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Mistletoe Murders Season 1, Episodes 3 & 4 · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
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Speaker 1: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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Speaker 2: Summer school continues here on Girls Gone Hallmark with our
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Speaker 2: review of Mistletoe Murders Episodes three and four.
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Speaker 1: The Peril of the Bells.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Remember last week when we reviewed Mistletoe Murders and I
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Speaker 2: was like, I want to make an edit.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I made one. I didn't technically make it.
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Speaker 2: I paid my teenage daughter's friend to make it.
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Speaker 1: It knows how to do.
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Speaker 2: They're a way around how to make an edit. And
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Speaker 2: I gotta say it came out really well. I'm so
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Speaker 2: excited because if you want to see it, it is
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Speaker 2: on our Instagram in the reels. It currently has twenty
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Speaker 2: point two thousand views. That's wild, isn't it? And the
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Speaker 2: Sarah Drew also shared it, which made me super excited.
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Speaker 1: Yeah she did. She knows she's a baddie. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I just that was like, the edit came out perfect.
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Speaker 2: It is exactly how it was feeling after watching episodes
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Speaker 2: one and two.
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Speaker 1: So she fully delivered on your vision. She did. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was great fun.
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Speaker 2: I'm very excited about it.
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Speaker 1: But let's talk episodes three and four. Are you ready
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Speaker 1: for a synopsis? Hit me?
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Speaker 2: After a string of suspicious accidents, Emily goes under hover
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Speaker 2: in the local choir to investigate. Sam, however, remains skeptical.
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Speaker 2: Violet takes on more responsibility at the shop when the
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Speaker 2: choir attacks escalate, Emily and Sam grow closer as they
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Speaker 2: work together to find the culprit. Emily helps a Violet
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Speaker 2: out of a precarious situation by tapping into her dark past. Hmmm. Interesting.
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Speaker 2: We have some new news and notes for this episode.
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Speaker 2: We're not going to run back everything from the previous episode,
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Speaker 2: but we do have a new director for episodes three
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Speaker 2: and four. Sherry White directed these episodes. Sherry is a writer,
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Speaker 2: a director, and a producer, having written and produced other
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Speaker 2: crime shows like Murder in a Small Town and Law
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Speaker 2: and Order Toronto Criminal Intent. Michelle Ritchie wrote episodes three
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Speaker 2: and four. She's written for quite a few mystery series,
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Speaker 2: both on Hallmark and elsewhere, with projects like Curious Caterer,
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Speaker 2: Frankie Drake Mysteries, murderch Mysteries, and Private Eyes. Heyo incarnated
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Speaker 2: Brandon Walsh yep joining the cast for episodes three and four.
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Speaker 2: We have Raven Dauda as Debbie Brannigan. Raven also voiced
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Speaker 2: a character in three episodes of the Mistletoe Murders podcast series,
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Speaker 2: among her one hundred and eight acting credits. Her credits
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Speaker 2: also include shows like Five Days of Memorial, Spellbound, and
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Speaker 2: Hudson and Rex. David Delancey Wilson plays. His name is
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Speaker 2: David Delancey Wilson and he plays Lance Indeed. Wow. David
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Speaker 2: was in twenty twenty threes, Catch Me If You Clause,
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Speaker 2: as well as Headson and Rex and Murdoch Mysteries. Additional
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Speaker 2: cast members in these episodes include Arlene duncan Zvia and
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Speaker 2: Jamie Spilchuk as Adam Jamison. We're going to take a
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Speaker 2: very quick way and come right back with our first
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Speaker 2: impressions of Peril.
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Speaker 1: Of the Bells.
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Speaker 2: Before we get into our first impressions, a reminder to
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Speaker 2: the listeners that we made the decision to combine our reviews,
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Speaker 2: so we did episodes one and two together, episodes three
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Speaker 2: and four, and then we will be doing episodes five
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Speaker 2: and six because that's how the stories are told. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I feel like the listeners failed us. They should have
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Speaker 2: told us that before, right.
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Speaker 1: It remade our schedule. Yeah, no, it's fool. It's cool.
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Speaker 1: It's cool.
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Speaker 2: I like that we're doing it this way. It makes
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Speaker 2: it makes it easier on our end. I agree, and
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Speaker 2: I like the show that the show is developed this way.
