November 3, 2025 • 31 mins
We’ve made it to the end of Mistletoe Murders Season 1, and these last two episodes lull us into thinking Emily’s finally safe in Fletcher’s Grove - until BAM! A twisty cliffhanger leaves us with more questions than answers. Oh, and Tom Cavanagh joins the cast… for about five minutes. Click play on our review of Mistletoe Murders Episodes 5 and 6.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey friends, Happy countdown to Christmas season. We originally recorded
these reviews of the Mistletoe Murders season one episodes over
the summer, and we are re airing them in honor
of their debut on the Hallmark Channel as part of
the Countdown to Christmas lineup. We will of course be
reviewing the new episodes in season two when those drop
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as well. Enjoy the reviews.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
This is a bramble jam podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Welcome to Girls Go One Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast.
I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm Wendy.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm a former Homemark hater. It's finals week in our
summer school series. As we wrap up season one of
Missletoe Murders, we will be discussing episodes five and six
Death of a Humbug Parts one and two. While you're
listening to this episode, hop on over to Instagram give
us a follow where we are Girls Gone Hallmark. Hey,
(01:11):
we have a Facebook group we'd love for you to join.
It's Girls Gone Hallmark in Facebook groups. And let me
just say, there is so much coming out, or a
lot of things being discussed about with the holidays, I
can't even believe what I'm seeing holidays. It's at the
beginning of August. I know, I am not ready. Walked
(01:32):
into a store the other day and they had all
our Halloween out. I was like, nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
At the grocery store, I walked down like the one
of the aisles I had Halloween candyo.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
No no, no, no, no no. But if you're excited
for Countdown to Christmas twenty twenty five, they're talking over there,
so come join us. Yeah, and email us your thoughts
on anything Hallmark, this series, the new movies that are
currently dropping, Providence Falls, coming up, the Countdown to Christmas announcements,
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email as girls Gone Hallmark at gmail dot com. We're
prepping for an upcoming mail bag episode. We promise, we promise.
August is busy for us, so the entire summing is busy.
It's just a little bit of a wacky schedule. It's fine,
it's fine. We'll be like both feet in the sand.
Is that the same? That's not the same. I'm just
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saying that when the Countdown to Christmas comes, there's gonna
be no lack of episodes from us. That is correct.
Let's here a synopsis of Death of a humbug.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
What the hell was I talking about to feet in
the sand? I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, here's the synopsis for episodes five and six. A
murder leads Emily and Sam to a scavenger hunt orchestrated
by the victim. Emily continues to solve the scavenger hunt
and grapples with her past. Melanie Or directed episodes five
and six of Mistletoe Murders. Melanie has previously directed on
series like Sullivan's Crising, The Hardy Boys and Spencer Sisters.
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Shelley Scarrow wrote the duo episodes of Mistletoe Murders. Shelley's
other writing credits include Sullivan's Crossing, Wyona Irp, and De
Grassi The Next Generation. Tom Kavanaugh joins the cast as
game Master Glenn Shaw. Tom has several long series runs,
including eighty three episodes of ED and one hundred and
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forty six episodes of the Flash. For Hallmark, he starred
in Darrow and Darrow Movies Again. I'm gonna that's a
Hallmark project. It is, you know, we nothing they just
get I know, it's one of those it's like the
Rex and Hudson.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But I'm pretty sure they thought, Yeah, it is Kimberly
Williams Paisley.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I remember opening up this tab and it has the
Hallmark Movies and Mysteries logo on it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So yes, got it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, you know, we did get another email from a
listener of the show who's begging us to review that
that series. Yeah, I'm not opposed to it, it's just
unfortunately not happening this month. There was not even this
not even this year. No, probably honestly not even this year.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's true. Yeah, there was some discussions since.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We cut down our Missletoe Murders episodes from six to
three rightfully, so I don't think anybody argues with that
decision that we now had room for that, and I
suppose that's true. But Hayle, we do actually have a surprise.
We had initially said we weren't doing something, and we
are doing it. So just keep an eye on that
schedule for something fun coming to girls, go on Hamemark,
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What is it?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
The Chicken Sisters?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, I'm not doing it so great for me.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I have a question complete side topic here. When Hallmark
drops season two of Missletoe Murders, I'm guessing we're going
to review it in real time.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, probably.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I mean we haven't seen like a schedule yet, so
we don't. Fully we can't. I'm just talking.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Through it here.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I think it's probably best to do the two episode
if that's the way they continue the parts and parts two,
and we should do them combined. So maybe it will
be like an every other week drop for us.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Perhaps, I'm totally open to continuing during the two episode system.
I assume we're gonna see the Mistletoe Murders schedule and
we see the full count out a Christmas schedule.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, it's gonna be soon. It's gonna be soon too.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I think Jake Epstein plays Wayward nephew Noah. Jake has
been quite the presence on Hallmark, appearing in the three
Unwrapping Christmas movies and four Hearts around the Tables movies
of late. Outside of Hallmark, he's had recurring rolls on
Suits Designated Survivor and The Hardy Boys.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Let's take a.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Quick break and come right back with our first impressions
of Death of a Humbug. Hey, Wendy, what was your
first impression of Mistletoe Murders five and six?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, I hope I hope the listeners get this one.
I hope you get it.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
H Hammark really gave Tom Cavanaugh the Drew Barrymore.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Treatment in this one. Oh I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Drew Barrymore was in the movie Scream Big Stars in
the first like ten minutes of the movie, which was
like unheard of, like unheard of. Man Tom Cavanaugh rolls
in makes this makes me at least think he's sticking around,
and then he gets gets the he gets whacked, He
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gets whacked.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, that's a good point. He does stick around in
video form.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But yeah, but I thought I.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Thought Tom Cavanaugh was going to come in. Well he's
a big name, at least to me, he's a big name.
