December 10, 2025 • 28 mins
Welcome to our Ripple Episode 1 review, where your favorite Hallmark movie podcasters take a surprising detour into Netflix territory. Why? Because Ripple was originally developed for Hallmark before finding its home on Netflix - and we couldn’t resist following its journey. In this episode, we break down the premiere, talk through the twists, and share why this darker, character-driven series immediately grabbed our attention.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is a Bramble Jam podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan, a longtime Hallmark fan.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater who now co
hosts a Hallmark podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Today's episode is a special one because yes, we are
talking about a Netflix series, but before anyone panics, Ripple
was originally developed for Hallmark before making its way to Netflix,
which explains why it kind of has that familiar feel
that we know and love. So if you're new here,
welcome and to our Hallmark faithful, don't worry. We're still
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very much in our Hallmark era. We're just excited to
follow a story that still carries out Hallmark DNA, even
if it's streaming somewhere else. Today we will be discussing
season one, episode one of Ripple, which is now streaming
on Netflix. The episode is titled A Stone's Throw and
for everyone we are on all of the socials as
(01:13):
Girls Gone Hallmark.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Hey, if you have.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Thoughts on Ripple or anything else, quite frankly, email us
Girls Gone Hallmark at gmail dot com. We do a
sort of regular mailbag episode where we read emails from
listeners with their thoughts, so you can do that if
you have thoughts on Ripple. We are going to be
dropping our reviews weekly through the end of the series. Correct,
(01:38):
So if you are.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Watching and have some thoughts and want to jump in
the discussion, please girls, go one Hallmark at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We're going to kick off our discussion of Ripple season one,
episode one with a synopsis.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The episode is titled a Stone's Throw, a greeting man
and music exec, a father in crisis, a conflicted woman,
and a pebble that causes a ripple effect, connecting the
lives of our for strangers. For anybody new to the podcast,
we do a segment of top that we call News
and Notes where we run through the people who are
involved in the creation of the show. We're gonna kick
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it off with talking about our director. Episode one was
directed by Amanda Tapping. Amanda has fifty six directing credits,
which include series like The one hundred and With an E, Motherland,
Fort Salem, and Murder in a Small Town. The writers
for episode one are Michelle Gianusa, Ava Taylor, and Jerry
Kanto Georgis.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Michelle is the showrunner of Ripple. She has just one
previous writing and producing credit, The Dead Girls Detective Agency.
Ava Taylor also has just one additional writing credit for
the television show Good Trouble And This is Jerry Kanto
Georges's first writing credit.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Kind of surprised by all of that. Yes, it's a
complicated story. I agree. I can't even imagine, like the
murder board that they.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Created, you know, I do know what you're talking about,
to weave all this together, red strings, tying all of
our characters together.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah. Frankie Faison plays Walter. He's known for The Wire
Banshee and Coming to America. Faison brings a wealth of
experience and warmth to the role. His acclaimed work in
the Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain and recent roles in Hello
Tomorrow and The Rookie Fed's hint At a depth he
can bring to Walter.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Julia Chan plays the character of Chris. Julia Chan's past
work includes Netflix's Archive eighty one, The CW's Katie Keene,
and Bell Media's Saving Hope.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Ian Harding plays Nate. Ian is well known for Pretty
Little Liars. He has appeared in movies like Ford Versus
Ferrari and Hallmark's The Magic of Lemon Drops, as well
as the limited Hallmark series Holidays.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Sidney Agadong is a singer songwriter who appears as Aria.
She has thirteen total acting credits. She appeared in the
live action Leelo and Stitch, as well as the TV
movie Trapped in the Farmhouse?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Is that a Lifetime joint?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Probably?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Marcy t House appears as widow Tara. Marcy has a
wopping one hundred and twenty six acting credits and most
recently appeared in eight episodes of Murder in a Small Town.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Sarah Swire plays Ellis. Sarah has twenty five acting credits,
most recently appearing in the series Murdoch Mysteries and The
Last Frontier.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
How cool is the name Ellis?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh my gosh. Hey, let's take a quick break and
we're gonna come right back with our first impressions of
this episode of Ripple. Hey, Wendy, what was your first
impression of episode one of Ripple? It's more about the series, Yeah,
(04:52):
and all my notes say is wow season two immediately. Yeah,
my first impression is a low emotional world building. Final boss,
let me ask you, were you surprised by this show?
Was I surprised? I will tell you spoiler alert. I
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very much enjoyed it. I will tell you this does
not feel like a Hallmark show, So I'm surprised in
that sense, got it? Can I tell you my very
first like, yes, no shade to Hallmark, but I'm honestly
so happy this didn't air on Hallmark because people would
not have rallied for it.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Ripple is exactly the kind of show that Hallmark traditionalist
would have torched, right, And like I say, no shade
to the Hallmark fan. I'm a Hallmark fan, but.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
This is so not Hallmark. It's not Hallmark. It's not Hallmark,
and I would love if this is the direction Hallmark
was headed.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So do I and I think it's a real misstep
that they let this go.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I think if it premiered on Hallmark or Home which
it was originally for Hallmark Plus, Is that right? Yes?
