July 11, 2025 • 29 mins
Today on The Spill, we’re kicking things off with something special: introducing the newest show in The Spill family: Morning Tea. It’s your weekday hit of celeb news, pop culture drama and internet chaos, all in the time it takes to drink your morning coffee (or tea!). Tune in at 8am Monday to Thursday for the headlines you need to know, then come back at 3pm for your regular deep dive right here on The Spill.
And speaking of deep dives…
It’s the season of TV romance, and with Lena Dunham’s new series Too Much dropping this week, we’re diving headfirst into the world of rom-com style TV shows.
From classic comfort watches to underrated gems, today we’re rounding up the romantic comedy series we can’t stop thinking about. And if you’re a fan of the genre, get ready, because Laura’s bringing some undercover gems you probably haven’t heard of.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So much. You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders
that this podcast is recorded on from Mamma Mia. Welcome
to The Spill, your daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura
Brodney and I'm Cassina Luci and coming up on the
show today. Oh my god, guys, you might hear the
excitement and my voice. I have been dying, dying, dying
(00:36):
to do this episode for so long. We are talking
about the best romantic comedy TV shows, not movies of
all time and heaps that you probably haven't heard of
or watched before. So get excited.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
But first, you probably have noticed in your feeds a
new little fun thing from us here at the Spill,
and it's called Morning Tea. Now, Laura, this has been
in the works for quite a while. Can you kind
of explain to our listeners what this is.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, this has been in the works for a while,
and the story behind it. I'm trying to take an
emotional here, the story behind it actually really really because
Morning Tea is a new roundup of celebrity gossip news
headlines that drops into the feed now every morning at
eight am on Monday to Thursday, so Friday mornings are
still Weekend Watch, but Morning Tea is there Monday to Thursday.
(01:25):
It's hosted by the incredible Ash London, who I feel
like she needs no introduction, one of the biggest radio
stars Australia's ever seen. She's also co host on The
Spill many times. She knows every single thing about pop culture, celebrity, entertainment, music,
everything she hosts that And the reason we've introduced this
little extra show that pops into your feed in the
morning is because and this is why I get emotional,
(01:48):
because this podcast has been around for nearly six years now.
Myself and so many other people over the years have
put all of our blood, sweat and tears into making
this show. And what's really lovely about that is that
our audience has grown so significantly, especially in the last
few years or the last year over forty percent, like
our numbers are through the roof, and that just makes
(02:09):
me so happy that everyone it's so nice, and also
just the community of people that we have and the
people who message me saying that The Spill is like
a bright spot in their day or it's like their
little treat of the day, or they listen to go
to sleep, or they listen to it when something sad
is happening in their lives and want to hear us
praddle about romantic comedies like it's so nice and so
What we've been getting as our numbers have been getting
(02:30):
bigger and bigger and bigger, is this demand from listeners
who have message just emailed us, commented on our social
called us on the pod phone, and left voicemails, which
you can do. We'll put the link in the show notes.
We love your messages, and what they've been saying is
that we want more, more content, more episodes. To the fact,
there's one particular comment that we got on one of
our Spotify episodes.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Do you want me to read it for you?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, please read it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I'll read it.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Because I've only been working on the spill for maybe
like six months on and off. I do feel like
I'm kind of ringing in to like celebrate with you guys,
but I do.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'm really proud of you. You've done so well.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You're part of a spell fan now, like once you're
in your in I know, no one gets to leave.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
But you guys have been working so hard on this show.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So one of the listeners that this is so you
can listen to the compliment and really like let it marinate.
Allison said, I would love for this podcast to be
a full hour or maybe an option for an added
podcast for other stories that aren't made headlines.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You could call it a spillover. That's a great name.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's a great name. And also we did consider it,
but yeah, but also this message from Alison, which is
so lovely. Also, I've also been pushing for the spill
to be an hour every day, but it just hasn't
got across the line. But what we've been getting from
listeners like Alison and so many other people is like
they just want more and more and more content. So
that's what Morning Tea is. So the idea is that
you wake up in the morning, and as you're getting
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ready for work, exercising, commuting, looking after your kids, or
maybe just lying in bed and having a lovely slow morning,
the first thing that you're going to do is open
up your phone and listening to Morning Tea because it
has got all the biggest headlines, all the biggest stories.
It's a little bit of scandal, it's a little bit
of humor, it's a little bit of lightness and it
just gets you ready for the day. And it's a
(04:07):
quick little yes, it's four to five minutes. So it
really is just the headlines to really because as we know, mornings,
you've got to be sharp, you've got to be organized,
you got to get things done quickly, and so that
is the way to start off your morning with Ash
London's beautiful voice bringing you all the goss. And then
three pm every day Monday to Friday, the Main Spill
Show is still dropping into your feed. In the afternoon.
(04:28):
We'll do a big deep dive, we'll do some analysis,
we'll bring you some stuff, some gossip we probably shouldn't
say out loud, we'll do. I'll give you a history
lesson so sexy of Me. But we'll also touch on
so many different things. And of course the Main Spill
Show will still have all of our normal TV and
movie bits and interviews we can watch us still there.
So it's all the stuff you love from the Spill,
but just this extra hit of morning tea first thing
(04:50):
in the morning, eight am. So as always, we love
you guys telling us what you love about the Spill.
So let us know what you think of Morning Tea,
what you're loving about it, And as you can see
from Allison's comment and the many other people you send
us a comment and say we want an extra show,
we will make it. So guys keep asking. You never
know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
What I love about our Friday show is that we
we usually do like some recommendations, some of our favorites.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's all about like a deep dive.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You have been suggesting this incessantly on our channels for
weeks and weeks and weeks, and we finally had to
say today, Okay, Laura, for God's sake, we'll do it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
This is the best romantic comedy series of all time.
I'm going to give you a couple of my favorites,
which are more like more well known, and then you're
going to give us the ones that we don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes, and I should say before we jump too, that
is how we going to do it, yea. What is
a fun, frivolous Friday episode about love and romance without
some rules? Ye rules is what I bring.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
To We're about to say, I'm about to say, Laura
will now come in with her.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Rules, because this is what you want from a pop
culture podcast, No, not just to define things. So obviously
we were talking about TV romantic comedies because, as you
would have heard in our Weekend Watch episode this morning,
Lena Dunham's new rom com has just come out on
Netflix Too Much. Even though it's a rom com and
a drama, Lena Dunham said her catalyst for making the
show was as a bit of a love letter to
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the romantic comedies she grew up watching in all the
movies that she loved, and so that got me thinking
that we always talk about romantic comedy movies, and obviously
there's so many incredible romantic comedy movies out there, but
I feel like we don't talk enough about romantic comedy
TV shows and they are also very very important. So
that's what we're going to do today. So we've defined
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a romantic comedy TV show as obviously something that is
a comedy that has lightness and frothiness to it, but
something where the love story is the central driving part
of the show and it is the end game and
you do get that love story payoff at the end.
So that is how we're defining a romantic comedy TV show.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Okay, I'm going to start with one that is on
the newer side. It only came out last year on Netflix.
Nobody wants this.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Never heard of it except for the fifteen podcasts we
did it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I know, I know we've talked about it a lot. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We don't have to go.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Too much into it because I know probably everyone's over it.
