time, show me during the commercial, Yeah, we get it.
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Speaker 2: So frustrating.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's hear a synopsis for To Barcelona Forever.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna transition, okay. As Anna travels back to Barcelona,
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Speaker 2: reuniting with Erica to celebrate her engagement to Nico, she
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Speaker 2: finds a charming farmer and accidentally finds herself engaged to
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Speaker 2: save his family's legacy.
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Speaker 1: Ron Oliver returns to direct To Barcelona Forever. He has
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Speaker 1: ninety one directing credits, and y'all know him from The
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Speaker 1: Groomsman and The Wedding Veil Journey, as well as several
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Speaker 1: Picture Perfect Mysteries movies. Julie Sherman Wolf wrote the screenplay
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Speaker 1: for this movie, as well as the original To Barcelona
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Speaker 1: with Love. Julie is one of Hollmark's best writers, having
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Speaker 1: pinned movies like Holiday Touchdown and so so many more.
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Speaker 1: I wonder what's on top for her this holiday season.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see. Was a little bit surprised,
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Speaker 1: gonna admit it that she is not writing the Bill's
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Speaker 1: love story Ieah, same same. Ashley Williams and Alison Sweeney
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Speaker 1: share top billing, but this time Ashley Williams takes the
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Speaker 1: lead role in this chapter of the story. Ali stars
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Speaker 1: as Erica. We did see her earlier this year in
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Speaker 1: Reality Bites a Hannah s Wentzon History, and she will
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Speaker 1: return to the role of Hannah in two upcoming movies
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Speaker 1: of pidadip For and Cook to Death, one of which
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Speaker 1: is coming in just a couple short weeks. Ashley Williams
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Speaker 1: stars as Anna. Not only did Ashley star in two
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Speaker 1: Hallmark movies last year, she also hosted the Hamewark Plus
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Speaker 1: dating series Small Town Setup, and she recently added another
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Speaker 1: directorial credit to her resume with an episode of The
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Speaker 1: Rookie on ABC. Alejandro Toos plays Nico. He's a Spanish
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Speaker 1: actor best known for his role as Ramon and La
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Speaker 1: Rea Blanca, where he has appeared in ninety nine episodes
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Speaker 1: of the drama series.
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Speaker 2: Miguel Broco plays Javier Migal, a Mexican actor who has
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Speaker 2: seventeen acting credits and has appeared in one hundred and
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Speaker 2: ten episodes of this Spanish series Mia es la Oh man,
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Speaker 2: you can do it, Mia s la ben ganza, Yes,
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Speaker 2: as diego man. I took two years of Spanish shoo terrible, terrible.
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Speaker 1: But how often do you get the chance to practice
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Speaker 1: your pronunciation in real life?
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Speaker 2: Not very, not very.
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Speaker 1: Both films were filmed on location in and around Barcelona
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Speaker 1: earlier this year.
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Speaker 2: Hey, if you haven't yet listened to it, Ali and
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Speaker 2: Ashley do have a podcast where they shared the process
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Speaker 2: of making these movies. It is called Mia More and
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Speaker 2: there are six episodes now available.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we are going to
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Speaker 1: come right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy, what
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Speaker 1: was your first impression of two Barcelona Forever?
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Speaker 2: This is the kind of movie that sneaks up on you.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you. One minute, I'm laughing at the subtitles.
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Speaker 2: I have more to talk about it. The next I'm
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Speaker 2: tearing up over the mother daughter moment. Oh, what's your
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Speaker 2: first impression? My first impression is to quote a message
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Speaker 2: we received from one of our listeners after this movie aired.
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Speaker 2: So when are we going to Barcelona? How beautiful? I mean,
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Speaker 2: I haven't felt this way since maybe we watched the
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Speaker 2: Danube movies originally last year, where I was like, I
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Speaker 2: want to go on a river cruise. Now I want
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Speaker 2: to go to Barcelona.
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Speaker 1: However, I did happen to see that the people of
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Speaker 1: Barcelona are not really loving tourists lately. Oh so maybe
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Speaker 1: we should table that idea.
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Speaker 2: Really why?