I think we'd be looking at another Providence Falls, which
was a three part mini series on Hallmark Channel that
wasn't super well received.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, but if you're listening to this and you have
a Hallmark Plus subscription, it's worth checking out that series.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah. The reason why I, in my opinion, think that
the fans wouldn't like wouldn't have liked this on Hallmark
is because it's not built on the guaranteed tidy ending correct,
And as we record this, I have seen the first
three episodes. I haven't seen the whole series yet. I
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don't know how it ends.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's not built on familiarity, right there's you know, Hallmark
follows a very familiar structure. It's why they're so successful,
and this is not built on that, and that's why
it works. Look this pilot, this is one of the
things I liked. They're setting the stage, like the emotional
narration that we get from Aria. Small choices change big things.
We're all strangers before we meet. I mean, it kind
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of like sets the mood, lets us know where we're going,
and then they just weave this tapestry of all these
tiny little choices that ultimately push these characters closer together.
Now I have not seen beyond episode one yet, but
I feel like, and I could be wrong, we're then
going to dig deeper into these characters' lives, perhaps see
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bits and pieces of their past, how they came to be.
But this just the way it brings us all together
at the end of the episode is masterful.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I think so too, And like I said, I don't
want to spoil anything, but in episode two you'll see
like the ripple effects, there's other like fringe people, like
it's you know, like it keeps growing bigger and bigger
and bigger.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And then it's the girl in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
The girl in the hospital, there's her brother, like in
all these like you know, these kind of characters where
you at first watch would be like they're not significant
to the story, but like it's just all like weaving together.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah. Well, I would say this is the kind of
show like you should watch twice, because I watched it twice,
and there are things you will miss until you realize
that you're like, oh wait, that was significant, and then
you go back and then you see how they laid
the ground work for that moment exactly exactly. Let's dig
into some things that we liked about this episode more specifically.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Huge, huge shout out to Andrea Higgins, who is the
music supervisor for this show. I felt the music is
doing some of the emotional heavy lifting in this episode.
I freaking loved it. If you're familiar with our reviews
our podcast Hallmark in General, there's a show actually it's
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on Netflix too. A show called The Way Home, another show.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That has excellent music. This is the same format like
so good. It sets a tone it is He's so
so good.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So shout out to Andrea Higgins.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I really enjoyed Walter's grief storyline.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
On Protect this Man at all Costs.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I enjoyed. I mean it ripped my heart out and
stomped on it. The slow realization of what has happened,
the silent hospital, voiceless reveal as she's passed his equally
silent breakdown again. All of this set to the music
that you talked about. When he walks in the door
alone with her bag of hospital belongings, he talks about
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we get reveals like he's not sleeping, he's keeping her
side of the bed. The pebble moment he has back
at their spot where they met in the beginning of
the episode, the grief. He is showing us what he
is going through. I want to wrap this man in
a bubble. When we get to the end of the
episode and he's forming these new friendships with Ellis and
(09:57):
with Nate, I just feel so protective of his seem incredible.
Let's talk about the rest of the cast. Yes, I
personally feel like casting is.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Unreal in this. In this show Ian Harding. Obviously I
watch Pretty Little Liars. I know him from that show.
I review a lot of Hallmark movies. I know him
from Hallmark. I think he's great in this. He does.
He does a lot of emoting with his face yes,
and I feel, oh my gosh, the micro expressions, the
(10:30):
exhaustion he shows, the guilt, the tenderness. The scenes with
his wife make me physically uncomfortable. Right.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
He's juggling a bar, He's in the middle of a
divorce that we don't fully understand the details of. He's
co parenting a daughter who is hard of hearing. And
that cough that makes me gives me that nerve. I
mean we know, obviously they don't tell us, but we
know the second he's coughing, this is bad. Like must
bidi'es me said, sins are tingling. When his wife's like,
(11:01):
maybe you need an antibiotic, I'm like, mmmm, so not great.
And that's when, like, when I'm watching this, I was like, oh,
how was this going to be on Hallmark? Right?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The amount of bad things happening in this first episode
I think might have scared people away.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, I think I think we're going to be redefining
what it means to have a show with a happy ending.
And look, I mean talk about the abount of bad things.
Let's talk about Aria. Aria is experiencing infertility, and we
also learned she's experiencing infidelity that.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
She doesn't know about.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
It, she does not know about and she's in therapy.
She's got stuff to deal with in therapy that she's
not even willing to talk about, because we see her
therapist try and push her to talk about certain things
and she changes the subject. There was something that caused
her to abandon her music at one point, she doesn't
want to talk about it. The therapist suggests that she's
angry about something else, not just her infertility, but she
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doesn't want to talk about that. I mean, there's so
many layers to her. She's very she herself is not messy,
but her story is very messy. And there, I mean,
there's a lot going on there.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Her entire arc to me, feels like a slow car
crash that I can't turn away from. It is I
don't I don't know why I'm so drawn to her story.
It feels like it's gonna hurt the most and I
don't know why.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Finally we have Chris.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I love Chris, I love the character Chris. I love Julia.
Chan I was like, Okay, I need to do a
deep dive on her. Right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
She's great, She's really great, and like she just has
this strong presence when she storms into that bar and
she's like, I'll have your best read, and he's like,
we're not open, and she just she was not taking
from it for answer. She and Nate have such incredible
banter back and forth. I mean, they just give it
to each other this whole time, but they're developing this
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beautiful relationship at the same time. I mean they almost
kiss what. On the one hand, I'm rooting for that.
