July 31, 2025 • 31 mins
It’s time for our midterm! We’re halfway through the series, and Mistletoe Murders Episodes 3 and 4 are packed with just enough twists, small-town secrets, and shady suspects to keep our mystery-loving brains buzzing. We’re diving deep into Emily Lane’s mysterious past and watching closely as she teams up - sort of - with Detective Sam Wilner to solve Fletcher Grove’s latest holiday homicide. No scantrons required - just your sharpest sleuthing skills!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Summer school continues here on Girls Gone Hallmark with our
review of Mistletoe Murders Episodes three and four.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
The Peril of the Bells.
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Speaker 1 (01:38):
To start off.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
If you want to check it out and see what's
going on over there, Hey have a question for you.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Remember last week when we reviewed Mistletoe Murders and I
was like, I want to make an edit.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh yeah, so I made one. I didn't technically make it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I paid my teenage daughter's friend to make it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It knows how to do.
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They're a way around how to make an edit. And
I gotta say it came out really well. I'm so
excited because if you want to see it, it is
on our Instagram in the reels. It currently has twenty
point two thousand views. That's wild, isn't it? And the
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Sarah Drew also shared it, which made me super excited.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah she did. She knows she's a baddie. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I just that was like, the edit came out perfect.
It is exactly how it was feeling after watching episodes
one and two.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So she fully delivered on your vision. She did. Yeah,
it was great fun.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
But let's talk episodes three and four. Are you ready
for a synopsis? Hit me?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
After a string of suspicious accidents, Emily goes under hover
in the local choir to investigate. Sam, however, remains skeptical.
Violet takes on more responsibility at the shop when the
choir attacks escalate, Emily and Sam grow closer as they
work together to find the culprit. Emily helps a Violet
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out of a precarious situation by tapping into her dark past. Hmmm. Interesting.
We have some new news and notes for this episode.
We're not going to run back everything from the previous episode,
but we do have a new director for episodes three
and four. Sherry White directed these episodes. Sherry is a writer,
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a director, and a producer, having written and produced other
crime shows like Murder in a Small Town and Law
and Order Toronto Criminal Intent. Michelle Ritchie wrote episodes three
and four. She's written for quite a few mystery series,
both on Hallmark and elsewhere, with projects like Curious Caterer,
Frankie Drake Mysteries, murderch Mysteries, and Private Eyes. Heyo incarnated
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Brandon Walsh yep joining the cast for episodes three and four.
We have Raven Dauda as Debbie Brannigan. Raven also voiced
a character in three episodes of the Mistletoe Murders podcast series,
among her one hundred and eight acting credits. Her credits
also include shows like Five Days of Memorial, Spellbound, and
Hudson and Rex. David Delancey Wilson plays. His name is
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David Delancey Wilson and he plays Lance Indeed. Wow. David
was in twenty twenty threes, Catch Me If You Clause,
as well as Headson and Rex and Murdoch Mysteries. Additional
cast members in these episodes include Arlene duncan Zvia and
Jamie Spilchuk as Adam Jamison. We're going to take a
very quick way and come right back with our first
impressions of Peril.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Of the Bells.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Before we get into our first impressions, a reminder to
the listeners that we made the decision to combine our reviews,
so we did episodes one and two together, episodes three
and four, and then we will be doing episodes five
and six because that's how the stories are told. Yeah,
I feel like the listeners failed us. They should have
told us that before, right.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It remade our schedule. Yeah, no, it's fool. It's cool.
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I like that we're doing it this way. It makes
it makes it easier on our end. I agree, and
I like the show that the show is developed this way.
I think it makes a ton of sense. What is
your first impression of Peril of the Bells? My first
impression is, I don't know what's more dangerous, the dark
web or the choir room. My verse impression is is
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this choir cursed or just caddy?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Ah? My goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Real Housewives of Fletcher growth growth is that what it's
called their town, Fletcher's growth.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Is Indeed, these women don't have enough things to do
in their lives. It's pretty funny. Let's talk what we liked.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
For me, the number one thing that I loved about
these two episodes was Sarah Drew's monologue at the end
of episode two, when she reveals to Sam about her
parents' death. It hits all the right emotional beats when
she says Christmas was the last happy time in my life.
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It was just a gut punch in the best way possible.
And it's starting to tie together some of Emily's backstory,
which gives into understanding why.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
She is who she is.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It was the perfectly placed emotional payoff at the end
of this two parts two parts episodes. I have an interesting,
potentially interesting take on that scene. I loved it too.
I thought it was incredibly well done by Sarah Drew.
I thought emotionally it hit. But the skeptic in me wondered,
is she telling the truth? Mmmmm, we don't actually know
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her backstory. We did see glimpses of her looking at
the family photos. We know something is going on there.
