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Weekend Rewind: Summer Villa (2016) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: Hey, friends, before we get started, this is a Girl's
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark rewind episode, which means you're about to hear
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  Speaker 1: us revisit an episode.
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  Speaker 2: We've already aired. Maybe the movie is airing again.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we just.
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  Speaker 2: Loved this episode that much. Either way, we think it's
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  Speaker 2: worth another listen.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark movie fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your former Hallmark hater. Today we're discussing Summer Villa,
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  Speaker 1: which originally aired on the Hallmark Channel on July twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, which feels like it was a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: but was in fact eight years ago. So let me
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  Speaker 1: blow your mind right there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for real.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to connect with us out side of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, follow us on Instagram. We are Girls Gone Hallmark.
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  Speaker 2: We should pop up for you. If not, we'll have.
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  Speaker 1: A link in our show notes if, ma'am. Before we
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  Speaker 1: jump into this movie, there's some news Hallmark and Girls
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  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark related I think we should talk about first up.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of the Facebook group, this was discussed there. One
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  Speaker 1: of the hot Hallmark adjacent stories is Ryan Pavey and
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  Speaker 1: his hot takes go ahead, he tweeted, sadly no.
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  Speaker 2: Word of a Hallmark film.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, he wrote on X but never I may
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  Speaker 1: take twenty twenty four off from filming unless the project
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  Speaker 1: is with friends. Following up with the last eight months
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  Speaker 1: of life in this industry have left a pretty bitter
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  Speaker 1: taste in my mouth, and I need some time away
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  Speaker 1: from a world so full of fake friends and empty promises.
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  Speaker 1: Wo so shots fired. This has been written about.
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  Speaker 2: I mean this.
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  Speaker 1: Particular quote I pulled from an article on Deadline dot com.
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  Speaker 1: It's been everywhere, It's been hotly reported. Look, Ryan was
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  Speaker 1: in two movies in twenty twenty three for Hallmark. That's
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  Speaker 1: not nothing, even a Christmas movie. So what's he talking
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  Speaker 1: about last eight months? Well, I don't know who knows
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  Speaker 1: when that was filmed, but it doesn't seem that wild
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  Speaker 1: to me that it's April and he's not in a
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  Speaker 1: movie yet. The Hallmark bench is deep, and I think
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  Speaker 1: we talked recently about how the Hallmark execs came out,
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  Speaker 1: and he had a multi picture deal signed in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, which I imagine ended last year. They're not
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  Speaker 1: doing those anymore, so I could imagine I'm in a
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  Speaker 1: multi picture deal. I don't get resigned. Yeah, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not you. That's just not how we're doing business anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And it feels like sour grapes.
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  Speaker 2: To me, and also feels like fake friends and empty promises.
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  Speaker 1: Feels like you're asking people to be like, well, what
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  Speaker 1: happened and he's not going to tell you. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: a little vague book, right, Yes, I saw you write
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  Speaker 1: this in the Facebook group. He's not one two mince words.
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  Speaker 1: I think that perfectly sums him up. He has been
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  Speaker 1: very vocal in the past about his unhappiness with certain
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  Speaker 1: brands or projects or events, etc.
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  Speaker 2: It's not good for him.
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  Speaker 1: The coverage that it got was wild. Yeah, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: I if I'm a Hallmark exec, it doesn't make me
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  Speaker 1: want to.
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  Speaker 2: Go, oh please come back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we shall see if we see mister Pavey on
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  Speaker 1: our Hallmark screens this year.
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  Speaker 2: Wow wow.
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  Speaker 1: If you follow us outside the podcast on Instagram on Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: you may have heard the news.
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  Speaker 2: But we sat down to come up with our summer schedule.
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  Speaker 1: And when you completely blew my mind, I'm no schmuck
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  Speaker 1: over here.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean? Because you're like, when he completely
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  Speaker 2: blew my mind? Oh never mind, it's okay, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think I was talking about that?