On the other hand, I'm fairly certain that Nate just
received a terminal diagnosis on the phone, or at the
very least a not great diagnosis. Whether it's terminal or not.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, I'm waiting for you to be like, and he's
technically married.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Still he is technically married, but they've been separated for
a year. Yeah, he's yes, he's married. It seems like
the wife may be the hold up because he talks
about I'm looking for a new place. It's going to
be close to our daughter school. He's real short with her, yes,
and she's like, oh, you're just pushing it along. He's like,
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it's been a year. Yeah, look, what's the backstory there?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah? I need more backstory.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And when he shows up at the hospital, he's like,
the school's calling me telling me the check bounce.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
What's going on? More story there?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Let me ask you a question. Did you ever watch
this series This is Us or a Million Little Things?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I watched This is Us, I didn't finish it. I've
never seen a million Little Things.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
To me, this show is kind of in that lane
like this would have been Network TV. I'm trying, like
I was gonna say, like I was gonna compare it
to the Grays, but Maybearentoo Parenthood. Yeah, kind of heavier themes,
big ensemble cast, big ensemble cast. It works for me.
(14:33):
I also can see it's soft around the edges, which
makes me believe it was developed for Hallmark. If it
was originally developed for Netflix, it wouldn't have a little
more teeth to it, like maybe some cursing, you know,
get crazy, and it wouldn't if there was cursing in it, Like, look, guys,
(14:56):
I have a terrible potty mouth. If there was cursing
in it would be believable. Yeah, with what they're going through,
With what they're going through, exactly, exactly. Oh we didn't
talk about Ellis and Tara. Oh yes, I think these
are great additions to the cast. They're not the main four,
but they're definitely involved. When Tara goes to Walter's wife's
(15:21):
funeral and then gives him like a pamphlet for like
a support group or whatever, why is this woman so wonderful?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
He tries to hand it back and she pushes his
hand back and says, what doesn't bend breaks, And then
he goes tells her this really isn't for me. When
she says, it's cool, I get it. Like we're going
through the same thing. I thought we could maybe connect
help each other out. So she's willing to meet him
(15:49):
where he is. The church support group isn't his thing,
and now they're going to develop this friendship because they
both lost their wives. The person I am perhaps in
intrigued about is Ellis. Tell me more so we see
Owen say I'm out, I'm getting a real job. I
can't sit around here waiting to be discovered. Come to
(16:13):
find out Chris, our music exec saw him, was charmed
and he took a corporate job. She says, man, Owen,
we were supposed to starve together forever.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
We know.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Ellis is an artist. She's selling her designs on a
T shirt and Nate's like, someday you're going to be
in an art gallery, and the realization that Owen is
wrapping it up tapped out gives his guitar away. He's
moving on the look on her face when she realizes, Oh,
when am I going to have to make that same
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choice for myself as well? What's her story there? I'm
very intrigued by Ellis. I also find her so charming
behind the bar. There's a character on TikTok that I'm
going to link to in the show notes, where it's
the bartender or the barista that everyone's in love with
that has this quiet coolness about them. I'm going to
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link this TikTok because Ellis is giving that. And I'm
not knocking her performance by comparing it to a TikToker No,
but I hear what you're saying. She is the epitome
of like quiet cool.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, she's super cool. I want to see more of
that unfold as well. Now I have a bunch of
little a little likes. Can we go through them?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Loomy West is their cheers. It's there a central perk.
I love this choice. It gives the characters a home
base in a show that is all about chaos. Basically,
I love that Ny and Chris for me, have lightning
in a bottle chemistry. Yeah, I'm rooting for them.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
And the man is married, I know, like he's separated.
I don't get hung up on this. I'm truly surprised
that you're not. I do feel like your relationship is over.
They're married a name only.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
When Chris walks into the bar, and that final scene
in the bar when they're all coming together, do you
see the way they connect across the room and their
eyes meet and they both smile at each other. Yeah,
my gosh, I love the way New York looks in this.
I can't remember where they filmed this, at some mare
Canadian I'm sure, But doesn't it make New York. It's
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giving me as a girl who grew up watching Felicity,
it gives me those same sort of New York.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Vibes like I was so drawn Luca. I was so
drawn to New York City watching Felicity. It's the same
feeling I have watching this too. And I don't know
if they goronto okay, but I mean there's a lot
of like New York scenes obviously, but yeah, it just
makes it feel cool.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I guess my final thing that I really like about
it is that it feels a little voyeuristic watching this
show because the viewer knows how things are all are.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Connected, right, but they don't know. I don't it has
a term. I don't know what that's called in storytelling.
It just makes for compelling TV for me, Right, Like.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Walter and his wife didn't know that Chris runs right
behind them during their opening meeting, and Aria doesn't know
what the Pebble has done. And Aria doesn't know that
Chris basically followed her home, you know, deflex when Aria
asked her, Oh do you live in the building? Oh no,
I know, you know, right, Like, yeah, they don't know
all of these things. Question for you the cuff link moment,
(19:34):
Yeah we know because they flash on it when he
comes home from the bar. They kind of zoom in
on that. When Chris meets Aria's husband.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
She's like, do I know you?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And then she's like, oh, probably not. Do you think
she actually recognized him as the guy in the bar
or do you think she was just like, oh, that
face is familiar.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I think it was just that face is familiar. Yeah,
she may put two and two together eventually.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Let's talk what we wished for in this episode.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Honestly, I don't have any real wishes yet. I did
mention it earlier that if anything I have like my wishes,
I wish it would have been developed for Netflix from
the ground up, because then it would have had a
little more punch grit to it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah. I just have a few little wishes so early
in the show. I'm just waiting for more world building
into these characters because we just get such a lightwash
of several of them. I already miss Brenda. I understand that,
like her death is kind of the emotional heart of
this episode, but I also could have used like two
more little scenes of their marriage before he loses her.