She did mention those being happy memories when she pulled
them out of that briefcase, right, But I almost wondered,
either is she telling the truth or is she selectively
telling the truth here? That's a really interesting thought and
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at one I had not considered, because why would she
give so much of herself up if she's so private
worried worried about exposing herself? Yeah, because we don't know
her past, and Sam is a uniquely positioned to access
that information should he choose to do so. And so
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I almost wondered, if you know she was so closed
off and he's like, something's going on here, but clearly
you're not interested, and I almost I really want to
just take it at face value, but I was like,
she freaked out. She realized is she's gonna have to
give him something or he's going to be like googling
her in his oh police machine interesting, and then he's
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gonna be like, this person does not actually exist prior
to twenty twenty four. So maybe if she gives him
this information, he feels like he doesn't need to do
that question for you. You didn't listen to the podcast. I
did not, okay, because I was like, do you know, No,
I don't know, I know something.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I don't know. I don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I was actually considering once this is over listening to
the podcast, but because it's got a great cast, Colby.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Smolders is in it.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I can't think of a single other name who's in
it off the top of my head. But I remember
thinking it had a good cast, so I may listen.
But no, I don't know anything. That was just the
impression I got. I was like, this is so lovely,
but wait, but wait, yeah, I my little like hair
stood up on my neck when she cut her hand
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on the trunk. I was like, oh, no, her DNA
has been on there now, and what if that comes
back into play somehow of like whose DNA is it is? This?
Of course, then we see a play out that Vera
also cut her hand, and I was like, okay, well
maybe that's what they're doing there, but I was like,
what if that is the tell of who Emily actually is?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Look at you? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Watching too mini mysteries this summer A like that I
had on a much lighter note. Last episode, I got
my wish. I was asking for more Brooke and I
predicted that she was going to be involved in an
upcoming crime.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And I was correct.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
There she delivered in exactly the way I wanted her too.
This is exactly the person I wanted Brooke to be
in this series. She has lines like two glasses of rose,
the screw it's off, or.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
What the hell, let's go Cork.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I also love when she finally gets that solow moment
when Vera is taken away. She she like celebrates a
little bit. She's like, that isn't how I want it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
To get it.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I love it, Like she's just she's great. I thought
she was really fun. I was glad we got more
of her. I was suspicious of Brooke at first, and
at the top of the third episode, I was like,
is she are a bad guy? Is she our a culprit?
But then I was like, no, she wouldn't be standing
underneath this potential, you know, display that's going to fall
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on them, Like if she knew what was going to fall,
she wouldn't be standing there, So she can't be our culprit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm glad that she's not a bad guy, and I
hope she doesn't end up being a bad guy. I
just like her being this kind of vapid townsperson exactly
with some comic relief. Yeah, I'm into Brook.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I like Brook.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Something else I really liked I want to talk about
We talked about it a little bit, but Sam and
Emily's chemistry is finally, you know, we watched these shows,
we know that there's going to be a love interest.
When we watched Mistery one on one, it took them
forever to get there, right, We were like, when is
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it gonna happen? When's it gonna happen with.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sam and Emily?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Like I feel like they're in episodes one and two,
like they obviously have some chemistry I think we see
that a lot more in episodes three and four, So
it's not like will they won't they, It's but it's
building at a natural progression that I'm enjoying as a viewer.
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I like that their flirtatious way isn't forced by any.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Means it it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
As I'm watching it, I was like, Oh, these are
two people who are vibing, for a lack of better words,
like they're into each other totally. And when they have
like that almost kiss at the end and they're just
like face to face, their bodies are pressed up against
each other, I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Super into it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
The episode three oh, early on they have this real cute,
like flirty banter. They're talking about hockey and the bells
and they're just like they're leaning into each other and
their vibe is so fun, and then we end on
that sweet or more romantic vibe. I love the progression. Like,
and they only have six episodes, so I am assuming
we're not going to get everything all tied up in
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a neat little Sam and Emily bow at the end
of episodes five and six, But I do like that
they're giving us enough to get into. Yeah, when they
have that conversation when he makes that joke about spiding
her parents, like he's like, they must have loved Halloween
and this is why you leaned into Christmas or whatever.
I thought was so funny. Yeah, such a great line.
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Great writing there, very good, very very good. So some
parts of this episode are like real campy and silly, like.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh my god, yes, the sleigh, Like when.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
The sleigh straight up like crushes Debby and she just
watches it happening. I actually thought it was fun.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I didn't. I wasn't bothered by it. But they also
the closing.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Scene with the message to Emily with her cryptic chimerasarch happening.
I don't fully know what's going on there, but they
nailed the creepy and I like the balance there, like
we're still hallmarkified, but.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I'm buying it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That's so funny you said the word hallmarkified because it
isn't my wishes. Uh oh, I'm going to talk about
it there all right.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I absolutely agree with you. Was that alike though?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
For you, like you are okay with the hallmarkified of
the more sinister storylines.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I like the balance because.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You know, I don't like scary. Yeah, So for me,
it's like just scary enough to be interesting. I have
some thoughts on the actual crime happening here in my wishes,
don't you worry, But the sleigh falling from the roof
was funny enough for me to be into it. Okay, No,
(14:18):
I agree with you. I mean, just it just so
happens to get Debbie in the perfect it doesn't actually
hurt her.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yes, how is that possible? How? Yes? Anymore?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Likes just one small one. I enjoy watching Emily go
like full spy mode. I like watching It's exciting for
me to see like this double life kind of unfold
that and we're just getting like pieces of it. I
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said it in last episode two, Like, I think that's
the most thrilling part of the series, learning who Emily is. Yeah,
I don't think we got as much of it in
episodes three and four as we did in one and two,
but it's it's enough to keep me interested going forward.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, I agree. One thing I think this show is
doing well. We have dual.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Storylines happening here. Even more than that, Like we have
whatever the mystery of the double episode happens to be,
but we also have their everyday lives running in the background,
and so that's Sam and Emily and the mystery of
Emily's past, And we also have what I think is
really nice Violet and Emily's relationship. Violet has a mom,
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she's just not on screen, and Emily is kind of
serving that maternal figure, particularly when she says to her,
you're allowed to make mistakes when she's lost the key,
and she she turns it into a you know, just
let me know, let me know next time, but don't
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promises you can keep like I'll never let it have
it again.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
You are a human.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I really enjoy their seeing where their relationship is going. Yeah,
don't you go I wish I could have a mom
response like that, yes, where you'd be like freaking out instead. Yeah.