I think he was going to come in.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I thought he was going to be maybe like a.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Love trying yeah situation, maybe somebody from her past that
she knows in himera.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I don't, I don't know, I don't know, but uh,
he wasn't. So yeah, what's your first impression?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
My first impression is I would just like to say
that I called Harvey as the bad guy before was
revealed he was the bad guy due to some hot
dog thing on my part. What's super sleuthen Wait, he
looked like he didn't. He didn't fit in with the.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Rest of everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I mean, look, it's not like a big leap to
have like this hot dog vendor come in and be
the bad guy.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Agreed.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
However, in the scene where we see the recording device
in the car, right, they've just had their meeting an
Emily's shop, and we cut to someone is in a
car wearing a black jacket and black gloves and they
can is.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
There a hot dog wrapper on the seat or something?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
They can here Emily and Sam talking in the shot.
I rewound back to see what everyone in the scene
was wearing. Now, the shots are real tight, okay, but
as they prep to leave, they do show them go
gather their coats, and Harvey is the only one that
we see pick up a black cut. Now, now we
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don't get shots of everybody like fully dressed in their
gear like it's a quick shot, but that did lead
me to believe that perhaps it was Harvey. So when
we get to the when he absconds with the books
and tosses his cane and gets into the black suv,
I truly out loud, was like I.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Knew it, you felt good about it. Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It doesn't happen very often. I need to celebrate the
winds where they come. Let's talk what we liked about
this Maybaby. Well, I wanted to talk about Tom Cavanaugh.
Mm hmmm, Welcome to Fletcher's Grove. I loved him as
this cranky bookstore owner. I actually googled how old he
was because I'm having those same feelings as I did
(08:48):
watching Mystery one oh one, where I find myself attracted
to the older man.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
He's in his sixties. No, he is not, swear that's
what the Internet said. Dang, like he's like ten years
older than me, maybe even fifteen years older than Yeah,
you're not in your fifties. I'm fifty.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I think he said he was sixty four maybe, Okay,
fourteen years that's a big wow. Okay, that's much believe
I've guessed. No, although when I think back to Edn't,
I don't remember when that series aired, but many years ago.
He was probably forty in that, so I guess that
makes sense. I just have envisioned him as the same
age this entire time. Yeah, me too, totally. Anyway, I
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loved him as Glen Shaw. He had such a small role,
but I love that we got enough of him. We
got to see that he was very smart, he was
very witty. He was kind of a curmudgeon too. Like
I just loved everything about it. Yeah, a small but
pivotal role, important role in this Yeah, I'm speaking of
I really liked the Treasure Hunt mystery in this series
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of episodes. I like the way they've handled the three
murders that we've gotten that they've made them were so
slightly different in the way that they're presented to us
because we're dealing with a series of back to back
episodes that aired episodically. They aired weekly, and so a
little bit different than a franchise of movies which come out,
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you know, every several months.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Maybe once a year.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
When you've got week to week to week, and if
you're having murders happen every single week, well it does
stretch the limits of believability. And so I think they
did a nice job of giving us a variety of murders.
We kind of had Clara, which was like.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
A variety of murders.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We had like you know, the classic like potentially poisoned murder,
and then Clara's was almost like a little bit of
a cold case murder that we were dealing with. And
then this one, Yes it was a murder, but it
had some additional intrigue added with the treasure hunt, which
I think was a fun way to deal with branding
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the murderer.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
To catch a killer.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
With that said, though, I this topic falls into my wishes.
So do you want me to wait to circle back
to it?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It's up to you, But yeah, we can wait. I
can shut up about it.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
No, No, you don't need to shut up about it,
like I I think. I think you're right, like, but
I just wanted to like talk through it. Back to
Scavenger Hunt. I did really enjoy that. It wasn't like
as like hokey as it could have been. I think
it was very interesting and I'm like, why is Emily
the smartest one in the room here? Like even the
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detective couldn't figure out some of these clues.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But I loved it.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
What else did you like the cemetary showdown between Emily
and the hot dog Eye? Yes, ma'am okay unexpected mm
hmm for Hallmark. I thought I thought it felt elevated.
I do have some wishes about it. But I did
like this confrontation. It was tense.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
There were like it was she chokes him out.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I love that part of it, but I do have
some criticism about it too that I'm gonna get to. Well,
I really loved my notes say. I loved watching Emily
kick Harvey's ass. And I know he has a different
name whatever, he's Harvey through most of the movie. To me,
I really like that scene. And I think why it
was important is this series of episodes is mostly a
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softer side of Emily. Like the first series, we kind
of get introduced to Emily as a battie. We see
the whole Kaimara nonsense and the second duo. We don't
see a lot of her backstory here, and we even
see her saying like maybe it's time to move on
from all of this. But then she kicks his ass
and we get reminded like, no, no, what's that, I'm
a bitch with a backstory? Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't know's I'm not just a bitch. I'm a
bitch with a backstory.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm into it. Oh do I need to make a
new edit with that sound? Though?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I mean, I really don't know what the origin I've
heard of on TikTok. I'll try and figure it out anyway,
that's what it was giving. If I can figure out
the backstory to that TikTok sound that I've heard a
hundred times, I will drop it in the show notes.
So those are interesting thoughts and I have a reaction
to them, But it also is in my wishes. Okay,
(13:20):
I have a been there, Yes, so do I let
me hear yours?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I really like that Sam isn't being coy. Sam is
clearly trying to move things forward with Emily. He offers
to break her food, he tries to hang out with her, like,
he's very clearly making himself available to her. They're not pretending.