(20:34):
I hope we get her in future episodes.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, as memories or whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, she was great for the John Aria infidelity reveal.
I felt like maybe it was a little bit too
quick that we find out it was him, Like, I
feel like we could have had that moment a little
it like a little slow burned out about what's going
on with the two of them. And then I just
have a lot of questions, like I assume that Chris
was fired, but we don't see her get fired, Like
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did she just decide like, oh, this isn't working for me?
Like what happened there? I really want to know more
about all of these people, but I probably have the
most questions about Nate's situation at this particular point. What's
going on with the marriage. And I also feel like
there's more going on with the daughter, like when he
loses it with her, is that just a moment of
like I'm sick? You know, kids can kind of be
frustrating or are they having trouble connecting already?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I gotta tell you, the little girl that plays the daughter,
she reminds me so much of your daughter, like when
she was little, like that those big brown eyes and
that all that brown hair. Yeah, she's real cute. Yeah,
Well let's talk.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Did you see that moment? I have a couple Okay,
let's hear it. Pretty little liars. Fans know that the
name Aria.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh it made me double take for a second. Ian
Harding's character I can't even remember his name of his
character on Pretty Little Liars, but he was a teacher
who got involved with the student. The student's name is Ari.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I have real mixed feelings about it, but it are
you is not a name you hear that often, and
for it to play in this is kind of interesting.
I'm thought, I thought that was really I don't even
know if it's clever.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I didn't. I don't know if it like, oh yeah,
exactly exactly. The other thing, when the little girl who
is hard of hearing it, runs out into the street
in front of the car, I gasped out loud. Can
you imagine being a parent of a child who cannot
hear and you're trying to get their attention? Oh my god,
can you put yourself in that driver's perspective?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
The emotional beats around parenting that daughter. When the mom
like she's getting frustrated, she and Nate are getting heated,
and he's like stop yelling. She's like why, it's not
like she can hear me, and then she like gasps,
and Liz like shocked at herself.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, it's there. Their situation is complicated, Yes, very messy.
My only other did you see that is something you
bumped on earlier. This show does require close watching. Yeah,
to watch it once or twice, because you'll see things
that are connected that maybe you don't catch the first
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time around.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
M mmmm hmm. Yeah. I think the magic in this
show is to what you said about everything that it
reveals to the viewer that it has not revealed to
those participating in it. The Blue Pebble cameo tour, which
ties all of our main characters together in a way
that they are unaware of. At this point, Nate does
(23:34):
not appear to be worried at all about his cough
and eventual CT scan, but I feel like those womens
are screaming to the viewer. Yeah, you know the fact
that the doctor talked about it. I actually really loved
that scene with the doctor. The writing is so good.
The choices we make now matter, but the choices we
made in the past matter too. And then he's like,
(23:55):
no judgment except for the sugar thing. Everyone needs a
cooking now, and then something about that's speech.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Also the filling of the biopsy scene. I thought that
the tone of that was perfect three to four days,
you'll have the results whatever, she says, Like everything about
it is so clinical and so exactly how it goes,
and so very like buy the book. Yeah, because they
just churned through these and the vast montory of time.
It's nothing and no big deal and you go on
with your life. I love the little bit about Nate
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that he can't stop talking. He just kind of brings
things up. Can't stop talking to the doctor, talks to
the tech doing the biopsy. Oh, I like I used
to like strawberries. Yea.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
He just fills the quiet, spills the time.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And the episode ending mic drop of Aria showing up
at the bar but not going in.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I had to watch that scene several times because I
was like, does she see something through the window? Does
she see her husband? Does she see a reflection? What
makes her spin out and run away from it?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah? Does she just panic? Because when you the shot
is really interesting. She looks through the window and they
show it coming in and out of focus. Yeah, So
is there something about is she recognizing someone? Is there
another connection that we aren't aware of, or is she
just like I can't Yeah, why is she backing off?
(25:15):
There's something about her story that makes her afraid. Yeah,
excellent series. I'm still very excited to see where this goes.
This is a must watch show. It was trending on
Netflix yesterday. I saw I Love when it breaks the
top ten.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Me too. My worry is this And if you guys
didn't know, this was filmed a while ago, quite some
time ago. If Netflix is like yo, I think it's Lionsgate,
who actually is Yeah, if they say we want to
do another season, is it too late for that? I don't.
I don't know how that works.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Like, have these actors moved on to do other things?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I mean I think if Netflix has come back, they're
gonna come back show me the money, right, you know.
I think it's all not that all that unusual for
stuff to be that spaced out, especially in this day
and age of streaming, where we drop it all and
then it's going to be another full year plus before
we get something new.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Fair.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I think it's not that unfortunately unusual.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I do also think it's a weird drop that Netflix
put it out at the beginning of December. Is there
any holiday sprinkled in? We don't know timeframe? Right?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Have they told us, like, what part of the year.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
We're in I don't think I don't think I've really
and they are wearing jackets though, so maybe it probably
doesn't matter. It just is interesting to me that Netflix
just was like, all right, let's put it out right December.
Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Thank you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark,
a Bramble Jam podcast. As mentioned, we will be dropping
reviews of Ripple every week throughout the completion of this series,
so come back for more and stay tuned for our
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark. I'm Megan, a longtime Hallmark fan.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater who now co
hosts a Hallmark podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Today's episode is a special one because yes, we are
talking about a Netflix series, but before anyone panics, Ripple
was originally developed for Hallmark before making its way to Netflix,
which explains why it kind of has that familiar feel
that we know and love. So if you're new here,
welcome and to our Hallmark faithful, don't worry. We're still
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very much in our Hallmark era. We're just excited to
follow a story that still carries out Hallmark DNA, even
if it's streaming somewhere else. Today we will be discussing
season one, episode one of Ripple, which is now streaming
on Netflix. The episode is titled A Stone's Throw and
for everyone we are on all of the socials as
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Girls Gone Hallmark.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Hey, if you have.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Thoughts on Ripple or anything else, quite frankly, email us
Girls Gone Hallmark at gmail dot com. We do a
sort of regular mailbag episode where we read emails from
listeners with their thoughts, so you can do that if
you have thoughts on Ripple. We are going to be
dropping our reviews weekly through the end of the series. Correct,
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So if you are.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Watching and have some thoughts and want to jump in
the discussion, please girls, go one Hallmark at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We're going to kick off our discussion of Ripple season one,
episode one with a synopsis.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The episode is titled a Stone's Throw, a greeting man
and music exec, a father in crisis, a conflicted woman,
and a pebble that causes a ripple effect, connecting the
lives of our for strangers. For anybody new to the podcast,
we do a segment of top that we call News
and Notes where we run through the people who are
involved in the creation of the show. We're gonna kick
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it off with talking about our director. Episode one was
directed by Amanda Tapping. Amanda has fifty six directing credits,
which include series like The one hundred and With an E, Motherland,
Fort Salem, and Murder in a Small Town. The writers
for episode one are Michelle Gianusa, Ava Taylor, and Jerry
Kanto Georgis.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Michelle is the showrunner of Ripple. She has just one
previous writing and producing credit, The Dead Girls Detective Agency.
Ava Taylor also has just one additional writing credit for
the television show Good Trouble And This is Jerry Kanto
Georges's first writing credit.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Kind of surprised by all of that. Yes, it's a
complicated story. I agree. I can't even imagine, like the
murder board that they.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Created, you know, I do know what you're talking about,
to weave all this together, red strings, tying all of
our characters together.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah. Frankie Faison plays Walter. He's known for The Wire
Banshee and Coming to America. Faison brings a wealth of
experience and warmth to the role. His acclaimed work in
the Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain and recent roles in Hello
Tomorrow and The Rookie Fed's hint At a depth he
can bring to Walter.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Julia Chan plays the character of Chris. Julia Chan's past
work includes Netflix's Archive eighty one, The CW's Katie Keene,
and Bell Media's Saving Hope.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Ian Harding plays Nate. Ian is well known for Pretty
Little Liars. He has appeared in movies like Ford Versus
Ferrari and Hallmark's The Magic of Lemon Drops, as well
as the limited Hallmark series Holidays.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Sidney Agadong is a singer songwriter who appears as Aria.
She has thirteen total acting credits. She appeared in the
live action Leelo and Stitch, as well as the TV
movie Trapped in the Farmhouse?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Is that a Lifetime joint?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Probably?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Marcy t House appears as widow Tara. Marcy has a
wopping one hundred and twenty six acting credits and most
recently appeared in eight episodes of Murder in a Small Town.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Sarah Swire plays Ellis. Sarah has twenty five acting credits,
most recently appearing in the series Murdoch Mysteries and The
Last Frontier.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
How cool is the name Ellis?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh my gosh. Hey, let's take a quick break and
we're gonna come right back with our first impressions of
this episode of Ripple. Hey, Wendy, what was your first
impression of episode one of Ripple? It's more about the series, Yeah,
(04:52):
and all my notes say is wow season two immediately. Yeah,
my first impression is a low emotional world building. Final boss,
let me ask you, were you surprised by this show?
Was I surprised? I will tell you spoiler alert. I
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very much enjoyed it. I will tell you this does
not feel like a Hallmark show, So I'm surprised in
that sense, got it? Can I tell you my very
first like, yes, no shade to Hallmark, but I'm honestly
so happy this didn't air on Hallmark because people would
not have rallied for it.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Ripple is exactly the kind of show that Hallmark traditionalist
would have torched, right, And like I say, no shade
to the Hallmark fan. I'm a Hallmark fan, but.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
This is so not Hallmark. It's not Hallmark. It's not Hallmark,
and I would love if this is the direction Hallmark
was headed.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So do I and I think it's a real misstep
that they let this go.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I think if it premiered on Hallmark or Home which
it was originally for Hallmark Plus, Is that right? Yes?
I think we'd be looking at another Providence Falls, which
was a three part mini series on Hallmark Channel that
wasn't super well received.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No, but if you're listening to this and you have
a Hallmark Plus subscription, it's worth checking out that series.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah. The reason why I, in my opinion, think that
the fans wouldn't like wouldn't have liked this on Hallmark
is because it's not built on the guaranteed tidy ending correct,
And as we record this, I have seen the first
three episodes. I haven't seen the whole series yet. I
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don't know how it ends.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It's not built on familiarity, right there's you know, Hallmark
follows a very familiar structure. It's why they're so successful,
and this is not built on that, and that's why
it works. Look this pilot, this is one of the
things I liked. They're setting the stage, like the emotional
narration that we get from Aria. Small choices change big things.