But I also think that Emily is positioned to be
able to have a response like that because she's not
Violet's mother, of course, so right, like, don't you think
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you could give grace to someone who's more grace This
is terrible to say out loud, more grace to someone
who's not your child than someone who is. Sometimes yes,
because there's less at stake, Right, So I think Emily's
in a position to be able to do that better
than Violet's.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Mother would be. I agree, I agree, let's talk wishes. Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
For me, speaking of Violet and the lost key, this
is a subplot that didn't really go anywhere for me.
I'm gonna talk in a minute about Emily approaching that
teenager or hiding in his car in a minute. I'm
going to get there in a minute. But what is
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the point here? This is like a thread that has
no payoff other than to show us that Emily has
a dark past. But I thought it would lead to
something more. Yeah, that's a really good point. It doesn't
serve any other purpose other than to maybe move Emily
in Violet's relationship forward.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I think I think they.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I think Emily asks too much of Violet, like she
leaves her alone in that store a lot. I wasn't
wondering that too. And they even said at one point,
Byley goes, what happened to a couple errands? You've been
gone for three hours? Yeah, you have a teenager running
this store like all by yourself. Seems a lot to ask.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It does seem now.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
When I was in high school, I did work in
a clothing store and I did close that store by
myself shut down the register clean.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Blows my mind that I was tasked with such a job.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
But even watching it, I think girl needs a break,
Like what if she need to go to the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
What is she I think we're putting too much on her.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Nobody's actually going like she needs her fifteen minutes break here.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I mean, what was she supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
She's got a page's like hold it until Emily comes back.
She can't leave the store unsupervised. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My
next wish is and I feel like you might have
some hot takes on this. It's back to the hallmarkifying
of things. So when Emily is hiding in this kid's car,
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which is actually a terrifying like thought to be like
if somebody is hiding in the back of your car,
like so I kind of liked that, but it was
way too campy with her doing this like menacing voice
to this kid to scare him. I was like, what
is happening here? This has gone too far? Like I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I couldn't. It wasn't believable to me. I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
It was equal parts silly and over the top and
also way more than was warranted, like Okay, the kid
broken at the store, I get it, but this vigilante justice,
like I'm gonna scare him straight, thing I thought was
maybe a little bit over the line, like he is
still a child and granted a child who had committed
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a crime.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I get it, But I was like, well, maybe pump
the brakes a little bit here, Emily. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I I literally like laughed out loud and said what
is happening when I was watching.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It, Hey, you may have never don anything with that
again or all.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
No. Yeah, it was too too cartoonish for me when
in the previous episodes in one and two, I thought
Emily came off as this like real batty vigilante who
you don't want to mess with, And this just felt like,
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h this felt like somebody's mom trying to scare some kid.
You know. I think the voice is what ruined that
scene for me, because the hiding in the backseat scary,
the way we don't see her coming scary, the fact
that she like gets them around the neck scary. It's
just the voice that like pushes it into the hoky side. Yes, yes, yes,
yes do you think she was like, oh man, how
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am I gonna pull this off, like when she's doing
this scene.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, I wish they had there was a way to
give her one of those like voice changers. Yeah, why
didn't they do that?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, I don't know how you do that live like
you they're still gonna hear your voice.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, true, true, true, true true. Tell me what you
wish for. I would like a.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Clear timeline on what's happening here. It does seem like
we're days away from Christmas, but also potentially weeks. Like
I know we're in the holiday season because in the
last episode they had Christmas karaoke, and they had the
the hot cocoa situation.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And now we've got the Christmas tree lighting. We have
all of this, but I.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Don't have any idea when we are, like maybe it
just seems like a lot of time passes in these episodes,
but also not much time passes.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I know. I was like, are we like six weeks
out from Christmas? What's happening?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But even then, it just seems like that whole last episode,
you know, June was in prison, they had to you know,
I the time was a little wonky for me.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
My big wish. However, Era had.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
No choice but to murder two people because the choir
group might lose. Yeah, we haven't even talked about the
whole choir situation.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Thank you for bringing it up. Yeah, that was kind
of a weird motivation.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
It's similar to Mistery one oh one, where the guy
kills because he doesn't want his girl to be hired
for the job, yes, job or whatever. It's like, attle
it believable. You're so invested in your choir that you
had to kill someone who might go to another choir
and make them better. The believability has been stretched to
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its very limits here.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, I agree. I mean it is if you.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Roll it back to like, is this the ultimate Hallmark crime?