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  Speaker 1: I sat down and mapped out the movies that we're
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  Speaker 1: going to watch and the days that.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to do it, and made an image for it. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: no no. You're a hard worker. That's not my point.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't saying, wow, Wendy did something that was never the.
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  Speaker 2: Direction I was going.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the content we're creating, and that it
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  Speaker 1: was in the end, ultimately you who pushed for it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I am the one who
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  Speaker 1: pushed this Girl's Gone Hallmark from the very getting so
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  Speaker 1: go ahead. The people have suggested many, many times that
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  Speaker 1: we take on Science Sealed Delivered. Every time we talk
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  Speaker 1: about you know, what should we watch? It's a big undertaking.
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  Speaker 1: And with the new movies coming out, we had said
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  Speaker 1: on a recent episode, what should we do?
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  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts? And the discussion came up in
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  Speaker 2: the Facebook group.
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  Speaker 1: People were saying do it take it on? I want
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  Speaker 1: to hear it, and so it is a signed sealed
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  Speaker 1: delivered summer coming at you. I'm excited for it, to
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  Speaker 1: be honest, I too.
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  Speaker 2: I think it'll be fun.
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  Speaker 1: We are doing all the movies and the series, and
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  Speaker 1: we don't have air dates for those two sign sealed
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  Speaker 1: delivered movies that are coming out.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I hope they don't drop during the summertime, like in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of our schedule. Well, if they're dropping two
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  Speaker 1: this year, we're gonna get at least one before the
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  Speaker 1: end of summer. Well hopefully it's at the end of
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  Speaker 1: our our run with it. We shall see, right, So
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  Speaker 1: I will post that schedule on our Instagram today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh exciting.
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  Speaker 1: I already dropped it last week in the Facebook. I
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  Speaker 1: did see that in Facebook. So if you're in the
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  Speaker 1: Facebook group, you got early access. But you can keep
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  Speaker 1: up with what's coming from us this summer. And btw,
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  Speaker 1: I have already started sign steal delivery.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why I have found out that there
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  Speaker 1: is an actual pilot before the episodes, because I watched
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  Speaker 1: the first episode and of like, wait, did I miss
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  Speaker 1: something like who are these people?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Now it makes sense that there was a pilot movie
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  Speaker 1: first and then all the episodes. So anyway, I like
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  Speaker 1: what I've seen so far. Oh, I'm glad to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: We did get one DM that was like, no, they're
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  Speaker 1: not that good.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I hear that in my head every single day too.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, what have I gotten myself into?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not so much worried about what we've gotten ourselves into.
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  Speaker 1: We've watched plenty of bad movies, but don't go anywhere
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  Speaker 1: if Sign Seal Delivered isn't your jam is all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: We will be doing Christmas in July again this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm really excited about the slate of movies we're reviewing.
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  Speaker 1: There eight never before seven never before reviewed movies and
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  Speaker 1: one revisited movie. We will be breaking up Sign Seeal Delivered.
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  Speaker 2: With oh holiday cheer.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm excited about our schedule. Me dude, all right,
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  Speaker 1: let's move on. You ready for a synopsis? I am
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  Speaker 1: Summer Villa, a celebrity chef who getting over a bad review,
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  Speaker 1: and a romance novelist who can't seem to get her
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  Speaker 1: next book. Started meet accidentally at a French villa. This
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  Speaker 1: movie first premiered on Hallmark in twenty sixteen, and then
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  Speaker 1: Hallmark re aired it as part of their Summer Nights
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  Speaker 1: lineup in twenty twenty. When I saw that note, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, are you telling me Hallmark never repeated this
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  Speaker 1: movie between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty because they repromoted
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  Speaker 1: it as like not new, but like exciting to our
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  Speaker 1: summer night's lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Here we've got Summer Villa.
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  Speaker 1: I doubt that they never re aired it. My guess
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  Speaker 1: is twenty twenty, no one will we know about Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: productions right things were halted in March. Maybe they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have as many summer movies as we need.