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Speaker 1: I actually saw some videos of some British tourist getting
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Speaker 1: water gunned by Oh no, the people of Barcelona. I
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Speaker 1: don't know the details of or the nuances of why
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Speaker 1: people are upset, but I apparently this is an ongoing
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Speaker 1: thing where the people of Barcelona are not the biggest
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Speaker 1: fans of tourism lately.
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Speaker 2: Well that's really interesting.
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Speaker 3: M hmm.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what did you like about Barcelona Forever?
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Speaker 2: Well, I have a really long list, and I'm afraid
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Speaker 2: you do not I do. Okay. First, I really appreciated
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Speaker 2: that Anna is fully stepping into this new identity as
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Speaker 2: a travel writer. It feels like growth from the first
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Speaker 2: movie where she was like, what am I going to
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Speaker 2: do next?
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Speaker 3: Right? Mm hmm?
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Speaker 2: And I love in contrast that Erica is now writing
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Speaker 2: her own novel. It gives purpose to these women outside
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Speaker 2: of having a romantic storyline.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we are not one dimensional. I love a fake
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Speaker 1: dating story. It's one of my favorite tropes. Same However,
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Speaker 1: what I really liked is they take this whirlwind one
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Speaker 1: day romance, and that's how they prime the fake dating story.
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Speaker 1: So we are already willing to accept that in this
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Speaker 1: like fake engagement, they have chemistry. They don't have to
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Speaker 1: develop it, which works really well in the constraints of
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Speaker 1: a movie that's an hour and twenty minutes because.
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Speaker 2: They've already built it up.
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Speaker 1: And so I thought the pairing of those two ideas
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Speaker 1: this like one day and then we go on our
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Speaker 1: separate ways, and then now we have to pretend to
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Speaker 1: be engaged made me fully believe that these two had
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Speaker 1: these strong emotions for each other that they were pushing
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Speaker 1: back against. I agree, I absolutely agree, And I like
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Speaker 1: that you articulated it like that because I was wondering.
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Speaker 1: I love a fake dating trope, but you're right, Like
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Speaker 1: some of my favorite fake dating movies, the whole movie
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Speaker 1: is them actually becoming interested in each other. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: what we have here is they are already interested in
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Speaker 1: each other.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a nice little spin, and.
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Speaker 1: We don't have the misunderstanding piece because often in fake dating, right,
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Speaker 1: they're pretending to be together and separately they're developing these feelings,
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Speaker 1: but neither is saying it to the other because they're
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Speaker 1: supposed to be pretending. But they didn't have any of that.
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Speaker 1: They got to be outfront.
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Speaker 2: About all of it, right, right, right, right right? What
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Speaker 2: else you're like, Well, I like that it pivoted away
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Speaker 2: from last week's story. You know, we last week we
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Speaker 2: were at Nico's bookstore and Saint Jordie and all that, right,
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Speaker 2: and I knew, like, we're going to do a sequel,
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Speaker 2: but where is this going to pick up? I'm glad
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Speaker 2: that it didn't pick up like a year later. I
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Speaker 2: picked up a couple months later, and then we get
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Speaker 2: a full pivot into following what Anna is doing. But
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Speaker 2: it was still complementary to the original story, but we're
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Speaker 2: not getting the identical story. Yeah, that makes sense, no,
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Speaker 2: one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: And I the thing I liked about Erica's story is
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Speaker 1: it kind of runs in the background of this movie.
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Speaker 1: There's just hints of it. And you talked a little
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Speaker 1: bit about some of the emotional Powerhouse moments, which I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to take away from you, but I do
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Speaker 1: want to talk about her breaking down to Nico after
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Speaker 1: she's discovered as writing this story and he finds out
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Speaker 1: that she was struggling with writer's block, and everyone's upset
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Speaker 1: with her, and she runs away and she finally just
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Speaker 1: kind of comes to him and breaks down a little bit.
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Speaker 1: That was a very powerful scene for me.
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Speaker 2: I agree, and it hit in a way that.
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Speaker 1: I was surprised by because her story is not front
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Speaker 1: and center in this movie, and yet that scene was
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Speaker 1: really great.