He's not pretending like he doesn't like her. He's not
pretending like there's not something there. He's trying to move
the relationship forward. She's pushing back because again she's got
(13:44):
a backstory, she got secrets.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
She does.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But I really liked that we're not playing games here,
which leads into my final, like which maybe your final.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Like that cliffhanger, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, first of all, before the cliffhanger, the kiss, the
kids so freaking hot, so hot grabbing the waist. I
was like, that's a choice that I think more Hallmark
actors need to be making, because it's very appropriate for Hallmark,
but real hot. Hmm. Going back for the second kiss
also hot. Yeah, man, I feel like the cliffhanger was
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so good.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I mean, it definitely left me wanting more.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He says, this is I want to hear. I want
to let me know what you thought. He says, he
gets well, he gets that phone call while she's changing
right out of her GMS because she wants to go
win the snow, which I just love so much. But
he says on his phone call that that he was
told that his chief or whoever called him told him
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that they received a call to stop the inquiries about
Emily Lane.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Like, did we just.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Gloss right over that? Who's calling? Who's from above? Calleen saying, like,
stop asking questions? I think that's all part of the cliffhanger.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Mistress, God's so good. It's so good.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
It is so good it is, and the suspense was
built because when she leaves to go upstairs to change,
you know something's gonna happen. I thought it was going
to be something more sinister. Like Kaima was going to
show back because we got at the end of episodes
three and four, I'm watching you, and I thought maybe
she would. We were going to see her get like
kidnapped or swept away or wax yeah, you know, over
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the head. But this is quieter, and I loved it
because poor Sam, he was all in and then he
realizes that she's been lying to him. And I think
the part that got me the most is I was
thinking Sam would have accepted the truth about who she is.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
If she had given it to him. Yeah, but she
is not in a place I know.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I get that, like she doesn't feel safe, she'd really
know him well enough to feel safe. And even us
as viewers, we don't know the backstory, So how can
we determine that she should tell Sam? You know, we
don't know how bad it is. I know, and I'm
sitting here and I one hundred percent agree we don't
know how bad it is. I'm just making assumptions that
it was not rooted in badness that made the exception.
(16:21):
Her deception or her actions, while perhaps destructive or perhaps
criminal in intent, were of the good guy criminal sort.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I've just decided that she can't be an actual bad guy,
like she's just I love her too much. Oh interesting, Okay,
she's not. Maybe she's made some bad choices, but some
chimera did something to her parents and it was more than.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Just a car accident.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Yeah, there's a lot to unpack here. So perhaps a
vigilante justice situation.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
But look, I want to talk about the cliffhanger more
in our wishes?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Do you have any more light? No, that's it. Well,
I know you have a lot of wishes. I have
a few.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Okay, I want to go back to the discussion about
time frame. Oh yeah, in our last episode you were asking, like,
what's the time frame here? Like we're obviously a couple
weeks out from Christmas and these particular episodes we get
to Christmas. Here, here's my problem. There is a lot
of death happening, Yes, a variety of murders, but a
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lot of death happening in a short period of time
in a very small town like that, to me starts
to feel a little bit unbelievable. Sure, and it's very
similar to the Hallmark mystery movies we watch, right, we
have to buy in on, like, oh, these things happen
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to this baker or this caterer or whatever, over and
over and over again. But because it comes in movie form,
like you said, with a big span of time in between,
it makes it feel like, oh, yeah, these things could
happen in real life, but here inflectors grow.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
We're talking six weeks.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Maybe yeah, would you have liked to see the town
be like like someone acknowledging, even sue jokingly, like a
lot of people seem to be dying around here lately,
Like tis why he's in for murder?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
What the heck is happening here in our small town?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Though? Was never like a problem before? Yes, maybe something?
But then I was thinking, Okay, how are they going
to handle this in season two? Like is it going
to be the same? Are we going to get another
six episodes? Then there's going to be three murders or whatever? Right,
Like are we going to get a murder in each
set of stories? And I'm like that feels a little
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too far fetched now, like what is happening? Maybe we
won't get that at all. Maybe it's gonna go completely
different way. Maybe we get more backstory on Emily, and
we don't who knows, right, I don't know then, though,
I was thinking about other weekly mysteries and the only
one that can come that comes to mine because I
was on Hallmark's schedule recently, is Murder.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
She wrote, yes, which this series was inspired by.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
If you watch the two and a half minute making
of Mistletoe Murders that came on after this on Hallmark Plus,
I have not, and I actually was wondering if Fletcher's
Grove is inspired by Jessica Fletcher. I wasn't watching close
enough to hear if they said that, but that I
may not have come up with that on my own.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That feels real cute. If it is, I think so too.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Obviously, that's a show I've never watched, and maybe listeners
can weigh in here, But that was a weekly episode.
Was she solving a murder every week?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And I think that's why the joke now is like
we need the reveal that Jessica Fletcher was actually a
serial killer. It's like, how do all of these murders
happen in Cabot Cove? Where she's solving all these murders?
Do I want to watch that show? Maybe like as
a throw on, you know, yeah, I enjoy a throw
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on show, like as I'm getting ready or whatever, so
maybe I might My second wish is and this is
also something you've talked about earlier in this episode. Episodes
one and two were so front heavy on Emily having
this mysterious background yep, and then it kind of like
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you said, then we get like the whole chimera thing
in episodes three and four, but then episodes five and six,
it kind of peters out, like we start to forget
that Emily has this potentially sinister background, and then like
boom bam, that cliffhanger happens, and then it comes back
to the forefront that she is who she's not. And
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I was wondering as I was like writing this, because
Emily's background, her story is what is most interesting to
me as a viewer of this series, and I was like, oh, no,
we're missing that, like now we're just into regular Hallmark
mystery fair a little bit. I was thinking and or
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worried about. But then I thought, oh, is this intentional?
Is Emily's background not in the forefront of our minds anymore?
Because now it's almost like we get to relax and
forget that she has this background similar to Emily now
like assimilating into this new town, and she feels maybe
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kind of safer, right, and she's trying to forget her
background as well. And then whammo. I think that's a
great point because as you were saying that, is it intentional?
