October 7, 2025 • 32 mins
Hallmark fans, lace up your cleats and grab your foam fingers - Nikki DeLoach and Warren Christie are back on the same team in Home Turf! This time, all the Friday night lights action comes with a twist. Cassidy, a college president, finds her playbook turned upside down when a group of freshman football players move into her house. Enter Logan, the charming coach, who just might be the shot-caller she needs to turn this fumble into a winning season. Will sparks fly off the field as quickly as they do on it? Stick around - we’re breaking down all the X’s and O’s of this Hallmark huddle.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark,
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a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today
we're discussing the latest movie from the twenty twenty five
Fall Into Love lineup Home Turf, which originally aired on Saturday,
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linked in our show notes. Let's talk Home Turf with
a synopsis. Cassidy is the president of a small college
whose life is thrown for loop when freshmen on the
football team move into her home. Can Logan, the handsome coach,
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helps smooth things over. Home Turf is directed by a
homemark favorite, McLean Nelson, marking his eighteenth time I'm in
the director's chair and he's not done yet. Nelson is
also calling the shots on next week's premiere, Haul Out
the Halloween. Are you excited for that movie? So excited?
Are you? Yeah? I love the Hallo Out the movies,
and I know you do, But you don't love Halloween.
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So no, But I'm okay with observing Halloween. It's not
gonna be scary Halloween. No. I know, I don't like
putting on a costume. Okay, Well I would be concerned
if you were putting on a costume and watching this movie,
as you should be. Okay. This script for Home Turf
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comes from longtime writing duo Greg Rawson and Brian Sawyer.
Hallmark fans will recognize their names from favorites like Three Bid,
two Bath, One Ghost, The Santa Steak Out, The Perfect Catch,
and dozens more. Nikki Deloche plays Cassidy. This movie marks
Nikki's seventy sixth acting credit. She will start in the
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upcoming A Grandual Opry Christmas, as well as two more
True Justice mysteries likely to premiere in twenty twenty six.
Warren Christie plays Coach Logan. Warren has seventy acting credits
and last appeared on Hallmark opposite Nikki in last year's
Our Holiday Story. Warren will start in the upcoming A
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Royal Montana Christmas, which kicks off the twenty twenty five
Countdown to Christmas season. Also noteworthy, Warren will play John
Edwards in the forthcoming reboot of Little House on the
Prairie coming soon to Netflix. Did you know anything about
this series? Nothing? Me neither until I was like digging in.
I was like, I might be interested in watching that.
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Were you an original Little House on the Prairie watcher?
I did? I did enjoy it, yes, I mean I
couldn't tell you anything about it now. I just remember
watching it kind of like in reruns. I think, sure, yes,
I just remember like when sister Mary went blind. I
remember I remember that, and I think, like the mom
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got attacked one time. I think, oh that I don't know. Yeah,
I liked a little house in the prairie. I mean,
I'm definitely watch a reboot at Me too. Timothy Thrillthhall
plays Donor Leo Farnsworth. According to IMDb, this is his
one and only acting credit. Are you surprised by that? Yes?
(04:23):
Did too? He looked familiar. I thought so too. And
then I'm putting the notes together, I was like, wait,
he has nothing. There's not one thing this is.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
This is it?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's bizarre. They mass they must have miscredited him. Don't
you think something is not right? Well, this is him.
I'm gonna hold I'm gonna text you tell me if
you think this is him. This person that I'm looking
at with the same name. He is a professor at
BYU and he was the artistic director of the Seattle
Civic Light Opera before coming to BYU. So I wonder
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was he somehow partnering with I see what you're putting down.
That's interesting. Yes, I absolutely think this is him. Yeah,
he's a BYU. Professor. That is bizarre, Yes, very interesting,
huh he but he teaches that BYU. He teaches Yeah,
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in the theater and Media arts department. I don't know.
I don't know how the connection was made, but you
can see that there is a connection. Yeah, for sure.
Hurry interesting, very very interesting. Jess del Vizzo plays Zoeess
has just ten acting credits, but did appear in both
sister swap movies back in twenty twenty one. Leith Wallschluger
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plays Teddy fun Fact, this isn't his first football movie.
He appeared as Rob Gronkowski in three episodes of a
series called American Sports Story. Lewis Boki plays Nick. He
has fifteen acting credits and ten wa upcoming projects. This
was his first time on Hallmark. Holme Turf was filmed
in Utah during the first part of twenty twenty five.
I add here for a second, there were a lot
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of people in this cast. Oh yeah, I did include everybody.
I just kind of included the ones who had like
bigger roles, sure other ones. So we're gonna take a
quick break and come right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy,
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what was your first impression of Home Turf. Well, did
Oat Milk sponsor this movie? Because if not, somebody at
Hallmark missed a great opportunity. They were using that Kirkland
branded Oat Milk in this movie. I didn't notice that
they blocked out the Kirkland logo, but I'd recognize it anywhere.
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I'd recognize comes in a box of six. Oh my god,
I'm an oat Milk girl, but that's not my preferred brand.
The only reason I like it is it becomes as mentioned,
comes in a box of six, and they are shelf stable,
so you can stuck up and not need refrigerator space.
Got it? Well, again, missed opportunity. My first impression is
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who needs touchdowns? When Nicky's wardrobe is a ten out
of ten, I have some thought, Okay, we'll get to it. Okay,
it didn't. It didn't actually make my official notes, but
since you brought it up, I'm just there was this.
I agree with you. I thought all her outfits are great.
There was one shoe that I thought was like a
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misstep intended there. I just was like, what, I don't
like that shoe? And now I've seen it like several
times throughout the movie. It was like a cream colored
like I don't know, I just I didn't like it. Okay,
I have more to say about her wardrobe in a minute,
but let's talk about all you legs for me. Look.
I like the premise. I like when Hallmark takes a
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you know, an opposites attract familiar setup. We all know
how it's going to end up, but it gave us
in a fresh environment. I liked the college small town
college setting. Loved it. I thought it was believable. I
just it was. It worked for me. Maybe it's the
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season of life we're in. Yeah, well, because like you
have a college student, I have like a soon to
be a college student. College football is on my TV
every weekend. Like it's just you know, it conjured up
in like the best feelings in the very best way.
