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Royal Matchmaker · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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  Speaker 1: a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a former Royal movie HATERO. I'm just kidding, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 1: Today, our fan favorite movie lineup continues as we are
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  Speaker 1: discussing Royal Matchmaker, which originally premiered on the Hallmark Channel
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  Speaker 1: on March twenty fourth, twenty eighteen. You can keep up
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  Speaker 1: Real Matchmaker. I always have to pause.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, is it the That's why I had a
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  Speaker 2: scroll back up to the title Matchmaker. Kate's reputation as
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  Speaker 2: the Queen of Hearts reaches King Edward of Valdavia, who
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  Speaker 2: hires her.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so stunted. I can't believe it actually said Voldavia.
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  Speaker 2: Is that how you say it now in Valdavia?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it doesn't exist anyway.
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  Speaker 2: He hires her to find his son a bride, but
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  Speaker 2: Prince Sebastian has a mote around his heart and Kate
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  Speaker 2: doesn't see his tender side until he evokes his mother's memory.
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  Speaker 1: Did you Nope? I did not use AI to write that.
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  Speaker 2: That is a copy mpaste from palmarks around his heart?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike role directed Royal Matchmaker. He has an impressive
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  Speaker 1: resume with sixty four directing credits, including When Calls, The
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  Speaker 1: Heart Falling Together, and both the Cases of Mystery Lane movies.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't his only foray into Royal films. He also
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  Speaker 1: directed all three The Princess Switch movies for Netflix. Did
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  Speaker 1: you watch those Buny Chants? I did watch the first one,
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  Speaker 1: I have not seen the entire collection. Mark A.
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  Speaker 2: Motto wrote the screenplay for Royal Matchmaker. He has twenty
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  Speaker 2: nine writing credits, and his last Hallmark movie was A
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  Speaker 2: Kiss Before Christmas in twenty twenty one. He has also
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  Speaker 2: worked on the sitcom series Baby Daddy and The Sweet
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  Speaker 2: Life on Deck.
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  Speaker 1: Bethany joy Lenz, credited only as Joy Lens for this movie,
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  Speaker 1: stars as Kate. This was Bethany's second movie for the network,
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  Speaker 1: following The Christmas Secret in twenty fourteen. Since twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: she's gone on to star and hits like An Unexpected Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: A Biltmore Christmas, and Savoring Paris.
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  Speaker 2: Had you noticed that she was credited as Joylens I did.
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  Speaker 2: I read her book and she talks about going back
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  Speaker 2: and forth between using Bethany Joylins and joylnds, and at
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  Speaker 2: one time used Julins.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I remember that.
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  Speaker 2: It's really interesting to me that, like, if.
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  Speaker 1: You are a celebrity, why would you be.
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  Speaker 2: Changing your name so much because it's your brand?
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  Speaker 1: Good question, that's all.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Camp plays Prince Sebastian. Will has forty eight acting credits
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  Speaker 2: and has appeared in several Hallmark favorites like Paging Mister
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  Speaker 2: Darcy and The Christmas Waltz.
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  Speaker 1: What's that face for the next line.
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  Speaker 2: He also appeared in The Princess Switch three, directed by
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  Speaker 2: Mike Roll.
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  Speaker 1: That was my surprise face. I did not know that,
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  Speaker 1: got it? Look, I can't hear the name Sebastian and
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  Speaker 1: not picture the little Marmai. I was just gonna say
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  Speaker 1: the same thing, although what I'm picturing is actually flounder.
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  Speaker 1: Sebastian's the crab. Yeah. Britney Bristow plays assistant in Brittany.
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  Speaker 1: She has fifty acting credits, moving into leading roles in
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  Speaker 1: movies like My Sweet Austrian Holiday co starring Willcamp and
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  Speaker 1: A Safari Romance.
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  Speaker 2: Joseph Thompson plays Valet. Did you know that from the movie? Like,
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  Speaker 2: there was a whole little I did.