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Speaker 2: I was very emotional for her. Mit you, and now
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Speaker 2: let you say that, I'm it's probably not purposeful, but
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Speaker 2: reflecting on it, like it shows that a lot of
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Speaker 2: people have stuff going on, right, but we show up
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Speaker 2: for other people and you know, like we're what's that line,
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Speaker 2: Like everybody's dealing with something. So, yeah, that's a really
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Speaker 2: good point. Like she's there for Anna and she all
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Speaker 2: that stuff is fun, but then like there's this background
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Speaker 2: of like I'm not dealing well with this task that
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Speaker 2: I'm supposed to do writing this novel, and she finally
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Speaker 2: breaks down to Nico. Yes, it's a very good, very
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Speaker 2: good scene. I agree. I agree.
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Speaker 3: Two.
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Speaker 2: I have a I would like to say that the
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Speaker 2: writing is equally as sharp in this one as it
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Speaker 2: was in the first one. I thought it was funny
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Speaker 2: in all the right places, especially between Anna and Javier.
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Speaker 2: They there's one scene where they're talking about where he
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Speaker 2: they after they have their date and they're eating ice
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Speaker 2: cream and they talk about the spicy kiss. I thought
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Speaker 2: that was so good. Then there was like a full nuanced,
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Speaker 2: grown up conversation about not sleeping together when she shows
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Speaker 2: up at his home and he's going to show her
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Speaker 2: where she's going to be sleeping and they're like, she goes,
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Speaker 2: but we're not. We're not. I'm not sleeping with you know.
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Speaker 2: It just was funny. I thought it was well done.
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Speaker 2: And Anna and Erica, like their banter, had a nice
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Speaker 2: rhythm and natural flow to it that I really like,
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Speaker 2: Like you can tell these people like each other in
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Speaker 2: real life, like it's easy to act between them. I'm sure. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you. I laughed out loud. And one
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Speaker 2: scene when Anna is talking to Erica and she's talking
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Speaker 2: about how she needs to make more money for what
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Speaker 2: she's doing and She's like, I need the brand deals.
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Speaker 2: If I want to get these brand deals and the sponsors,
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Speaker 2: I need to reach more people. And I was like, girl,
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Speaker 2: you are preaching to the choir, right. I felt very relatable.
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Speaker 2: My next thing is the comedy. I love a Hallmark
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Speaker 2: rom com totally mean too, and in this one, I
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Speaker 2: was thinking about it as we're watching, and we're gonna
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Speaker 2: talk about this more in a little bit. But we
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Speaker 2: don't get to see comedic chops a lot from the
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Speaker 2: women of Hallmark. Uh huh. We see funny, we see
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Speaker 2: them like reciting or acting funny lines, right, but we
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Speaker 2: don't we don't get to see it like maybe in
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Speaker 2: a physical comedy or like a all over the face
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Speaker 2: or like a quirky little whatever. I love Ashley Williams.
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Speaker 2: I think she brings a lot of comedy, but she
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Speaker 2: balances it with sincerity. It's she is a home run
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Speaker 2: for me every single time.
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Speaker 1: I totally agree.
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Speaker 2: And her scenes with Hobby Air, they were like light
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Speaker 2: and flirty. They were just such a joy to watch.
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Speaker 2: I just I really enjoyed a lot of this movie
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Speaker 2: because of that. I did too.
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Speaker 1: To your point, I think Asha Williams might be one
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Speaker 1: of the best comedic actresses on Hallmark, if not the
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Speaker 1: best comedic actress on Hallmark. And one of the things
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Speaker 1: I loved about this movie, as if after last week,
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Speaker 1: I wasn't already primed to shout about women being allowed
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Speaker 1: to be fun and adventurous and fall in love at
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Speaker 1: any age. They give us this love story to women
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Speaker 1: and female friendship and family that was so emotional for me.