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Speaker 2: I think it makes a ton of sense. What is
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Speaker 2: your first impression of Peril of the Bells? My first
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Speaker 2: impression is, I don't know what's more dangerous, the dark
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Speaker 2: web or the choir room. My verse impression is is
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Speaker 2: this choir cursed or just caddy?
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Speaker 1: Ah? My goodness.
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Speaker 2: Real Housewives of Fletcher growth growth is that what it's
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Speaker 2: called their town, Fletcher's growth.
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Speaker 1: Is Indeed, these women don't have enough things to do
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Speaker 1: in their lives. It's pretty funny. Let's talk what we liked.
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Speaker 2: For me, the number one thing that I loved about
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Speaker 2: these two episodes was Sarah Drew's monologue at the end
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Speaker 2: of episode two, when she reveals to Sam about her
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Speaker 2: parents' death. It hits all the right emotional beats when
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Speaker 2: she says Christmas was the last happy time in my life.
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Speaker 2: It was just a gut punch in the best way possible.
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Speaker 2: And it's starting to tie together some of Emily's backstory,
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Speaker 2: which gives into understanding why.
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Speaker 1: She is who she is.
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Speaker 2: It was the perfectly placed emotional payoff at the end
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Speaker 2: of this two parts two parts episodes. I have an interesting,
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Speaker 2: potentially interesting take on that scene. I loved it too.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was incredibly well done by Sarah Drew.
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Speaker 2: I thought emotionally it hit. But the skeptic in me wondered,
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Speaker 2: is she telling the truth? Mmmmm, we don't actually know
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Speaker 2: her backstory. We did see glimpses of her looking at
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Speaker 2: the family photos. We know something is going on there.
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Speaker 2: She did mention those being happy memories when she pulled
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Speaker 2: them out of that briefcase, right, But I almost wondered,
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Speaker 2: either is she telling the truth or is she selectively
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Speaker 2: telling the truth here? That's a really interesting thought and
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Speaker 2: at one I had not considered, because why would she
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Speaker 2: give so much of herself up if she's so private
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Speaker 2: worried worried about exposing herself? Yeah, because we don't know
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Speaker 2: her past, and Sam is a uniquely positioned to access
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Speaker 2: that information should he choose to do so. And so
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Speaker 2: I almost wondered, if you know she was so closed
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Speaker 2: off and he's like, something's going on here, but clearly
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Speaker 2: you're not interested, and I almost I really want to
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Speaker 2: just take it at face value, but I was like,
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Speaker 2: she freaked out. She realized is she's gonna have to
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Speaker 2: give him something or he's going to be like googling
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Speaker 2: her in his oh police machine interesting, and then he's
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Speaker 2: gonna be like, this person does not actually exist prior
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Speaker 2: to twenty twenty four. So maybe if she gives him
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Speaker 2: this information, he feels like he doesn't need to do
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Speaker 2: that question for you. You didn't listen to the podcast. I
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Speaker 2: did not, okay, because I was like, do you know, No,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I know something.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know anything.
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Speaker 2: I was actually considering once this is over listening to
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Speaker 2: the podcast, but because it's got a great cast, Colby.
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Speaker 1: Smolders is in it.
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Speaker 2: I can't think of a single other name who's in
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Speaker 2: it off the top of my head. But I remember
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Speaker 2: thinking it had a good cast, so I may listen.
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Speaker 2: But no, I don't know anything. That was just the
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Speaker 2: impression I got. I was like, this is so lovely,
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Speaker 2: but wait, but wait, yeah, I my little like hair
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Speaker 2: stood up on my neck when she cut her hand
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Speaker 2: on the trunk. I was like, oh, no, her DNA
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Speaker 2: has been on there now, and what if that comes
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Speaker 2: back into play somehow of like whose DNA is it is? This?
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Speaker 2: Of course, then we see a play out that Vera
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Speaker 2: also cut her hand, and I was like, okay, well
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Speaker 2: maybe that's what they're doing there, but I was like,
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Speaker 2: what if that is the tell of who Emily actually is?
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Speaker 1: Look at you? Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Watching too mini mysteries this summer A like that I
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Speaker 2: had on a much lighter note. Last episode, I got
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Speaker 2: my wish. I was asking for more Brooke and I
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Speaker 2: predicted that she was going to be involved in an
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Speaker 2: upcoming crime.
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Speaker 1: And I was correct.
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Speaker 2: There she delivered in exactly the way I wanted her too.