I think I think the cliffhanger hits more if we
have started to forget that, if we're more in on
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the Emily Sam of it all and we get hit
by the realization almost at the same time that he
does exactly. So maybe it was pretty masterful. Maybe maybe
I have one last wish and then we will talk
about your wishes. It goes back to the cemetery fight
between the hot dog guy and you said earlier, You're like,
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you've convinced yourself that Emily may have done bad things.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But she was a bad good guy. Yeah right, Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I have convinced myself that she is like Sidney Bristow
from Alias oh Cia Cia trained like this. You know,
she's done bad things, but but she's good for the
greater She's for the greater good.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
So, then, in having this spot in my mind when
they have this fight in the cemetery, I was hoping
for like a swift ass kicking and it was a.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Little bit hard to like watch. I don't know because
I am low.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I'm comparing Jennifer Garner at peak ALIAS when she was
like do you remember any of this stuff?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Like they would show her.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Like in videos or like in US Weekly of her
training while she was in this role. He was like,
so buff, but no, anyway, she was like in peak
physical condition. And then I remember, like I remember them
talking that she had a body double for all the
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fight scenes.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Oh yeah, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Was there a Was there a body double in this
last scene? Okay, I think there was. Well, can you
go with me here for a second. Sure, you were
talking about Sidney Bristow kicking ass. We are also currently
watching Providence Falls, and when I was prepping notes, the
IMDb for Providence Falls sucks. So I went to the
credits and was watching the credits to pull some names,
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and at the end of the credits it's like chorus
stunt person, Liam stunt person right, So then I was like,
wait a minute, do we have a stunt person for Emily?
And I am pulling up IMDb right now? Okay, e
Nova Zatsman stunt double for Sarah Drew appears in show
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episodes episode two, Poison and a Partree. You can imagine
exactly WHI scene that is she has the loft fight. Yeah,
oh that was so good, and season one episode six
when she kicks the hot guy, hot guy, hot dog
Guy's ass. Yeah, yes, well, okay, it felt like.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I was watching me fight somebody.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Which just such a jow like I just wanted it
to be like I don't know the background of Emily,
but like I said, in my mind, she's this like
CIA trained, like it would have been a better fight.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
This just seemed like it was like a just a
regular fight.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That is interesting that you see her as like professionally trained,
like you think she was like working with somebody, because
I think she's just like this independent agent who was
out to right the wrongs of her past, like self taught.
We shall see hopefully in season two, which brings me
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to my singular wish about this episode. I actually fully
agree with all your wishes here, but really the only
thing that sticks out to me is I was reading
the reviews of this series and so many people were
upset about the cliffhanger. Yeah, so interesting, because I was like,
that's great, right, and then they were like, now we
have to wait a year to find out what happens.
(25:35):
And obviously we have waited several months to watch this,
so we don't have to wait a year. But that's
every television show ever now, Like we live in an
era of we drop eight to ten episodes and that's
your season and you don't get another season for a year,
maybe a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So that is just the era of television these days.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
It's not like twenty two episodes ends in May, starts
in September.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You just have to wait for them. I loved the Cliffhanger.
Oh so did I Yeah, so that was my question.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Like, do you even care about the cliffhanger knowing you'd
have to wait a year to find out what happened?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
No, No, because there's so much other stuff to watch.
It's compelling, it brings you back. Yeah, yes, I mean
that's what you want.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I mean I could see the Hallmark viewers maybe being
a little gun shy where they are left.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
With the cliffhanger and then it doesn't get renewed. Yeah,
great point.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And at the airing of this season, I don't think
we had a renewal date or information. So yes, that
would bother me if I didn't know that there was
going to be resolution. But now that we're in a
great position, we know it's coming. We know there's going
to be some sort of follow up on this, whether
it's satisfactory or not. I thought the episode go ahead.
(26:51):
I was gonna say, and the fans too, because those
who did not have Hallmark Plus who are waiting for
this to drop a UREMARKILM. They're gonna get back to
back season. So yeah, it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I only have one. Did you see that? Okay, let
me hear it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Well, Hallmark deals with a very tricky subject in this episode,
and that is the right to die.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
They do not use that.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I don't know if assisted suicide is a phrase that
is commonly accepted anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They gloss right over it.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Like as soon as we find out that he has
booked a ticket to Switzerland, I was like, oh, you know,
we knew we had Huntington's I knew what was happening.
Their end of life care is what they call it.
But they think I think it's a big deal to
discuss it. They handle it kind of nicely, but they
do it in a way that if you didn't really
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know what they were talking about, it might just flow
right over your head. Yes, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I thought that was handled nicely. I did. I don't
have any digite.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's the only thing that I want to shout out
is that I love the character of Sue.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
She's I don't know what it is. I feel like
I'm Sue, like that would be me.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
She's a little bit like got a chip on her shoulder, but.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Like, isn't nice as well? I yeah, I don't know.
I love Sue.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
She says about Sam dying and her diner that man
would do anything out of spite.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Just yeah, I love it. I love it. She's great.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I do hope we get a little more Sue involvement
in season two, but maybe she'll just continue to run
in the background and just be like our snarky diner owner.
I feel like at some point she's gotta be more
heavily involved. Yeah, she's she's like Brooke too. I really
like Brooke as well as just these characters like operating
in the background like they're great? Is Sue the female
(28:56):
Luke Dane's ooh nice pull? Yeah, a little bit little
grumpy diner owner, but everybody loves her.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, I love that. All right? Are you ready to
read this one? Sure?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Tell me what you rated it. I gave it five stars. Wow,
I gave it four point seventy five stars. Not that
I didn't love it, don't come for me. Well, thank
you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Homework,
a Bramble Jam podcast. We are currently reviewing Providence Falls,
so make sure you tune in for those and we'll
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Bye
Hey friends, Happy countdown to Christmas season. We originally recorded
these reviews of the Mistletoe Murders season one episodes over
the summer, and we are re airing them in honor
of their debut on the Hallmark Channel as part of
the Countdown to Christmas lineup. We will of course be
reviewing the new episodes in season two when those drop
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as well. Enjoy the reviews.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
This is a bramble jam podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Welcome to Girls Go One Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast.