But it would be remiss if I didn't mention it,
because I think it fits the genre.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
What did you love about it? That's we've never talked
about this before, we haven't.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I really loved the comedy. I liked the cross cultural
development of a love story that's not like a typical
love story, and something centered around religion. It's not something
that we really see very often. This agnostic woman going
for this Jewish rabbi. I just thought it was a
really interesting take. I also really liked.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The side characters like go Good.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
One of my favorite characters is Sasha, played by Timothy Simons.
I don't know if you ever watched Veep, did you
watch Veba? He was in Vape, he was Jonah in Veab,
and it's just he's such a great character. He's so funny.
And the new season is coming out in October.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh, yes, our calendars are marked.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yes, so we don't have long to wait for season two.
But I think in terms of fitting your rules, it really.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yep nails it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It really does.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The other one that I wanted to do is one
that is a bit older, apped filming in twenty eighteen,
and it's a New Girl.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
My God, New Girl is just one of my ultimate
comfort watches. But I think what it doesn't get enough credit.
Maybe it does, but like the hardcore fans know that
as much as that is an incredible ensemble comedy, it's
the love story that is so perfectly done. Romantic comedy
writers dream of a love story.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Like that, and you know that there's all these stories
about so Elizabeth Merriweather created the show Love Her, and
during the early episodes, Zoe Deschanel and Jake Johnson, who
played Yessca Day and Nick Miller, weren't actually allowed to
do too many scenes together because their chemistry was too good.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh I love it. I love it so much.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And they just hit it off straight away.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And you know, obviously a lot of the time with
these kind of sick comedy shows, that relationship develops, but
it really is from the very beginning, you can see
that there is chemistry between the two of them, and.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Again it's just so funny. It's so silly.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
The guy who plays Winston Bishop like Lemonne, Yeah, he's
so funny, Like as he grows it gets quirkier. But
my favorite is definitely Schmidt Max Greenfield. Just how during
the pandemic with his daughter those funny TikTok.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
He is hilarious. I loved him in Running Point as
well recently, but I just I just will find him
like the hottest man ever. Also, Veronica Mars fans know
him as Leo, but he is so good at that show.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
So yeah, he was gonna quick acting before he did this.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I know, and this is the role that really gave
him his new stardom.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But yeah, my favorite like bit that they do throughout
the series, and it's not part of the love story,
but I'm a bit of a comedy fan.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, my favorite bit that they do is the douchebag job.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, and how they stomp it at the wedding.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Damn it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I can't find my driving moccasins anywhere.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
All the way he says, youth, youth everywhere are you.
I quoted him in a lot which doesn't really fit
in with my day to day life. I quesht weird.
So it's just he's got a quote for everything, or
at least weird.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
He's so funny. Anyway, that is kind of my favorite.
That's on Disney Plus. Now you can watch all seasons.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And it's such a good rewatch too. We watch it
every couple of years. It really holds up.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, it's a great rewatch. It's just fun, it's cozy,
it's easy.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The last one is a really obvious one, but I
have a confession. I've never seen it. It's Emily in Paris.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Get out of here. Well, you know what, I'd rather
you say I haven't seen it than say it's bad,
I hate it or I don't understand it. For those
people who say I don't understand it, what is there
to understand? It's a pretty basic plot point and a
pretty basic promise. Anyway. Obviously I really love Emily in Paris,
not even in our I don't hate watch anything. I
only love watch. So I really like it and you
(10:54):
can continue. What's it about?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Okay, So this is like I guess it's about a.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Girl whose actually what you think it's about.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Okay, she's a marketing chick in I'm guessing New York,
Chicago probably, yeah, Chicago.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And then she flies over to Paris because she gets
a job over there.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
She's transferred by her company yep.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Okay, because they wanted to have like an American lens on,
like the Perisian life. Yeah, she goes over there, and
then she meets downstairs from her house is a really
hot guy and he's French. She's in ridiculous outfits and
high hills and it's very glamorous.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yes, yeah, that's it. That's the story.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I mean, that is kind of the story part. That's
what it's meant to be. Like, I just want Emily
and Paris just so beautiful to watch. It does really
pre will I think you would really like it. Like, yes,
there's some silliness to it, but it's meant to be
a silly keeper. She's also not meant to be for
French people. They would never watch it. I think most
of them don't even know it exists. It's for the
(11:52):
basic girls like.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No, but I love hors and I pride myself on
being very Perusian.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
No wait, okay, no, no, you can love Paris. Also,
her version of Paris is obviously like an American idealized
fantasy to an extent. But whenever I go to Paris,
I don't think of Emily in Paris like they're two
kind of steppy things, except for the fact that she
goes around to a lot of the very touristy sides
and loves them. And I also feel that that's what
(12:20):
you do when you go to Paris for the first time,
and there's no shame in that. There's no shame in
seeing the Eiffel Tower or the Louver or something and
getting excited, because that's fine when you see that for
the first time. You should be excited, otherwise you're dead inside.
Do There's a thing called Paris syndrome where people go
to Paris with such high expectations and when they go
outside of some of the city centers and they see
(12:40):
the rubbish and see the normal houses, people have been
hospitalized over Paris. That's a truth act over Paris syndrome,
because the shock and the disappointment of this world that
they built up is not there anymore, Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Paris is my favorite city. I love Paris so much.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
No, Paris is also. I mean, I know it's one
of my favorite city street no one's ever said that before,
but I guess there are parts of it that don't
look like Paris. Well.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I think if you're going look outskirts of Paris is
very different to being in like where the show, and
it's like very bougie and expensive. Obviously, if you're going
in to the you know, outer our endorsements, it's a
bit different, you know. I think it's a point of
pride for me that I haven't seen it because twenty
twenty to twenty twenty five it's had so much hype
(13:22):
and the fact that I've gone this long without watching it, I.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Can't start now.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I understand. No, I don't understand that at all. I
just think that if you want to watch it and
it's this lovely, frothy, romantic comedy esque TV show, you
should just watch it. That's not the if. I'm like,
that's not the thing to kind of get hung up on,
is all I would say. Some people don't like it
because I think it's silly, and like, yes, it is silly,
it's also not meant to be a drama.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I don't mind silly I like like feel good silly.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's my favorite. I'm really being on having like very
kind of soothing TV shows, especially that I watch like
Saturday and Sunday morning. I've got a band. None of
my friends are allowed to ask me to brunch or
breakfast anymore. Call me, talk to me, go near me,
because that is my calm time where I wake up
whatever time I want, and I go outo my living
room and I have all my bunches of fresh flowers. Oh,
light my candles. I know you have children.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
How to do this so much?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Laura, Well, one day you come visit me.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
We had kids like I.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You know, Well, this will come back around different seasons
for different parts of life, and I'll make my beautiful
coffee and I all I want to do then is
watch something very soothing, that's beautiful and that just like
looks lovely on screen. And Emily in Paris is really
that show. And also there are some great performances in
there from Lily Colins, who players Emily Cooper does the
part that she's meant to play like she does that fine,
(14:36):
but a lot of the side characters, all the people
who work in the French office, Sylvie incredible, Mindy incredible, Like,
there's a lot to love about it.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Watch it. Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
So, now that we've gone through some of the obvious choices,
do you want to take us through some of the
ones that we most likely haven't seen?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yes, Yes, this is the moment I have been waiting for. Okay.
