Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast from Mama Mia. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Spill, your daily pop culture fix. I'm Concena lu.
Speaker 2: Kid and I'm Laura Brodney.
Speaker 1: And this summer we have curated your Spilled blaylist with
Speaker 1: some brand new episodes and some of our absolute favorites.
Speaker 1: So on today's episode, we're going to be diving in
Speaker 1: to the best rom com TV shows. Now, Laura, this
Speaker 1: is one you and I did a little bit earlier
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: Yes, so we did this off the back of Lena
Speaker 2: Dunham's new rom com that came out this year too Much,
Speaker 2: and it got us thinking about other TV rom coms
Speaker 2: that I don't know about you, but I watch over
Speaker 2: and over and over again. Some of them you have
Speaker 2: heard of. I'm sure some of them you definitely have it.
Speaker 2: But if you're looking for something to watch over the holidays,
Speaker 2: I feel like this would be your list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this particular episode is one where you were
Speaker 1: got very very upset with me with my lack of
Speaker 1: TV show knowledge due to the fact that I didn't
Speaker 1: know about Emily in Paris.
Speaker 2: That you didn't know about it, you hadn't watched it.
Speaker 2: It's a cultural hit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was also a bit about Gilmore Girls in
Speaker 1: here too. I really got a flogging in this episode.
Speaker 2: I think I might have blacked that out that whole
Speaker 2: conversation because I can't. I can't deal with girl so
Speaker 2: disappointed and I still am. And if you're looking for
Speaker 2: even more rom com content, we do have a brand
Speaker 2: new episode dropping into your feeds soon about the classic
Speaker 2: most beloved rom com couples that we are sure absolutely
Speaker 2: broke up once the movie finished, so steaching for that.
Speaker 1: I love this one. It's like, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: fan fic, but for rom coms. Now. You have been
Speaker 1: suggesting this incessantly on our channels for weeks and weeks
Speaker 1: and weeks, and we finally had to say today, Okay, Laura,
Speaker 1: for God's sake, will do it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: This is the best romantic comedy series of all time.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a couple of my favorites,
Speaker 1: which are more like more well known, and then you're
Speaker 1: gonna give us the ones that we don't know.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I should say before we jump into that,
Speaker 2: So that is how we're going to do it. What
Speaker 2: is a fun, frivolous Friday episode about love and romance
Speaker 2: without some rules.
Speaker 1: Yeah, rules is what I bring to know. We're about
Speaker 1: to say, I'm about to say, Laura will now come
Speaker 1: in with her rules.
Speaker 2: Because this is what you want from a pop culture podcast. No,
Speaker 2: not just to define things. So obviously we were talking
Speaker 2: about TV romantic comedies because, as you would have heard
Speaker 2: in our wee can Watch episode this morning, Lena Dunham's
Speaker 2: new rom com has just come out on Netflix Too Much.
Speaker 2: Even though it's a rom comm and a drama, Lena
Speaker 2: Dunham said her catalyst for making the show was as
Speaker 2: a bit of a love letter to the romantic comedies
Speaker 2: she grew up watching in all the movies that she loved,
Speaker 2: and so that got me thinking that we always talk
Speaker 2: about romantic comedy movies, and obviously there's so many incredible
Speaker 2: romantic comedy movies out there, but I feel like we
Speaker 2: don't talk enough about romantic comedy TV shows and they
Speaker 2: are also very, very important. So that's what we're going
Speaker 2: to do today. So we've defined a romantic comedy TV
Speaker 2: show as obviously something that is a that has lightness
Speaker 2: and frothiness to it, but something where the love story
Speaker 2: is the central driving part of the show. And it
Speaker 2: is the end game, and you do get that love
Speaker 2: story payoff at the end. So that is how we're
Speaker 2: defining a romantic comedy TV show.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to start with one that is on
Speaker 1: the newer side. It only came out last year on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants this.
Speaker 2: Never heard of it except for the fifteen podcasts WED.
Speaker 1: I know we've talked about it a lot, so we
Speaker 1: don't have to go too much into it because I
Speaker 1: know probably everyone's over it. But it would be remiss
Speaker 1: if I didn't mention it because I think it fits
Speaker 1: the genre.