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Speaker 2: This is exactly the person I wanted Brooke to be
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Speaker 2: in this series. She has lines like two glasses of rose,
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Speaker 2: the screw it's off, or.
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Speaker 1: What the hell, let's go Cork.
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Speaker 2: I also love when she finally gets that solow moment
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Speaker 2: when Vera is taken away. She she like celebrates a
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Speaker 2: little bit. She's like, that isn't how I want it.
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Speaker 1: To get it.
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Speaker 2: I love it, Like she's just she's great. I thought
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Speaker 2: she was really fun. I was glad we got more
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Speaker 2: of her. I was suspicious of Brooke at first, and
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Speaker 2: at the top of the third episode, I was like,
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Speaker 2: is she are a bad guy? Is she our a culprit?
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Speaker 2: But then I was like, no, she wouldn't be standing
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Speaker 2: underneath this potential, you know, display that's going to fall
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Speaker 2: on them, Like if she knew what was going to fall,
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Speaker 2: she wouldn't be standing there, So she can't be our culprit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I'm glad that she's not a bad guy, and I
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Speaker 2: hope she doesn't end up being a bad guy. I
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Speaker 2: just like her being this kind of vapid townsperson exactly
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Speaker 2: with some comic relief. Yeah, I'm into Brook.
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Speaker 1: I like Brook.
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Speaker 2: Something else I really liked I want to talk about
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Speaker 2: We talked about it a little bit, but Sam and
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Speaker 2: Emily's chemistry is finally, you know, we watched these shows,
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Speaker 2: we know that there's going to be a love interest.
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Speaker 2: When we watched Mistery one on one, it took them
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Speaker 2: forever to get there, right, We were like, when is
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Speaker 2: it gonna happen? When's it gonna happen with.
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Speaker 1: Sam and Emily?
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Speaker 2: Like I feel like they're in episodes one and two,
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Speaker 2: like they obviously have some chemistry I think we see
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Speaker 2: that a lot more in episodes three and four, So
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Speaker 2: it's not like will they won't they, It's but it's
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Speaker 2: building at a natural progression that I'm enjoying as a viewer.
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Speaker 2: I like that their flirtatious way isn't forced by any.
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Speaker 1: Means it it.
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Speaker 2: As I'm watching it, I was like, Oh, these are
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Speaker 2: two people who are vibing, for a lack of better words,
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Speaker 2: like they're into each other totally. And when they have
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Speaker 2: like that almost kiss at the end and they're just
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Speaker 2: like face to face, their bodies are pressed up against
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Speaker 2: each other, I'm.
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Speaker 1: Super into it. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The episode three oh, early on they have this real cute,
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Speaker 2: like flirty banter. They're talking about hockey and the bells
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Speaker 2: and they're just like they're leaning into each other and
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Speaker 2: their vibe is so fun, and then we end on
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Speaker 2: that sweet or more romantic vibe. I love the progression. Like,
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Speaker 2: and they only have six episodes, so I am assuming
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Speaker 2: we're not going to get everything all tied up in
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Speaker 2: a neat little Sam and Emily bow at the end
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Speaker 2: of episodes five and six, But I do like that
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Speaker 2: they're giving us enough to get into. Yeah, when they
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Speaker 2: have that conversation when he makes that joke about spiding
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Speaker 2: her parents, like he's like, they must have loved Halloween
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Speaker 2: and this is why you leaned into Christmas or whatever.
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Speaker 2: I thought was so funny. Yeah, such a great line.
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Speaker 2: Great writing there, very good, very very good. So some
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Speaker 2: parts of this episode are like real campy and silly, like.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes, the sleigh, Like when.
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Speaker 2: The sleigh straight up like crushes Debby and she just
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Speaker 2: watches it happening. I actually thought it was fun.
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Speaker 1: I didn't. I wasn't bothered by it. But they also
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Speaker 1: the closing.
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Speaker 2: Scene with the message to Emily with her cryptic chimerasarch happening.
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Speaker 2: I don't fully know what's going on there, but they
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Speaker 2: nailed the creepy and I like the balance there, like
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Speaker 2: we're still hallmarkified, but.
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Speaker 1: I'm buying it.
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Speaker 2: That's so funny you said the word hallmarkified because it
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Speaker 2: isn't my wishes. Uh oh, I'm going to talk about
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Speaker 2: it there all right.
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Speaker 1: I absolutely agree with you. Was that alike though?