So the first one I wanted to bring up is
a show that I absolutely fell in love with when
it came out back in twenty and nineteen. And it's
a really beautiful rom com series called Four Weddings and
a Funeral.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Like the Yeah Grant movie.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, like the very very famous movie Hugh Grants. So
I know you're gonna say, but Laura, that's a movie. Well,
Mindy Kaling, Mindy Kaling. It's like I'm on the defensive today.
I'm like, no one saying you think about rom coms.
Mindy Keayling, one of my very favorite TV actresses writers' creators,
adapted the movie, which was originally written by Richard Curtis, who,
if you look up that band's name, has written every
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big rom com that we love. Here's the godfather of
rom comms. Mindy Kayling loves rom comms and she loved
that movie, and so she adapted into a TV series
where the overall premise is very the same, but it's
different in terms of like she switched the characters, and
one of the big switches is that there is now
a female lead. It's Natalie Emmanuel, who people would know
from Game of Thrones, Fast and Furious, that really hot
(15:55):
vampire movie The Invitation. She plays our lea girl Mayer,
and she's an American, but she ends up moving to
London where her college friends are, and it tells the
story of these four American friends, Maya, Craig, Ainslie, and
Duffy and they reunite for this very fabulous London wedding.
Something happens, and then it follows them over their lives
of the next year that tell all of their different
(16:16):
love stories. And it's just this beautiful, Like if you
just want to watch something like really frothy and lovely
with incredible dialogue that's set in London, and it's really
beautiful to watch. The performances are so good. Mindy Kaling's
script is like ten out of ten and like, you
don't have to have seen four weddings in a funeral,
although you should watch that. What's great movie.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
What's it streaming on?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
It's on Prime video now. It wasn't when it came out,
so yeah, it came out so many years ago. And
anytime people message me, because I had so many message
mostly from spillers on Instagram being like, oh my god,
laur it's Saturday and I need something to watch, and
they always want like often like it's just an easy
to watch TV show and Four Wings in a Funeral
the TV series is always top of my list to
send because I just know so many people haven't watched it.
So it's on prime video so worth watching. The next
(17:01):
one I wanted to recommend, since we're talking about Mindy
Kaling is the MINDI Project. Have you seen it?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I have seen it, like, oh my god, so much.
You've seen it?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, only a couple of episodes. I have not like
super deep into us. But I do love her finding
out her whole history on the office and how she's
a writer with bj Novak and like that her whole.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Law is so great.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
She is incredible and she's so funny.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
In the office, and I love, I do really like
the MINDI Project. I just I don't have a lot
of time. This is the great thing about working with you,
is I just put all of these things in my
mind box.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, and one day you be a mind box yeah,
also known as.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Brain Yeah, but for you it's a mind box.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Today it's a mind box.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So the MINDI Project, Yes, it was created, written and
starring Mindy Kayling. And again I don't say this slightly.
It is one of the funniest TV shows I have
ever seen. But also it's very romantic comedy center. So
Mindy Kayling grew up loving romantic comedies, but she always
thought there was no one who looks like her as
a woman of Indian descent on these shows or movies
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or anything like that. So that was her goal to
write a rom com where she could play the lead
character and she could live in the beautiful news your compartment,
and she could wear the beautiful clothes, and she could
run through the streets and have these wild romantic escapades
with men. So it is that, but it's also a
bit of a send up of those tropes. What's also
interesting is she plays a doctor because she made her
character just like a little bit insufferable in the funniest
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way possible, and a little bit of a diva and
a little bit just like ridiculous, But then she's also
a doctor so that you like her a little bit.
So it has all these incredible romcom tropes to it.
It's very funny. But what I love is at the
central relationship between her and Danny, who's another doctor at
her practice, is based on the love story of pride
and prejudice. So it's based on like him being this
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very gruff, unattainable person who like originally really doesn't like
her and things. Yeah, and then and then their relationship
really evolves. And again not to spoil it, but like
you know how like when you're watching a couple get
together and like you can tell it's gonna happen, and
it's building, and it's.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Building like a hate to love story.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Lovers hate us to love it. I love it. Trope great, Trope,
so good, and like the build up and the moment
they actually get together is so work. The hype. So
the MINDI Project, you can watch it on Prime Video
if you haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It's got six seasons as well. Yeah, you can really
like get into it.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It could have been fifteen would have watched it, Okay.
Another one I wanted to chat about was an Australian
show actually that has two seasons out on Binge. I
don't know if you've watched this one, Colin from Accounts.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
No, I haven't, but I should because I've always see
clips of it and I feel like it's really.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Good, so freakin' funny. So it's written, created, directed, starring
Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammle, who.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I love Harriet Dyer.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I interviewed her a few times and she's amazing, Yes,
and she's incredible.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Patrick Brammel is also so funny. So I should watch
this because did you ever watch the one with Matt.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh the Wrong Guy? Yes? Yeah, she plays Stevie and
that she's so funny. Yeah, she's incredible comedy actress. We're
both from Townsvill, so you know connected. So in this
show Calling from account so yes, Patrick and Harriet together
in real life they created this show together and in it,
Harriet plays a called Ashley, Patrick plays a man called Gordon,
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and they have this incredible meat cute. So a meet
cute is the moment in the movie of how your
two romantic leads will meet and fall in love. So
Colin from Accounts is about that, but also what happens
when it goes terribly wrong. So in this you've got Gordon.
He's driving his car along. Harriet Dyer's character, Ashley, walks
out in front of him across the road and she
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sees him. They make eye contact. It's a little bit
cute and sexy, and then she just flashes a boob,
just a casual flash of the boob, just to be
a bit saucy and fun. And he sees her, and
he gets so distracted that he runs his car off
the road and smashes into a dog, okay, which terrifies
them both, and so they both take this dog to
a clinic. His back legs are broken in at being
one of those dog wheely things. At the premiere, they
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had a dog and he wasn't the wheelly thing, and
I'm like, that's probably a good thing, because that would
have been very stressful for him. And then they kind
of have to come together to look after this dog
and then say that they start to fall in love.
And it's just like such a funny. It's so Australian,
obviously because it's a strange show, but it's just so
quintessentially Australian, so funny, the chemistry is amazing, obviously because
they're married with children. But it is again one of
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those shows that I watch it and I just sit
in my apartment laughing out loud. But it's also really
cute watching them fall in love.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I mean, too great Aussie, because I actually really love
that you put an Aussie show in there.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I just feel like it's really defined what a really
modern rom com can be. So there's two seasons out now,
they're on Binge. I would watch ten more seasons of
this show. Okay. The other one I wanted to do, Sorry,
this is just me like this, this.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Is the Laura show now, because Laura, you're so good
at this stuff. I just love DV I know you do,
and I love TV too, but you, like always are
the best recommendations.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I mean. The other thing is like it is my job,
so I have an extra incentive to do this, as
in it does keep my electricity on and food on
my table. So on that note, The other one I
wanted to bring up is Modern Love, which is actually
a romantic comedy anthology. I don't know if you've seen
this one. It actually came out back in twenty nineteen.
There's two seasons, and so it's an anthology series, so
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every episode is its own contained story, which I think
is also great, especially if you have a lot of time,
because you could sit down and watch one half an
hour episode once a week and it's its own contending story.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And it is kind of like Black Mirror.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's exactly, it's one hundred percent that's what it is.