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  Speaker 1: We're just going to re air this fan favorite during
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  Speaker 1: our Summer Nights lineup. Gotcha, gotcha. This movie was directed
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  Speaker 1: by Pat Keeley. Pat has ten previous directing credits. Summer
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  Speaker 1: Villain was his first project for Hallmark. He's gone on
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  Speaker 1: to direct Majestic Christmas and Christmas in My Heart for
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  Speaker 1: the Channel. There are two screenwriters credited for this movie.
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  Speaker 1: Carrie Lee Wilson has just four writing credits. This is
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  Speaker 1: her one and only Hallmark movie. Other projects include A
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  Speaker 1: Scout's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse in twenty fifteen and
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  Speaker 1: College road tripy eighteen in two thousand and eight. According
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  Speaker 1: to LinkedIn, she's presently an adjunct professor teaching screenwriting one
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  Speaker 1: oh one at Los Angeles Valley College. Also per her LinkedIn,
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  Speaker 1: she is the co writer on a project for Hallmark
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  Speaker 1: Media called There's a Cake in My Future, which I
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  Speaker 1: could not find any additional information about other than it's
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  Speaker 1: a book, so she's obviously adapting it, but nothing about
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  Speaker 1: it being connected to Hallmark other than her LinkedIn. Emmi
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  Speaker 1: Mochizuki appears to be Carrie's writing partner, as Emmy has
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  Speaker 1: the exact same writing credits.
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  Speaker 2: Hillary Burton plays Terry.
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  Speaker 1: Hillary has thirty four acting credits, including previous Hallmark movies
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  Speaker 1: like Surprised, I Loved, and Naughty or Nice. She played
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Scott in one hundred and thirty episodes of One
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  Speaker 1: Tree Hill, as well as twenty five episodes of White Collar.
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  Speaker 1: Hillary has been absent from Hallmark for several years after
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  Speaker 1: being quote let go from Hallmark Media in January twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: She says she was fired from a movie for being
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  Speaker 1: outspoken about the lack of diversity on set. Makes me
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  Speaker 1: like her even more. Have you ever seen White Collar?
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  Speaker 2: No?
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Netflix is pushing it hard to me lately, but I'm
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: deep into the Resident and I cannot be its way.
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  Speaker 1: Season three, Baby, Oh wow, you've you've surpassed me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't stop. Won't stop.
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  Speaker 1: Victor Webster plays Matthew or chef Cubid If You're nasty?
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  Speaker 2: Wowie's AOI.
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  Speaker 1: Victor has a whopping ninety two acting credits. We most
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: recently saw him in One Bad Apple, Hannah Swinston Mystery. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: this movie was filmed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. First impression
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  Speaker 1: is this peak Victor Webster?
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  Speaker 2: Hot? Damn?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: All I think about is that pool scene? Sorry?
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  Speaker 1: Who wowe Zowie? Yeah, he looks great. I on mine
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  Speaker 1: is if fake Nantucket is Kanucket, what do we call
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  Speaker 1: fake France? What do you call it?
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  Speaker 2: Wait? This is like a riddle.
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  Speaker 1: If fake Nantucket is fan Tucket, then what do we
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  Speaker 1: call fake France?
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  Speaker 2: France? I'm sorry? What did you like about this movie? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: So I thought this was.
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  Speaker 1: A really lovely movie and lovely to look at. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: there were like a familiar homework trope, but there was
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  Speaker 1: something about it I didn't feel like Terry's success and
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  Speaker 1: happiness was a result of.
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  Speaker 2: Meeting Chef Cupid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but like his presence did awaken her, or like
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  Speaker 1: awaken something in her, and that transformation was nice to watch,
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  Speaker 1: lovely to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Agree.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, tropes aren't all bad, particularly when they're done well,
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  Speaker 1: and this one was done really well.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, what you didn't think?