We're all strangers before we meet. I mean, it kind
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of like sets the mood, lets us know where we're going,
and then they just weave this tapestry of all these
tiny little choices that ultimately push these characters closer together.
Now I have not seen beyond episode one yet, but
I feel like, and I could be wrong, we're then
going to dig deeper into these characters' lives, perhaps see
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bits and pieces of their past, how they came to be.
But this just the way it brings us all together
at the end of the episode is masterful.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I think so too, And like I said, I don't
want to spoil anything, but in episode two you'll see
like the ripple effects, there's other like fringe people, like
it's you know, like it keeps growing bigger and bigger
and bigger.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And then it's the girl in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
The girl in the hospital, there's her brother, like in
all these like you know, these kind of characters where
you at first watch would be like they're not significant
to the story, but like it's just all like weaving together.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah. Well, I would say this is the kind of
show like you should watch twice, because I watched it twice,
and there are things you will miss until you realize
that you're like, oh wait, that was significant, and then
you go back and then you see how they laid
the ground work for that moment exactly exactly. Let's dig
into some things that we liked about this episode more specifically.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Huge, huge shout out to Andrea Higgins, who is the
music supervisor for this show. I felt the music is
doing some of the emotional heavy lifting in this episode.
I freaking loved it. If you're familiar with our reviews
our podcast Hallmark in General, there's a show actually it's
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on Netflix too. A show called The Way Home, another show.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
That has excellent music. This is the same format like
so good. It sets a tone it is He's so
so good.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So shout out to Andrea Higgins.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I really enjoyed Walter's grief storyline.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
On Protect this Man at all Costs.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I enjoyed. I mean it ripped my heart out and
stomped on it. The slow realization of what has happened,
the silent hospital, voiceless reveal as she's passed his equally
silent breakdown again. All of this set to the music
that you talked about. When he walks in the door
alone with her bag of hospital belongings, he talks about
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we get reveals like he's not sleeping, he's keeping her
side of the bed. The pebble moment he has back
at their spot where they met in the beginning of
the episode, the grief. He is showing us what he
is going through. I want to wrap this man in
a bubble. When we get to the end of the
episode and he's forming these new friendships with Ellis and
(09:57):
with Nate, I just feel so protective of his seem incredible.
Let's talk about the rest of the cast. Yes, I
personally feel like casting is.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Unreal in this. In this show Ian Harding. Obviously I
watch Pretty Little Liars. I know him from that show.
I review a lot of Hallmark movies. I know him
from Hallmark. I think he's great in this. He does.
He does a lot of emoting with his face yes,
and I feel, oh my gosh, the micro expressions, the
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exhaustion he shows, the guilt, the tenderness. The scenes with
his wife make me physically uncomfortable. Right.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
He's juggling a bar, He's in the middle of a
divorce that we don't fully understand the details of. He's
co parenting a daughter who is hard of hearing. And
that cough that makes me gives me that nerve. I
mean we know, obviously they don't tell us, but we
know the second he's coughing, this is bad. Like must
bidi'es me said, sins are tingling. When his wife's like,
(11:01):
maybe you need an antibiotic, I'm like, mmmm, so not great.
And that's when, like, when I'm watching this, I was like, oh,
how was this going to be on Hallmark? Right?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The amount of bad things happening in this first episode
I think might have scared people away.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, I think I think we're going to be redefining
what it means to have a show with a happy ending.
And look, I mean talk about the abount of bad things.
Let's talk about Aria. Aria is experiencing infertility, and we
also learned she's experiencing infidelity that.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
She doesn't know about.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
It, she does not know about and she's in therapy.
She's got stuff to deal with in therapy that she's
not even willing to talk about, because we see her
therapist try and push her to talk about certain things
and she changes the subject. There was something that caused
her to abandon her music at one point, she doesn't
want to talk about it. The therapist suggests that she's
angry about something else, not just her infertility, but she
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doesn't want to talk about that. I mean, there's so
many layers to her. She's very she herself is not messy,
but her story is very messy. And there, I mean,
there's a lot going on there.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Her entire arc to me, feels like a slow car
crash that I can't turn away from. It is I
don't I don't know why I'm so drawn to her story.
It feels like it's gonna hurt the most and I
don't know why.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Finally we have Chris.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I love Chris, I love the character Chris. I love Julia.
Chan I was like, Okay, I need to do a
deep dive on her. Right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
She's great, She's really great, and like she just has
this strong presence when she storms into that bar and
she's like, I'll have your best read, and he's like,
we're not open, and she just she was not taking
from it for answer. She and Nate have such incredible
banter back and forth. I mean, they just give it
to each other this whole time, but they're developing this
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beautiful relationship at the same time. I mean they almost
kiss what. On the one hand, I'm rooting for that.