It's Black Mirror from rom com so Black Mira freaks
you out. Go and watch One in Love because it's
just sweet and lovely. It's mostly romantic love stories, but
there is platonic love, family love. There's even a really
lovely episode about a woman and her doorman who kind
of sees her through all these big moments of her
life when she becomes a single mum. I know, I
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cry so much. It's got an incredible cast of stars,
so each episode has its own cast. Wow and some
Yeah Deeltels, the hot Anne Hathaway, Dev Purtel is so
good at this. Tina Yeah, Tina fe is incredible. Anne
Hathaway's episode made me sob and a pap guin Andrew
scottson so Mini Driver. It's just so incredible, And what
it actually is is It's based off the Modern Love
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column in the New York Times, which is a very
very famous column. It's been going for many, many years.
I read it online a lot, and it's a weekly
series where they publish all these personal essays about love
and relationships. And it's just real people's stories that feature
in this column. And it's so beautifully done. It just
tells all these little pockets of life. And over the
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years it's become really famous and there's podcasts about it.
Now that's this TV show. So every episode of Modern
Love is based on real life people, on these people
whose stories appeared in this column.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Isn't it wild?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
How like twenty nineteen it came out, This is not
really well known.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah. Oh, I feel like it was very buzzy at
the time. But I feel like, and especially because like
the first season had a lot of big names and
the second season came out quite quickly afterwards. But I
do feel like it's one of those shows like Four
Wings and Funeral where there was a hit of buzz
and I feel like it's really fallen off people's radars. Yeah,
And so Modern Love, I can't speak highly enough of it.
There's so many episodes I still think about all these
years later and like there's frothy episodes and some episodes
(24:14):
have just made me sob it's really beautiful. It's on Prime,
It's on Prime Video. So yeah, I highly recommend because
again little self contained.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Do you know why I think it hasn't really hidden? Yeah,
because Prime wasn't that big when this came out in Australia.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It wasn't like a.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Massive streaming service yet. So I feel like maybe that's
why a lot of people might have missed it.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah. So I'm sure if you have a Prime subscription
now you can go in and watch it, because it's
all just sitting there ready to watch. Okay, one more
because I just feel like I can't finish off this
episode without talking about one of my favorite shows of
all time, part of Dixie. I can't.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I'm sorry, really, no, really, Why why I said I
watched like five seconds and I hated it.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well, of course five seconds. Also of the pilot, you
should know that a pilot is not always a reflection
with the real show.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
It was too like like, it's so sugary in the
best way to sugary, like two American. So I can't everything.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I wanted a wrong com Sugary Americans starring Rachel Bilson.
I have watched awful seasons multiple multiple, multiple times, I know,
and I'm here to tell you that, and so many
other women in this office.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Too, you know, And I know that I'm going to
get raked over the goals by this. I know it's very.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Popular and she you have to watch more than a
few seconds, so it get Heart of Dixie so stressful
that you haven't watched it. You know, if they haven't
watched it, that you're just not even giving it the
kudos it deserves. But Heart Dixie is about Rachel Bilson,
who again incredible actress, who really can lead a rong
com like that's her, that's her Nie, She's a good
leading lady. She plays doctor Zoe Hart and yes she
is a heart surgeon living in New York, very very fancy.
(25:41):
Yeah it's not really it's not trying to be at
all like subtle at anyway here. And she misses out
in this huge job opportunity because her supervisor at work
tells her that even though she's called doctor Heart and
a heart surgeon, she doesn't have a heart. She has
no bed signed manner. So he tells her to go
and work as a GP for a year and then
come back to the hospital and she'll have a chance.
(26:02):
And then she can't find a GP job because obviously
they're all filled for the year. And then she remembers
that this strange old man in suit has been coming
to her graduate in her events and stuff for over
her life and keeps offering her a job, writing to
her a job and saying, I own a medical practice
in a tiny little town called blue Bell and Alabama,
and I'd love to hire you. And she was like, okay.
(26:24):
So she gets on a plane and a bus and
takes all her fancy clothes out to this tiny little
town called blue Bell, only to discover this is all
the first episodes on Teaser. Only to discover that the
man who gave her the job is actually her father
who she didn't know and he's just died. And then
she stays in the town to be the doctor. And
it's this whole fish out of water thing because she's
(26:44):
like a big city, glamorous girl and it's a little
town where they still dress.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It's like sweet Home, Alabama, completely on stereods about Reese
with a spoon in it.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, but Rachel Bilson is so good inness and also
it's got these amazing side characters. Obviously, Gilmore Girls is
so much of a better show. But the Town of
Bluebell mirrors the Town of Stars Hollow in a way of.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Like I didn't like.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
No, we're not doing no.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Sorry, sorry I can say I'm sorry. Okay, listen, you
might as well.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
You just trashed my family. Do you know that? Did
you watch all of Gilmore Girls? No, you watched five seconds.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I watched the season. Listen, I don't hate it, but
that's not I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
You should see how upset Laura looks at me right now.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
It's my favorite TV shows. I know all the time.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I know I understand Laura, and I'm really sorry. I
really do apologye. The TV shows that I really love
aren't really like dramas like that. Okay, I'm like Parks
and rec or Veep or Brooklyn nine nine. So it's
just not my type of show. I'm really sorry. Like
I've watched it, but I'm just not like obsessed with it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I can't. I can't.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I try version a less good version of that, and like,
really agree, American, I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
No, I'm just trying to say, Okay, maybe it's not
for you, but the people who love Gilmore girls, people
with humor, heart and soul, those people who love the
town of styles Hollow and the fact that they've got
the little quirky town square and all the different characters
live in it. If you like that is also in
Heart of Dixie. I should also say it's got one
of the best performances from like a side comedic actress
who becomes a leading lady, which is Jamie King, who
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plays Lemon Breeland. And I think out of everyone, you
would like her because she comes off like, oh, she's
just sugary, sweet debutante, but she is an evil mastermind.
She's so clever, she's so like manipulative, and she very
much becomes the lead character as the shows go along. Also,
it's got my favorite thing in a love story. It's
got haters to lovers and a very unexpected love story.
The whole time you're watching Heart of Dixie, they're setting
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up this is the main love story. This is the
main love story. This is the main love story, and
it changes and it's the best payoff.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But if I'm going to watch like a fish out
of Water series, and I'm going to watch like Ginny
and Georgia.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Oh see, I can't get behind Jinny and Georgia. I
really no. Oh, I really like it. It's good TV.
It's just it hasn't sucked me in in the same Oh, I.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Like it a lot more like at least because it's
got like a bit of quirk to it.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah. I mean, so these shows you wouldn't know because
you haven't watched all of them. So that's that. So
Heart of Dixie is on the stand, and there's so
many episodes, and I just also again, if you're looking
for really comforting, lovely TV, I have watched every episode
so so many times. It's just really good. It's got
a really good cast.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And also, please don't hate me and send me death threats.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Okay, guys, you do what you need to do at
the circumstance. I'm not going to tell you guys what
to do.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Thank you so much for listening to the Spill today, guys,
and I'm very sorry about my controversial opinions on Gilmore Girls.