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  Speaker 1: So when I'll get to it and I wished for oh,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well I just mean the uh oh, we're
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  Speaker 1: both at a villa in France. I actually thought when
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  Speaker 1: let me back up, when she opened, when she looks
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  Speaker 1: outside and sees him swimming, I'm like, come on, how
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  Speaker 1: does he not know? But then they have the conversation
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  Speaker 1: with the sister and she's like, you didn't tell mom
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  Speaker 1: and dad you were going.
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  Speaker 2: I told mom and dad. I was given my.
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  Speaker 1: Week about it. A little miscommunication, understandable miscommunications. Yes, not
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: the most unbelievable story. But one thing I really loved
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: that has absolutely nothing to do with that that was
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  Speaker 1: a surprise to me was the relationship that Abby and
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  Speaker 1: Chef Cupid developed. Probably shouldn't call him chef cubid in
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  Speaker 1: this instance. Yeah, Matthew, Yeah, Abby and Matthew I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was great.
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  Speaker 2: I actually really liked Abby's character. I thought she played
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  Speaker 2: a great.
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  Speaker 1: Believable teenager, and I think it was more believable to
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  Speaker 1: me that she was able to develop her relationship with
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  Speaker 1: someone else other than her mother. And I liked that
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  Speaker 1: do we had this whole other storyline. It didn't involve
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  Speaker 1: Terry having to be like, oh, let me help you
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  Speaker 1: find your passion as a chef with these flavors like,
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  Speaker 1: she didn't have to be a part of that. They
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  Speaker 1: were able to help each other without having to actually
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  Speaker 1: partake in each other's careers, and I liked that.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed Abby. The character of Abby. I liked
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  Speaker 1: that there were typical teenage struggles that she was dealing with,
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  Speaker 1: but also she was very engaged with like these adults
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  Speaker 1: in her life, and she wasn't like this nasty like, eh,
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  Speaker 1: let me be on my phone and I hate everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It just was.
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  Speaker 1: Refreshing to see she didn't fall into like a stereotype.
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  Speaker 1: And I do like that relationship between she and chef Matthew.
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  Speaker 1: I thought her friend heartbreak was really well played too.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was very believable, and I also thought
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  Speaker 1: that her turning on her mother in that moment, she
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  Speaker 1: came to her, she needed a hug, she needed to cry,
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  Speaker 1: and then she blamed her for it. Oh, very believable.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I agree, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Something else, I like there was something about the way
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  Speaker 1: this movie was directed. And I hate saying this, but
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  Speaker 1: it looked like a real movie to me, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the opening scenes when we have Terry like frustrated with
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  Speaker 1: writing right and she's frustrated with her daughter.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I knew more.
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  Speaker 1: About directing to be able to like articulate why and
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  Speaker 1: how it was different, But it just looked different compared
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  Speaker 1: to other Hallmark movies. Yeah, the framing of the shots
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  Speaker 1: is I think, really well done. I agree one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent from that. And I gotta say it like, I've loved,
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  Speaker 1: loved that scene where she goes to the bar to
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  Speaker 1: meet him on this blind date. It's very like she
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  Speaker 1: looks Hillary Burton, Terry looks very sexy coming out of
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  Speaker 1: this cab and sitting at the bar. She's very flirty.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: He's walking up. Of course he chooses somebody else. I
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  Speaker 1: love that whole scene.
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  Speaker 2: No, you didn't like it, I liked it. It moved me.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was good. I thought it was good acting.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I liked her talking to his back, like when
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: he's talking to who he thinks his his days, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: answering him.
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  Speaker 2: That was clever.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, I liked it as well. I think there's some
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: good one liners in this movie. I actually am surprised
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  Speaker 1: that the writers didn't do more. When Terry is talking
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  Speaker 1: to her friend Matthew's sister, and she's like, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want the right.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Girl, he just wants the next girl. And then she
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: says to.