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  Speaker 1: I did. Also, I watched down to Nowe where they
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  Speaker 1: use the term valet, so so valet or valet. Which
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  Speaker 1: one is it? I believe it's valette. It's really funny.
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  Speaker 2: He plays Victor Joseph has eighteen acting credits and this
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  Speaker 2: is his only project for Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Simon Dutton plays King Edward. He has fifty five acting credits,
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  Speaker 1: but this isn't his only Royal role. He also appeared
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  Speaker 1: in movies like A Christmas Prince, The Royal Wedding and
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  Speaker 1: A Royal Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Poppy Row plays Victor's love interest Lorraine. She's got twenty
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  Speaker 2: three acting credits, but this is her only project for Hallmark.
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  Speaker 1: Elva Trill plays Petra Petrovic. She's an Irish actor who
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  Speaker 1: has had parts in movies like Jurassic World, Dominion, and
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  Speaker 1: an Alec Baldwin movie from twenty twenty four called Kid Santa.
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  Speaker 1: This appears to be her only project for Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: Woody Hamilton Hurst plays victor Son Rudy. You should look
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  Speaker 2: him up on IMDb All grown Up Now. This is
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  Speaker 2: his one and only acting project. According to IMDb.
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  Speaker 1: Royal Matchmaker was filmed in Romania. It originally aired in
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  Speaker 1: February twenty eighteen. Let's take a quick break and come
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  Speaker 1: right back with first impressions. Well, I think I may
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  Speaker 1: know the gist of your first impression, But what did
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  Speaker 1: you think of Royal Matchmaker? Maybe I do like Royal
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  Speaker 1: movies and yours. I fear being fresh off a run
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  Speaker 1: of Royal movies puts this movie at a disadvantage in
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  Speaker 1: my mind, A disadvantage. Yeah, Like I was already like
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  Speaker 1: a little royal down. Okay, fair, I didn't say I
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  Speaker 1: judged it based on that. I just said that's my
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  Speaker 1: friend of mine entering the movie. So okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's interesting because when I did see that this made
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  Speaker 2: our fan favorite lineup, I was.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh my god, we just did three Royal movie.
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  Speaker 2: But this is a movie that the fans have been
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  Speaker 2: asking indeed for many, many, many months. I'm here to
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  Speaker 2: tell you what I liked about it. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm a super fan of bey Bethany Joyce.
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  Speaker 4: Same.
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  Speaker 1: She's just so good. She's a really good actor. She's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I thought in this role she was down to earth.
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  Speaker 2: She's like warm in her role. She's like clever and
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  Speaker 2: self aware. I just enjoy watching her.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's really good, you know, to my first impression
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  Speaker 1: as mentioned. The recent batt of Royal movies kind of
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  Speaker 1: put me in a place of wanting to compare this
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  Speaker 1: movie to those. However, I do think this movie stands
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  Speaker 1: above the rest, largely due to the role played by
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  Speaker 1: Bethany Joylyns. She elevates this movie. I think there's some
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  Speaker 1: other great elements too. I mean, Will Kemp is no slouch,
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  Speaker 1: but Bethany Joylens is one of the best. You haven't
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  Speaker 1: read her book, right?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Should? I definitely? Okay? Since I have started, I have
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  Speaker 1: started the audio and then I've I don't do a
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  Speaker 1: ton of audio books. I just can't focus on them.
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  Speaker 1: It's not my preferred way of reading, so I never
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  Speaker 1: finished it. I think I should just get like the
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  Speaker 1: ebook and power through it. It's really really good.
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  Speaker 2: And what I got from her book is that I'm
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  Speaker 2: not trying to disparage anybody here, but there is like
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  Speaker 2: a quote Hallmark actor, right, and then you have like.
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  Speaker 1: Other actors who do.
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movies, and I think she falls in the other
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  Speaker 2: actor who does Hallmark movies. Yes, And I'm not trying
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  Speaker 2: to It's no shade to anybody else, Like I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Not categoric categoric Sam Page.