I have sent the office into a meltdown.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But The Spill is produced.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
By Manisha Isswaren, with sound production by Scott Stronik, Mama
MIAs Studios are styles with furniture from Fenton and Fenton.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Visit Fenton and Fenton dot com dot.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Au and we'll be back here in your podcast feed
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Speaker 1 (29:54):
Bye bye Lan
So much. You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders
that this podcast is recorded on from Mamma Mia. Welcome
to The Spill, your daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura
Brodney and I'm Cassina Luci and coming up on the
show today. Oh my god, guys, you might hear the
excitement and my voice. I have been dying, dying, dying
(00:36):
to do this episode for so long. We are talking
about the best romantic comedy TV shows, not movies of
all time and heaps that you probably haven't heard of
or watched before. So get excited.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
But first, you probably have noticed in your feeds a
new little fun thing from us here at the Spill,
and it's called Morning Tea. Now, Laura, this has been
in the works for quite a while. Can you kind
of explain to our listeners what this is.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, this has been in the works for a while,
and the story behind it. I'm trying to take an
emotional here, the story behind it actually really really because
Morning Tea is a new roundup of celebrity gossip news
headlines that drops into the feed now every morning at
eight am on Monday to Thursday, so Friday mornings are
still Weekend Watch, but Morning Tea is there Monday to Thursday.
(01:25):
It's hosted by the incredible Ash London, who I feel
like she needs no introduction, one of the biggest radio
stars Australia's ever seen. She's also co host on The
Spill many times. She knows every single thing about pop culture, celebrity, entertainment, music,
everything she hosts that And the reason we've introduced this
little extra show that pops into your feed in the
morning is because and this is why I get emotional,
(01:48):
because this podcast has been around for nearly six years now.
Myself and so many other people over the years have
put all of our blood, sweat and tears into making
this show. And what's really lovely about that is that
our audience has grown so significantly, especially in the last
few years or the last year over forty percent, like
our numbers are through the roof, and that just makes
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me so happy that everyone it's so nice, and also
just the community of people that we have and the
people who message me saying that The Spill is like
a bright spot in their day or it's like their
little treat of the day, or they listen to go
to sleep, or they listen to it when something sad
is happening in their lives and want to hear us
praddle about romantic comedies like it's so nice and so
What we've been getting as our numbers have been getting
(02:30):
bigger and bigger and bigger, is this demand from listeners
who have message just emailed us, commented on our social
called us on the pod phone, and left voicemails, which
you can do. We'll put the link in the show notes.
We love your messages, and what they've been saying is
that we want more, more content, more episodes. To the fact,
there's one particular comment that we got on one of
our Spotify episodes.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Do you want me to read it for you?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, please read it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I'll read it.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Because I've only been working on the spill for maybe
like six months on and off. I do feel like
I'm kind of ringing in to like celebrate with you guys,
but I do.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'm really proud of you. You've done so well.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You're part of a spell fan now, like once you're
in your in I know, no one gets to leave.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
But you guys have been working so hard on this show.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So one of the listeners that this is so you
can listen to the compliment and really like let it marinate.
Allison said, I would love for this podcast to be
a full hour or maybe an option for an added
podcast for other stories that aren't made headlines.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You could call it a spillover. That's a great name.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's a great name. And also we did consider it,
but yeah, but also this message from Alison, which is
so lovely. Also, I've also been pushing for the spill
to be an hour every day, but it just hasn't
got across the line. But what we've been getting from
listeners like Alison and so many other people is like
they just want more and more and more content. So
that's what Morning Tea is. So the idea is that
you wake up in the morning, and as you're getting
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ready for work, exercising, commuting, looking after your kids, or
maybe just lying in bed and having a lovely slow morning,
the first thing that you're going to do is open
up your phone and listening to Morning Tea because it
has got all the biggest headlines, all the biggest stories.
It's a little bit of scandal, it's a little bit
of humor, it's a little bit of lightness and it
just gets you ready for the day. And it's a
(04:07):
quick little yes, it's four to five minutes. So it
really is just the headlines to really because as we know, mornings,
you've got to be sharp, you've got to be organized,
you got to get things done quickly, and so that
is the way to start off your morning with Ash
London's beautiful voice bringing you all the goss. And then
three pm every day Monday to Friday, the Main Spill
Show is still dropping into your feed. In the afternoon.
(04:28):
We'll do a big deep dive, we'll do some analysis,
we'll bring you some stuff, some gossip we probably shouldn't
say out loud, we'll do. I'll give you a history
lesson so sexy of Me. But we'll also touch on
so many different things. And of course the Main Spill
Show will still have all of our normal TV and
movie bits and interviews we can watch us still there.
So it's all the stuff you love from the Spill,
but just this extra hit of morning tea first thing
(04:50):
in the morning, eight am. So as always, we love
you guys telling us what you love about the Spill.
So let us know what you think of Morning Tea,
what you're loving about it, And as you can see
from Allison's comment and the many other people you send
us a comment and say we want an extra show,
we will make it. So guys keep asking. You never
know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
What I love about our Friday show is that we
we usually do like some recommendations, some of our favorites.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's all about like a deep dive.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
You have been suggesting this incessantly on our channels for
weeks and weeks and weeks, and we finally had to
say today, Okay, Laura, for God's sake, we'll do it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
This is the best romantic comedy series of all time.
I'm going to give you a couple of my favorites,
which are more like more well known, and then you're
going to give us the ones that we don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes, and I should say before we jump too, that
is how we going to do it, yea. What is
a fun, frivolous Friday episode about love and romance without
some rules? Ye rules is what I bring.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
To We're about to say, I'm about to say, Laura
will now come in with her.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Rules, because this is what you want from a pop
culture podcast, No, not just to define things. So obviously
we were talking about TV romantic comedies because, as you
would have heard in our Weekend Watch episode this morning,
Lena Dunham's new rom com has just come out on
Netflix Too Much. Even though it's a rom com and
a drama, Lena Dunham said her catalyst for making the
show was as a bit of a love letter to
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the romantic comedies she grew up watching in all the
movies that she loved, and so that got me thinking
that we always talk about romantic comedy movies, and obviously
there's so many incredible romantic comedy movies out there, but
I feel like we don't talk enough about romantic comedy
TV shows and they are also very very important. So
that's what we're going to do today. So we've defined
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a romantic comedy TV show as obviously something that is
a comedy that has lightness and frothiness to it, but
something where the love story is the central driving part
of the show and it is the end game and
you do get that love story payoff at the end.
So that is how we're defining a romantic comedy TV show.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Okay, I'm going to start with one that is on
the newer side. It only came out last year on Netflix.
Nobody wants this.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Never heard of it except for the fifteen podcasts we
did it.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I know, I know we've talked about it a lot. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We don't have to go.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Too much into it because I know probably everyone's over it.
But it would be remiss if I didn't mention it,
because I think it fits the genre.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
What did you love about it? That's we've never talked
about this before, we haven't.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
I really loved the comedy. I liked the cross cultural
development of a love story that's not like a typical
love story, and something centered around religion. It's not something
that we really see very often. This agnostic woman going
for this Jewish rabbi. I just thought it was a
really interesting take. I also really liked.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The side characters like go Good.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
One of my favorite characters is Sasha, played by Timothy Simons.