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Speaker 1: On another note, when we were presented with the narrative
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Speaker 1: of this secret Saffron Farm, I heard Taylor Swift in
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Speaker 1: my head singing, I think I've heard the song before,
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Speaker 1: and I didn't like the ending, And they went ahead
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Speaker 1: and surprised me with two twists. One, Ashley pushes back
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Speaker 1: very quickly against the way in which they're deceiving his family.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't like it. She's uncomfortable with it. Regardless of
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Speaker 1: the potential career gains for her, she's not on board
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Speaker 1: with it. On the other hand, the twist of Erica
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Speaker 1: being the one to in quotation marks, betray them with
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Speaker 1: her yeah, was a twist that I didn't see coming.
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Speaker 1: I assumed because you know, we've seen this before. The
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Speaker 1: secret location that nobody can know about, and the secret strategies.
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Speaker 1: I was afraid that somehow we had all this like
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Speaker 1: location sharing going on in the movie, and oh, something
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Speaker 1: was gonna happen and it was different than I expected,
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Speaker 1: and I appreciated that.
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Speaker 2: Did you like that whole It was kind of a
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Speaker 2: quick moment. But when the realization that Anna has when
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Speaker 2: she learns that Erica was going to write her novel
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Speaker 2: about this family or be inspired by it, and then
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Speaker 2: she kind of just like tongue lashed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that wasn't really my favorite moment. Why Well, because
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Speaker 1: I felt like, I think I have two feelings about it.
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Speaker 1: On one hand, I'm glad that she was so protective
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Speaker 1: of Javier and his family. On the other hand, I
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Speaker 1: didn't love that she jumped to the worst possible conclusion
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Speaker 1: about Erica.
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Speaker 2: Okay, fair so.
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Speaker 1: Because to me, I thought it would be I wasn't
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Speaker 1: bothered by the fact that Erica was inspired by this family.
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Speaker 1: And I think, I guess if you look back to
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Speaker 1: the first movie and Erica took liberties with Anna's writing
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Speaker 1: without permission, really you could see why she would make
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Speaker 1: that jump to maybe she's making the wrong call here.
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Speaker 2: On the other hand, they've.
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Speaker 1: Developed this friendship and I feel like she should know
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Speaker 1: her better than that to know that she wouldn't betray
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Speaker 1: her and hoppy er in this way.
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Speaker 2: Yes, but don't you think that is a super human react,
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Speaker 2: normal human reaction?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 2: So that's what I liked about it. It surprised me
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Speaker 2: because we wouldn't get that typically in a Hallmark movie,
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Speaker 2: where you see like somebody's actually mad at somebody else
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Speaker 2: because of an assumption or whatever. But I thought it
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Speaker 2: was kind of a fresh human take.
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Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you at all, and I didn't
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Speaker 1: not like it from a writing perspective. It just made
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Speaker 1: me uncomfortable from a human perspective seeing that conflict. But
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Speaker 1: I think they also flipped that trip on its head
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Speaker 1: because the main conflict is between Erica and Anna as
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Speaker 1: opposed to where we would expect it to be between
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Speaker 1: Anna and Xavier, right right, right right. No, that's why
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Speaker 1: I think, like, I think Julie did so well with
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Speaker 1: this script. Yeah, I think she did. I think it's
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Speaker 1: I think it's some there's some underrated moves in these movies.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Totally totally. Two more final things that I liked,
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Speaker 2: I really loved And when I talked about it earlier.
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Speaker 2: The touching moments between Anna and Xavier's mom. They were
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Speaker 2: so heartfelt and it wasn't just one. There were a
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Speaker 2: couple of them, and I could see. What I felt
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Speaker 2: is that Ashley Williams the actor, was really connected to
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Speaker 2: that material as a daughter who had lost her mother
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Speaker 2: in real life.
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Speaker 1: I one hundred percent agree.
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Speaker 2: So it was just lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was an incredibly moving scene, that Onion scene
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Speaker 1: in the relationship she had with his mother.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I loved it. And finally I loved the
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Speaker 2: wedding at the end. I'm a sucker for her wedding.