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  Speaker 2: Like Sam Page. Yes, that's a great example. Like I
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  Speaker 2: want to see Bethany joy Lynds in two movies a
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  Speaker 2: year at least, but I think she chooses not to
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  Speaker 2: do that because I she thinks of herself as like
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  Speaker 2: a different sort of actor.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, read her book, okay, and then.
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  Speaker 1: I would I would be interested to see what.
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  Speaker 2: Your take on how she thinks about herself.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, with all that said, I find her damn delightful
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  Speaker 2: in any character. She plays me too, and it's why
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  Speaker 2: I went back and started watching Wintree Hill after her
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  Speaker 2: book came out, because I just like her so much
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  Speaker 2: and I do see she has these like also side note,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I listen back to our episodes. The number
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  Speaker 2: of times I say like, oh, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, every time I edit, I think I need I
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  Speaker 1: need to put a post it on my computer while
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  Speaker 1: we're recording these to remind myself not to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and then I forget about it until I'm editing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So apologies everybody for the number of times I say
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  Speaker 1: like and I've probably cut a lot of them out.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad, so bad.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, what was I saying about her?
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  Speaker 1: She has.
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  Speaker 2: Quirks that I see in each character she plays like
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  Speaker 2: they're like recurring, right, And I feel like, oh, that's
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  Speaker 2: set signature.
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  Speaker 1: Bethany joy Lynn. Yeah, like that's classic b Jail Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I like her, That's all. One of the things I
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  Speaker 1: liked about this movie is I thought they did a
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  Speaker 1: nice job with the through line of the king just
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  Speaker 1: wanting his son to be happy. It's mentioned very early
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  Speaker 1: on by Victor of the Vallet when Sebastian is complaining
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  Speaker 1: about his father and pushing him to be married, and
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  Speaker 1: Victor says he just wants his son to be happy.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a throwaway line, because we see it mirrored
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  Speaker 1: at the very end of the movie, when the King
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  Speaker 1: shows up to the train station to get Kate and
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  Speaker 1: bring her back, realizing that that's where his son's happiness is,
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  Speaker 1: not in a person who, in theory, is right for him.
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  Speaker 1: And I admit that I tend to think of royal
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  Speaker 1: movies as as a little bit lacking substance, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit lacking some of the stronger storylines, because I think,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about my wishes, I think we lean
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  Speaker 1: on the same things over and over again. But I
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  Speaker 1: thought that was really well carried through the movie in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the king leaning on tradition but leaning more
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  Speaker 1: on the happiness of his sen good look at that
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  Speaker 1: deep thoughts, What else did you like? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I thought bgl and Will Kemp were great together too,
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  Speaker 2: And it makes me wonder if it's if it's Bethany
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  Speaker 2: joy Lands that elevates Yeah, is it the BJL effect.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe when they're having a conversation and Will Sebastian says,
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  Speaker 1: just tell me what to do, m M, and she's
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  Speaker 1: like that, that's not my job. I can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: The look in his eyes, there's so much emotion in
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  Speaker 1: that scene between the.
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  Speaker 4: Two of those.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to say, I don't think that Will
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  Speaker 2: Kemp is a bad I like many of his movies
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  Speaker 2: that he's in. But when I think about an Unexpected Christmas,
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  Speaker 2: is that the one Bethanye is in with Tyler? Tyler
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  Speaker 2: great movie. Obviously it built more Christmas. Great movie. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm just wondering if they're yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A built More Christmas would have been a very different movie.
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  Speaker 1: I think with two different actors, are you know? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look at Will Kemp. Will Kemp in a Christmas Waltz.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of our favorite movies. But again, he's across
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  Speaker 1: Lacey Shaver, who is an absolute freaking pro. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not knocking Will Kemp either, but I do think
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  Speaker 1: I think more importantly here, pairing these actors matter. So
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  Speaker 1: I think when you get two actors that work so
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  Speaker 1: nicely together, that's part of why we love it so much. Yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: did you have any more likes? A few more?