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Speaker 2: For you, like you are okay with the hallmarkified of
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Speaker 2: the more sinister storylines.
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Speaker 1: I like the balance because.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't like scary. Yeah, So for me,
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Speaker 2: it's like just scary enough to be interesting. I have
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Speaker 2: some thoughts on the actual crime happening here in my wishes,
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Speaker 2: don't you worry, But the sleigh falling from the roof
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Speaker 2: was funny enough for me to be into it. Okay, No,
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Speaker 2: I agree with you. I mean, just it just so
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Speaker 2: happens to get Debbie in the perfect it doesn't actually
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Speaker 2: hurt her.
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Speaker 1: Yes, how is that possible? How? Yes? Anymore?
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Speaker 2: Likes just one small one. I enjoy watching Emily go
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Speaker 2: like full spy mode. I like watching It's exciting for
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Speaker 2: me to see like this double life kind of unfold
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Speaker 2: that and we're just getting like pieces of it. I
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Speaker 2: said it in last episode two, Like, I think that's
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Speaker 2: the most thrilling part of the series, learning who Emily is. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I don't think we got as much of it in
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Speaker 2: episodes three and four as we did in one and two,
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Speaker 2: but it's it's enough to keep me interested going forward.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. One thing I think this show is
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Speaker 1: doing well. We have dual.
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Speaker 2: Storylines happening here. Even more than that, Like we have
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Speaker 2: whatever the mystery of the double episode happens to be,
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Speaker 2: but we also have their everyday lives running in the background,
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Speaker 2: and so that's Sam and Emily and the mystery of
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Speaker 2: Emily's past, And we also have what I think is
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Speaker 2: really nice Violet and Emily's relationship. Violet has a mom,
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Speaker 2: she's just not on screen, and Emily is kind of
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Speaker 2: serving that maternal figure, particularly when she says to her,
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Speaker 2: you're allowed to make mistakes when she's lost the key,
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Speaker 2: and she she turns it into a you know, just
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Speaker 2: let me know, let me know next time, but don't
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Speaker 2: promises you can keep like I'll never let it have
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Speaker 2: it again.
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Speaker 1: You are a human.
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Speaker 2: I really enjoy their seeing where their relationship is going. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: don't you go I wish I could have a mom
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Speaker 2: response like that, yes, where you'd be like freaking out instead. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But I also think that Emily is positioned to be
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Speaker 2: able to have a response like that because she's not
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Speaker 2: Violet's mother, of course, so right, like, don't you think
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Speaker 2: you could give grace to someone who's more grace This
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Speaker 2: is terrible to say out loud, more grace to someone
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Speaker 2: who's not your child than someone who is. Sometimes yes,
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Speaker 2: because there's less at stake, Right, So I think Emily's
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Speaker 2: in a position to be able to do that better
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Speaker 2: than Violet's.
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Speaker 1: Mother would be. I agree, I agree, let's talk wishes. Okay?
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Speaker 2: For me, speaking of Violet and the lost key, this
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Speaker 2: is a subplot that didn't really go anywhere for me.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk in a minute about Emily approaching that
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Speaker 2: teenager or hiding in his car in a minute. I'm
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Speaker 2: going to get there in a minute. But what is
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Speaker 2: the point here? This is like a thread that has
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Speaker 2: no payoff other than to show us that Emily has
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Speaker 2: a dark past. But I thought it would lead to
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Speaker 2: something more. Yeah, that's a really good point. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: serve any other purpose other than to maybe move Emily
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Speaker 2: in Violet's relationship forward.
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Speaker 1: I think I think they.
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Speaker 2: I think Emily asks too much of Violet, like she
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Speaker 2: leaves her alone in that store a lot. I wasn't
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Speaker 2: wondering that too. And they even said at one point,
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Speaker 2: Byley goes, what happened to a couple errands? You've been
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Speaker 2: gone for three hours? Yeah, you have a teenager running
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Speaker 2: this store like all by yourself. Seems a lot to ask.
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Speaker 1: It does seem now.
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Speaker 2: When I was in high school, I did work in
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Speaker 2: a clothing store and I did close that store by
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Speaker 2: myself shut down the register clean.
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Speaker 1: Blows my mind that I was tasked with such a job.
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Speaker 2: But even watching it, I think girl needs a break,
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Speaker 2: Like what if she need to go to the bathroom?