On the other hand, I'm fairly certain that Nate just
received a terminal diagnosis on the phone, or at the
very least a not great diagnosis. Whether it's terminal or not.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, I'm waiting for you to be like, and he's
technically married.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Still he is technically married, but they've been separated for
a year. Yeah, he's yes, he's married. It seems like
the wife may be the hold up because he talks
about I'm looking for a new place. It's going to
be close to our daughter school. He's real short with her, yes,
and she's like, oh, you're just pushing it along. He's like,
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it's been a year. Yeah, look, what's the backstory there?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Yeah? I need more backstory.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And when he shows up at the hospital, he's like,
the school's calling me telling me the check bounce.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
What's going on? More story there?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Let me ask you a question. Did you ever watch
this series This is Us or a Million Little Things?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I watched This is Us, I didn't finish it. I've
never seen a million Little Things.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
To me, this show is kind of in that lane
like this would have been Network TV. I'm trying, like
I was gonna say, like I was gonna compare it
to the Grays, but Maybearentoo Parenthood. Yeah, kind of heavier themes,
big ensemble cast, big ensemble cast. It works for me.
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I also can see it's soft around the edges, which
makes me believe it was developed for Hallmark. If it
was originally developed for Netflix, it wouldn't have a little
more teeth to it, like maybe some cursing, you know,
get crazy, and it wouldn't if there was cursing in it, Like, look, guys,
(14:56):
I have a terrible potty mouth. If there was cursing
in it would be believable. Yeah, with what they're going through,
With what they're going through, exactly, exactly. Oh we didn't
talk about Ellis and Tara. Oh yes, I think these
are great additions to the cast. They're not the main four,
but they're definitely involved. When Tara goes to Walter's wife's
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funeral and then gives him like a pamphlet for like
a support group or whatever, why is this woman so wonderful?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
He tries to hand it back and she pushes his
hand back and says, what doesn't bend breaks, And then
he goes tells her this really isn't for me. When
she says, it's cool, I get it. Like we're going
through the same thing. I thought we could maybe connect
help each other out. So she's willing to meet him
(15:49):
where he is. The church support group isn't his thing,
and now they're going to develop this friendship because they
both lost their wives. The person I am perhaps in
intrigued about is Ellis. Tell me more so we see
Owen say I'm out, I'm getting a real job. I
can't sit around here waiting to be discovered. Come to
(16:13):
find out Chris, our music exec saw him, was charmed
and he took a corporate job. She says, man, Owen,
we were supposed to starve together forever.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
We know.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Ellis is an artist. She's selling her designs on a
T shirt and Nate's like, someday you're going to be
in an art gallery, and the realization that Owen is
wrapping it up tapped out gives his guitar away. He's
moving on the look on her face when she realizes, Oh,
when am I going to have to make that same
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choice for myself as well? What's her story there? I'm
very intrigued by Ellis. I also find her so charming
behind the bar. There's a character on TikTok that I'm
going to link to in the show notes, where it's
the bartender or the barista that everyone's in love with
that has this quiet coolness about them. I'm going to
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link this TikTok because Ellis is giving that. And I'm
not knocking her performance by comparing it to a TikToker No,
but I hear what you're saying. She is the epitome
of like quiet cool.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, she's super cool. I want to see more of
that unfold as well. Now I have a bunch of
little a little likes. Can we go through them?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Loomy West is their cheers. It's there a central perk.
I love this choice. It gives the characters a home
base in a show that is all about chaos. Basically,
I love that Ny and Chris for me, have lightning
in a bottle chemistry. Yeah, I'm rooting for them.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
And the man is married, I know, like he's separated.
I don't get hung up on this. I'm truly surprised
that you're not. I do feel like your relationship is over.
They're married a name only.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
I agree with that.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
When Chris walks into the bar, and that final scene
in the bar when they're all coming together, do you
see the way they connect across the room and their
eyes meet and they both smile at each other. Yeah,
my gosh, I love the way New York looks in this.
I can't remember where they filmed this, at some mare
Canadian I'm sure, But doesn't it make New York. It's
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giving me as a girl who grew up watching Felicity,
it gives me those same sort of New York.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Vibes like I was so drawn Luca. I was so
drawn to New York City watching Felicity. It's the same
feeling I have watching this too. And I don't know
if they goronto okay, but I mean there's a lot
of like New York scenes obviously, but yeah, it just
makes it feel cool.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I guess my final thing that I really like about
it is that it feels a little voyeuristic watching this
show because the viewer knows how things are all are.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Connected, right, but they don't know. I don't it has
a term. I don't know what that's called in storytelling.
It just makes for compelling TV for me, Right, Like.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Walter and his wife didn't know that Chris runs right
behind them during their opening meeting, and Aria doesn't know
what the Pebble has done. And Aria doesn't know that
Chris basically followed her home, you know, deflex when Aria
asked her, Oh do you live in the building? Oh no,
I know, you know, right, Like, yeah, they don't know
all of these things. Question for you the cuff link moment,
(19:34):
Yeah we know because they flash on it when he
comes home from the bar. They kind of zoom in
on that. When Chris meets Aria's husband.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
She's like, do I know you?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And then she's like, oh, probably not. Do you think
she actually recognized him as the guy in the bar
or do you think she was just like, oh, that
face is familiar.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
I think it was just that face is familiar. Yeah,
she may put two and two together eventually.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Let's talk what we wished for in this episode.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Honestly, I don't have any real wishes yet. I did
mention it earlier that if anything I have like my wishes,
I wish it would have been developed for Netflix from
the ground up, because then it would have had a
little more punch grit to it.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah. I just have a few little wishes so early
in the show. I'm just waiting for more world building
into these characters because we just get such a lightwash
of several of them. I already miss Brenda. I understand that,
like her death is kind of the emotional heart of
this episode, but I also could have used like two
more little scenes of their marriage before he loses her.