Speaker 2: What did you love about it? That's what we've never
Speaker 2: talked about this before.
Speaker 1: We haven't. I really loved the comedy. I liked the
Speaker 1: cross cultural development of a love story that's not like
Speaker 1: a typical love story, and something centered around religion. It's
Speaker 1: not something that we really see very often, this agnostic
Speaker 1: woman going for this Jewish rabbi. I just thought it
Speaker 1: was a really interesting take. I also really liked the
Speaker 1: sidecat like go Good. One of my favorite characters is
Speaker 1: Sasha played by Timothy Simons. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: ever watched Veep. Did you watch Veab? Yes, he was
Speaker 1: in Vape. He was Jonah in Vain and it's just
Speaker 1: he's such a great character. He's so funny. And the
Speaker 1: new season is coming out in October.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, our calendars are marked.
Speaker 1: Yes, so we don't have long to wait for season two.
Speaker 1: But I think in terms of fitting your rules, it
Speaker 1: really yep nails it.
Speaker 2: It really does.
Speaker 1: Yes. The other one that I wanted to do is
Speaker 1: one that is a bit older. It wrapped filming in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and it's New Girl.
Speaker 2: My god, New Girl is just one of my ultimate
Speaker 2: comfort watches. But I think what it doesn't get enough credit.
Speaker 2: Maybe it does, but like the hardcore fans know that
Speaker 2: as much as that is an incredible ensemble comedy, it's
Speaker 2: the love story that is so perfectly done. Romantic comedy
Speaker 2: writers dream of a love story.
Speaker 1: Like that, and you know that there's all these stories
Speaker 1: about so. Elizabeth Merriweather created the show and during the
Speaker 1: early episodes, Zoey Deschanel and Jake Johnson, who played Yessca
Speaker 1: Day and Nick Miller, weren't actually allowed to do too
Speaker 1: many scenes together because their chemistry was too good. I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it so much, and they just
Speaker 1: hit it off straight away and you know, obviously a
Speaker 1: lot of the time with these kind of sick comy shows,
Speaker 1: that relationship develops, but it really is from the very beginning.
Speaker 1: You can see that there is chemistry between the two films.
Speaker 1: And again it's just so funny. It's so silly. The
Speaker 1: guy who plays Winston Bishop like Lemonne's, Yeah, he's so funny.
Speaker 1: Like as he grows it gets quirkier. But my favorite
Speaker 1: is definitely Schmidt Max Greenfield. Just how during the pandemic
Speaker 1: with his daughter those funny TikTok He is hilarious.
Speaker 2: I loved him in Running Point as well recently, but
Speaker 2: I just I just will find him like the hottest
Speaker 2: man ever. Also, Veronica Mars fans know him as Leo,
Speaker 2: but he is so good at that show.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he was gonna quick acting before he did this, I.
Speaker 2: Know, and this is the role that really gave him
Speaker 2: his new stardom.
Speaker 1: But yeah, my favorite like bit that they do throughout
Speaker 1: the series, and it's not part of the love story,
Speaker 1: but I'm a bit of a comedy fan. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: favorite bit that they do is the douchebag job.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, and how they stomp it at the
Speaker 2: wedding it's so funny. Damn it.
Speaker 1: I can't find my driving moccasins anywhere all the way.
Speaker 2: He says, you's youth everywhere? Are you? I quote shimd
Speaker 2: a lot, which doesn't really fit in with my day
Speaker 2: to day life. I quote you weird. So it's just
Speaker 2: he've got a quote for everything, or at least weird.
Speaker 1: He's so funny. Anyway, That is kind of my favorite.
Speaker 1: That's on Disney Plus now you can watch all seasons.
Speaker 2: And it's such a good rewatch too. We watch it
Speaker 2: every couple of years. It really holds up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great rewatch. It's just fun. It's cozy,
Speaker 1: it's easy.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The last one is a really obvious one. But I
Speaker 1: have a confession. I've never seen it. It's Emily in Paris.