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Speaker 2: I love the wedding at the end. It gave us
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Speaker 2: that nice neat bow in the Hallmark ending of you know,
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Speaker 2: I thought that was lovely. And then as it ended,
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Speaker 2: I asked myself, I said, would I want Would I
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Speaker 2: want to follow up movie to this? Oh? And initially
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Speaker 2: I was like, yes, I do, But then when I
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Speaker 2: thought about it, I was like, Okay, but where are
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Speaker 2: we gonna go with it?
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Speaker 1: Like Markings kind of wrapped up pretty nicely. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: would be mad about checking back in with this creed
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Speaker 1: and maybe at their minor characters in somebody else's story.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's fun. Yeah, somebody else, another big Hallmark name. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that would be fun. Yeah, And that's what I liked
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Speaker 2: about this movie. Nice.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna talk wishes, but before we jump into
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Speaker 1: our wishes, I want to throw it back to last week,
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Speaker 1: when some of our biggest wishes were in regards to
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Speaker 1: the way people were perceiving this movie and perceiving what
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Speaker 1: the lives of women of a certain age should be like,
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Speaker 1: and perhaps suggesting that having fun was no longer allowed
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Speaker 1: after the age of thirty five. And we were not
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Speaker 1: the only person, We were not the only people who
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Speaker 1: felt that way. And someone reached out to us with
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Speaker 1: some thoughts and I'm going to play those for you
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 3: Oh girls, going to homework. It's Ashley Williams. I'm so excited.
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Speaker 3: I didn't even know that this little voicemail was here.
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Speaker 3: And now I'm just gonna call you all the time
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Speaker 3: and say hello because I love you too so much.
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Speaker 3: Wanted to say thank you so much, first of all,
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Speaker 3: and so thanks for watching the first Barcelona movie. The
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Speaker 3: second one does air this Saturday night. I hope you
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Speaker 3: like it, but I just wanted to say everything aside.
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Speaker 3: I just wanted to say I did hear your episode
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Speaker 3: on Barcelona with Love, and I am so grateful for
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Speaker 3: the shout outs regarding the fact that I am an
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Speaker 3: old lady. The comments online referred to me as too
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Speaker 3: old to be running around chasing after boys, and that
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Speaker 3: was startling. And it might just be because, you know,
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Speaker 3: at the ripe old age of forty six, I'm still
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Speaker 3: super into the dudes. I do have a husband, so
20:52
Speaker 3: maybe let's not spread that around too much. But I
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Speaker 3: love men, I love appreciating men. I love love, and
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Speaker 3: I think that women of all ages are capable of
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Speaker 3: getting giddy and flushed in the face and excited about
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Speaker 3: a potential new you know, fun date or you know,
21:14
Speaker 3: getting engaged again and finding a new love of their lives.
21:17
Speaker 3: And I really appreciate that you saw that. And I
21:21
Speaker 3: was startled that so much of our audience was offended
21:23
Speaker 3: that somebody my age would would still be interested in
21:27
Speaker 3: finding love. And it doesn't feel true to like the
21:30
Speaker 3: Hallmark fan base, so it was surprising. Just wanted to
21:33
Speaker 3: say thank you. If anybody else feels the way I do,
21:36
Speaker 3: drop a little comment on maybe the Hallmark Facebook page
21:40
Speaker 3: or an IMDb review because guess what, the Hamewark executives
21:46
Speaker 3: read all those and they do affect the stories that
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Speaker 3: we tell. So thank you for your support. As always,
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Speaker 3: I love you too, and I'm grateful that you're old
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Speaker 3: like me and that you still have a heart that's
21:58
Speaker 3: going strong. Love to both of you and Pisigan for
22:03
Speaker 3: your support.
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Speaker 2: I love her so much. I'm telling you, she is
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Speaker 2: just sunshine. Like I want to be in her orbit,
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Speaker 2: like on the daily, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 1: I went downstairs and I told my husband, I'm like,
22:19
Speaker 1: Ashley Williams just called us. And his first question was
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Speaker 1: do you put your phone number on the internet? And
22:25
Speaker 1: I was like no, and then he was like, she
22:29
Speaker 1: called like you guys. I was like, yet us specifically.
22:35
Speaker 2: So that was awesome.