I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm Wendy.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I'm a former Homemark hater. It's finals week in our
summer school series. As we wrap up season one of
Missletoe Murders, we will be discussing episodes five and six
Death of a Humbug Parts one and two. While you're
listening to this episode, hop on over to Instagram give
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we have a Facebook group we'd love for you to join.
It's Girls Gone Hallmark in Facebook groups. And let me
just say, there is so much coming out, or a
lot of things being discussed about with the holidays, I
can't even believe what I'm seeing holidays. It's at the
beginning of August. I know, I am not ready. Walked
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into a store the other day and they had all
our Halloween out. I was like, nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
At the grocery store, I walked down like the one
of the aisles I had Halloween candyo.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
No no, no, no, no no. But if you're excited
for Countdown to Christmas twenty twenty five, they're talking over there,
so come join us. Yeah, and email us your thoughts
on anything Hallmark, this series, the new movies that are
currently dropping, Providence Falls, coming up, the Countdown to Christmas announcements,
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email as girls Gone Hallmark at gmail dot com. We're
prepping for an upcoming mail bag episode. We promise, we promise.
August is busy for us, so the entire summing is busy.
It's just a little bit of a wacky schedule. It's fine,
it's fine. We'll be like both feet in the sand.
Is that the same? That's not the same. I'm just
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saying that when the Countdown to Christmas comes, there's gonna
be no lack of episodes from us. That is correct.
Let's here a synopsis of Death of a humbug.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
What the hell was I talking about to feet in
the sand? I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Okay, here's the synopsis for episodes five and six. A
murder leads Emily and Sam to a scavenger hunt orchestrated
by the victim. Emily continues to solve the scavenger hunt
and grapples with her past. Melanie Or directed episodes five
and six of Mistletoe Murders. Melanie has previously directed on
series like Sullivan's Crising, The Hardy Boys and Spencer Sisters.
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Shelley Scarrow wrote the duo episodes of Mistletoe Murders. Shelley's
other writing credits include Sullivan's Crossing, Wyona Irp, and De
Grassi The Next Generation. Tom Kavanaugh joins the cast as
game Master Glenn Shaw. Tom has several long series runs,
including eighty three episodes of ED and one hundred and
(03:24):
forty six episodes of the Flash. For Hallmark, he starred
in Darrow and Darrow Movies Again. I'm gonna that's a
Hallmark project. It is, you know, we nothing they just
get I know, it's one of those it's like the
Rex and Hudson.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But I'm pretty sure they thought, Yeah, it is Kimberly
Williams Paisley.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I remember opening up this tab and it has the
Hallmark Movies and Mysteries logo on it.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So yes, got it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, you know, we did get another email from a
listener of the show who's begging us to review that
that series. Yeah, I'm not opposed to it, it's just
unfortunately not happening this month. There was not even this
not even this year. No, probably honestly not even this year.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's true. Yeah, there was some discussions since.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
We cut down our Missletoe Murders episodes from six to
three rightfully, so I don't think anybody argues with that
decision that we now had room for that, and I
suppose that's true. But Hayle, we do actually have a surprise.
We had initially said we weren't doing something, and we
are doing it. So just keep an eye on that
schedule for something fun coming to girls, go on Hamemark,
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What is it?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
The Chicken Sisters?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, I'm not doing it so great for me.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I have a question complete side topic here. When Hallmark
drops season two of Missletoe Murders, I'm guessing we're going
to review it in real time.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, probably.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I mean we haven't seen like a schedule yet, so
we don't. Fully we can't. I'm just talking.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Through it here.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I think it's probably best to do the two episode
if that's the way they continue the parts and parts two,
and we should do them combined. So maybe it will
be like an every other week drop for us.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Perhaps, I'm totally open to continuing during the two episode system.
I assume we're gonna see the Mistletoe Murders schedule and
we see the full count out a Christmas schedule.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, it's gonna be soon. It's gonna be soon too.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I think Jake Epstein plays Wayward nephew Noah. Jake has
been quite the presence on Hallmark, appearing in the three
Unwrapping Christmas movies and four Hearts around the Tables movies
of late. Outside of Hallmark, he's had recurring rolls on
Suits Designated Survivor and The Hardy Boys.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Let's take a.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Quick break and come right back with our first impressions
of Death of a Humbug. Hey, Wendy, what was your
first impression of Mistletoe Murders five and six?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well, I hope I hope the listeners get this one.
I hope you get it.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
H Hammark really gave Tom Cavanaugh the Drew Barrymore.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Treatment in this one. Oh I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Drew Barrymore was in the movie Scream Big Stars in
the first like ten minutes of the movie, which was
like unheard of, like unheard of. Man Tom Cavanaugh rolls
in makes this makes me at least think he's sticking around,
and then he gets gets the he gets whacked, He
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gets whacked.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, that's a good point. He does stick around in
video form.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
But yeah, but I thought I.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Thought Tom Cavanaugh was going to come in. Well he's
a big name, at least to me, he's a big name.
I think he was going to come in.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I thought he was going to be maybe like a.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Love trying yeah situation, maybe somebody from her past that
she knows in himera.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I don't, I don't know, I don't know, but uh,
he wasn't. So yeah, what's your first impression?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
My first impression is I would just like to say
that I called Harvey as the bad guy before was
revealed he was the bad guy due to some hot
dog thing on my part. What's super sleuthen Wait, he
looked like he didn't. He didn't fit in with the.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Rest of everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I mean, look, it's not like a big leap to
have like this hot dog vendor come in and be
the bad guy.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Agreed.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
However, in the scene where we see the recording device
in the car, right, they've just had their meeting an
Emily's shop, and we cut to someone is in a
car wearing a black jacket and black gloves and they
can is.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
There a hot dog wrapper on the seat or something?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
They can here Emily and Sam talking in the shot.