Speaker 2: Get out of here. Well you know what I'd rather
Speaker 2: you say I haven't seen it, then say it's bad,
Speaker 2: I hate it or I don't understand it. For those
Speaker 2: people who say I don't understand it, what is there
Speaker 2: to understand, it's a pretty basic plot point and a
Speaker 2: pretty basic promise anyway. Obviously, I really love Italy in Paris,
Speaker 2: not even in it. I don't hate watch anything I
Speaker 2: only love watch. So I really like it and you
Speaker 2: can continue. What's it about?
Speaker 1: Okay? So this is, like I guess, it's about a
Speaker 1: girl who's.
Speaker 2: Actually what you think it's about.
Speaker 1: Okay. She's a marketing chick in I'm guessing New York,
Speaker 1: Chicago probably, yeah, Chicago. And then she flies over to
Speaker 1: Paris because she gets a job over there.
Speaker 2: She's transferred by her company yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, because they wanted to have like an American lens on,
Speaker 1: like the Perisian life. Yeah, she goes over there, and
Speaker 1: then she meets downstairs from her house is a really
Speaker 1: hot guy and he's French. She's in ridiculous outfits and
Speaker 1: high hills and it's very glamorous. Yes, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's the story.
Speaker 2: I mean, that is kind of the story part. That's
Speaker 2: what it's meant to be. Like, I just find Emily
Speaker 2: and Paris is just so beautiful to watch. It does
Speaker 2: really pre I think you would really like it, Like, yes,
Speaker 2: there's some silliness to it, but it's meant to be
Speaker 2: a silly caper. It's also not meant to be for
Speaker 2: French people. They would never watch it. I think most
Speaker 2: of them don't even know it exists. It's for the
Speaker 2: basic girls like us.
Speaker 1: No, but I love Paris and I pride myself on
Speaker 1: being very Prosian.
Speaker 2: No wit okay, no, no, you can love Paris. Also,
Speaker 2: her version of Paris is obviously like an American idealized
Speaker 2: fantasy to an extent. But whenever I go to Paris,
Speaker 2: I don't think of Emily in Paris like they're two
Speaker 2: kinds of stepend things, except for the fact that she
Speaker 2: goes around to a lot of the very touristy sides
Speaker 2: and loves them. And I also feel that's what you
Speaker 2: do when you go to Paris for the first time,
Speaker 2: and there's no shame in that. There's no shame in
Speaker 2: seeing the Eiffel Tower or the Louver or something and
Speaker 2: getting excited, because that's fine when you see that for
Speaker 2: the first time, you should be excited. Otherwise you're dead inside.
Speaker 2: Do There's a thing called Paris syndrome where people go
Speaker 2: to Paris with such high expectations and when they go
Speaker 2: outside of some of the city centers and they see
Speaker 2: the rubbish and they see the normal houses, people have
Speaker 2: been hospitalized over Paris. That's a true act. Over Paris syndrome.
Speaker 2: Because the shock and the disappointment of this world that
Speaker 2: they built up is not there anymore.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding? Paris is my favorite city. I love
Speaker 1: Paris so much so.
Speaker 2: Paris is also I mean, I know it's one of
Speaker 2: my favorite city street no one's ever said that before,
Speaker 2: But I guess there are parts of it that don't
Speaker 2: look like Paris.
Speaker 1: Well. I think if you're going look outskirts of Paris
Speaker 1: is very different to being in like where the Shaws is,
Speaker 1: and it's like very bougie and expensive. Obviously, if you're
Speaker 1: going into the you know, outer our endorsements, it's a
Speaker 1: bit different, you know. I think it's a point of
Speaker 1: pride for me that I haven't seen it because twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty five it's had so much hype and
Speaker 1: the fact that I've gone this long without watching it, I.
Speaker 2: Can't start now. I unders no, I don't understand that
Speaker 2: at all. I just think that if you want to
Speaker 2: watch it and it's this lovely, frothy, romantic comedy esque
Speaker 2: TV show, you should just watch it. That's not that
Speaker 2: if I'm like, that's not the thing to kind of
Speaker 2: get hung up on, is all I would say. Some
Speaker 2: people don't like it because I think it's silly, and like, yes,
Speaker 2: it is silly. It's also not meant to be a drama.
Speaker 1: I don't mind silly. I like like feel good silly.