My holiday choir might lose, so therefore I have to
murder the person who's going to be responsible for that. Okay,
but I think I think we're pushing it here. Do
you have any more wishes? No?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
That's it all right, let's talk. Did you see that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I don't have like any true did you see that?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I have.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Two thoughts on things and then one actually like did
you see that? But it's not like a continuity issue,
So are you ready for it? I am Emily wears
the brand Mother Jeans, and those jeans are two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Okay, I'm like, nice catch. How did you saw the label?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It has an M on the pocket and I just
those have been on my radar for some time and
I just can't link two hundred dollars for a pair
of jeans is.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Bonkers to me. But I'm like, Wardrobe must have had
some money here.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I mean, maybe she's wearing them, and like I noticed
them in episodes one and two as well, but she
could obviously they might be repurposing them in for the show,
Like maybe they just have one pair of premium denim.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Jeans for our actress to wear.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But yeah, anyway, I noticed that, all right. The other thing,
here's a question. So Emily has this store, right, and
in the montages we see a lot of her selling
things like snow globes and ornaments and stuff like that,
And I was like, who is going to a specialty
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Christmas shop to buy Christmas decor type items? Like I
kind of thought this might be a regular like retail space.
And then they wrap the gifts for Christmas giving.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Do you know where I'm getting to?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, So I'm gonna push back on that because we
live in Orange county land of the chain store. We
do not have cute, little small town Christmas shops just
in our cruising radius. Yeah, so we wouldn't shop there
because they don't exist. But there are places like at
by my mother in law's house or as a place
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that's like it's not just Christmas. They sell whatever the
holiday happens to be, but it's like a full store
of like ornaments and decors and that's all they sell,
and it's a little more unique than your big box store.
So I think people in a small town where there's
not a Target and a home Goods and whatever wherever
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else people are shopping for these things on every corner
probably would shop in a place like this. I don't
think it's sustainable twelve months of the year. When she
says too, Violet's friend, I'll let you know if we're
hiring during this summer busy season. Yeah, I was like,
what what busy season?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's weird.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I don't know that it's sustainable year round, but I
do think people are like looking for like unique holiday finds.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, it might just be a me thing.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I just wouldn't go to a specialty store and buy
a snow globe for somebody. First of all, I would
never gift anybody a snow globe either, which is a
me thing, and then ask them to wrap it. I
don't know, it just seems weird. I like, I'll go
to a Christmas shop and like poke around and like
because I like browsing at things.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I don't know why I'm so hung up on it.
If I'm gonna buy somebody a gift, it's not going
to be holiday decor though.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
No.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Well, I think a lot of people gift ornaments during
the holidays. Yeah, a lot of people like hostess gifts or.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, my last did you see?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
That? Is our character Debbie. She leans and real hard
to her singing right now And you probably haven't seen it,
but there is a TikTok of these girls and they
are on stage and they're clearly like sisters. And there's
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two younger ones who are getting ready to sing and
they're going to sing a Cranberry song and the older
one is like just being so extra and it completely
reminded me of Debbie. I'm going to share it with you.
I may share it in our Facebook group too, just
to be like this gives the off Debbie vibes because
Debbie was interesting to watch.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yes, it just it just made me laugh, that's all.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, I think I totally agree like her choices, which
is how my theater daughter would say. The choices that
she made were very interesting, and I think, you know,
I think the whole point is to highlight like her
role as a soloist wasn't earned, it was uh huh
stolen because of her financial support. And she's obviously not
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the most talented person there. So I mean, even Sarah
Drew's singing was better than Debbie's.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Kind of surprised by Sarah.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Drewcey, Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, I don't have, like
you said, true digitsu.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's I just.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Wanted to point out that, you know, Emily tries to
connect with Adam to get more information about him, and
she's like, hey, I have some junk I need hauled
the way, and when he kind of calls her bluff,
he's like, oh, I'll be in the area, I'll come
pick it up.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
She gives him a box. A box.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, yeah, you couldn't have taken that out to the
trash yourself. You needed a junk caller to take that away. Yeah,
I need a junk collar. Got me too, get all
the junk at my house? Yeah, Like I mean, speaking
of tiktoks, you see those videos that are like, this
is a gen x or's dream and it's a dumpster
pulling up to the curve. It's empty, one hundred percent
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my dream. I love doing that at least once a year.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Time to urge.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, what did you rate this episode of missletone Murders?
I gave this episode four and a half stars. Last
episode this week four point seventy five. Okay, this one
ticks down just a little bit because they got a
little hokey. Yeah, so I gave last episode five stars.
I'm giving this one four point to two five stars.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Oh it really fell for you. Now, let's be clear.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I don't find four point two five stars to be
a bad rating, and nobody else should either. We just
this is a classic middle of the trilogy episode, moving
things along, but it's not there's no fireworks. Yeah, that's
why I want to listen to the podcast because I'm like,
is there any difference here?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
What does the story? Did home?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Did Hallmark get their hands on making it a little
more mystery? Yeah, with the exception of when she opens
the trunk and Adam is dead in the trunk.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I was like, oh, which is like, I'm at Adam's
house and so is he. You were like what nice? Nice? Yep, hey,
thanks for listening to this.
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Summer school continues here on Girls Gone Hallmark with our
review of Mistletoe Murders Episodes three and four.
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The Peril of the Bells.