I thought. I always love a college set story. Give
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me a college or a boarding school and I am
in like sold And I think the vibes were vibing
like strong college vibes, the campus setting. I was trying
to figure out where they filmed it. I couldn't really
figure that out. Oh I saw something on Reddit. I
think they showed it is like a real school in
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the Utah area. I will look for it and I
will add it to our show notes if anybody is interested.
There's not enough like Hallmark movies with college settings, are there? No?
They could use more. I would watch them all. I
think so too. There's that one movie where we reviewed
years ago, and I had Cameron Matheson in it, and
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I had like the single mom who moved her daughter
into college, and he was like, I don't know a
professor or something, Kelly Wagner. I don't think that's her
last Kelly Rutherford. Oh why do I think her name's Wagner?
You're Yeah? We reviewed that movie with Eric from Hallmark
Mysteries and More. Yeah, exactly. I can't remember the name
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of the movie right now, but neither can I. But yes,
that was a good one. Only that's the only movie
I can remember outside of Misery one on one that's
at a college setting. Yeah, and I love the college
setting of Mystery one on one too. Give us more
college movies, give us a whole college series. Oh yeah,
i'd be great. How great would it be if you did?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Didn't they have that college one with the trivia last
year where she had to stick around? But that really
wasn't college set. Uh, but yeah, give us like stuck
on campus during which is what that story was, but
like lean into the college piece of it. Yeah, I agree, Okay, agree?
What else did you like? I really enjoyed Niki Deloche
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and Warren Christie together. I thought they were a perfect match.
We talked about this last week too, because we had
an Andrew Walker movie last week, right, did we? Yes?
In the Brooding movie? Yes, and I was and I
was like, oh, it's so great to see Andrew working
with somebody who's not Nicki de Loche. Again this week,
It's so great to see Niaki Deloche working with somebody
who's not Andrew Walker. Like it, just like I liked
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them together of course as Tom and Goldie, but I
liked them apart as well, Like I really liked her
with Warren Christy. I think she and Warren Christy have
a great chemistry. I think they have such like a
natural They feel such a great match. To me. I
thought so too. They had great cam machine. Now let
me ask you this. I was putting my notes together
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this morning, and I was like, huh, was there ever
any mention for either of these two mature adults that
there was like they were divorced or they were anything.
I don't think so chronically single, nothing like that. Right, Well,
she was she was divorced because she had been. I'm
pretty sure she was divorced. She had been with that guy.
(11:25):
I thought. She said they got married at the end
of college, and their deal was like, that's right, that's right,
I'll support you through grad school and you'll support me.
And then he bounced, that's right. But it wasn't like, oh,
I'm single and sad. There was none of that, right.
I appreciated that. I liked it. I don't think it
needs to be part of every narrative, especially when we
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have our leads are kind of, let's say, mature. I
kind of like the chaos in the house like a
little bit. I was like, you know, when there's uniforms
falling out of the pantry. Maybe we went like a
little bit too far, but you know, it's like front
House would make it Hallmark chaos were kind of fun,
(12:08):
over the top. But I thought also Nikki's golf heart
joy ride was a particular highlight. I mean, her just
running over people left and right. It was fun. I
enjoyed it. Okay, So I was worried. I was like,
this is gonna go to hygieninx for me. Yeah, but
they rained it in. It didn't. It got rained in.
There was that really funny scene where like the pantry
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is stocked with protein powder. Yes, this is very relatable.
That was so funny. I don't know whoever thought about that,
but that was really really clever. I loved that. I
agree with you that Nikki's kind of like spinning out stuff.
I found enjoyable. But I am going to talk about
it in my wishes as well. We'll get there. I
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want to talk about Nicki for a second. Yeah, in particular,
I think she deserves a lot of credit here for
delivering some of the dialogue. I thought the dialogue was
really good in this movie. Now I have seen on
Reddit some people were some people were not very kind
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about the dialogue, like that it was very dry. I
thought it was fine and enjoyable, and there were several
times I thought Nikki like really like gave like certain
inflection or she did emoted with her face like that
really worked with the dialogue. There's one scene, it's a
total throwaway scene at the very top of the movie
and when she was she like sees the security guy
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and she's like, oh, thanks for taking care of that
frat party last night, and he's like, oh, they were
playing Gaga, And I was just like, that's so cute.
This like total throwaway moment, but it was. It worked
for me. It felt very kind of pop cultury and relevant,
which I love when our Hallmark movies have a sprinkle
of that in it too. It worked for me. This
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movie worked for me. It worked for me too. And
one thing I was paying attention. There's a moment where
she and Warren Christie's character are bantering back and forth.
And I think it's a combination of good acting and
good editing, because sometimes those edits where the cuts between
camera shots are going back and forth between dual perspectives,
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sometimes those are shot in two takes right, like you'll
get a shot like looking over Nikki's shoulder while Warren
is speaking, and then you'll get another shot. And so
sometimes I find I used to think it was like
an issue with delivery of dialogue, but I actually think
it's an editing issue where the edits aren't made tight
enough to make that conversation pace feel natural. And it
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was well done here where the edits were as quick
as the equipping back and forth. I really appreciated that.
You know, you and I love a rapid fire conversation,
and I like it when the dialogue keeps up. Did
that scene happen to be when they went out for
breakfast and he used his meal point to pay no?
But that was very funny? Yes, Oh my god, the
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way I laughed, the way I laughed, and she just
was like, oh, like super like kind of annoyed by it. Yes,
that's where you took her. It was just it was
executed so nicely, I thought. I thought it was great too.
I loved the found family element that they put into this,
you know, like she just cares for these kids, which
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I'm not surprised she's a college president. I'm sure any
any person in like a college administration or a professor
or whatever you see these kids as like your own, right,
I would hope that's the case. Say you think thea
at least care about them and their well being. Yeah,
it was nice to see her being maternal towards them, right,
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And I like that she had this kind of arc
of like these kids are destroying my house too, Like
I love them, and we're going to get together every
Sunday night or whatever. Yeah, and fly in that kid's
family because he's homesick. Yes, I loved it, loved it,
loved it. The last thing I liked, I enjoyed. And
we talked about their Warren Christy and Nikki delicious chemistry.