(20:34):
I hope we get her in future episodes.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, as memories or whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, she was great for the John Aria infidelity reveal.
I felt like maybe it was a little bit too
quick that we find out it was him, Like, I
feel like we could have had that moment a little
it like a little slow burned out about what's going
on with the two of them. And then I just
have a lot of questions, like I assume that Chris
was fired, but we don't see her get fired, Like
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did she just decide like, oh, this isn't working for me?
Like what happened there? I really want to know more
about all of these people, but I probably have the
most questions about Nate's situation at this particular point. What's
going on with the marriage. And I also feel like
there's more going on with the daughter, like when he
loses it with her, is that just a moment of
like I'm sick? You know, kids can kind of be
frustrating or are they having trouble connecting already?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
I gotta tell you, the little girl that plays the daughter,
she reminds me so much of your daughter, like when
she was little, like that those big brown eyes and
that all that brown hair. Yeah, she's real cute. Yeah,
Well let's talk.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Did you see that moment? I have a couple Okay,
let's hear it. Pretty little liars. Fans know that the
name Aria.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh it made me double take for a second. Ian
Harding's character I can't even remember his name of his
character on Pretty Little Liars, but he was a teacher
who got involved with the student. The student's name is Ari.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I have real mixed feelings about it, but it are
you is not a name you hear that often, and
for it to play in this is kind of interesting.
I'm thought, I thought that was really I don't even
know if it's clever.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I didn't. I don't know if it like, oh yeah,
exactly exactly. The other thing, when the little girl who
is hard of hearing it, runs out into the street
in front of the car, I gasped out loud. Can
you imagine being a parent of a child who cannot
hear and you're trying to get their attention? Oh my god,
can you put yourself in that driver's perspective?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
The emotional beats around parenting that daughter. When the mom
like she's getting frustrated, she and Nate are getting heated,
and he's like stop yelling. She's like why, it's not
like she can hear me, and then she like gasps,
and Liz like shocked at herself.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, it's there. Their situation is complicated, Yes, very messy.
My only other did you see that is something you
bumped on earlier. This show does require close watching. Yeah,
to watch it once or twice, because you'll see things
that are connected that maybe you don't catch the first
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time around.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
M mmmm hmm. Yeah. I think the magic in this
show is to what you said about everything that it
reveals to the viewer that it has not revealed to
those participating in it. The Blue Pebble cameo tour, which
ties all of our main characters together in a way
that they are unaware of. At this point, Nate does
(23:34):
not appear to be worried at all about his cough
and eventual CT scan, but I feel like those womens
are screaming to the viewer. Yeah, you know the fact
that the doctor talked about it. I actually really loved
that scene with the doctor. The writing is so good.
The choices we make now matter, but the choices we
made in the past matter too. And then he's like,
(23:55):
no judgment except for the sugar thing. Everyone needs a
cooking now, and then something about that's speech.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Also the filling of the biopsy scene. I thought that
the tone of that was perfect three to four days,
you'll have the results whatever, she says, Like everything about
it is so clinical and so exactly how it goes,
and so very like buy the book. Yeah, because they
just churned through these and the vast montory of time.
It's nothing and no big deal and you go on
with your life. I love the little bit about Nate
(24:24):
that he can't stop talking. He just kind of brings
things up. Can't stop talking to the doctor, talks to
the tech doing the biopsy. Oh, I like I used
to like strawberries. Yea.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
He just fills the quiet, spills the time.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And the episode ending mic drop of Aria showing up
at the bar but not going in.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I had to watch that scene several times because I
was like, does she see something through the window? Does
she see her husband? Does she see a reflection? What
makes her spin out and run away from it?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah? Does she just panic? Because when you the shot
is really interesting. She looks through the window and they
show it coming in and out of focus. Yeah, So
is there something about is she recognizing someone? Is there
another connection that we aren't aware of, or is she
just like I can't Yeah, why is she backing off?
(25:15):
There's something about her story that makes her afraid. Yeah,
excellent series. I'm still very excited to see where this goes.
This is a must watch show. It was trending on
Netflix yesterday. I saw I Love when it breaks the
top ten.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Me too. My worry is this And if you guys
didn't know, this was filmed a while ago, quite some
time ago. If Netflix is like yo, I think it's Lionsgate,
who actually is Yeah, if they say we want to
do another season, is it too late for that? I don't.
I don't know how that works.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Like, have these actors moved on to do other things?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I mean I think if Netflix has come back, they're
gonna come back show me the money, right, you know.
I think it's all not that all that unusual for
stuff to be that spaced out, especially in this day
and age of streaming, where we drop it all and
then it's going to be another full year plus before
we get something new.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Fair.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I think it's not that unfortunately unusual.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I do also think it's a weird drop that Netflix
put it out at the beginning of December. Is there
any holiday sprinkled in? We don't know timeframe? Right?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Have they told us, like, what part of the year.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
We're in I don't think I don't think I've really
and they are wearing jackets though, so maybe it probably
doesn't matter. It just is interesting to me that Netflix
just was like, all right, let's put it out right December.
Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Thank you for listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark,
a Bramble Jam podcast. As mentioned, we will be dropping
reviews of Ripple every week throughout the completion of this series,
so come back for more and stay tuned for our
Hallmark movie and series reviews as well. We'll see you
next time. Goodbye bye. All right friends, before we go,
(27:06):
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 snack, hit the skip button, or
maybe just maybe listen in and discover your new favorite product. Bye.
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