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Speaker 1 (01:38):
To start off.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
If you want to check it out and see what's
going on over there, Hey have a question for you.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Remember last week when we reviewed Mistletoe Murders and I
was like, I want to make an edit.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh yeah, so I made one. I didn't technically make it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I paid my teenage daughter's friend to make it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It knows how to do.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
They're a way around how to make an edit. And
I gotta say it came out really well. I'm so
excited because if you want to see it, it is
on our Instagram in the reels. It currently has twenty
point two thousand views. That's wild, isn't it? And the
(02:23):
Sarah Drew also shared it, which made me super excited.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah she did. She knows she's a baddie. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I just that was like, the edit came out perfect.
It is exactly how it was feeling after watching episodes
one and two.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
So she fully delivered on your vision. She did. Yeah,
it was great fun.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
But let's talk episodes three and four. Are you ready
for a synopsis? Hit me?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
After a string of suspicious accidents, Emily goes under hover
in the local choir to investigate. Sam, however, remains skeptical.
Violet takes on more responsibility at the shop when the
choir attacks escalate, Emily and Sam grow closer as they
work together to find the culprit. Emily helps a Violet
(03:16):
out of a precarious situation by tapping into her dark past. Hmmm. Interesting.
We have some new news and notes for this episode.
We're not going to run back everything from the previous episode,
but we do have a new director for episodes three
and four. Sherry White directed these episodes. Sherry is a writer,
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a director, and a producer, having written and produced other
crime shows like Murder in a Small Town and Law
and Order Toronto Criminal Intent. Michelle Ritchie wrote episodes three
and four. She's written for quite a few mystery series,
both on Hallmark and elsewhere, with projects like Curious Caterer,
Frankie Drake Mysteries, murderch Mysteries, and Private Eyes. Heyo incarnated
(04:00):
Brandon Walsh yep joining the cast for episodes three and four.
We have Raven Dauda as Debbie Brannigan. Raven also voiced
a character in three episodes of the Mistletoe Murders podcast series,
among her one hundred and eight acting credits. Her credits
also include shows like Five Days of Memorial, Spellbound, and
Hudson and Rex. David Delancey Wilson plays. His name is
(04:23):
David Delancey Wilson and he plays Lance Indeed. Wow. David
was in twenty twenty threes, Catch Me If You Clause,
as well as Headson and Rex and Murdoch Mysteries. Additional
cast members in these episodes include Arlene duncan Zvia and
Jamie Spilchuk as Adam Jamison. We're going to take a
very quick way and come right back with our first
impressions of Peril.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Of the Bells.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Before we get into our first impressions, a reminder to
the listeners that we made the decision to combine our reviews,
so we did episodes one and two together, episodes three
and four, and then we will be doing episodes five
and six because that's how the stories are told. Yeah,
I feel like the listeners failed us. They should have
told us that before, right.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It remade our schedule. Yeah, no, it's fool. It's cool.
It's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I like that we're doing it this way. It makes
it makes it easier on our end. I agree, and
I like the show that the show is developed this way.
I think it makes a ton of sense. What is
your first impression of Peril of the Bells? My first
impression is, I don't know what's more dangerous, the dark
web or the choir room. My verse impression is is
(05:38):
this choir cursed or just caddy?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Ah? My goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Real Housewives of Fletcher growth growth is that what it's
called their town, Fletcher's growth.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Is Indeed, these women don't have enough things to do
in their lives. It's pretty funny. Let's talk what we liked.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
For me, the number one thing that I loved about
these two episodes was Sarah Drew's monologue at the end
of episode two, when she reveals to Sam about her
parents' death. It hits all the right emotional beats when
she says Christmas was the last happy time in my life.
(06:23):
It was just a gut punch in the best way possible.
And it's starting to tie together some of Emily's backstory,
which gives into understanding why.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
She is who she is.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It was the perfectly placed emotional payoff at the end
of this two parts two parts episodes. I have an interesting,
potentially interesting take on that scene. I loved it too.
I thought it was incredibly well done by Sarah Drew.
I thought emotionally it hit. But the skeptic in me wondered,
is she telling the truth? Mmmmm, we don't actually know
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her backstory. We did see glimpses of her looking at
the family photos. We know something is going on there.
She did mention those being happy memories when she pulled
them out of that briefcase, right, But I almost wondered,
either is she telling the truth or is she selectively
telling the truth here? That's a really interesting thought and
(07:21):
at one I had not considered, because why would she
give so much of herself up if she's so private
worried worried about exposing herself? Yeah, because we don't know
her past, and Sam is a uniquely positioned to access
that information should he choose to do so. And so
(07:44):
I almost wondered, if you know she was so closed
off and he's like, something's going on here, but clearly
you're not interested, and I almost I really want to
just take it at face value, but I was like,
she freaked out. She realized is she's gonna have to
give him something or he's going to be like googling
her in his oh police machine interesting, and then he's
(08:08):
gonna be like, this person does not actually exist prior
to twenty twenty four. So maybe if she gives him
this information, he feels like he doesn't need to do
that question for you. You didn't listen to the podcast. I
did not, okay, because I was like, do you know, No,
I don't know, I know something.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I don't know. I don't know anything.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I was actually considering once this is over listening to
the podcast, but because it's got a great cast, Colby.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Smolders is in it.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I can't think of a single other name who's in
it off the top of my head. But I remember
thinking it had a good cast, so I may listen.