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They have this kiss and I was like, whoa Warren
delivers during the pop up concert? It was yeah, it
was good concert. Yes, Wow, what are we doing here?
There's nobody else here? Come on people, yeah, come on people.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, that kiss was h s GEMI
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I thought, yeah, all the like face touching is perfection, perfection.
I want to circle back to my wardrobe comment before
we move on to wishes because listener Mackie, who also
happens to be Facebook group moderator. Mackie sent us an
email about the costume designer on this movie, whose name
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is Audrey Nelson. She happens to be the sister of
director McLean Nelson. This is her first credit as a
lead costume designer. Mackie's comment was, Nikki looks so stylish
in the previews for this movie. I think Audrey has
great potential to fall in the footsteps of other celebrated
costume designers like Keith Nielsen. I'm nice. I thought NICKI
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looked great. I loved her blazers, I loved her coats.
I'm glad this was filmed in March and Utah when
it is cold and she wasn't sweating it out in August.
I agree, I just didn't like those I didn't clock
the shoes. I did not clock the shoes. Let's stop wishes, Okay,
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I have a few, and I mentioned it earlier. I
thought Cassidy's personality early on in this movie leaned too
far into this rigid, hyper controlling woman who just needs
to loosen up a little bit. I don't. This is
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a stereotype I don't like or appreciate, and I think
homework leans into it a lot. Yeah. My comment was
that this college president needs to learn a little resiliency,
because that is your life is putting out fires, and
I felt like she couldn't handle even the slightest bit
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of inconvenience. Now, having obviously football players moved in to
your house is the other end of that, but I
just felt like there was no give at first, and
I needed her to, you know, we were teaching our
kids to be resilient. She needed to learn the same thing. Interesting,
that's interesting. I agree with you there, I just give
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me something more to understand why her character was this
type a country because she's learned that she can't count
on anybody else. Oh, you're right, it is there, it
is Okay, Well that makes sense. But I still didn't
like it. I just don't like when you know, she
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looks like the bad guy. Yeah, for sure, I I
don't disagree. I didn't love a lot of the contention
that we saw between her and coach Logan, Like I
felt like in the beginning he was like, just relax,
go with the flow that vibe, which like nothing ratchets
up my blood pressure faster than someone telling me to
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relax or calm down or just be cool, go with
the flow. Like you can't just go with the flow,
like somebody has to make the flow. And so I
didn't love that she was the one who had to
be like, okay, we need you need to listen to
me here, like this isn't gonna work the way you
think it's gonna work. And I think she came up
with a very reasonable yes option that they would be
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like housed off off campus or whatever. Look, I want
to talk about my my obsession with TikTok. I see
lots and lots of videos of like college kids like
getting you know, broken broken pipes or whatever and being
flooded out of their dorm rooms and then the school
has to make other accommodations for them, Like it happens right,
My college had a housing shortage one year and there
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were freshmen living in the hotel across the street. Like
they literally turned the hotel into dorms. This is not
all that unusual. Yeah, I don't think it's. Well, okay,
let me get to my next point then, which really
bothered me is the space that they used, that unused
space that they were going to transform into like the
formal four. Oh yeah, put some beds in there, exactly.
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I was like, why didn't we use this space? Yeah?
Uh huh yeah, and maybe they didn't have like showers,
but these are also student athletes who probably have access
to gyms with for sure a locker room, locker rooms,
yeah exactly, Yes, but there was your solution, but no
had to move into the president's house. Yeah exactly. I
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was wondering, like this time exists in this because there's
all these deadlines, right, it's football season. They're also trying
to pitch this donor and also have this formal dance.
But like their days are so long. I'm like, how
many hours are in a day? Yeah, this the timing
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was weird to me. And then like she'd be in
the office, and then she'd be at her home office,
and then she would be you know, she had to
walk to school all the time at yes, very same clothes,
all in the same clothes. And then in the beginning
they're like, well, we only have they're only living here
for three days, which to me, I was like three
days or five days or whatever, Like they can go
stay in a hotel for five days, it's not the
entire season, Like we're being ridiculous here. Two other wishes
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that I had was I didn't love I didn't love
the conflict that happened. You know, Cassidy's mad that Logan
doesn't make it back in time for the donor pitch, right,
and I thought that she was overreact in a little
bit because life happens. He wasn't being careless or disrespectful.
He went to like his dad's like thing got caught
(22:08):
up with like something didn't pick up the model in time,
did not get back to the school in time, and
I felt like, oh, this would have been like a
good moment to realize, Okay, these are two like professionals
who are both have crazy demands on them. But it
was all this manufacturer like you have to get back
in time and do this pitch or it's all going
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to fall apart. And he doesn't, and she's pissed, and
I'm like, what this is? This is easily talked through. Yeah,
So my feeling about that is I kind of liked
the idea of you know, she makes that final speech
in the end about not being a lone wolf but
being part of a wolf pack, and I like that
she brought it full circle because she had originally talked about,
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you know, like I learned when my husband left, like
I can't haunt on anybody but myself. I thought it
fell apart in the exact moment that you did when
he doesn't make it back in time, and that one
little slight is her realizing like I can't count on anybody,
instead of her like backtracking to be like it was
such a slim margin of era that we were going
to be able to make this happen anyway, Like, dude
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built a model in forty eight hours, and this guy's
maybe going to make it back in time to make
it to the presentation, Like there was no build in
for like a only in the best case scenario does
this work out. She just went straight to like, you
have failed me. I cannot count on anybody ever. Again,
here's another problem I have, just a small one. It
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is such a bad idea for the president of the
school to be romantically involved with the football coach, especially
with all like the budgetary issues. Yes, exactly, this is
a nightmareage. Yes, Oh this is bad. This is a
bad idea. Uh huh uh huh. I don't disagree with
you at all. The last wish I had is I
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don't understand. Explain to me, like I'm a child. How
do they save the arts program by building a football stadium?