I rewound back to see what everyone in the scene
was wearing. Now, the shots are real tight, okay, but
as they prep to leave, they do show them go
gather their coats, and Harvey is the only one that
we see pick up a black cut. Now, now we
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don't get shots of everybody like fully dressed in their
gear like it's a quick shot, but that did lead
me to believe that perhaps it was Harvey. So when
we get to the when he absconds with the books
and tosses his cane and gets into the black suv,
I truly out loud, was like I.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Knew it, you felt good about it. Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It doesn't happen very often. I need to celebrate the
winds where they come. Let's talk what we liked about
this Maybaby. Well, I wanted to talk about Tom Cavanaugh.
Mm hmmm, Welcome to Fletcher's Grove. I loved him as
this cranky bookstore owner. I actually googled how old he
was because I'm having those same feelings as I did
(08:48):
watching Mystery one oh one, where I find myself attracted
to the older man.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
He's in his sixties. No, he is not, swear that's
what the Internet said. Dang, like he's like ten years
older than me, maybe even fifteen years older than Yeah,
you're not in your fifties. I'm fifty.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I think he said he was sixty four maybe, Okay,
fourteen years that's a big wow. Okay, that's much believe
I've guessed. No, although when I think back to Edn't,
I don't remember when that series aired, but many years ago.
He was probably forty in that, so I guess that
makes sense. I just have envisioned him as the same
age this entire time. Yeah, me too, totally. Anyway, I
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loved him as Glen Shaw. He had such a small role,
but I love that we got enough of him. We
got to see that he was very smart, he was
very witty. He was kind of a curmudgeon too. Like
I just loved everything about it. Yeah, a small but
pivotal role, important role in this Yeah, I'm speaking of
I really liked the Treasure Hunt mystery in this series
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of episodes. I like the way they've handled the three
murders that we've gotten that they've made them were so
slightly different in the way that they're presented to us
because we're dealing with a series of back to back
episodes that aired episodically. They aired weekly, and so a
little bit different than a franchise of movies which come out,
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you know, every several months.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Maybe once a year.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
When you've got week to week to week, and if
you're having murders happen every single week, well it does
stretch the limits of believability. And so I think they
did a nice job of giving us a variety of murders.
We kind of had Clara, which was like.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
A variety of murders.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
We had like you know, the classic like potentially poisoned murder,
and then Clara's was almost like a little bit of
a cold case murder that we were dealing with. And
then this one, Yes it was a murder, but it
had some additional intrigue added with the treasure hunt, which
I think was a fun way to deal with branding
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the murderer.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
To catch a killer.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
With that said, though, I this topic falls into my wishes.
So do you want me to wait to circle back
to it?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It's up to you, But yeah, we can wait. I
can shut up about it.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
No, No, you don't need to shut up about it,
like I I think. I think you're right, like, but
I just wanted to like talk through it. Back to
Scavenger Hunt. I did really enjoy that. It wasn't like
as like hokey as it could have been. I think
it was very interesting and I'm like, why is Emily
the smartest one in the room here? Like even the
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detective couldn't figure out some of these clues.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But I loved it.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
What else did you like the cemetary showdown between Emily
and the hot dog Eye? Yes, ma'am okay unexpected mm
hmm for Hallmark. I thought I thought it felt elevated.
I do have some wishes about it. But I did
like this confrontation. It was tense.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
There were like it was she chokes him out.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I love that part of it, but I do have
some criticism about it too that I'm gonna get to. Well,
I really loved my notes say. I loved watching Emily
kick Harvey's ass. And I know he has a different
name whatever, he's Harvey through most of the movie. To me,
I really like that scene. And I think why it
was important is this series of episodes is mostly a
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softer side of Emily. Like the first series, we kind
of get introduced to Emily as a battie. We see
the whole Kaimara nonsense and the second duo. We don't
see a lot of her backstory here, and we even
see her saying like maybe it's time to move on
from all of this. But then she kicks his ass
and we get reminded like, no, no, what's that, I'm
a bitch with a backstory? Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
I don't know's I'm not just a bitch. I'm a
bitch with a backstory.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm into it. Oh do I need to make a
new edit with that sound? Though?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I mean, I really don't know what the origin I've
heard of on TikTok. I'll try and figure it out anyway,
that's what it was giving. If I can figure out
the backstory to that TikTok sound that I've heard a
hundred times, I will drop it in the show notes.
So those are interesting thoughts and I have a reaction
to them, But it also is in my wishes. Okay,
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I have a been there, Yes, so do I let
me hear yours?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Well.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I really like that Sam isn't being coy. Sam is
clearly trying to move things forward with Emily. He offers
to break her food, he tries to hang out with her, like,
he's very clearly making himself available to her. They're not pretending.