But no, I don't know anything. That was just the
impression I got. I was like, this is so lovely,
but wait, but wait, yeah, I my little like hair
stood up on my neck when she cut her hand
(08:58):
on the trunk. I was like, oh, no, her DNA
has been on there now, and what if that comes
back into play somehow of like whose DNA is it is? This?
Of course, then we see a play out that Vera
also cut her hand, and I was like, okay, well
maybe that's what they're doing there, but I was like,
what if that is the tell of who Emily actually is?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Look at you? Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Watching too mini mysteries this summer A like that I
had on a much lighter note. Last episode, I got
my wish. I was asking for more Brooke and I
predicted that she was going to be involved in an
upcoming crime.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And I was correct.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
There she delivered in exactly the way I wanted her too.
This is exactly the person I wanted Brooke to be
in this series. She has lines like two glasses of rose,
the screw it's off, or.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
What the hell, let's go Cork.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I also love when she finally gets that solow moment
when Vera is taken away. She she like celebrates a
little bit. She's like, that isn't how I want it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
To get it.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I love it, Like she's just she's great. I thought
she was really fun. I was glad we got more
of her. I was suspicious of Brooke at first, and
at the top of the third episode, I was like,
is she are a bad guy? Is she our a culprit?
But then I was like, no, she wouldn't be standing
underneath this potential, you know, display that's going to fall
(10:31):
on them, Like if she knew what was going to fall,
she wouldn't be standing there, So she can't be our culprit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm glad that she's not a bad guy, and I
hope she doesn't end up being a bad guy. I
just like her being this kind of vapid townsperson exactly
with some comic relief. Yeah, I'm into Brook.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I like Brook.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Something else I really liked I want to talk about
We talked about it a little bit, but Sam and
Emily's chemistry is finally, you know, we watched these shows,
we know that there's going to be a love interest.
When we watched Mistery one on one, it took them
forever to get there, right, We were like, when is
(11:15):
it gonna happen? When's it gonna happen with.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Sam and Emily?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Like I feel like they're in episodes one and two,
like they obviously have some chemistry I think we see
that a lot more in episodes three and four, So
it's not like will they won't they, It's but it's
building at a natural progression that I'm enjoying as a viewer.
(11:41):
I like that their flirtatious way isn't forced by any.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Means it it.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
As I'm watching it, I was like, Oh, these are
two people who are vibing, for a lack of better words,
like they're into each other totally. And when they have
like that almost kiss at the end and they're just
like face to face, their bodies are pressed up against
each other, I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Super into it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
The episode three oh, early on they have this real cute,
like flirty banter. They're talking about hockey and the bells
and they're just like they're leaning into each other and
their vibe is so fun, and then we end on
that sweet or more romantic vibe. I love the progression. Like,
and they only have six episodes, so I am assuming
we're not going to get everything all tied up in
(12:30):
a neat little Sam and Emily bow at the end
of episodes five and six, But I do like that
they're giving us enough to get into. Yeah, when they
have that conversation when he makes that joke about spiding
her parents, like he's like, they must have loved Halloween
and this is why you leaned into Christmas or whatever.
I thought was so funny. Yeah, such a great line.
(12:52):
Great writing there, very good, very very good. So some
parts of this episode are like real campy and silly, like.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Oh my god, yes, the sleigh, Like when.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
The sleigh straight up like crushes Debby and she just
watches it happening. I actually thought it was fun.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I didn't. I wasn't bothered by it. But they also
the closing.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Scene with the message to Emily with her cryptic chimerasarch happening.
I don't fully know what's going on there, but they
nailed the creepy and I like the balance there, like
we're still hallmarkified, but.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I'm buying it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That's so funny you said the word hallmarkified because it
isn't my wishes. Uh oh, I'm going to talk about
it there all right.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I absolutely agree with you. Was that alike though?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
For you, like you are okay with the hallmarkified of
the more sinister storylines.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I like the balance because.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You know, I don't like scary. Yeah, So for me,
it's like just scary enough to be interesting. I have
some thoughts on the actual crime happening here in my wishes,
don't you worry, But the sleigh falling from the roof
was funny enough for me to be into it. Okay, No,
(14:18):
I agree with you. I mean, just it just so
happens to get Debbie in the perfect it doesn't actually
hurt her.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yes, how is that possible? How? Yes? Anymore?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Likes just one small one. I enjoy watching Emily go
like full spy mode. I like watching It's exciting for
me to see like this double life kind of unfold
that and we're just getting like pieces of it. I
(14:54):
said it in last episode two, Like, I think that's
the most thrilling part of the series, learning who Emily is. Yeah,
I don't think we got as much of it in
episodes three and four as we did in one and two,
but it's it's enough to keep me interested going forward.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, I agree. One thing I think this show is
doing well. We have dual.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Storylines happening here. Even more than that, Like we have
whatever the mystery of the double episode happens to be,
but we also have their everyday lives running in the background,
and so that's Sam and Emily and the mystery of
Emily's past, And we also have what I think is
really nice Violet and Emily's relationship. Violet has a mom,
(15:40):
she's just not on screen, and Emily is kind of
serving that maternal figure, particularly when she says to her,
you're allowed to make mistakes when she's lost the key,
and she she turns it into a you know, just
let me know, let me know next time, but don't
(16:00):
promises you can keep like I'll never let it have
it again.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
You are a human.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I really enjoy their seeing where their relationship is going. Yeah,
don't you go I wish I could have a mom
response like that, yes, where you'd be like freaking out instead. Yeah.