Oh my gosh, it makes no sense to me. They're like,
we can offer naming rights. You already named it after
the Farnsworth Dude, Like we're calling it, yeah, Farnsworth Field. Okay,
well now you can't call it State Farms Stadium. Like
when we get to do there? Wow, how does this
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news stadium make money for the arts program? I don't understand. Yeah,
I didn't understand it. But I also hated that, let's
go down this road again, that the arts are you know, underfunded.
What movie was it? It was those? It was those,
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the four movies. They had the same thing that arts
were being cut from their school. Do you know what
I'm talking about? The table movies? Yeah, around the table hearts,
around the table movies. Yeah, exactly. Like part of me
like gets it. I'm like, Okay, it does need to
be talked about, but also like I oh, I can't
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get like that excited over it. Like I'm not getting
that worked up over it. And they have this like
whole scene where they have this sort of like pop
up on campus and arts pop up. They have like
two home service gosh, embarrassing, welcome everybody. I was like,
there's nobody there, what's happening? What is this thing that
they have going on? There's like eight people standing around.
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So silly, so silly, so silly. But that's all I have.
Her wishes. Let's talk to you. Just see that. I
have a few. God, I have so many things to say.
Let's hear it. Oh my gosh, I'm excited to hear yours.
One is there is a September calendar in the kitchen,
hanging in Cassidy's kitchen, And I hate it when, like
Hallmark time stamps, they're like that, first of all, this
(25:47):
is October. Like I know, I know when they made
this movie they didn't know exactly when was going to
come out. It just needs it to be fall. It's okay, Yeah,
I don't need it. I don't need a September calendar
to tell me it's fall. Sure, I know it's fall
because college football is happening. Yes, anyway, that's one of mine.
Tell me one of yours. Oh my god, I have
so many. Uh, I have a couple. Did you hear that's? Oh?
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First up, open up, rip Van Wilder when she's banging
on the door, Rip Van Wilder's a great line, laughed
out loud. Huh, I did not catch it, so funny,
Like do you understand the joke? I don't. Rip Van
Winkle is like Sleeps Forever. And then Van Wilder is
that movie with Ryan Reynolds where he's like the college bozo.
(26:28):
I loved it, a movie my husband loves, which is
why I have seen it. Wait with Ryan Reynolds, you
mean you mean wait the guy that was in he
just recently passed Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer in Van Wilder.
He was in a movie similar to that, which feels
like a movie your husband would watch. Hold on, real genius.
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I don't know what that is. I don't know why
am I thinking? Like, man, okay, whatever, all right, never mind. Yeah,
Van Wilder is Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid. He's like
a the eighth year senior. Anyway, it was a funny line,
quick throwaway. Also one of the football players as he's
like excusing himself, He's like, I'm gonna go pop and
lock it with the guys. Yeah, I got that here
(27:08):
of that and another, did you hear that there's a
discussion of the college transfer portal, which I wondered if
you clocked because I only know about because of you,
and then our friend who is a college basketball coach didn't.
But now get me started on it. I know the
coach is like, now call it. Kids can transfer schools
at any point and that messes up my program. So
(27:29):
I thought it was a timely mention. What other did
you see that? You have just some inconsistencies. During the
breakfast scene that I talked about earlier, where he takes
her out to the student cafe or whatever, I couldn't
stop noticing Nikki has her fork in one hand and
then it's gone, and then it's there again and it's gone.
It's not like I mean, these are like rapid fire
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back and forth. Yeah, she's holding it, she's not. She's
holding it, she's not. That's just one of those things
that drives me crazy. Not everybody catches it. And the
other is towards the end where they're making smoothies in
the kitchen and they blend up the smoothie and then
the next scene it's not blended. Yes, I did notice that,
(28:11):
did you? Yeah? I love it. You can still see
like the fruit sticking up out of the top yep. Yes.
So on the way out of the locker room, there's
a sign that says trust and it is very much
written in the style of the Ted Lasso Believes sign
with straight up blue tape around it on the wall.
When they make the apology meals or like everybody made
a meal from their hometown except one of the Dude's
(28:31):
contribution to the apology meal is simply to say Antonio
made flyun which, okay, there are no other cars on
the road, but the Kappa Beta's parking her driveway every
single day while not a single car is parked on
the street. And finally, when they go grocery shopping in
that tiny store, it makes no sense. First of all,
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the store is about the size of my living room.
They talk about how the dudes eat a lot, but
he buys like four single apples and places them loosely
in the cart. I mean, it's like they staged a
grocery store. There is no way that's either. Like maybe
it's like a college mini mart. I could see it
being that where they have like, you know, little things
that you can grab and go, but it was not
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a full grocery store. I didn't even really clock that.
I mean, you'd have it, you probably don't even need to.
But he's like they eat so much, and then he's
like apple, Apple, Apple. I'm like, there's five of them,
and you bought three apples and you put them loosely
in the cart, and there's eight things on the shelves
in this store. What I also thought was funny too,
(29:34):
is like these same five guys like kept showing up.
I was like, this is not your whole football team, Like,
where's the other forty five Yes, guys that play on
your team and the other coaches you coach with. Yes,
football practice was very small. Also, when they were like
we gotta we gotta have a chorch ar I'm like,
they're here for five days? How often? Like you don't
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need to meal plan and grocery shop. These dudes are athletes,
go eat on campus, they have a meal plan totally. Yeah,
I'm like, why are they eating at her home? Yeah?
What did you rate Home Turf? Well, it might surprise you,
but I actually really liked it. I gave it four stars.