Speaker 2: It's my favorite. I'm really being on having like very
Speaker 2: kind of soothing TV shows, especially that I watch like
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday morning. I've got a band. None of
Speaker 2: my friends are allowed to ask me to brunch of
Speaker 2: breakfast anymore, call me, talk to me, go near me,
Speaker 2: because that is my calm time where I wake up
Speaker 2: whatever time I want, and I go out too my
Speaker 2: living room and I have all my bunches of fresh flowers,
Speaker 2: light my candles. I know you have children?
Speaker 1: How to do this so much?
Speaker 2: Laura, Well one day you come visit me.
Speaker 1: Can I had kids like you know?
Speaker 2: Well, this will come back around different seasons for different
Speaker 2: parts of life, and I'll make my beautiful coffee and
Speaker 2: I all I want to do then is watch something
Speaker 2: very soothing that's beautiful and that just like looks lovely
Speaker 2: on screen. And Emily in Paris is really that show.
Speaker 2: And also there are some great performances in there from
Speaker 2: Lily Colin, who players Emily Cooper does the part that
Speaker 2: she's meant to play like she does that fine, but
Speaker 2: a lot of the side characters, all the people who
Speaker 2: work in the French office, Sylvie incredible, Mindy incredible. Like,
Speaker 2: there's a lot to watch it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, now that we've gone through some of the
Speaker 1: obvious choices, do you want to take us through some
Speaker 1: of the ones that we most likely haven't seen?
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, this is the moment I have been waiting for. Okay.
Speaker 2: So the first one I wanted to bring up is
Speaker 2: a show that I absolutely fell in love with when
Speaker 2: it came out back in twenty and nineteen. And it's
Speaker 2: a really beautiful rom com series called Four Weddings and
Speaker 2: a Funeral, like the Yeah Grant movie. Yeah, like the
Speaker 2: very very famous movie Hugh Grants. I know you're gonna say,
Speaker 2: but Laura, that's a movie. Well, Mindy Kayling, Mindy Kaling.
Speaker 2: It's like I'm on the defensive today. I'm like, no
Speaker 2: one saying you think about rom comms. Mindy Kayling, one
Speaker 2: of my very favorite TV actresses. Writers creators adapted the movie,
Speaker 2: which was originally written by Richard Curtis, who, if you
Speaker 2: look up that band's name, has written every big rom
Speaker 2: com that we love. Here's the Godfather of rom Comms.
Speaker 2: Mindy Kayling loves rom comms and she loved that movie,
Speaker 2: and so she adapted into a TV series where the
Speaker 2: overall premise is very the same, but it's different in
Speaker 2: terms of like she switched the characters, and one of
Speaker 2: the big switches is that there is now a female lead.
Speaker 2: It's Natalie Emmanuel, who people would know from Game of Thrones,
Speaker 2: Fast and Furious, that really hot vampire movie The Invitation.
Speaker 2: She plays our league girl Maya, and she's an American,
Speaker 2: but she ends up moving to London where her college
Speaker 2: friends are, and it tells the story of these four
Speaker 2: American friends, Maya, Craig, Ainslie and Duffy, and they reunite
Speaker 2: for this very fabulous London wedding. Something happens, and then
Speaker 2: it follows them over their lives of the next year
Speaker 2: that tell all of their different love stories. And it's
Speaker 2: just this beautiful, like if you just want to watch
Speaker 2: something like really frothy and lovely with incredible dialogue that's
Speaker 2: set in London, and it is really beautiful to watch.
Speaker 2: The performances are so good. Mindy Kayling's script is like
Speaker 2: ten out of ten and like, you don't have to
Speaker 2: have seen Four Weddings in a Funeral, although you should watch.
Speaker 1: That's right, what's it streaming on?
Speaker 2: It's on Prime Video now. It wasn't when it came out,
Speaker 2: so yeah, it came out so many years ago, and
Speaker 2: anytime people messaged me because I had so many message
Speaker 2: mostly from spillers on Instagram being like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: laur it's Saturday and I need something to watch, and
Speaker 2: they always want like often like it's just an easy
Speaker 2: to watch TV show, and Four Wings in a Funeral
Speaker 2: of the TV series is always top of my list
Speaker 2: to send because I just know so many people haven't
Speaker 2: watched it. So it's on Prime video so worth watching.