But I also think that Emily is positioned to be
able to have a response like that because she's not
Violet's mother, of course, so right, like, don't you think
(16:26):
you could give grace to someone who's more grace This
is terrible to say out loud, more grace to someone
who's not your child than someone who is. Sometimes yes,
because there's less at stake, Right, So I think Emily's
in a position to be able to do that better
than Violet's.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Mother would be. I agree, I agree, let's talk wishes. Okay?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
For me, speaking of Violet and the lost key, this
is a subplot that didn't really go anywhere for me.
I'm gonna talk in a minute about Emily approaching that
teenager or hiding in his car in a minute. I'm
going to get there in a minute. But what is
(17:08):
the point here? This is like a thread that has
no payoff other than to show us that Emily has
a dark past. But I thought it would lead to
something more. Yeah, that's a really good point. It doesn't
serve any other purpose other than to maybe move Emily
in Violet's relationship forward.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I think I think they.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I think Emily asks too much of Violet, like she
leaves her alone in that store a lot. I wasn't
wondering that too. And they even said at one point,
Byley goes, what happened to a couple errands? You've been
gone for three hours? Yeah, you have a teenager running
this store like all by yourself. Seems a lot to ask.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
It does seem now.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
When I was in high school, I did work in
a clothing store and I did close that store by
myself shut down the register clean.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Blows my mind that I was tasked with such a job.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
But even watching it, I think girl needs a break,
Like what if she need to go to the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
What is she I think we're putting too much on her.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Nobody's actually going like she needs her fifteen minutes break here.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I mean, what was she supposed to do?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
She's got a page's like hold it until Emily comes back.
She can't leave the store unsupervised. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My
next wish is and I feel like you might have
some hot takes on this. It's back to the hallmarkifying
of things. So when Emily is hiding in this kid's car,
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which is actually a terrifying like thought to be like
if somebody is hiding in the back of your car,
like so I kind of liked that, but it was
way too campy with her doing this like menacing voice
to this kid to scare him. I was like, what
is happening here? This has gone too far? Like I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I couldn't. It wasn't believable to me. I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
It was equal parts silly and over the top and
also way more than was warranted, like Okay, the kid
broken at the store, I get it, but this vigilante justice,
like I'm gonna scare him straight, thing I thought was
maybe a little bit over the line, like he is
still a child and granted a child who had committed
(19:30):
a crime.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
I get it, But I was like, well, maybe pump
the brakes a little bit here, Emily. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I I literally like laughed out loud and said what
is happening when I was watching.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
It, Hey, you may have never don anything with that
again or all.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
No. Yeah, it was too too cartoonish for me when
in the previous episodes in one and two, I thought
Emily came off as this like real batty vigilante who
you don't want to mess with, And this just felt like,
(20:09):
h this felt like somebody's mom trying to scare some kid.
You know. I think the voice is what ruined that
scene for me, because the hiding in the backseat scary,
the way we don't see her coming scary, the fact
that she like gets them around the neck scary. It's
just the voice that like pushes it into the hoky side. Yes, yes, yes,
yes do you think she was like, oh man, how
(20:30):
am I gonna pull this off, like when she's doing
this scene.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, I wish they had there was a way to
give her one of those like voice changers. Yeah, why
didn't they do that?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, I don't know how you do that live like
you they're still gonna hear your voice.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, true, true, true, true true. Tell me what you
wish for. I would like a.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Clear timeline on what's happening here. It does seem like
we're days away from Christmas, but also potentially weeks. Like
I know we're in the holiday season because in the
last episode they had Christmas karaoke, and they had the
the hot cocoa situation.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And now we've got the Christmas tree lighting. We have
all of this, but I.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Don't have any idea when we are, like maybe it
just seems like a lot of time passes in these episodes,
but also not much time passes.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
I know. I was like, are we like six weeks
out from Christmas? What's happening?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
But even then, it just seems like that whole last episode,
you know, June was in prison, they had to you know,
I the time was a little wonky for me.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
My big wish. However, Era had.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
No choice but to murder two people because the choir
group might lose. Yeah, we haven't even talked about the
whole choir situation.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Thank you for bringing it up. Yeah, that was kind
of a weird motivation.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
It's similar to Mistery one oh one, where the guy
kills because he doesn't want his girl to be hired
for the job, yes, job or whatever. It's like, attle
it believable. You're so invested in your choir that you
had to kill someone who might go to another choir
and make them better. The believability has been stretched to
(22:10):
its very limits here.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, I agree. I mean it is if you.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Roll it back to like, is this the ultimate Hallmark crime?