I gave it four stars too that I feel like
my list of wishes is pretty long, Like there are
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like a lot of things that I found wrong with it,
but I enjoyed the vibe of it the most. Yeah,
I agree. So, yeah, it was great. I didn't think
it felt very like Fall, unless you're like football is
synonymous with fall. But I did enjoy the movie. Yeah. Hey,
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a Hallmark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm a longtime
Hallmark fan. I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today
we're discussing the latest movie from the twenty twenty five
Fall Into Love lineup Home Turf, which originally aired on Saturday,
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linked in our show notes. Let's talk Home Turf with
a synopsis. Cassidy is the president of a small college
whose life is thrown for loop when freshmen on the
football team move into her home. Can Logan, the handsome coach,
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helps smooth things over. Home Turf is directed by a
homemark favorite, McLean Nelson, marking his eighteenth time I'm in
the director's chair and he's not done yet. Nelson is
also calling the shots on next week's premiere, Haul Out
the Halloween. Are you excited for that movie? So excited?
Are you? Yeah? I love the Hallo Out the movies,
and I know you do, But you don't love Halloween.
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So no, But I'm okay with observing Halloween. It's not
gonna be scary Halloween. No. I know, I don't like
putting on a costume. Okay, Well I would be concerned
if you were putting on a costume and watching this movie,
as you should be. Okay. This script for Home Turf
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comes from longtime writing duo Greg Rawson and Brian Sawyer.
Hallmark fans will recognize their names from favorites like Three Bid,
two Bath, One Ghost, The Santa Steak Out, The Perfect Catch,
and dozens more. Nikki Deloche plays Cassidy. This movie marks
Nikki's seventy sixth acting credit. She will start in the
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upcoming A Grandual Opry Christmas, as well as two more
True Justice mysteries likely to premiere in twenty twenty six.
Warren Christie plays Coach Logan. Warren has seventy acting credits
and last appeared on Hallmark opposite Nikki in last year's
Our Holiday Story. Warren will start in the upcoming A
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Royal Montana Christmas, which kicks off the twenty twenty five
Countdown to Christmas season. Also noteworthy, Warren will play John
Edwards in the forthcoming reboot of Little House on the
Prairie coming soon to Netflix. Did you know anything about
this series? Nothing? Me neither until I was like digging in.
I was like, I might be interested in watching that.
(03:42):
Were you an original Little House on the Prairie watcher?
I did? I did enjoy it, yes, I mean I
couldn't tell you anything about it now. I just remember
watching it kind of like in reruns. I think, sure, yes,
I just remember like when sister Mary went blind. I
remember I remember that, and I think, like the mom
(04:03):
got attacked one time. I think, oh that I don't know. Yeah,
I liked a little house in the prairie. I mean,
I'm definitely watch a reboot at Me too. Timothy Thrillthhall
plays Donor Leo Farnsworth. According to IMDb, this is his
one and only acting credit. Are you surprised by that? Yes?
(04:23):
Did too? He looked familiar. I thought so too. And
then I'm putting the notes together, I was like, wait,
he has nothing. There's not one thing this is.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
This is it?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's bizarre. They mass they must have miscredited him. Don't
you think something is not right? Well, this is him.
I'm gonna hold I'm gonna text you tell me if
you think this is him. This person that I'm looking
at with the same name. He is a professor at
BYU and he was the artistic director of the Seattle
Civic Light Opera before coming to BYU. So I wonder
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was he somehow partnering with I see what you're putting down.
That's interesting. Yes, I absolutely think this is him. Yeah,
he's a BYU. Professor. That is bizarre, Yes, very interesting,
huh he but he teaches that BYU. He teaches Yeah,
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in the theater and Media arts department. I don't know.
I don't know how the connection was made, but you
can see that there is a connection. Yeah, for sure.
Hurry interesting, very very interesting. Jess del Vizzo plays Zoeess
has just ten acting credits, but did appear in both
sister swap movies back in twenty twenty one. Leith Wallschluger
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plays Teddy fun Fact, this isn't his first football movie.
He appeared as Rob Gronkowski in three episodes of a
series called American Sports Story. Lewis Boki plays Nick. He
has fifteen acting credits and ten wa upcoming projects. This
was his first time on Hallmark. Holme Turf was filmed
in Utah during the first part of twenty twenty five.
I add here for a second, there were a lot
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of people in this cast. Oh yeah, I did include everybody.
I just kind of included the ones who had like
bigger roles, sure other ones. So we're gonna take a
quick break and come right back with our first impressions. Hey, Wendy,
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what was your first impression of Home Turf. Well, did
Oat Milk sponsor this movie? Because if not, somebody at
Hallmark missed a great opportunity. They were using that Kirkland
branded Oat Milk in this movie. I didn't notice that
they blocked out the Kirkland logo, but I'd recognize it anywhere.
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I'd recognize comes in a box of six. Oh my god,
I'm an oat Milk girl, but that's not my preferred brand.
The only reason I like it is it becomes as mentioned,
comes in a box of six, and they are shelf stable,
so you can stuck up and not need refrigerator space.
Got it? Well, again, missed opportunity. My first impression is
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who needs touchdowns? When Nicky's wardrobe is a ten out
of ten, I have some thought, Okay, we'll get to it. Okay,
it didn't. It didn't actually make my official notes, but
since you brought it up, I'm just there was this.
I agree with you. I thought all her outfits are great.
There was one shoe that I thought was like a
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misstep intended there. I just was like, what, I don't
like that shoe? And now I've seen it like several
times throughout the movie. It was like a cream colored
like I don't know, I just I didn't like it. Okay,
I have more to say about her wardrobe in a minute,
but let's talk about all you legs for me. Look.
I like the premise. I like when Hallmark takes a
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you know, an opposites attract familiar setup. We all know
how it's going to end up, but it gave us
in a fresh environment. I liked the college small town
college setting. Loved it. I thought it was believable. I
just it was. It worked for me. Maybe it's the
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season of life we're in. Yeah, well, because like you
have a college student, I have like a soon to
be a college student. College football is on my TV
every weekend. Like it's just you know, it conjured up
in like the best feelings in the very best way.
I thought. I always love a college set story. Give
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me a college or a boarding school and I am
in like sold And I think the vibes were vibing
like strong college vibes, the campus setting. I was trying
to figure out where they filmed it. I couldn't really
figure that out. Oh I saw something on Reddit. I
think they showed it is like a real school in
(08:54):
the Utah area. I will look for it and I
will add it to our show notes if anybody is interested.