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Speaker 4: That was awesome.
22:39
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?
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Speaker 4: What are your Can I please before you show yours,
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Speaker 4: can I tell you mine.
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Speaker 1: I'm actually.
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Speaker 2: Floored that she was so vulnerable and shared on our voicemail.
22:54
Speaker 2: She gave us permission to share this voicemail guys that
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Speaker 2: her future work depends on all these comments. You know,
23:01
Speaker 2: Hallmark is looking at them, and I just thought that
23:05
Speaker 2: came from like a really vulnerable place and proud of
23:10
Speaker 2: her as a fellow woman to you know, share that
23:15
Speaker 2: put it all on the line. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't It kind of make you mad though, that these
23:20
Speaker 1: like keyboard Warriors have as much of an effect on
23:25
Speaker 1: the movies that get made as they do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think these keyboard warriors don't give a
23:32
Speaker 2: second thought to the ramifications of what they're putting out there.
23:38
Speaker 2: You know, everybody just fire off a tweet or a
23:41
Speaker 2: message or whatever. And I hate this because and then
23:46
Speaker 2: they're not really realizing the consequences of what they're doing. Yeah.
23:52
Speaker 1: And then on the other hand, I think it's a
23:54
Speaker 1: good reminder to those of us who watch these movies
23:57
Speaker 1: that your positive words do matter. I think it's really
23:59
Speaker 1: easy to I don't leave a lot of written reviews
24:02
Speaker 1: of anything anywhere. Obviously, I have a podcast, so I
24:05
Speaker 1: talk about these movies very publicly. But you know, if
24:09
Speaker 1: you like something, say something, yeah.
24:12
Speaker 2: And if I can say for a minute, you know,
24:16
Speaker 2: the origin of us podcasting came from me being a hater, right,
24:22
Speaker 2: And obviously at the top of the podcast you hear
24:25
Speaker 2: me I am a former homemark hater. I have really
24:27
Speaker 2: come to appreciate the storytelling, the actors, the directors, all
24:33
Speaker 2: the people that put the work into the movies. Are
24:35
Speaker 2: they all winners? No, we have. We have reviewed some
24:41
Speaker 2: not so great movies, but it was never like to
24:45
Speaker 2: the intention of like, well, I feel like I'm going
24:49
Speaker 2: down a slippery slope here. No.
24:51
Speaker 1: No, As Benjamin Ayer said in the clip he sent
24:55
Speaker 1: into us for our Countdown to Christmas bracket, nobody sets
24:59
Speaker 1: out to make a bad movie, and we do not
25:01
Speaker 1: set out to make a takedown podcast.
25:03
Speaker 3: Right.
25:04
Speaker 2: We want to give.
25:06
Speaker 1: Objective reviews of these movies, but we want to come
25:09
Speaker 1: at it from a place of appreciating the people who
25:11
Speaker 1: make them.
25:12
Speaker 2: Right, right, right, Well, She's just sunshine, that girl. I
25:18
Speaker 2: love her.
25:18
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ashley call us anytime you give me the
25:20
Speaker 1: third Girl Gone Hallmark any day?
25:23
Speaker 2: Yeah?
25:23
Speaker 1: What are your wishes about?
25:26
Speaker 3: Two?
25:26
Speaker 1: Barcelona forever?
25:27
Speaker 2: I have one? Just one cool. I was a little
25:30
Speaker 2: surprised about Erica being so stuck as a writer, A
25:35
Speaker 2: big shift from the previous movie where she's super confident.
25:39
Speaker 2: I mean, I know she wrote this story like kind
25:42
Speaker 2: of undercover or whatever, but in those scenes where she
25:45
Speaker 2: was like really pushing Anna like in the writing and
25:48
Speaker 2: they were working together in last week's movie Where'd She Go?
25:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, the imposter syndrome got her?
25:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, That's what it is. That's what it is. Okay.
26:00
Speaker 2: So maybe it wasn't so much of a wish because
26:02
Speaker 2: I said earlier in the likes, I liked that we have,
26:06
Speaker 2: you know, these characters who have other stuff going on.