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Speaker 1: What is she I think we're putting too much on her.
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Speaker 2: Nobody's actually going like she needs her fifteen minutes break here.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what was she supposed to do?
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Speaker 2: She's got a page's like hold it until Emily comes back.
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Speaker 2: She can't leave the store unsupervised. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My
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Speaker 2: next wish is and I feel like you might have
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Speaker 2: some hot takes on this. It's back to the hallmarkifying
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Speaker 2: of things. So when Emily is hiding in this kid's car,
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Speaker 2: which is actually a terrifying like thought to be like
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Speaker 2: if somebody is hiding in the back of your car,
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Speaker 2: like so I kind of liked that, but it was
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Speaker 2: way too campy with her doing this like menacing voice
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Speaker 2: to this kid to scare him. I was like, what
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Speaker 2: is happening here? This has gone too far? Like I couldn't.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't. It wasn't believable to me. I thought it was.
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Speaker 2: It was equal parts silly and over the top and
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Speaker 2: also way more than was warranted, like Okay, the kid
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Speaker 2: broken at the store, I get it, but this vigilante justice,
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Speaker 2: like I'm gonna scare him straight, thing I thought was
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Speaker 2: maybe a little bit over the line, like he is
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Speaker 2: still a child and granted a child who had committed
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Speaker 2: a crime.
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Speaker 1: I get it, But I was like, well, maybe pump
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Speaker 1: the brakes a little bit here, Emily. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I I literally like laughed out loud and said what
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Speaker 2: is happening when I was watching.
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Speaker 1: It, Hey, you may have never don anything with that
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Speaker 1: again or all.
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Speaker 2: No. Yeah, it was too too cartoonish for me when
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Speaker 2: in the previous episodes in one and two, I thought
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Speaker 2: Emily came off as this like real batty vigilante who
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Speaker 2: you don't want to mess with, And this just felt like,
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Speaker 2: h this felt like somebody's mom trying to scare some kid.
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Speaker 2: You know. I think the voice is what ruined that
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Speaker 2: scene for me, because the hiding in the backseat scary,
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Speaker 2: the way we don't see her coming scary, the fact
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Speaker 2: that she like gets them around the neck scary. It's
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Speaker 2: just the voice that like pushes it into the hoky side. Yes, yes, yes,
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Speaker 2: yes do you think she was like, oh man, how
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Speaker 2: am I gonna pull this off, like when she's doing
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Speaker 2: this scene.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish they had there was a way to
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Speaker 1: give her one of those like voice changers. Yeah, why
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Speaker 1: didn't they do that?
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know how you do that live like
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Speaker 2: you they're still gonna hear your voice.
20:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, true, true, true true. Tell me what you
20:46
Speaker 1: wish for. I would like a.
20:48
Speaker 2: Clear timeline on what's happening here. It does seem like
20:51
Speaker 2: we're days away from Christmas, but also potentially weeks. Like
20:54
Speaker 2: I know we're in the holiday season because in the
20:56
Speaker 2: last episode they had Christmas karaoke, and they had the
21:01
Speaker 2: the hot cocoa situation.
21:03
Speaker 1: And now we've got the Christmas tree lighting. We have
21:05
Speaker 1: all of this, but I.
21:06
Speaker 2: Don't have any idea when we are, like maybe it
21:10
Speaker 2: just seems like a lot of time passes in these episodes,
21:12
Speaker 2: but also not much time passes.
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Speaker 1: I know. I was like, are we like six weeks
21:18
Speaker 1: out from Christmas? What's happening?
21:19
Speaker 2: But even then, it just seems like that whole last episode,
21:23
Speaker 2: you know, June was in prison, they had to you know,
21:26
Speaker 2: I the time was a little wonky for me.
21:31
Speaker 1: My big wish. However, Era had.
21:33
Speaker 2: No choice but to murder two people because the choir
21:36
Speaker 2: group might lose. Yeah, we haven't even talked about the
21:40
Speaker 2: whole choir situation.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing it up. Yeah, that was kind
21:44
Speaker 1: of a weird motivation.
21:47
Speaker 2: It's similar to Mistery one oh one, where the guy
21:52
Speaker 2: kills because he doesn't want his girl to be hired
21:55
Speaker 2: for the job, yes, job or whatever. It's like, attle
21:59
Speaker 2: it believable. You're so invested in your choir that you
22:03
Speaker 2: had to kill someone who might go to another choir
22:05
Speaker 2: and make them better. The believability has been stretched to
22:10
Speaker 2: its very limits here.
22:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I mean it is if you.
22:16
Speaker 2: Roll it back to like, is this the ultimate Hallmark crime?
22:21
Speaker 2: My holiday choir might lose, so therefore I have to
22:24
Speaker 2: murder the person who's going to be responsible for that. Okay,
22:28
Speaker 2: but I think I think we're pushing it here. Do
22:30
Speaker 2: you have any more wishes? No?
22:32
Speaker 1: That's it all right, let's talk. Did you see that? Okay?
22:36
Speaker 2: I don't have like any true did you see that?
22:38
Speaker 1: I have.
22:40
Speaker 2: Two thoughts on things and then one actually like did
22:43
Speaker 2: you see that? But it's not like a continuity issue,
22:46
Speaker 2: So are you ready for it? I am Emily wears
22:49
Speaker 2: the brand Mother Jeans, and those jeans are two hundred dollars.
22:52
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm like, nice catch. How did you saw the label?
22:58
Speaker 2: It has an M on the pocket and I just
23:01
Speaker 2: those have been on my radar for some time and
23:04
Speaker 2: I just can't link two hundred dollars for a pair
23:06
Speaker 2: of jeans is.
23:07
Speaker 1: Bonkers to me. But I'm like, Wardrobe must have had
23:11
Speaker 1: some money here.
23:14
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe she's wearing them, and like I noticed
23:16
Speaker 2: them in episodes one and two as well, but she
23:18
Speaker 2: could obviously they might be repurposing them in for the show,
23:23
Speaker 2: Like maybe they just have one pair of premium denim.
23:25
Speaker 1: Jeans for our actress to wear.
23:28
Speaker 2: But yeah, anyway, I noticed that, all right. The other thing,
23:34
Speaker 2: here's a question. So Emily has this store, right, and
23:39
Speaker 2: in the montages we see a lot of her selling
23:42
Speaker 2: things like snow globes and ornaments and stuff like that,
23:46
Speaker 2: And I was like, who is going to a specialty
23:49
Speaker 2: Christmas shop to buy Christmas decor type items? Like I
23:56
Speaker 2: kind of thought this might be a regular like retail space.
24:01
Speaker 2: And then they wrap the gifts for Christmas giving.
24:06
Speaker 1: Do you know where I'm getting to?
24:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm gonna push back on that because we
24:11
Speaker 2: live in Orange county land of the chain store. We
24:13
Speaker 2: do not have cute, little small town Christmas shops just
24:16
Speaker 2: in our cruising radius. Yeah, so we wouldn't shop there
24:21
Speaker 2: because they don't exist. But there are places like at
24:27
Speaker 2: by my mother in law's house or as a place
24:28
Speaker 2: that's like it's not just Christmas. They sell whatever the
24:31
Speaker 2: holiday happens to be, but it's like a full store
24:34
Speaker 2: of like ornaments and decors and that's all they sell,
24:38
Speaker 2: and it's a little more unique than your big box store.
24:42
Speaker 2: So I think people in a small town where there's
24:46
Speaker 2: not a Target and a home Goods and whatever wherever
24:50
Speaker 2: else people are shopping for these things on every corner
24:52
Speaker 2: probably would shop in a place like this. I don't
24:54
Speaker 2: think it's sustainable twelve months of the year. When she
24:57
Speaker 2: says too, Violet's friend, I'll let you know if we're
25:00
Speaker 2: hiring during this summer busy season. Yeah, I was like,
25:03
Speaker 2: what what busy season?
25:05
Speaker 1: That's weird.
25:06
Speaker 2: I don't know that it's sustainable year round, but I
25:08
Speaker 2: do think people are like looking for like unique holiday finds.
25:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, it might just be a me thing.
25:14
Speaker 2: I just wouldn't go to a specialty store and buy
25:17
Speaker 2: a snow globe for somebody. First of all, I would
25:19
Speaker 2: never gift anybody a snow globe either, which is a
25:23
Speaker 2: me thing, and then ask them to wrap it. I
25:25
Speaker 2: don't know, it just seems weird. I like, I'll go
25:28
Speaker 2: to a Christmas shop and like poke around and like
25:31
Speaker 2: because I like browsing at things.
25:33
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know.
25:36
Speaker 2: I don't know why I'm so hung up on it.