There's not enough like Hallmark movies with college settings, are there? No?
They could use more. I would watch them all. I
think so too. There's that one movie where we reviewed
years ago, and I had Cameron Matheson in it, and
(09:16):
I had like the single mom who moved her daughter
into college, and he was like, I don't know a
professor or something, Kelly Wagner. I don't think that's her
last Kelly Rutherford. Oh why do I think her name's Wagner?
You're Yeah? We reviewed that movie with Eric from Hallmark
Mysteries and More. Yeah, exactly. I can't remember the name
(09:37):
of the movie right now, but neither can I. But yes,
that was a good one. Only that's the only movie
I can remember outside of Misery one on one that's
at a college setting. Yeah, and I love the college
setting of Mystery one on one too. Give us more
college movies, give us a whole college series. Oh yeah,
i'd be great. How great would it be if you did?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Didn't they have that college one with the trivia last
year where she had to stick around? But that really
wasn't college set. Uh, but yeah, give us like stuck
on campus during which is what that story was, but
like lean into the college piece of it. Yeah, I agree, Okay, agree?
What else did you like? I really enjoyed Niki Deloche
(10:20):
and Warren Christie together. I thought they were a perfect match.
We talked about this last week too, because we had
an Andrew Walker movie last week, right, did we? Yes?
In the Brooding movie? Yes, and I was and I
was like, oh, it's so great to see Andrew working
with somebody who's not Nicki de Loche. Again this week,
It's so great to see Niaki Deloche working with somebody
who's not Andrew Walker. Like it, just like I liked
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them together of course as Tom and Goldie, but I
liked them apart as well, Like I really liked her
with Warren Christy. I think she and Warren Christy have
a great chemistry. I think they have such like a
natural They feel such a great match. To me. I
thought so too. They had great cam machine. Now let
me ask you this. I was putting my notes together
(11:03):
this morning, and I was like, huh, was there ever
any mention for either of these two mature adults that
there was like they were divorced or they were anything.
I don't think so chronically single, nothing like that. Right, Well,
she was she was divorced because she had been. I'm
pretty sure she was divorced. She had been with that guy.
(11:25):
I thought. She said they got married at the end
of college, and their deal was like, that's right, that's right,
I'll support you through grad school and you'll support me.
And then he bounced, that's right. But it wasn't like, oh,
I'm single and sad. There was none of that, right.
I appreciated that. I liked it. I don't think it
needs to be part of every narrative, especially when we
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have our leads are kind of, let's say, mature. I
kind of like the chaos in the house like a
little bit. I was like, you know, when there's uniforms
falling out of the pantry. Maybe we went like a
little bit too far, but you know, it's like front
House would make it Hallmark chaos were kind of fun,
(12:08):
over the top. But I thought also Nikki's golf heart
joy ride was a particular highlight. I mean, her just
running over people left and right. It was fun. I
enjoyed it. Okay, So I was worried. I was like,
this is gonna go to hygieninx for me. Yeah, but
they rained it in. It didn't. It got rained in.
There was that really funny scene where like the pantry
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is stocked with protein powder. Yes, this is very relatable.
That was so funny. I don't know whoever thought about that,
but that was really really clever. I loved that. I
agree with you that Nikki's kind of like spinning out stuff.
I found enjoyable. But I am going to talk about
it in my wishes as well. We'll get there. I
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want to talk about Nicki for a second. Yeah, in particular,
I think she deserves a lot of credit here for
delivering some of the dialogue. I thought the dialogue was
really good in this movie. Now I have seen on
Reddit some people were some people were not very kind
(13:13):
about the dialogue, like that it was very dry. I
thought it was fine and enjoyable, and there were several
times I thought Nikki like really like gave like certain
inflection or she did emoted with her face like that
really worked with the dialogue. There's one scene, it's a
total throwaway scene at the very top of the movie
and when she was she like sees the security guy
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and she's like, oh, thanks for taking care of that
frat party last night, and he's like, oh, they were
playing Gaga, And I was just like, that's so cute.
This like total throwaway moment, but it was. It worked
for me. It felt very kind of pop cultury and relevant,
which I love when our Hallmark movies have a sprinkle
of that in it too. It worked for me. This
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movie worked for me. It worked for me too. And
one thing I was paying attention. There's a moment where
she and Warren Christie's character are bantering back and forth.
And I think it's a combination of good acting and
good editing, because sometimes those edits where the cuts between
camera shots are going back and forth between dual perspectives,
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sometimes those are shot in two takes right, like you'll
get a shot like looking over Nikki's shoulder while Warren
is speaking, and then you'll get another shot. And so
sometimes I find I used to think it was like
an issue with delivery of dialogue, but I actually think
it's an editing issue where the edits aren't made tight
enough to make that conversation pace feel natural. And it
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was well done here where the edits were as quick
as the equipping back and forth. I really appreciated that.
You know, you and I love a rapid fire conversation,
and I like it when the dialogue keeps up. Did
that scene happen to be when they went out for
breakfast and he used his meal point to pay no?
But that was very funny? Yes, Oh my god, the
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way I laughed, the way I laughed, and she just
was like, oh, like super like kind of annoyed by it. Yes,
that's where you took her. It was just it was
executed so nicely, I thought. I thought it was great too.
I loved the found family element that they put into this,
you know, like she just cares for these kids, which
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I'm not surprised she's a college president. I'm sure any
any person in like a college administration or a professor
or whatever you see these kids as like your own, right,
I would hope that's the case. Say you think thea
at least care about them and their well being. Yeah,
it was nice to see her being maternal towards them, right,
(15:48):
And I like that she had this kind of arc
of like these kids are destroying my house too, Like
I love them, and we're going to get together every
Sunday night or whatever. Yeah, and fly in that kid's
family because he's homesick. Yes, I loved it, loved it,
loved it. The last thing I liked, I enjoyed. And
we talked about their Warren Christy and Nikki delicious chemistry.
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They have this kiss and I was like, whoa Warren
delivers during the pop up concert? It was yeah, it
was good concert. Yes, Wow, what are we doing here?