I don't know if you ever watched Veep, did you
watch Veba? He was in Vape, he was Jonah in Veab,
and it's just he's such a great character. He's so funny.
And the new season is coming out in October.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh, yes, our calendars are marked.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yes, so we don't have long to wait for season two.
But I think in terms of fitting your rules, it really.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yep nails it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It really does.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The other one that I wanted to do is one
that is a bit older, apped filming in twenty eighteen,
and it's a New Girl.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
My God, New Girl is just one of my ultimate
comfort watches. But I think what it doesn't get enough credit.
Maybe it does, but like the hardcore fans know that
as much as that is an incredible ensemble comedy, it's
the love story that is so perfectly done. Romantic comedy
writers dream of a love story.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Like that, and you know that there's all these stories
about so Elizabeth Merriweather created the show Love Her, and
during the early episodes, Zoe Deschanel and Jake Johnson, who
played Yessca Day and Nick Miller, weren't actually allowed to
do too many scenes together because their chemistry was too good.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Oh I love it. I love it so much.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And they just hit it off straight away.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And you know, obviously a lot of the time with
these kind of sick comedy shows, that relationship develops, but
it really is from the very beginning, you can see
that there is chemistry between the two of them, and.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Again it's just so funny. It's so silly.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
The guy who plays Winston Bishop like Lemonne, Yeah, he's
so funny, Like as he grows it gets quirkier. But
my favorite is definitely Schmidt Max Greenfield. Just how during
the pandemic with his daughter those funny TikTok.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
He is hilarious. I loved him in Running Point as
well recently, but I just I just will find him
like the hottest man ever. Also, Veronica Mars fans know
him as Leo, but he is so good at that show.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
So yeah, he was gonna quick acting before he did this.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I know, and this is the role that really gave
him his new stardom.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But yeah, my favorite like bit that they do throughout
the series, and it's not part of the love story,
but I'm a bit of a comedy fan.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, my favorite bit that they do is the douchebag job.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, and how they stomp it at the wedding.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
It's so funny.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Damn it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I can't find my driving moccasins anywhere.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
All the way he says, youth, youth everywhere are you.
I quoted him in a lot which doesn't really fit
in with my day to day life. I quesht weird.
So it's just he's got a quote for everything, or
at least weird.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
He's so funny. Anyway, that is kind of my favorite.
That's on Disney Plus. Now you can watch all seasons.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And it's such a good rewatch too. We watch it
every couple of years. It really holds up.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, it's a great rewatch. It's just fun, it's cozy,
it's easy.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
The last one is a really obvious one, but I
have a confession. I've never seen it. It's Emily in Paris.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Get out of here. Well, you know what, I'd rather
you say I haven't seen it than say it's bad,
I hate it or I don't understand it. For those
people who say I don't understand it, what is there
to understand? It's a pretty basic plot point and a
pretty basic promise. Anyway. Obviously I really love Emily in Paris,
not even in our I don't hate watch anything. I
only love watch. So I really like it and you
(10:54):
can continue. What's it about?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Okay, So this is like I guess it's about a.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Girl whose actually what you think it's about.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Okay, she's a marketing chick in I'm guessing New York,
Chicago probably, yeah, Chicago.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And then she flies over to Paris because she gets
a job over there.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
She's transferred by her company yep.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Okay, because they wanted to have like an American lens on,
like the Perisian life. Yeah, she goes over there, and
then she meets downstairs from her house is a really
hot guy and he's French. She's in ridiculous outfits and
high hills and it's very glamorous.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yes, yeah, that's it. That's the story.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I mean, that is kind of the story part. That's
what it's meant to be. Like, I just want Emily
and Paris just so beautiful to watch. It does really
pre will I think you would really like it. Like, yes,
there's some silliness to it, but it's meant to be
a silly keeper. She's also not meant to be for
French people. They would never watch it. I think most
of them don't even know it exists. It's for the
(11:52):
basic girls like.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No, but I love hors and I pride myself on
being very Perusian.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
No wait, okay, no, no, you can love Paris. Also,
her version of Paris is obviously like an American idealized
fantasy to an extent. But whenever I go to Paris,
I don't think of Emily in Paris like they're two
kind of steppy things, except for the fact that she
goes around to a lot of the very touristy sides
and loves them. And I also feel that that's what
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you do when you go to Paris for the first time,
and there's no shame in that. There's no shame in
seeing the Eiffel Tower or the Louver or something and
getting excited, because that's fine when you see that for
the first time. You should be excited, otherwise you're dead inside.
Do There's a thing called Paris syndrome where people go
to Paris with such high expectations and when they go
outside of some of the city centers and they see
(12:40):
the rubbish and see the normal houses, people have been
hospitalized over Paris. That's a truth act over Paris syndrome,
because the shock and the disappointment of this world that
they built up is not there anymore, Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Paris is my favorite city. I love Paris so much.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
No, Paris is also. I mean, I know it's one
of my favorite city street no one's ever said that before,
but I guess there are parts of it that don't
look like Paris. Well.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I think if you're going look outskirts of Paris is
very different to being in like where the show, and
it's like very bougie and expensive. Obviously, if you're going
in to the you know, outer our endorsements, it's a
bit different, you know. I think it's a point of
pride for me that I haven't seen it because twenty
twenty to twenty twenty five it's had so much hype
(13:22):
and the fact that I've gone this long without watching it, I.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Can't start now.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I understand. No, I don't understand that at all. I
just think that if you want to watch it and
it's this lovely, frothy, romantic comedy esque TV show, you
should just watch it. That's not the if. I'm like,
that's not the thing to kind of get hung up on,
is all I would say. Some people don't like it
because I think it's silly, and like, yes, it is silly,
it's also not meant to be a drama.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I don't mind silly I like like feel good silly.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's my favorite. I'm really being on having like very
kind of soothing TV shows, especially that I watch like
Saturday and Sunday morning. I've got a band. None of
my friends are allowed to ask me to brunch or
breakfast anymore. Call me, talk to me, go near me,
because that is my calm time where I wake up
whatever time I want, and I go outo my living
room and I have all my bunches of fresh flowers. Oh,
light my candles. I know you have children.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
How to do this so much?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Laura, Well, one day you come visit me.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
We had kids like I.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
You know, Well, this will come back around different seasons
for different parts of life, and I'll make my beautiful
coffee and I all I want to do then is
watch something very soothing, that's beautiful and that just like
looks lovely on screen. And Emily in Paris is really
that show. And also there are some great performances in
there from Lily Colins, who players Emily Cooper does the
part that she's meant to play like she does that fine,
(14:36):
but a lot of the side characters, all the people
who work in the French office, Sylvie incredible, Mindy incredible, Like,
there's a lot to love about it.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Watch it. Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
So, now that we've gone through some of the obvious choices,
do you want to take us through some of the
ones that we most likely haven't seen?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yes, Yes, this is the moment I have been waiting for. Okay.
So the first one I wanted to bring up is
a show that I absolutely fell in love with when
it came out back in twenty and nineteen. And it's
a really beautiful rom com series called Four Weddings and
a Funeral.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Like the Yeah Grant movie.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, like the very very famous movie Hugh Grants. So
I know you're gonna say, but Laura, that's a movie. Well,
Mindy Kaling, Mindy Kaling. It's like I'm on the defensive today.
I'm like, no one saying you think about rom coms.