25:37
Speaker 2: If I'm gonna buy somebody a gift, it's not going
25:39
Speaker 2: to be holiday decor though.
25:42
Speaker 1: No.
25:43
Speaker 2: Well, I think a lot of people gift ornaments during
25:45
Speaker 2: the holidays. Yeah, a lot of people like hostess gifts or.
25:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, my last did you see?
25:53
Speaker 2: That? Is our character Debbie. She leans and real hard
26:01
Speaker 2: to her singing right now And you probably haven't seen it,
26:07
Speaker 2: but there is a TikTok of these girls and they
26:12
Speaker 2: are on stage and they're clearly like sisters. And there's
26:15
Speaker 2: two younger ones who are getting ready to sing and
26:16
Speaker 2: they're going to sing a Cranberry song and the older
26:19
Speaker 2: one is like just being so extra and it completely
26:24
Speaker 2: reminded me of Debbie. I'm going to share it with you.
26:27
Speaker 2: I may share it in our Facebook group too, just
26:29
Speaker 2: to be like this gives the off Debbie vibes because
26:33
Speaker 2: Debbie was interesting to watch.
26:35
Speaker 1: Yes, it just it just made me laugh, that's all.
26:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I totally agree like her choices, which
26:43
Speaker 2: is how my theater daughter would say. The choices that
26:47
Speaker 2: she made were very interesting, and I think, you know,
26:50
Speaker 2: I think the whole point is to highlight like her
26:53
Speaker 2: role as a soloist wasn't earned, it was uh huh
26:57
Speaker 2: stolen because of her financial support. And she's obviously not
27:03
Speaker 2: the most talented person there. So I mean, even Sarah
27:06
Speaker 2: Drew's singing was better than Debbie's.
27:10
Speaker 1: Kind of surprised by Sarah.
27:11
Speaker 2: Drewcey, Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, I don't have, like
27:16
Speaker 2: you said, true digitsu.
27:17
Speaker 1: That's I just.
27:18
Speaker 2: Wanted to point out that, you know, Emily tries to
27:22
Speaker 2: connect with Adam to get more information about him, and
27:24
Speaker 2: she's like, hey, I have some junk I need hauled
27:26
Speaker 2: the way, and when he kind of calls her bluff,
27:29
Speaker 2: he's like, oh, I'll be in the area, I'll come
27:31
Speaker 2: pick it up.
27:31
Speaker 1: She gives him a box. A box.
27:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you couldn't have taken that out to the
27:39
Speaker 2: trash yourself. You needed a junk caller to take that away. Yeah,
27:42
Speaker 2: I need a junk collar. Got me too, get all
27:46
Speaker 2: the junk at my house? Yeah, Like I mean, speaking
27:48
Speaker 2: of tiktoks, you see those videos that are like, this
27:50
Speaker 2: is a gen x or's dream and it's a dumpster
27:53
Speaker 2: pulling up to the curve. It's empty, one hundred percent
27:58
Speaker 2: my dream. I love doing that at least once a year.
28:02
Speaker 1: Time to urge.
28:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, what did you rate this episode of missletone Murders?
28:10
Speaker 2: I gave this episode four and a half stars. Last
28:13
Speaker 2: episode this week four point seventy five. Okay, this one
28:17
Speaker 2: ticks down just a little bit because they got a
28:19
Speaker 2: little hokey. Yeah, so I gave last episode five stars.
28:23
Speaker 2: I'm giving this one four point to two five stars.
28:26
Speaker 1: Oh it really fell for you. Now, let's be clear.
28:31
Speaker 2: I don't find four point two five stars to be
28:32
Speaker 2: a bad rating, and nobody else should either. We just
28:37
Speaker 2: this is a classic middle of the trilogy episode, moving
28:42
Speaker 2: things along, but it's not there's no fireworks. Yeah, that's
28:45
Speaker 2: why I want to listen to the podcast because I'm like,
28:49
Speaker 2: is there any difference here?
28:52
Speaker 1: What does the story? Did home?
28:55
Speaker 2: Did Hallmark get their hands on making it a little
28:59
Speaker 2: more mystery? Yeah, with the exception of when she opens
29:03
Speaker 2: the trunk and Adam is dead in the trunk.
29:06
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, which is like, I'm at Adam's
29:09
Speaker 1: house and so is he. You were like what nice? Nice? Yep, hey,
29:14
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