He's not pretending like he doesn't like her. He's not
pretending like there's not something there. He's trying to move
the relationship forward. She's pushing back because again she's got
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a backstory, she got secrets.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
She does.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But I really liked that we're not playing games here,
which leads into my final, like which maybe your final.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Like that cliffhanger, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Well, first of all, before the cliffhanger, the kiss, the
kids so freaking hot, so hot grabbing the waist. I
was like, that's a choice that I think more Hallmark
actors need to be making, because it's very appropriate for Hallmark,
but real hot. Hmm. Going back for the second kiss
also hot. Yeah, man, I feel like the cliffhanger was
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so good.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I mean, it definitely left me wanting more.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
He says, this is I want to hear. I want
to let me know what you thought. He says, he
gets well, he gets that phone call while she's changing
right out of her GMS because she wants to go
win the snow, which I just love so much. But
he says on his phone call that that he was
told that his chief or whoever called him told him
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that they received a call to stop the inquiries about
Emily Lane.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Like, did we just.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Gloss right over that? Who's calling? Who's from above? Calleen saying, like,
stop asking questions? I think that's all part of the cliffhanger.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Mistress, God's so good. It's so good.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
It is so good it is, and the suspense was
built because when she leaves to go upstairs to change,
you know something's gonna happen. I thought it was going
to be something more sinister. Like Kaima was going to
show back because we got at the end of episodes
three and four, I'm watching you, and I thought maybe
she would. We were going to see her get like
kidnapped or swept away or wax yeah, you know, over
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the head. But this is quieter, and I loved it
because poor Sam, he was all in and then he
realizes that she's been lying to him. And I think
the part that got me the most is I was
thinking Sam would have accepted the truth about who she is.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
If she had given it to him. Yeah, but she
is not in a place I know.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I get that, like she doesn't feel safe, she'd really
know him well enough to feel safe. And even us
as viewers, we don't know the backstory, So how can
we determine that she should tell Sam? You know, we
don't know how bad it is. I know, and I'm
sitting here and I one hundred percent agree we don't
know how bad it is. I'm just making assumptions that
it was not rooted in badness that made the exception.
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Her deception or her actions, while perhaps destructive or perhaps
criminal in intent, were of the good guy criminal sort.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I've just decided that she can't be an actual bad guy,
like she's just I love her too much. Oh interesting, Okay,
she's not. Maybe she's made some bad choices, but some
chimera did something to her parents and it was more than.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Just a car accident.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Yeah, there's a lot to unpack here. So perhaps a
vigilante justice situation.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
But look, I want to talk about the cliffhanger more
in our wishes?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Do you have any more light? No, that's it. Well,
I know you have a lot of wishes. I have
a few.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Okay, I want to go back to the discussion about
time frame. Oh yeah, in our last episode you were asking, like,
what's the time frame here? Like we're obviously a couple
weeks out from Christmas and these particular episodes we get
to Christmas. Here, here's my problem. There is a lot
of death happening, Yes, a variety of murders, but a
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lot of death happening in a short period of time
in a very small town like that, to me starts
to feel a little bit unbelievable. Sure, and it's very
similar to the Hallmark mystery movies we watch, right, we
have to buy in on, like, oh, these things happen
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to this baker or this caterer or whatever, over and
over and over again. But because it comes in movie form,
like you said, with a big span of time in between,
it makes it feel like, oh, yeah, these things could
happen in real life, but here inflectors grow.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
We're talking six weeks.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Maybe yeah, would you have liked to see the town
be like like someone acknowledging, even sue jokingly, like a
lot of people seem to be dying around here lately,
Like tis why he's in for murder?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
What the heck is happening here in our small town?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Though? Was never like a problem before? Yes, maybe something?
But then I was thinking, Okay, how are they going
to handle this in season two? Like is it going
to be the same? Are we going to get another
six episodes? Then there's going to be three murders or whatever? Right,
Like are we going to get a murder in each
set of stories? And I'm like that feels a little
(18:43):
too far fetched now, like what is happening? Maybe we
won't get that at all. Maybe it's gonna go completely
different way. Maybe we get more backstory on Emily, and
we don't who knows, right, I don't know then, though,
I was thinking about other weekly mysteries and the only
one that can come that comes to mine because I
was on Hallmark's schedule recently, is Murder.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
She wrote, yes, which this series was inspired by.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
If you watch the two and a half minute making
of Mistletoe Murders that came on after this on Hallmark Plus,
I have not, and I actually was wondering if Fletcher's
Grove is inspired by Jessica Fletcher. I wasn't watching close
enough to hear if they said that, but that I
may not have come up with that on my own.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
That feels real cute. If it is, I think so too.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Obviously, that's a show I've never watched, and maybe listeners
can weigh in here, But that was a weekly episode.
Was she solving a murder every week?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
And I think that's why the joke now is like
we need the reveal that Jessica Fletcher was actually a
serial killer. It's like, how do all of these murders
happen in Cabot Cove? Where she's solving all these murders?
Do I want to watch that show? Maybe like as
a throw on, you know, yeah, I enjoy a throw
(20:01):
on show, like as I'm getting ready or whatever, so
maybe I might My second wish is and this is
also something you've talked about earlier in this episode. Episodes
one and two were so front heavy on Emily having
this mysterious background yep, and then it kind of like
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you said, then we get like the whole chimera thing
in episodes three and four, but then episodes five and six,
it kind of peters out, like we start to forget
that Emily has this potentially sinister background, and then like
boom bam, that cliffhanger happens, and then it comes back
to the forefront that she is who she's not. And
(20:44):
I was wondering as I was like writing this, because
Emily's background, her story is what is most interesting to
me as a viewer of this series, and I was like, oh, no,
we're missing that, like now we're just into regular Hallmark
mystery fair a little bit. I was thinking and or
(21:08):
worried about. But then I thought, oh, is this intentional?
Is Emily's background not in the forefront of our minds anymore?
Because now it's almost like we get to relax and
forget that she has this background similar to Emily now
like assimilating into this new town, and she feels maybe
(21:30):
kind of safer, right, and she's trying to forget her
background as well. And then whammo. I think that's a
great point because as you were saying that, is it intentional?