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  Speaker 1: Him, you can't let them take anything from you when
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: she's talking about bad reviews, which is something that she
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: can obviously personally relate to as a writer, and I
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: think that advice also applies to her daughter when her
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: friends are talking about her on social media. I thought
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: there was some well placed lines. Yeah, I am kind
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  Speaker 1: of disappointed that these two writers haven't written more from Hallmark.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Counterpoint to that, I did read some reviews on I
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: was gonna say yelp on IMDb, and of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you get the worst over there. Some people were complaining
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: that the characters were too whiny, and I was like, what,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't think they were whiny at all. And yeah,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: I was like, no, this is wrong anyway, wrong, You're wrong.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: I thought Hillary Burton was fantastic in this. I wish
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: she would give the network another chance. I think they've
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: made great strides over there.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but do you think they want her back?
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Well? I think her problem was with Bill Abbott because
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: the article I did read said like it comes from
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  Speaker 1: the top, yes, you know what I mean. Yeah, And
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  Speaker 1: so that top is no longer there, and they have
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  Speaker 1: other people there who are.
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  Speaker 2: Moving in a different direction.
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  Speaker 1: So I just wish maybe they could meet in the
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: middle somewhere. Yeah. I think she's great. I think she's
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: a great grounding force for the network.
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  Speaker 2: I really like her. I liked her in that.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Kind of weird Paul Campbell movie that we watched, Surprise
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  Speaker 1: My Love. Yeah, I think she's really good. You know
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: what's interesting too, is like she's really good friends with
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Bethany joy Lynz. So you know, they work together for
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: a really long time on One Tree Hill, and I
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: think they I don't know if it's still is in production,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: but they had a podcast together recapping One Tree Hill. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, Bethany does a lot of work
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: with the network. You would think like that would be
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: a yeah, avenue there, I don't enough. Finally, for me,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Victor was great, very happy. I like him more and
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  Speaker 1: more me too. I don't even remember when we first
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: met Victor. Can you recall it might have been the
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: wedding veil to be? Maybe? Of course we knew him
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: before we knew him because we watched work in Moms indeed,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: but Victor in a Hallmark role is what I'm referring to. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's great for the network. Anything else you liked, Nope,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: let's talk wishes. So for me, and I mentioned it earlier,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: it's old tropes. And that's the problem with these older
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: movies from twenty sixteen.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I think, like.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: We're subjected to these like tired tropes, Like we're not
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that the new movies don't have them, but like they
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: just seem so obvious to me, and they make me
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: a little irrationally angry. I guess, I don't know. We've
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: got these two people who can't stand each other, and
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: then they end up spending the entire time in the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: same house of falling in love or like the whole
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: miscommunication not even a miscommunication, but when Terry assumes Sath
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Matthew isn't the dude because he gets a job opportunity,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: like she feels like.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Oh he's going to go away and yes, now. My
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: least favorite is the lack of communication. Yeah exactly.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you probably shouldn't read romance novels because they just
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: take these tropes and recycle them heavily.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I can't stand it, so I don't.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, enemy still Lovers is typically my least favorite, mostly because,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: as I've we've talked about it before, you have to
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: make a big leap for me to believe it that
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: you've made that jump, and sometimes in an hour and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: twenty minutes, we don't have enough time to do that.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I do think they did it well. I was rooting
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: for them, but it is.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: One of the harder hurdles to overcome for me, as
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: of you are right.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: What about you?
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: What did you wish for? Well, at the end of
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the movie, Matthew says like, I want to know, you know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: this is our story. I want to know what happens next,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and Yemmi too, because what's the plan. Obviously you're not
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: gonna go on tour making dinner for a different single
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: woman in a different city like that sounds like a
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: terrible idea, honestly, Like, don't do that. I mean, you
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: guys just gonna go back to New York and like
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: live and work there. That's cool, But like, what's gonna
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: happen with their friend's restaurant. I don't know what's going
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to happen to his restaurant in New York.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of questions here. This movie could use
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: some answers.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe he didn't own that restaurant and that's why he
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: was able to bounce after his bad review. Maybe he
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: was just the like executive chef at.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: That restaurant, you know how that how that is? Yet
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: you actually get.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: That vibe like he's there when they're getting ready for
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the day. It was a little unclear to me, But.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: You're right, I yeah, what's next? What's a plan?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: He's like, I could cook anywhere? Okay, well she can
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: write anywhere. But you also have a teenager here that
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: you need to consider as well. Exctly, yeah, any other wishes?