Mindy Keayling, one of my very favorite TV actresses writers' creators,
adapted the movie, which was originally written by Richard Curtis, who,
if you look up that band's name, has written every
(15:33):
big rom com that we love. Here's the godfather of
rom comms. Mindy Kayling loves rom comms and she loved
that movie, and so she adapted into a TV series
where the overall premise is very the same, but it's
different in terms of like she switched the characters, and
one of the big switches is that there is now
a female lead. It's Natalie Emmanuel, who people would know
from Game of Thrones, Fast and Furious, that really hot
(15:55):
vampire movie The Invitation. She plays our lea girl Mayer,
and she's an American, but she ends up moving to
London where her college friends are, and it tells the
story of these four American friends, Maya, Craig, Ainslie, and
Duffy and they reunite for this very fabulous London wedding.
Something happens, and then it follows them over their lives
of the next year that tell all of their different
(16:16):
love stories. And it's just this beautiful, Like if you
just want to watch something like really frothy and lovely
with incredible dialogue that's set in London, and it's really
beautiful to watch. The performances are so good. Mindy Kaling's
script is like ten out of ten and like, you
don't have to have seen four weddings in a funeral,
although you should watch that. What's great movie.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
What's it streaming on?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
It's on Prime video now. It wasn't when it came out,
so yeah, it came out so many years ago. And
anytime people message me, because I had so many message
mostly from spillers on Instagram being like, oh my god,
laur it's Saturday and I need something to watch, and
they always want like often like it's just an easy
to watch TV show and Four Wings in a Funeral
the TV series is always top of my list to
send because I just know so many people haven't watched it.
So it's on prime video so worth watching. The next
(17:01):
one I wanted to recommend, since we're talking about Mindy
Kaling is the MINDI Project. Have you seen it?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I have seen it, like, oh my god, so much.
You've seen it?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Yeah, only a couple of episodes. I have not like
super deep into us. But I do love her finding
out her whole history on the office and how she's
a writer with bj Novak and like that her whole.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Law is so great.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
She is incredible and she's so funny.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
In the office, and I love, I do really like
the MINDI Project. I just I don't have a lot
of time. This is the great thing about working with you,
is I just put all of these things in my
mind box.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, and one day you be a mind box yeah,
also known as.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Brain Yeah, but for you it's a mind box.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Today it's a mind box.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So the MINDI Project, Yes, it was created, written and
starring Mindy Kayling. And again I don't say this slightly.
It is one of the funniest TV shows I have
ever seen. But also it's very romantic comedy center. So
Mindy Kayling grew up loving romantic comedies, but she always
thought there was no one who looks like her as
a woman of Indian descent on these shows or movies
(18:03):
or anything like that. So that was her goal to
write a rom com where she could play the lead
character and she could live in the beautiful news your compartment,
and she could wear the beautiful clothes, and she could
run through the streets and have these wild romantic escapades
with men. So it is that, but it's also a
bit of a send up of those tropes. What's also
interesting is she plays a doctor because she made her
character just like a little bit insufferable in the funniest
(18:26):
way possible, and a little bit of a diva and
a little bit just like ridiculous, But then she's also
a doctor so that you like her a little bit.
So it has all these incredible romcom tropes to it.
It's very funny. But what I love is at the
central relationship between her and Danny, who's another doctor at
her practice, is based on the love story of pride
and prejudice. So it's based on like him being this
(18:47):
very gruff, unattainable person who like originally really doesn't like
her and things. Yeah, and then and then their relationship
really evolves. And again not to spoil it, but like
you know how like when you're watching a couple get
together and like you can tell it's gonna happen, and
it's building, and it's.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Building like a hate to love story.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Lovers hate us to love it. I love it. Trope great, Trope,
so good, and like the build up and the moment
they actually get together is so work. The hype. So
the MINDI Project, you can watch it on Prime Video
if you haven't seen it.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It's got six seasons as well. Yeah, you can really
like get into it.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It could have been fifteen would have watched it, Okay.
Another one I wanted to chat about was an Australian
show actually that has two seasons out on Binge. I
don't know if you've watched this one, Colin from Accounts.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
No, I haven't, but I should because I've always see
clips of it and I feel like it's really.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Good, so freakin' funny. So it's written, created, directed, starring
Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammle, who.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I love Harriet Dyer.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I interviewed her a few times and she's amazing, Yes,
and she's incredible.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Patrick Brammel is also so funny. So I should watch
this because did you ever watch the one with Matt.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh the Wrong Guy? Yes? Yeah, she plays Stevie and
that she's so funny. Yeah, she's incredible comedy actress. We're
both from Townsvill, so you know connected. So in this
show Calling from account so yes, Patrick and Harriet together
in real life they created this show together and in it,
Harriet plays a called Ashley, Patrick plays a man called Gordon,
(20:18):
and they have this incredible meat cute. So a meet
cute is the moment in the movie of how your
two romantic leads will meet and fall in love. So
Colin from Accounts is about that, but also what happens
when it goes terribly wrong. So in this you've got Gordon.
He's driving his car along. Harriet Dyer's character, Ashley, walks
out in front of him across the road and she
(20:39):
sees him. They make eye contact. It's a little bit
cute and sexy, and then she just flashes a boob,
just a casual flash of the boob, just to be
a bit saucy and fun. And he sees her, and
he gets so distracted that he runs his car off
the road and smashes into a dog, okay, which terrifies
them both, and so they both take this dog to
a clinic. His back legs are broken in at being
one of those dog wheely things. At the premiere, they
(21:01):
had a dog and he wasn't the wheelly thing, and
I'm like, that's probably a good thing, because that would
have been very stressful for him. And then they kind
of have to come together to look after this dog
and then say that they start to fall in love.
And it's just like such a funny. It's so Australian,
obviously because it's a strange show, but it's just so
quintessentially Australian, so funny, the chemistry is amazing, obviously because
they're married with children. But it is again one of
(21:22):
those shows that I watch it and I just sit
in my apartment laughing out loud. But it's also really
cute watching them fall in love.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I mean, too great Aussie, because I actually really love
that you put an Aussie show in there.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I just feel like it's really defined what a really
modern rom com can be. So there's two seasons out now,
they're on Binge. I would watch ten more seasons of
this show. Okay. The other one I wanted to do, Sorry,
this is just me like this, this.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Is the Laura show now, because Laura, you're so good
at this stuff. I just love DV I know you do,
and I love TV too, but you, like always are
the best recommendations.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I mean. The other thing is like it is my job,
so I have an extra incentive to do this, as
in it does keep my electricity on and food on
my table. So on that note, The other one I
wanted to bring up is Modern Love, which is actually
a romantic comedy anthology. I don't know if you've seen
this one. It actually came out back in twenty nineteen.
There's two seasons, and so it's an anthology series, so
(22:18):
every episode is its own contained story, which I think
is also great, especially if you have a lot of time,
because you could sit down and watch one half an
hour episode once a week and it's its own contending story.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
And it is kind of like Black Mirror.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It's exactly, it's one hundred percent that's what it is.