I think I think the cliffhanger hits more if we
have started to forget that, if we're more in on
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the Emily Sam of it all and we get hit
by the realization almost at the same time that he
does exactly. So maybe it was pretty masterful. Maybe maybe
I have one last wish and then we will talk
about your wishes. It goes back to the cemetery fight
between the hot dog guy and you said earlier, You're like,
(22:15):
you've convinced yourself that Emily may have done bad things.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But she was a bad good guy. Yeah right, Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
I have convinced myself that she is like Sidney Bristow
from Alias oh Cia Cia trained like this. You know,
she's done bad things, but but she's good for the
greater She's for the greater good.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
So, then, in having this spot in my mind when
they have this fight in the cemetery, I was hoping
for like a swift ass kicking and it was a.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Little bit hard to like watch. I don't know because
I am low.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
I'm comparing Jennifer Garner at peak ALIAS when she was
like do you remember any of this stuff?
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Like they would show her.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Like in videos or like in US Weekly of her
training while she was in this role. He was like,
so buff, but no, anyway, she was like in peak
physical condition. And then I remember, like I remember them
talking that she had a body double for all the
(23:27):
fight scenes.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Oh yeah, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Was there a Was there a body double in this
last scene? Okay, I think there was. Well, can you
go with me here for a second. Sure, you were
talking about Sidney Bristow kicking ass. We are also currently
watching Providence Falls, and when I was prepping notes, the
IMDb for Providence Falls sucks. So I went to the
credits and was watching the credits to pull some names,
(23:51):
and at the end of the credits it's like chorus
stunt person, Liam stunt person right, So then I was like,
wait a minute, do we have a stunt person for Emily?
And I am pulling up IMDb right now? Okay, e
Nova Zatsman stunt double for Sarah Drew appears in show
(24:11):
episodes episode two, Poison and a Partree. You can imagine
exactly WHI scene that is she has the loft fight. Yeah,
oh that was so good, and season one episode six
when she kicks the hot guy, hot guy, hot dog
Guy's ass. Yeah, yes, well, okay, it felt like.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I was watching me fight somebody.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Which just such a jow like I just wanted it
to be like I don't know the background of Emily,
but like I said, in my mind, she's this like
CIA trained, like it would have been a better fight.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
This just seemed like it was like a just a
regular fight.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
That is interesting that you see her as like professionally trained,
like you think she was like working with somebody, because
I think she's just like this independent agent who was
out to right the wrongs of her past, like self taught.
We shall see hopefully in season two, which brings me
(25:15):
to my singular wish about this episode. I actually fully
agree with all your wishes here, but really the only
thing that sticks out to me is I was reading
the reviews of this series and so many people were
upset about the cliffhanger. Yeah, so interesting, because I was like,
that's great, right, and then they were like, now we
have to wait a year to find out what happens.
(25:35):
And obviously we have waited several months to watch this,
so we don't have to wait a year. But that's
every television show ever now, Like we live in an
era of we drop eight to ten episodes and that's
your season and you don't get another season for a year,
maybe a year and a half.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So that is just the era of television these days.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
It's not like twenty two episodes ends in May, starts
in September.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
You just have to wait for them. I loved the Cliffhanger.
Oh so did I Yeah, so that was my question.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Like, do you even care about the cliffhanger knowing you'd
have to wait a year to find out what happened?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
No, No, because there's so much other stuff to watch.
It's compelling, it brings you back. Yeah, yes, I mean
that's what you want.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
I mean I could see the Hallmark viewers maybe being
a little gun shy where they are left.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
With the cliffhanger and then it doesn't get renewed. Yeah,
great point.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And at the airing of this season, I don't think
we had a renewal date or information. So yes, that
would bother me if I didn't know that there was
going to be resolution. But now that we're in a
great position, we know it's coming. We know there's going
to be some sort of follow up on this, whether
it's satisfactory or not. I thought the episode go ahead.
(26:51):
I was gonna say, and the fans too, because those
who did not have Hallmark Plus who are waiting for
this to drop a UREMARKILM. They're gonna get back to
back season. So yeah, it's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I only have one. Did you see that? Okay, let
me hear it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Well, Hallmark deals with a very tricky subject in this episode,
and that is the right to die.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
They do not use that.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I don't know if assisted suicide is a phrase that
is commonly accepted anymore.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They gloss right over it.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Like as soon as we find out that he has
booked a ticket to Switzerland, I was like, oh, you know,
we knew we had Huntington's I knew what was happening.
Their end of life care is what they call it.
But they think I think it's a big deal to
discuss it. They handle it kind of nicely, but they
do it in a way that if you didn't really
(27:46):
know what they were talking about, it might just flow
right over your head. Yes, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I thought that was handled nicely. I did. I don't
have any digite.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's the only thing that I want to shout out
is that I love the character of Sue.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
She's I don't know what it is. I feel like
I'm Sue, like that would be me.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
She's a little bit like got a chip on her shoulder, but.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Like, isn't nice as well? I yeah, I don't know.
I love Sue.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
She says about Sam dying and her diner that man
would do anything out of spite.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Just yeah, I love it. I love it. She's great.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I do hope we get a little more Sue involvement
in season two, but maybe she'll just continue to run
in the background and just be like our snarky diner owner.
I feel like at some point she's gotta be more
heavily involved. Yeah, she's she's like Brooke too. I really
like Brooke as well as just these characters like operating
in the background like they're great? Is Sue the female
(28:56):
Luke Dane's ooh nice pull? Yeah, a little bit little
grumpy diner owner, but everybody loves her.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, I love that. All right? Are you ready to
read this one? Sure?
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Tell me what you rated it. I gave it five stars. Wow,
I gave it four point seventy five stars. Not that
I didn't love it, don't come for me. Well, thank
you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Homework,
a Bramble Jam podcast. We are currently reviewing Providence Falls,
so make sure you tune in for those and we'll
be back next time. Goodbye, bye, all right friends, before
(29:43):
we go, just a quick heads up, you're about to
hear some ads. These little gems help us keep the
show running and the Hallmark love flowing. So do with
that info what you will, grab a s neck, hit
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Speaker 2 (29:59):
Bye
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