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: No, hey, look at that.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Let's move on to digit see that I have a few.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I only have two.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: So well, first of all, they're like fawning over the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: quality of these sweetbreads, and they're not explaining what sweetbreads
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: are to people who may or may not know. And
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, disgusting, sorry, Like this comes from a
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: girl who would never and then they like feed them
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to Terry without her knowing what they are.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: That's just cruel. Yeah.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Did it remind you of the nine O two to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: zero in France moment where the eight brains?
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Sure, of course it's brains. I can just picture that. Yep,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: just don spits it out, bits it out. Yet no,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: thank you.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: What else it's a minor complaint. It's when he's lounging
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: by the pool and they think that's so funny, hijiinks
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Terry and the daughter Abby and they like flip over
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: the chair and he is asleep and falls into the pool.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Like how terrifying would that be? I would be so mad.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I would be so pissed, first of all, and then second,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: like they flip the whole chair over. But in the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: next shot, like the chair is sitting there and like
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: his book and talent everything is on it. So it's
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: like that stuff didn't go in the pool, just him
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: just well, what I noticed in that scene is he's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: holding a book and Terry like reaches for the book
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: as they're flipping him over. Oh so I wonder if
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: they just like tipped the lounger and then like tipped
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: it back. I don't know, but whatever. Yeah, I was like,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: don't throw the book in the pool and then you
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: can see her hand.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Got it ground. Could you imagine.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Like that could give me PTSD for the rest of
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: that seriously, Like that's the end.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Our relationship is over. Don't look. We have a rule
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: in my house.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Don't sneak up on me, like, don't hide from me.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: That's not that's not funny, not funny, not cool.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: A couple just little moments in the beginning of the movie.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Matthew's at work and he's gonna go on his date
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and he like walks through the kitchen and he grabs
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: his suit or his coat like off a hook in
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the middle of the kitchen. It's like a terrible place
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: for your clothing. Just got to say, even if it
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: stays clean, it's gonna smell like a kitchen.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I laughed out loud at the giant old key ring
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: that the sister hands to Terry. She's like, oh, yes,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: say it. Our family's a state in France and it's
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: like a giant rusty key. No, did they bring it
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: back from eighteen fourteen? Seriously, it's like to Caribans bring
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: it back?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: You know that key?
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's seriously like the dog with the keys in
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean on the ride, like outside of
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the Jails, sell Terry is recognized by so many people,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna say, writers aren't that recognizable, Like
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: maybe if I introduces herself but physically by name, like
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: oh are you Terry? No, I'm sorry, nobody knows what
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: these writers look like.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean remember last.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Week's movie Blind Day book Club, like Robert Buckley who
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: played the Yeah, I had written this like Blockbuster smash
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: series and the bookshop owner doesn't recognize him.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Come on, it's just no. And finally they get.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Into that little sporty coop to drive away. It's a
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: very hairy and Megan moment to me because it reminded
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: me of the card they drove away from their wedding
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: in if you remember anyway, they don't wear seat belts.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Oh not even a lap belt.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: They didn't chill them putting one on, and he like
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: peels out of that driveway. I was like careful, put
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: your seatbelts on. Bad things happened even in the fake
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: French countryside, of course, of course, even on movie sets,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: even on movies. Right, Okay, what'd you rate this one
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: four stars? I gave it three point seventy five. Oh
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I that is not a bad rating.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I I know it was. It was. Okay. Here's here's
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: where I'm to get defensive.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I'm getting no, it was probably a really excellent movie
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: for twenty sixteen.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: The bar has been raised. I think the bar has
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: been raised. Yeah, I really liked it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: But I agree with you, but I really liked it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I liked it too.
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