26:08
Speaker 2: Imposter syndrome is very real. So maybe maybe this is
26:14
Speaker 2: just one of the cool moments that you mentioned that
26:19
Speaker 2: Julie did. Yeah, you know, and the writing it was intentional, Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
26:24
Speaker 2: what about you?
26:25
Speaker 1: You know, look, i am going to die on this
26:27
Speaker 1: hill and I'm just going to say it one time,
26:28
Speaker 1: and people can pass forward thirty seconds so they don't
26:30
Speaker 1: want to hear me say it. Turning forty does not
26:32
Speaker 1: relegate one to a life without fun, silliness, and light.
26:35
Speaker 1: I've yet to see a complaint about Alejandro tuss as
26:38
Speaker 1: Nico his age. He's the same age as these women.
26:42
Speaker 1: Women are many things. Aging doesn't or shouldn't ring the
26:46
Speaker 1: personality and individuality out of us or them in this case.
26:51
Speaker 1: And my non age related wish is a do think
26:55
Speaker 1: that Javier and Ann fell in love just a touch
26:57
Speaker 1: too quickly. Oh you think so you?
27:00
Speaker 2: Oh that I love yous were a little yeah, a
27:03
Speaker 2: little quick for me too, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:05
Speaker 1: I was all in on the romance and the feelings
27:07
Speaker 1: and the do they love each other? Maybe maybe they do?
27:12
Speaker 2: Yeah a little fast. Oh that's it. They didn't get married.
27:15
Speaker 2: So I loved that.
27:16
Speaker 1: They did not get married.
27:18
Speaker 2: And I love that like there was a there was
27:21
Speaker 2: a fix for the whole family tradition thing, like somebody
27:24
Speaker 2: could step in for his role and he could really
27:25
Speaker 2: go do what he wanted to do because and I
27:27
Speaker 2: didn't mention this earlier because I forgot I did kind
27:30
Speaker 2: of love the whole like vulnerability of Javier. Usually, like
27:36
Speaker 2: the females get that storyline where they're like, I am
27:39
Speaker 2: I got to be a part of my family business
27:40
Speaker 2: and blah blah blah blah blah or whatever. Right, but
27:43
Speaker 2: here we have like a male perspective of I don't
27:46
Speaker 2: want to be on this timeline.
27:48
Speaker 1: And that he's the one who's going to step away
27:49
Speaker 1: to support his new the career of his partner.
27:54
Speaker 2: Yeah thought, yeah, loved it all right.
27:57
Speaker 1: I only have a couple, digity, that's what about you?
27:59
Speaker 2: I got a few, Okay, got a few. Go ahead.
28:03
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna talk about one of them, so
28:04
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave it alone. But not a true did
28:07
Speaker 1: you see that? But I loved Anna's now a clock bag.
28:10
Speaker 2: I don't even know what you're talking about. She carried
28:12
Speaker 2: a toe bag when she got out of her car.
28:15
Speaker 1: It's in several scenes and on. I tried to find
28:18
Speaker 1: it googling now a clock did not yield any results.
28:22
Speaker 2: I didn't look that hard.
28:23
Speaker 1: Bet anybody knows where to find it, please email us
28:24
Speaker 1: Girls Gone Homemark at gmail dot com. But it says
28:27
Speaker 1: if anybody's like, what are you talking about? It's just
28:29
Speaker 1: a blue toe bag, and on it in what looks
28:32
Speaker 1: like digital numbers, it says like the letter N then
28:35
Speaker 1: the colon like it's the time, and then oh W
28:38
Speaker 1: like now a clock. I just thought it was well
28:42
Speaker 1: placed for the theme of the movie wow, like now's
28:46
Speaker 1: the time.
28:47
Speaker 2: That's so funny because my first did you see that?
28:51
Speaker 2: Is a suitcase? Oh when her car breaks down and
28:57
Speaker 2: she's decides to get out of the car and she
28:59
Speaker 2: pulls out her suitcase. They showed like the suitcase gets
29:03
Speaker 2: like two very prominent close up shots, and I was like,
29:05
Speaker 2: is this a brand deal that's happening here?