There's nobody else here? Come on people, yeah, come on people.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, that kiss was h s GEMI
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I thought, yeah, all the like face touching is perfection, perfection.
I want to circle back to my wardrobe comment before
we move on to wishes because listener Mackie, who also
happens to be Facebook group moderator. Mackie sent us an
email about the costume designer on this movie, whose name
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is Audrey Nelson. She happens to be the sister of
director McLean Nelson. This is her first credit as a
lead costume designer. Mackie's comment was, Nikki looks so stylish
in the previews for this movie. I think Audrey has
great potential to fall in the footsteps of other celebrated
costume designers like Keith Nielsen. I'm nice. I thought NICKI
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looked great. I loved her blazers, I loved her coats.
I'm glad this was filmed in March and Utah when
it is cold and she wasn't sweating it out in August.
I agree, I just didn't like those I didn't clock
the shoes. I did not clock the shoes. Let's stop wishes, Okay,
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I have a few, and I mentioned it earlier. I
thought Cassidy's personality early on in this movie leaned too
far into this rigid, hyper controlling woman who just needs
to loosen up a little bit. I don't. This is
(18:02):
a stereotype I don't like or appreciate, and I think
homework leans into it a lot. Yeah. My comment was
that this college president needs to learn a little resiliency,
because that is your life is putting out fires, and
I felt like she couldn't handle even the slightest bit
(18:24):
of inconvenience. Now, having obviously football players moved in to
your house is the other end of that, but I
just felt like there was no give at first, and
I needed her to, you know, we were teaching our
kids to be resilient. She needed to learn the same thing. Interesting,
that's interesting. I agree with you there, I just give
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me something more to understand why her character was this
type a country because she's learned that she can't count
on anybody else. Oh, you're right, it is there, it
is Okay, Well that makes sense. But I still didn't
like it. I just don't like when you know, she
(19:08):
looks like the bad guy. Yeah, for sure, I I
don't disagree. I didn't love a lot of the contention
that we saw between her and coach Logan, Like I
felt like in the beginning he was like, just relax,
go with the flow that vibe, which like nothing ratchets
up my blood pressure faster than someone telling me to
(19:29):
relax or calm down or just be cool, go with
the flow. Like you can't just go with the flow,
like somebody has to make the flow. And so I
didn't love that she was the one who had to
be like, okay, we need you need to listen to
me here, like this isn't gonna work the way you
think it's gonna work. And I think she came up
with a very reasonable yes option that they would be
(19:53):
like housed off off campus or whatever. Look, I want
to talk about my my obsession with TikTok. I see
lots and lots of videos of like college kids like
getting you know, broken broken pipes or whatever and being
flooded out of their dorm rooms and then the school
has to make other accommodations for them, Like it happens right,
My college had a housing shortage one year and there
(20:15):
were freshmen living in the hotel across the street. Like
they literally turned the hotel into dorms. This is not
all that unusual. Yeah, I don't think it's. Well, okay,
let me get to my next point then, which really
bothered me is the space that they used, that unused
space that they were going to transform into like the
formal four. Oh yeah, put some beds in there, exactly.
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I was like, why didn't we use this space? Yeah?
Uh huh yeah, and maybe they didn't have like showers,
but these are also student athletes who probably have access
to gyms with for sure a locker room, locker rooms,
yeah exactly, Yes, but there was your solution, but no
had to move into the president's house. Yeah exactly. I
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was wondering, like this time exists in this because there's
all these deadlines, right, it's football season. They're also trying
to pitch this donor and also have this formal dance.
But like their days are so long. I'm like, how
many hours are in a day? Yeah, this the timing
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was weird to me. And then like she'd be in
the office, and then she'd be at her home office,
and then she would be you know, she had to
walk to school all the time at yes, very same clothes,
all in the same clothes. And then in the beginning
they're like, well, we only have they're only living here
for three days, which to me, I was like three
days or five days or whatever, Like they can go
stay in a hotel for five days, it's not the
entire season, Like we're being ridiculous here. Two other wishes
(21:47):
that I had was I didn't love I didn't love
the conflict that happened. You know, Cassidy's mad that Logan
doesn't make it back in time for the donor pitch, right,
and I thought that she was overreact in a little
bit because life happens. He wasn't being careless or disrespectful.
He went to like his dad's like thing got caught
(22:08):
up with like something didn't pick up the model in time,
did not get back to the school in time, and
I felt like, oh, this would have been like a
good moment to realize, Okay, these are two like professionals
who are both have crazy demands on them. But it
was all this manufacturer like you have to get back
in time and do this pitch or it's all going
(22:28):
to fall apart. And he doesn't, and she's pissed, and
I'm like, what this is? This is easily talked through. Yeah,
So my feeling about that is I kind of liked
the idea of you know, she makes that final speech
in the end about not being a lone wolf but
being part of a wolf pack, and I like that
she brought it full circle because she had originally talked about,
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you know, like I learned when my husband left, like
I can't haunt on anybody but myself. I thought it
fell apart in the exact moment that you did when
he doesn't make it back in time, and that one
little slight is her realizing like I can't count on anybody,
instead of her like backtracking to be like it was
such a slim margin of era that we were going
to be able to make this happen anyway, Like, dude
(23:12):
built a model in forty eight hours, and this guy's
maybe going to make it back in time to make
it to the presentation, Like there was no build in
for like a only in the best case scenario does
this work out. She just went straight to like, you
have failed me. I cannot count on anybody ever. Again,
here's another problem I have, just a small one. It
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is such a bad idea for the president of the
school to be romantically involved with the football coach, especially
with all like the budgetary issues. Yes, exactly, this is
a nightmareage. Yes, Oh this is bad. This is a
bad idea. Uh huh uh huh. I don't disagree with
you at all. The last wish I had is I
(23:54):
don't understand. Explain to me, like I'm a child. How
do they save the arts program by building a football stadium?