Speaker 2: The next one I wanted to recommend, since we're talking
Speaker 2: about Mindy Kaling, is the MINDI Project. Have you seen it?
Speaker 1: I have seen it, Oh my god, so much.
Speaker 2: You've seen it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've only seen a couple of episodes. I have
Speaker 1: not like super deep into us, but I do love
Speaker 1: her finding out her whole history on the office and
Speaker 1: how she's a writer with bj Novak and like that
Speaker 1: her whole law is so great. She is incredible and
Speaker 1: she's so funny in the office and I love I
Speaker 1: do really like the MINDI Project. I just I don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of time. This is the great thing
Speaker 1: about working with you is I just put all of
Speaker 1: these things in my mind. Yeah, and one day you
Speaker 1: book a mind box yeah, also known as brain yeah,
Speaker 1: but for you.
Speaker 2: It's a mind box.
Speaker 1: Today it's a mind box.
Speaker 2: So the MINDI Project, yes, it was created, written and
Speaker 2: starring Mindy Kayling. And again I don't say this slightly.
Speaker 2: It is one of the funniest TV shows I have
Speaker 2: ever seen. But also it's very romantic comedy centered. So
Speaker 2: Mindy Kayling grew up loving romantic comedies, but she always
Speaker 2: thought there was no one who looks like her as
Speaker 2: a woman of Indian descent on these shows or movies
Speaker 2: or anything like that. So that was her goal to
Speaker 2: write a rom com where she could play the lead character,
Speaker 2: and she could live in the beautiful New York apartment,
Speaker 2: and she could wear the beautiful clothes, and she could
Speaker 2: run through the streets and have these wild romantic escapades
Speaker 2: with men. So it is that, but it's also a
Speaker 2: bit of a send up of those tropes. What's also
Speaker 2: interesting is she plays a doctor because she made her
Speaker 2: character just like a little bit insufferable in the funniest
Speaker 2: way possible, and a little bit of a diva and
Speaker 2: a little bit just like ridiculous. But then she's also
Speaker 2: a doctor so that you like her a little bit.
Speaker 2: So it has all these incredible rom comm tropes to it.
Speaker 2: It's very funny. But what I love is at the
Speaker 2: central relationship between her and Danny, who's another doctor at
Speaker 2: her practice, is based on the love story of Pride
Speaker 2: and Prejudice. So it's based on like him being this
Speaker 2: very gruff, unattainable person who like originally really doesn't like
Speaker 2: her and things. Yeah, and then and then their relationship
Speaker 2: really evolved. And again not to spoil it, but like
Speaker 2: you know how like when you're watching a couple get
Speaker 2: together and like you can tell it's gonna happen, and
Speaker 2: it's building, and it's building.
Speaker 1: We building like a hate to love story lovers hate
Speaker 1: us to love it trop trope.
Speaker 2: So good and like the build up and the moment
Speaker 2: they actually get together is so worth the hype. So
Speaker 2: the MINDI Project, you can watch it on Prime Video
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: It's got six seasons as well. You can really like
Speaker 1: get into it.
Speaker 2: It could have been fifteen, would have watched it? Okay.
Speaker 2: Another one I wanted to chat about was an Austrange show.
Speaker 2: Actually that has two seasons out on Binge. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you've watched this one, Colin from Accounts.
Speaker 1: No, I haven't, but I should because I always see
Speaker 1: clips of it and I feel like it's really.
Speaker 2: Good, so freakin' funny. So it's written, created, directed, starring
Speaker 2: Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammle, who.
Speaker 1: I love Harriet Dyer interviewed her a few times and
Speaker 1: she's amazing, Yes, and she's incredible. Patrick Brammel is also
Speaker 1: so funny. So I should watch this because did you
Speaker 1: ever watch the one with Matt.
Speaker 2: Oh the Wrong Guy?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she plays Stevie and that she's so funny. Yeah,
Speaker 2: she's an incredible comedy actress. We're both from Townsville, so
Speaker 2: you know connected. So in this show Colin from Accounts,
Speaker 2: so yes, Patrick and Harriet together in real life. They
Speaker 2: created the show together, and in it, Harriet plays called Ashley,
Speaker 2: Patrick plays a man called Gordon, and they have this
Speaker 2: incredible meat cute. So a meet cute is the moment
Speaker 2: in the movie of how your two romantic leads will
Speaker 2: meet and fall in love, So Colin from Accounts is
Speaker 2: about that, but also what happens when it goes terribly wrong.