My holiday choir might lose, so therefore I have to
murder the person who's going to be responsible for that. Okay,
but I think I think we're pushing it here. Do
you have any more wishes? No?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
That's it all right, let's talk. Did you see that? Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I don't have like any true did you see that?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I have.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Two thoughts on things and then one actually like did
you see that? But it's not like a continuity issue,
So are you ready for it? I am Emily wears
the brand Mother Jeans, and those jeans are two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Okay, I'm like, nice catch. How did you saw the label?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
It has an M on the pocket and I just
those have been on my radar for some time and
I just can't link two hundred dollars for a pair
of jeans is.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Bonkers to me. But I'm like, Wardrobe must have had
some money here.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I mean, maybe she's wearing them, and like I noticed
them in episodes one and two as well, but she
could obviously they might be repurposing them in for the show,
Like maybe they just have one pair of premium denim.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Jeans for our actress to wear.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But yeah, anyway, I noticed that, all right. The other thing,
here's a question. So Emily has this store, right, and
in the montages we see a lot of her selling
things like snow globes and ornaments and stuff like that,
And I was like, who is going to a specialty
(23:49):
Christmas shop to buy Christmas decor type items? Like I
kind of thought this might be a regular like retail space.
And then they wrap the gifts for Christmas giving.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Do you know where I'm getting to?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Yeah, So I'm gonna push back on that because we
live in Orange county land of the chain store. We
do not have cute, little small town Christmas shops just
in our cruising radius. Yeah, so we wouldn't shop there
because they don't exist. But there are places like at
by my mother in law's house or as a place
(24:28):
that's like it's not just Christmas. They sell whatever the
holiday happens to be, but it's like a full store
of like ornaments and decors and that's all they sell,
and it's a little more unique than your big box store.
So I think people in a small town where there's
not a Target and a home Goods and whatever wherever
(24:50):
else people are shopping for these things on every corner
probably would shop in a place like this. I don't
think it's sustainable twelve months of the year. When she
says too, Violet's friend, I'll let you know if we're
hiring during this summer busy season. Yeah, I was like,
what what busy season?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's weird.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I don't know that it's sustainable year round, but I
do think people are like looking for like unique holiday finds.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, it might just be a me thing.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I just wouldn't go to a specialty store and buy
a snow globe for somebody. First of all, I would
never gift anybody a snow globe either, which is a
me thing, and then ask them to wrap it. I
don't know, it just seems weird. I like, I'll go
to a Christmas shop and like poke around and like
because I like browsing at things.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I don't know why I'm so hung up on it.
If I'm gonna buy somebody a gift, it's not going
to be holiday decor though.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
No.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Well, I think a lot of people gift ornaments during
the holidays. Yeah, a lot of people like hostess gifts or.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, my last did you see?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
That? Is our character Debbie. She leans and real hard
to her singing right now And you probably haven't seen it,
but there is a TikTok of these girls and they
are on stage and they're clearly like sisters. And there's
(26:15):
two younger ones who are getting ready to sing and
they're going to sing a Cranberry song and the older
one is like just being so extra and it completely
reminded me of Debbie. I'm going to share it with you.
I may share it in our Facebook group too, just
to be like this gives the off Debbie vibes because
Debbie was interesting to watch.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yes, it just it just made me laugh, that's all.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, I think I totally agree like her choices, which
is how my theater daughter would say. The choices that
she made were very interesting, and I think, you know,
I think the whole point is to highlight like her
role as a soloist wasn't earned, it was uh huh
stolen because of her financial support. And she's obviously not
(27:03):
the most talented person there. So I mean, even Sarah
Drew's singing was better than Debbie's.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Kind of surprised by Sarah.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Drewcey, Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, I don't have, like
you said, true digitsu.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's I just.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Wanted to point out that, you know, Emily tries to
connect with Adam to get more information about him, and
she's like, hey, I have some junk I need hauled
the way, and when he kind of calls her bluff,
he's like, oh, I'll be in the area, I'll come
pick it up.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
She gives him a box. A box.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, yeah, you couldn't have taken that out to the
trash yourself. You needed a junk caller to take that away. Yeah,
I need a junk collar. Got me too, get all
the junk at my house? Yeah, Like I mean, speaking
of tiktoks, you see those videos that are like, this
is a gen x or's dream and it's a dumpster
pulling up to the curve. It's empty, one hundred percent
(27:58):
my dream. I love doing that at least once a year.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Time to urge.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, what did you rate this episode of missletone Murders?
I gave this episode four and a half stars. Last
episode this week four point seventy five. Okay, this one
ticks down just a little bit because they got a
little hokey. Yeah, so I gave last episode five stars.
I'm giving this one four point to two five stars.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Oh it really fell for you. Now, let's be clear.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I don't find four point two five stars to be
a bad rating, and nobody else should either. We just
this is a classic middle of the trilogy episode, moving
things along, but it's not there's no fireworks. Yeah, that's
why I want to listen to the podcast because I'm like,
is there any difference here?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
What does the story? Did home?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Did Hallmark get their hands on making it a little
more mystery? Yeah, with the exception of when she opens
the trunk and Adam is dead in the trunk.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I was like, oh, which is like, I'm at Adam's
house and so is he. You were like what nice? Nice? Yep, hey,
thanks for listening to this.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Episode of Girls Gone Hallmark. If you enjoy this podcast,
we would absolutely love your five star ratings and reviews.
You can rate us on Spotify, but you can write
a written review an Apple Podcasts and we would love
to see it. You just might hear your review read
on a future episode. We'll be back next time. Goodbye bye.
(29:48):
All right friends, before we go, just a quick heads up,
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