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  Speaker 2: I thought, Okay, this is gonna sound like a wish,
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  Speaker 2: but it is classically Hallmark Royal trope extravaganza totally. But
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  Speaker 2: for me, I liked as I was like, putting these
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  Speaker 2: notes together, this is my butt.
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  Speaker 1: For me, I liked.
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  Speaker 2: I liked that the focus was on Kate and like
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  Speaker 2: her reputation as this matchmaker. And then I thought, but wait,
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  Speaker 2: that's also very much a classic Hallmark trope of like her.
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  Speaker 1: Job is going to be on the line.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, so part of me felt like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 2: like a fresh take, but really it's not.
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  Speaker 1: But even that said, it's still like all kind of
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  Speaker 1: worked for me. I think the movie worked.
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  Speaker 2: I just go back to I think breath Andy Joy
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  Speaker 2: just really sold it for me. I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: would have liked it otherwise. Yeah, that's fair because the
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  Speaker 2: story is not something. It's not North to Home, it's
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  Speaker 2: not one summer, you know what I mean, it's not. No,
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  Speaker 2: the story's very classic the story.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, right.
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  Speaker 2: Also, two more things I liked. I really enjoyed Britney
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  Speaker 2: Bristow in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 2: She's not one I find like super remarkable in other movies.
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  Speaker 2: I really liked her in this movie.
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  Speaker 1: And I liked that.
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  Speaker 2: I thought there was gonna be a romantic pairing between
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  Speaker 2: her and Victor me too, and it wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: And it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: I just enjoyed that. I was so pleasantly surprised by that.
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  Speaker 1: The final thing that I liked is they style Kate
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  Speaker 1: so well. Her clothing, Yes, ma'am. Great a plus I
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  Speaker 1: wrote great cross costume, great wardrobes, let's stuck wishes. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: since you just mentioned Brittany Bristow, I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about I needed more from her character. Are you reading
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  Speaker 1: my notes right now?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 1: I was really I wrote this down. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, she plays the best friend, the assistant
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  Speaker 1: to help her, Like, it's fine that she doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: much to do, but I wanted her to have more
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  Speaker 1: to do when she shows up. Am I just taking
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  Speaker 1: the words out of your mouth? Look? I also thought like,
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  Speaker 1: she's gonna have a little relationship with Victor that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be so cute, And then Victor has the relationship
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  Speaker 1: with the other lady, which is fine. I was like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: what about Brittany? Is this for Britney?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I really wanted her to be. She's a great supportive,
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  Speaker 1: best friend assistant. She plays the role she points out
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  Speaker 1: when she's like, yo, you're in love with him. She's
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  Speaker 1: the perfect role for that, like she filled the need. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: but I wanted her to be more than just the
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  Speaker 1: person who moves Kate's storyline forward. Those are my thoughts exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, that's I would like to add onto it. I
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  Speaker 2: was a little bit annoyed that they thought by adding
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  Speaker 2: glasses to Brittany made her more intellectual, like more like like.
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  Speaker 1: She's she's not the sassy love interest because she's wearing
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  Speaker 1: glasses and therefore is less attractive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I didn't love that. I mean, obviously she's
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  Speaker 2: a stunner. Yeah, so like, let's put some dark framed
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  Speaker 2: glasses on her and make her like.
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  Speaker 1: Really hot blonde and real, we'll distract people from the
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  Speaker 1: fact that she should have Yeah, she has nobody interested
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  Speaker 1: in her romantically.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but anyway, I did enjoy her as the best
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  Speaker 2: friend assistant situation.
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  Speaker 1: So you kind of talked about how this movie was
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  Speaker 1: a little bit trope tastic, and I think one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I complained about in our previous movies
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  Speaker 1: is we do have the same basic conflict here and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's echoed. We're working on getting the royal person
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  Speaker 1: in the right place in their life to accept their
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  Speaker 1: royal role. And now this movie works for me. But again,
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  Speaker 1: the background story is like, do more mm hmm, check
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  Speaker 1: it up just a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a question for you about not just
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  Speaker 2: royal movies. But I was thinking about this during last
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  Speaker 2: month's Royal Trifecta and now this movie. Does Hallmark have
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  Speaker 2: movies that are set in let's say Europe that are
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  Speaker 2: not royal, Like, can we do we just have like
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  Speaker 2: a community, a town the royal aspects taken out of it?