Speaker 2: So in this you've got Gordon. He's driving his car along.
Speaker 2: Harriet Dyer's character Ashley walks out in front of him
Speaker 2: across the road and she sees him. They make eye contact.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit cute and sexy, and then she
Speaker 2: just flashes a boob, just a casual flash of the boob,
Speaker 2: just to be a bit saucy and fun. And he
Speaker 2: sees her and he gets so distracted that he runs
Speaker 2: his car off the road and smashes into a dog, okay,
Speaker 2: which terrifies them both, and so they both take this
Speaker 2: dog to a clinic. His back legs are broken into
Speaker 2: being one of those little dog wheely things. At the
Speaker 2: premiere they had a dog and he wasn't the wheelly thing,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, that's probably a good thing, because that
Speaker 2: would have been very stressful for him. And then they
Speaker 2: kind of have to come together to look after this dog,
Speaker 2: and as they do that, they start to fall in love.
Speaker 2: And it's just like such a funny. It's so Australian. Obviously,
Speaker 2: because it's a strange show, but it's just so quintessentially Australian,
Speaker 2: so funny. Their chemistry is amazing, obviously because they're married
Speaker 2: with children, but it is again one of those shows
Speaker 2: that I watch it and I just sit in my
Speaker 2: apartment laughing out loud. But it's also really cute watching
Speaker 2: them fall in love.
Speaker 1: I mean, too great Aussie, because I actually really love
Speaker 1: that you put an Aussie show in there.
Speaker 2: I just feel like it's really defined what a really
Speaker 2: modern rom com can be. So there's two seasons out
Speaker 2: now they're on Binge. I would watch ten more seasons
Speaker 2: of this show. Okay. The other one I wanted to do, Sorry,
Speaker 2: I feel like this is just me, like this is the.
Speaker 1: Laura show now, because Laura, you're so good at this stuff.
Speaker 1: I just love defic I know you do, and I
Speaker 1: love TV two, but you like always have the best recommendations.
Speaker 2: I mean. The other thing is like it is my job,
Speaker 2: so I have an extra incentive to do this, as
Speaker 2: in it does keep my electricity on and food on
Speaker 2: my table. So on that note, the other one I
Speaker 2: wanted to bring up is Modern Love, which is actually
Speaker 2: a romantic comedy anthology I don't know if you've seen
Speaker 2: this one. It actually came out back in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: There's two seasons and so it's an anthology series, so
Speaker 2: every episode is its own contained story, which I think
Speaker 2: is also great, especially even have a lot of time,
Speaker 2: because you could sit down and watch one half an
Speaker 2: hour episode once a week and it's its own contending story.
Speaker 1: And it is kind of like Black Mirror.
Speaker 2: It's exactly, it's one hundred percent. That's what it is.
Speaker 2: It's Black Mirror from rom com. So Black Ara freaks
Speaker 2: you out. Go and watch More in Love because it's
Speaker 2: just sweet and lovely. It's mostly romantic love stories, but
Speaker 2: there is platonic love, family love. There's even a really
Speaker 2: lovely episode about a woman and her doorman who kind
Speaker 2: of sees her through all these big moments of her
Speaker 2: life when she becomes a single mum. I know, I
Speaker 2: cry so much. It's got an incredible cast of stars,
Speaker 2: so each episode has its own cast. Wow and some
Speaker 2: Yeah Deeltels, the hot Anne Hathaway, Dev Purtel is so
Speaker 2: good at this tiny Yeah Tina fe is incredible. An
Speaker 2: Hathaway's episode made me sob and a papquin Andrew scott'son
Speaker 2: an episode Mini Driver. It's just so incredible. And what
Speaker 2: it actually is is it's based off the Modern Love
Speaker 2: column in the New York Times, which is a very
Speaker 2: very famous column. It has been going for many, many years.