29:08
Speaker 1: Oh did you see the name? Like, did you see
29:10
Speaker 1: the branding of it?
29:11
Speaker 2: Well, my old lady eyes couldn't barely see the TV,
29:14
Speaker 2: so I don't know. It wasn't like it was like away,
29:17
Speaker 2: but no, it wasn't like that big. But I thought
29:21
Speaker 2: that's funny. It just was interesting.
29:25
Speaker 1: It wasn't like Wayne's world level advertising.
29:28
Speaker 2: But no, no, no, no, no no no no no,
29:32
Speaker 2: what else you gout for? Did you see that? My
29:35
Speaker 2: absolute favorite moment was when Anna was speaking Spanish to
29:39
Speaker 2: Javier's dad and Javier's dad replies back to her and
29:43
Speaker 2: the subtitles in Spanish just fly across the screen. I
29:48
Speaker 2: thought it was smart and hilarious. I laughed out loud
29:51
Speaker 2: to her where my husband came upstairs. He's like, uh,
29:55
Speaker 2: you're laughing at your Hallmark movie? And I just was like,
29:58
Speaker 2: this was very funny.
30:00
Speaker 1: One percent agree with you. It was a total highlight
30:03
Speaker 1: of the movie for me. And I want to know
30:06
Speaker 1: who was in charge of that decision, Like who was like,
30:09
Speaker 1: this is how the scene needs to go, because like,
30:12
Speaker 1: was it just an editor doing that or was it
30:14
Speaker 1: a director's choice.
30:15
Speaker 2: I loved it so great, very good very very good.
30:19
Speaker 2: My next one is Miko calls Erica Rubia, yes, and
30:23
Speaker 2: I was like, I wonder what that means. I looked
30:25
Speaker 2: it up. It means blonde in Spanish, and I thought
30:29
Speaker 2: that's cute and flirty.
30:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, like blondie. That's cute, right. I like that a lot.
30:36
Speaker 1: I'm glad you looked it up because I did wonder
30:38
Speaker 1: about it and never looked.
30:40
Speaker 3: Yeah.
30:40
Speaker 2: I was like, Rubia, what does ruby I mean? And
30:42
Speaker 2: then of course, like I just googled what is ruby
30:43
Speaker 2: I mean in Spanish? And it gave me like the
30:46
Speaker 2: translate of blonde. So if Google's wrong, email us at
30:54
Speaker 2: girls Conne Hollmark at gmail dot com.
30:56
Speaker 1: We don't know what that thing.
30:57
Speaker 3: Yeah. No.
30:58
Speaker 2: And one final digit that for me was when Nico
31:02
Speaker 2: was slicing a potato, but he was like cutting the
31:06
Speaker 2: potato like you would cut pieces off an apple. Oh
31:10
Speaker 2: you know what I'm talking about. Like he's holding the
31:12
Speaker 2: potato in one hand and with the knife he's like
31:16
Speaker 2: chipping away at it. I'm like, what is happening here?
31:20
Speaker 1: Like he's peeling it, but not.
31:22
Speaker 2: Not peeling it, he's cutting chunks off of it as
31:25
Speaker 2: if there were a core. Yes.
31:27
Speaker 4: Interesting, I was like, put that down, get that knife
31:31
Speaker 4: away from your hand.
31:32
Speaker 2: What are you doing? Yeah, you're stressing me out. I mean,
31:35
Speaker 2: everyway's got their own technique. But I was like, what
31:38
Speaker 2: I mean? Maybe the recipe calls for like very rough
31:42
Speaker 2: chopped potatoes, but I don't know. I don't know. Are
31:48
Speaker 2: you ready to rate two? Don't have anymore?
31:50
Speaker 3: Oh?
31:50
Speaker 2: No, no more? Oh sand Okay, yes, I'm ready to
31:54
Speaker 2: rate it.
31:55
Speaker 1: Well, for me, this movie was better than the first.
31:56
Speaker 1: I gave it four point five stars.
31:58
Speaker 2: I give four and a half stars too. I really
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Speaker 2: enjoyed it.
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32:03
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