Oh my gosh, it makes no sense to me. They're like,
we can offer naming rights. You already named it after
the Farnsworth Dude, Like we're calling it, yeah, Farnsworth Field. Okay,
well now you can't call it State Farms Stadium. Like
when we get to do there? Wow, how does this
(24:18):
news stadium make money for the arts program? I don't understand. Yeah,
I didn't understand it. But I also hated that, let's
go down this road again, that the arts are you know, underfunded.
What movie was it? It was those? It was those,
(24:39):
the four movies. They had the same thing that arts
were being cut from their school. Do you know what
I'm talking about? The table movies? Yeah, around the table hearts,
around the table movies. Yeah, exactly. Like part of me
like gets it. I'm like, Okay, it does need to
be talked about, but also like I oh, I can't
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get like that excited over it. Like I'm not getting
that worked up over it. And they have this like
whole scene where they have this sort of like pop
up on campus and arts pop up. They have like
two home service gosh, embarrassing, welcome everybody. I was like,
there's nobody there, what's happening? What is this thing that
they have going on? There's like eight people standing around.
(25:24):
So silly, so silly, so silly. But that's all I have.
Her wishes. Let's talk to you. Just see that. I
have a few. God, I have so many things to say.
Let's hear it. Oh my gosh, I'm excited to hear yours.
One is there is a September calendar in the kitchen,
hanging in Cassidy's kitchen, And I hate it when, like
Hallmark time stamps, they're like that, first of all, this
(25:47):
is October. Like I know, I know when they made
this movie they didn't know exactly when was going to
come out. It just needs it to be fall. It's okay, Yeah,
I don't need it. I don't need a September calendar
to tell me it's fall. Sure, I know it's fall
because college football is happening. Yes, anyway, that's one of mine.
Tell me one of yours. Oh my god, I have
so many. Uh, I have a couple. Did you hear that's? Oh?
(26:07):
First up, open up, rip Van Wilder when she's banging
on the door, Rip Van Wilder's a great line, laughed
out loud. Huh, I did not catch it, so funny,
Like do you understand the joke? I don't. Rip Van
Winkle is like Sleeps Forever. And then Van Wilder is
that movie with Ryan Reynolds where he's like the college bozo.
(26:28):
I loved it, a movie my husband loves, which is
why I have seen it. Wait with Ryan Reynolds, you
mean you mean wait the guy that was in he
just recently passed Val Kilmer. Val Kilmer in Van Wilder.
He was in a movie similar to that, which feels
like a movie your husband would watch. Hold on, real genius.
(26:48):
I don't know what that is. I don't know why
am I thinking? Like, man, okay, whatever, all right, never mind. Yeah,
Van Wilder is Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid. He's like
a the eighth year senior. Anyway, it was a funny line,
quick throwaway. Also one of the football players as he's
like excusing himself, He's like, I'm gonna go pop and
lock it with the guys. Yeah, I got that here
(27:08):
of that and another, did you hear that there's a
discussion of the college transfer portal, which I wondered if
you clocked because I only know about because of you,
and then our friend who is a college basketball coach didn't.
But now get me started on it. I know the
coach is like, now call it. Kids can transfer schools
at any point and that messes up my program. So
(27:29):
I thought it was a timely mention. What other did
you see that? You have just some inconsistencies. During the
breakfast scene that I talked about earlier, where he takes
her out to the student cafe or whatever, I couldn't
stop noticing Nikki has her fork in one hand and
then it's gone, and then it's there again and it's gone.
It's not like I mean, these are like rapid fire
(27:50):
back and forth. Yeah, she's holding it, she's not. She's
holding it, she's not. That's just one of those things
that drives me crazy. Not everybody catches it. And the
other is towards the end where they're making smoothies in
the kitchen and they blend up the smoothie and then
the next scene it's not blended. Yes, I did notice that,
(28:11):
did you? Yeah? I love it. You can still see
like the fruit sticking up out of the top yep. Yes.
So on the way out of the locker room, there's
a sign that says trust and it is very much
written in the style of the Ted Lasso Believes sign
with straight up blue tape around it on the wall.
When they make the apology meals or like everybody made
a meal from their hometown except one of the Dude's
(28:31):
contribution to the apology meal is simply to say Antonio
made flyun which, okay, there are no other cars on
the road, but the Kappa Beta's parking her driveway every
single day while not a single car is parked on
the street. And finally, when they go grocery shopping in
that tiny store, it makes no sense. First of all,
(28:51):
the store is about the size of my living room.
They talk about how the dudes eat a lot, but
he buys like four single apples and places them loosely
in the cart. I mean, it's like they staged a
grocery store. There is no way that's either. Like maybe
it's like a college mini mart. I could see it
being that where they have like, you know, little things
that you can grab and go, but it was not
(29:13):
a full grocery store. I didn't even really clock that.
I mean, you'd have it, you probably don't even need to.
But he's like they eat so much, and then he's
like apple, Apple, Apple. I'm like, there's five of them,
and you bought three apples and you put them loosely
in the cart, and there's eight things on the shelves
in this store. What I also thought was funny too,
(29:34):
is like these same five guys like kept showing up.
I was like, this is not your whole football team, Like,
where's the other forty five Yes, guys that play on
your team and the other coaches you coach with. Yes,
football practice was very small. Also, when they were like
we gotta we gotta have a chorch ar I'm like,
they're here for five days? How often? Like you don't
(29:55):
need to meal plan and grocery shop. These dudes are athletes,
go eat on campus, they have a meal plan totally. Yeah,
I'm like, why are they eating at her home? Yeah?
What did you rate Home Turf? Well, it might surprise you,
but I actually really liked it. I gave it four stars.
I gave it four stars too that I feel like
my list of wishes is pretty long, Like there are
(30:16):
like a lot of things that I found wrong with it,
but I enjoyed the vibe of it the most. Yeah,
I agree. So, yeah, it was great. I didn't think
it felt very like Fall, unless you're like football is
synonymous with fall. But I did enjoy the movie. Yeah. Hey,
thanks for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Homework,
a Bramble Jam podcast. If you love this podcast, we
(30:38):
love your five star ratings and reviews. Leave them right
there in the Apple Podcast app. We'll see you next time.
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Goodbye, bye, all.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
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