Speaker 2: I read it online a lot, and it's a weekly
Speaker 2: series where they publish all these personal essays about love
Speaker 2: and relationships. And it's just real people's stories that feature
Speaker 2: in this column, and it's so beautifully done. It just
Speaker 2: tells all these little pockets of life. And over the
Speaker 2: years it's become really famous and there's podcasts about it.
Speaker 2: Now that's this TV show. So every episode of Modern
Speaker 2: Love is based on real life people, on these people
Speaker 2: whose stories appeared in this column.
Speaker 1: Isn't it wild? How like twenty nineteen it came out,
Speaker 1: this is not really well known.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, I feel like it was very buzzy at
Speaker 2: the time. But I feel like, and especially because that
Speaker 2: like the first season had a lot of big names
Speaker 2: and the second season came out quite quickly afterwards. But
Speaker 2: I do feel like it's one of those shows like
Speaker 2: Four Wings and Funeral where there was a hit of
Speaker 2: buzz and I feel like it's really fallen off people's Radars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so modern love. I can't speak highly enough of it.
Speaker 2: There's so many episodes I still think about all these
Speaker 2: years later, and like there's frothy episodes and some episodes
Speaker 2: that just made me sob It's really beautiful. It's on Prime,
Speaker 2: It's on Prime Video. So yeah, highly recommend, because again
Speaker 2: little self contained.
Speaker 1: Do you know why I think it hasn't really hid? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because Prime wasn't that big when this came out in Australia.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like a.
Speaker 1: Massive streaming service yet, So I feel like maybe that's
Speaker 1: why a lot of people might have missed it.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure if you have a Prime subscription now
Speaker 2: you can go in and watch it, because it's all
Speaker 2: just sitting there ready to watch. Okay, one more because
Speaker 2: I just feel like I can't finish off this episode
Speaker 2: without talking about one of my favorite shows of all time,
Speaker 2: Heart of Dixie.
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm sorry, really, no, really, why why I
Speaker 1: said I watched like five seconds and I hated it.
Speaker 2: Well, of course five seconds. Also of the pilot, you
Speaker 2: should know that a pilot is not always a reflection
Speaker 2: with the real show.
Speaker 1: It was too like like it's so sugary, in the
Speaker 1: way to Sugary like two American So I can't everything.
Speaker 2: I wanted a wrong coom Sugary Americans starring Rachel Bilson.
Speaker 2: I have watched all four seasons multiple multiple, multiple times.
Speaker 2: I know, and I'm here to tell you that, and
Speaker 2: so many other women in this office too, you know.
Speaker 1: And I know that I'm going to get raped over
Speaker 1: the coals by this. I know it's very pop.
Speaker 2: I just think you have to watch more than a
Speaker 2: few seconds so it get Heart of Dixie. It's so
Speaker 2: stressful that you haven't watched it. You know, if they
Speaker 2: haven't watched it, that you're just not even giving it
Speaker 2: the kudos it deserves. But Heart is about Rachel Bilson,
Speaker 2: who again incredible actress, who really can lead a rong
Speaker 2: com like that's her Nie. She's a good leading lady.
Speaker 2: She plays doctor Zoe Hart and yes, she is a
Speaker 2: heart surgeon living in New York, very very fancy. Yeah
Speaker 2: it's not really it's not trying to be at all
Speaker 2: like subtle at anyway here. And she misses out in
Speaker 2: this huge job opportunity because her supervisor at work tells
Speaker 2: her that even though she's called doctor Heart and a
Speaker 2: heart surgeon. She doesn't have a heart, she has no
Speaker 2: bed sign manner. So he tells her to go and
Speaker 2: work as a GP for a year and then come
Speaker 2: back to the hospital and she'll have a chance. And
Speaker 2: then she can't find a GP job because obviously they're
Speaker 2: all filled for the year. And then she remembers that
Speaker 2: this strange old man in suit has been coming to
Speaker 2: her graduation in her events and stuff for over her
Speaker 2: life and keeps offering her a job, writing to her
Speaker 2: a job and saying, I own a medical practice in
Speaker 2: a tiny little town called blue Bell and Alabama, and
Speaker 2: I'd love to hire you. And she was like, okay.