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  Speaker 1: Can you think of anything off the top of your Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what's that movie with Gina Claire Mason, Heidi Heidelberg a
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  Speaker 1: Heidelerg Holiday? Okay, we had all of those movies on
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  Speaker 1: the boat. Yeah, the Danube movies. Okay, we always have
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  Speaker 1: Savoring Paris. There's We Had, All You're Right, Love and Honey,
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  Speaker 1: all those, all those Europeans set movies. There's tons of
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  Speaker 1: European Christmas in Vienna. Okay, you are right, Yes they exist. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, maybe I don't watch them, but I have
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  Speaker 1: seen many of those. So look, I thought Will and
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  Speaker 1: Kate had great chemistry. I did want more relationship developments.
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  Speaker 1: Call them Will and Kate. Her character's name is Kate,
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  Speaker 1: his actual real name is Will. My notes say Sebastian
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  Speaker 1: and Kate. I don't know why I said Will and Kate. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I thought Will and Bethany had great chemistry, but I
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  Speaker 1: wanted more relationship development between Sebastian and Kate. The scenes
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  Speaker 1: they have are great and sincere I mentioned that earlier
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  Speaker 1: scene where Sebastian's like, tell me what to do, where
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  Speaker 1: he's really asking her to tell him that she has
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  Speaker 1: feelings for him too, Like he wants her to say, no,
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  Speaker 1: don't do it, because I like you too. But I
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  Speaker 1: worry that we just didn't see enough. I believed it
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  Speaker 1: in that scene. They sold it to me. But I
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  Speaker 1: just worried we didn't really see enough of their relationship
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: development to get to what my biggest wish is is,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: please don't propose. Oh my notes say that proposal.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: No too fast, way too It's been yeah, but he's
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: going on these dates where he's may proposed to Petra Petrov.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, but we've already determined that that model isn't
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: going to work, So why do we not allow him
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: to develop a genuine Roman? These are fair thoughts? What
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: else did you wish for? That's it all right? Time
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: for digitsu that I have?
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: But one Okay, early on they're showing Kate's match making
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: website and there's a photo of her. Yeah, she's wearing
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: like a light blue silk shirt and she's holding a teacup.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Later in the movie she's wearing that exact same outfit.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: So they obviously like took snow from that day on
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: set and then use that on the website because I
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: thought it was interesting. I was like, why would she
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: be holding a tea cup? That's like so random, huh
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: for a match making website? Why are we holding coffee
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: cups in our headshots?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: That's fair? Just like give you something to do with
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: your hands. But anyway, yes, what about you? Just two
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: very little things. One, there's a moment where she's walking
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Beth and a joy Lands and Will are walking and
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: they're on the cobblestone streets and she's in these stilettos
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and you can kind of see her carefully placing her feet.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: But I just thought, she's a brave, brave, brave lady
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: walking down those streets and those shoes.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: That's so funny. I just remembered one since you brought
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: that up. I saw her heels get caught up on
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: a rug at one point, and like she like kicked
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: it back.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I saw, you know, she's just you know, she's just good.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: She's just good. And my final did to see that
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: is another styling note. She wears a pink and red
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: blouse and pants situation that's very reminiscent of that dress
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: she wears and savoring Paris. It is pink and red,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: it's the same shades. It's a good color combo on her. Yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: what did you rate? Royal Matchmaker?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I gave it four point seven five stars.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I gave it four and a half star. Get out
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of here.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: This is the best Royal movie. I've ever seen.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I did not say that. It's not that I know.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: But is it the best royal movie you've ever seen?
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I think so? I think so. On Homark. Thank you
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