It's Black Mirror from rom com so Black Mira freaks
you out. Go and watch One in Love because it's
just sweet and lovely. It's mostly romantic love stories, but
there is platonic love, family love. There's even a really
lovely episode about a woman and her doorman who kind
of sees her through all these big moments of her
life when she becomes a single mum. I know, I
(22:53):
cry so much. It's got an incredible cast of stars,
so each episode has its own cast. Wow and some
Yeah Deeltels, the hot Anne Hathaway, Dev Purtel is so
good at this. Tina Yeah, Tina fe is incredible. Anne
Hathaway's episode made me sob and a pap guin Andrew
scottson so Mini Driver. It's just so incredible, And what
it actually is is It's based off the Modern Love
(23:15):
column in the New York Times, which is a very
very famous column. It's been going for many, many years.
I read it online a lot, and it's a weekly
series where they publish all these personal essays about love
and relationships. And it's just real people's stories that feature
in this column. And it's so beautifully done. It just
tells all these little pockets of life. And over the
(23:36):
years it's become really famous and there's podcasts about it.
Now that's this TV show. So every episode of Modern
Love is based on real life people, on these people
whose stories appeared in this column.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Isn't it wild?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
How like twenty nineteen it came out, This is not
really well known.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah. Oh, I feel like it was very buzzy at
the time. But I feel like, and especially because like
the first season had a lot of big names and
the second season came out quite quickly afterwards. But I
do feel like it's one of those shows like Four
Wings and Funeral where there was a hit of buzz
and I feel like it's really fallen off people's radars. Yeah,
And so Modern Love, I can't speak highly enough of it.
There's so many episodes I still think about all these
years later and like there's frothy episodes and some episodes
(24:14):
have just made me sob it's really beautiful. It's on Prime,
It's on Prime Video. So yeah, I highly recommend because
again little self contained.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Do you know why I think it hasn't really hidden? Yeah,
because Prime wasn't that big when this came out in Australia.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It wasn't like a.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Massive streaming service yet. So I feel like maybe that's
why a lot of people might have missed it.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah. So I'm sure if you have a Prime subscription
now you can go in and watch it, because it's
all just sitting there ready to watch. Okay, one more
because I just feel like I can't finish off this
episode without talking about one of my favorite shows of
all time, part of Dixie. I can't.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
I'm sorry, really, no, really, Why why I said I
watched like five seconds and I hated it.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well, of course five seconds. Also of the pilot, you
should know that a pilot is not always a reflection
with the real show.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
It was too like like, it's so sugary in the
best way to sugary, like two American. So I can't everything.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I wanted a wrong com Sugary Americans starring Rachel Bilson.
I have watched awful seasons multiple multiple, multiple times, I know,
and I'm here to tell you that, and so many
other women in this office.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Too, you know, And I know that I'm going to
get raked over the goals by this. I know it's very.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Popular and she you have to watch more than a
few seconds, so it get Heart of Dixie so stressful
that you haven't watched it. You know, if they haven't
watched it, that you're just not even giving it the
kudos it deserves. But Heart Dixie is about Rachel Bilson,
who again incredible actress, who really can lead a rong
com like that's her, that's her Nie, She's a good
leading lady. She plays doctor Zoe Hart and yes she
is a heart surgeon living in New York, very very fancy.
(25:41):
Yeah it's not really it's not trying to be at
all like subtle at anyway here. And she misses out
in this huge job opportunity because her supervisor at work
tells her that even though she's called doctor Heart and
a heart surgeon, she doesn't have a heart. She has
no bed signed manner. So he tells her to go
and work as a GP for a year and then
come back to the hospital and she'll have a chance.
(26:02):
And then she can't find a GP job because obviously
they're all filled for the year. And then she remembers
that this strange old man in suit has been coming
to her graduate in her events and stuff for over
her life and keeps offering her a job, writing to
her a job and saying, I own a medical practice
in a tiny little town called blue Bell and Alabama,
and I'd love to hire you. And she was like, okay.
(26:24):
So she gets on a plane and a bus and
takes all her fancy clothes out to this tiny little
town called blue Bell, only to discover this is all
the first episodes on Teaser. Only to discover that the
man who gave her the job is actually her father
who she didn't know and he's just died. And then
she stays in the town to be the doctor. And
it's this whole fish out of water thing because she's
(26:44):
like a big city, glamorous girl and it's a little
town where they still dress.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It's like sweet Home, Alabama, completely on stereods about Reese
with a spoon in it.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, but Rachel Bilson is so good inness and also
it's got these amazing side characters. Obviously, Gilmore Girls is
so much of a better show. But the Town of
Bluebell mirrors the Town of Stars Hollow in a way of.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Like I didn't like.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
No, we're not doing no.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Sorry, sorry I can say I'm sorry. Okay, listen, you
might as well.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
You just trashed my family. Do you know that? Did
you watch all of Gilmore Girls? No, you watched five seconds.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
I watched the season. Listen, I don't hate it, but
that's not I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
You should see how upset Laura looks at me right now.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
It's my favorite TV shows. I know all the time.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I know I understand Laura, and I'm really sorry. I
really do apologye. The TV shows that I really love
aren't really like dramas like that. Okay, I'm like Parks
and rec or Veep or Brooklyn nine nine. So it's
just not my type of show. I'm really sorry. Like
I've watched it, but I'm just not like obsessed with it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I can't. I can't.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I try version a less good version of that, and like,
really agree, American, I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
No, I'm just trying to say, Okay, maybe it's not
for you, but the people who love Gilmore girls, people
with humor, heart and soul, those people who love the
town of styles Hollow and the fact that they've got
the little quirky town square and all the different characters
live in it. If you like that is also in
Heart of Dixie. I should also say it's got one
of the best performances from like a side comedic actress
who becomes a leading lady, which is Jamie King, who
(28:20):
plays Lemon Breeland. And I think out of everyone, you
would like her because she comes off like, oh, she's
just sugary, sweet debutante, but she is an evil mastermind.
She's so clever, she's so like manipulative, and she very
much becomes the lead character as the shows go along. Also,
it's got my favorite thing in a love story. It's
got haters to lovers and a very unexpected love story.
The whole time you're watching Heart of Dixie, they're setting
(28:42):
up this is the main love story. This is the
main love story. This is the main love story, and
it changes and it's the best payoff.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But if I'm going to watch like a fish out
of Water series, and I'm going to watch like Ginny
and Georgia.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Oh see, I can't get behind Jinny and Georgia. I
really no. Oh, I really like it. It's good TV.
It's just it hasn't sucked me in in the same Oh, I.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Like it a lot more like at least because it's
got like a bit of quirk to it.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah. I mean, so these shows you wouldn't know because
you haven't watched all of them. So that's that. So
Heart of Dixie is on the stand, and there's so
many episodes, and I just also again, if you're looking
for really comforting, lovely TV, I have watched every episode
so so many times. It's just really good. It's got
a really good cast.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
And also, please don't hate me and send me death threats.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Okay, guys, you do what you need to do at
the circumstance. I'm not going to tell you guys what
to do.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Thank you so much for listening to the Spill today, guys,
and I'm very sorry about my controversial opinions on Gilmore Girls.
I have sent the office into a meltdown.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But The Spill is produced.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
By Manisha Isswaren, with sound production by Scott Stronik, Mama
MIAs Studios are styles with furniture from Fenton and Fenton.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Visit Fenton and Fenton dot com dot.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Au and we'll be back here in your podcast feed
at three pm on Monday.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Bye bye Lan
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