Speaker 2: So she gets on a plane and a bus and
Speaker 2: takes all her fancy clothes out to this tiny little
Speaker 2: town called blue Bell, only to discover this all the
Speaker 2: first episodes, that's why I hate the Only to discover
Speaker 2: that the man who gave her the job is actually
Speaker 2: her father who she didn't know and he just died.
Speaker 2: And then she stays in the town to be the doctor.
Speaker 2: And it's this a whole fish out of water thing
Speaker 2: because she's like a big city glamorous girl and it's
Speaker 2: a little town where they still dress.
Speaker 1: It's like Sweet Home Alabama, but completely on stereodys about
Speaker 1: Reese with a spoon in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Rachel Bilson is so good in this, and
Speaker 2: also it's got these amazing side characters. Obviously, Gilmore Girls
Speaker 2: is so much of a better show. But the town
Speaker 2: of Bluebellt mirrors the town of Starles Hollow in a
Speaker 2: way of.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't like.
Speaker 2: No, we're not doing no.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Okay, listen, you might as well you just trashed my family.
Speaker 2: Do you know that? Did you watch all of Gilmore Girls? No?
Speaker 2: You watched five seconds?
Speaker 1: I watched the season. Listen. I don't hate it, but
Speaker 1: that's not I'm so sorry. You should see how upset
Speaker 1: Laura looks at me right now.
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite TV shows. I know all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: I know I understand Laura, and I'm really sorry. I
Speaker 1: really do apologie. TV shows that I really love aren't
Speaker 1: really like dramas like that. Okay, I'm like Parks and
Speaker 1: rec or Veep or Brooklyn nine nine, So it's just
Speaker 1: not my type of show. I'm really sorry. Like I've
Speaker 1: watched it, but I'm just not like obsessed with it.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't write I do try.
Speaker 1: Version, a less good version of that, and like really agree, American,
Speaker 1: I don't like that.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just trying to say, Okay, maybe it's not
Speaker 2: for you. But the people who love Gilmore girls, people
Speaker 2: with humor, heart and soul, those people who love the
Speaker 2: town of styles Hollow and the fact that they've got
Speaker 2: the little quirky town square and all the different characters
Speaker 2: that live in it. If you like that, that is
Speaker 2: also in Heart of Dixie. I should also say it's
Speaker 2: got one of the best performances from like a side
Speaker 2: comedic actress who becomes a leading lady, which is Jamie King,
Speaker 2: who plays Lemon Breeland. And I think out of everyone,
Speaker 2: you would like her because she comes off like, oh,
Speaker 2: she's just sugary, sweet debutante. But she is an evil mastermind.
Speaker 2: She's so clever, she's so like manipulative, and she very
Speaker 2: much becomes the lead character as the shows go of. Also,
Speaker 2: it's got my favorite thing in a love story. It's
Speaker 2: got haters to lovers and a very unexpected love story.
Speaker 2: The whole time you're watching Heart of Dixie, they're setting
Speaker 2: up this is the main love story. This is the
Speaker 2: main love story. This is the main love story, and
Speaker 2: it changes and it's the best payoff.
Speaker 1: But if I'm going to watch like a Fish out
Speaker 1: of Water series, I'm going to watch like Ginny and Georgia.
Speaker 2: Oh see, I can't get behind Jinny and Georgia. Really no, Oh,
Speaker 2: I really like it. It's good TV. It's just it
Speaker 2: hasn't sucked me in in the same Oh.
Speaker 1: I like it a lot more like at least because
Speaker 1: it's got like a bit of quirk to it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, so of these shows you wouldn't know because
Speaker 2: you haven't watched all of them. So that's that. So
Speaker 2: Heart of Dixie is on the stand, and there's so
Speaker 2: many episodes, and I just also, again, if you're looking
Speaker 2: for really comforting, lovely TV, I have watched every episode
Speaker 2: so so many times. It's just really good. It's got
Speaker 2: a really good cast.
Speaker 1: And also, please don't hate me and send me death threats.
Speaker 2: Okay, guys, you do what you need to do with
Speaker 2: the circumstance. I'm not going to tell you guys what
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to the spill today, guys,
Speaker 1: and I'm very sorry about my controversial opinions on Gilmore
Speaker 1: Girls I had sent the office into a meltdown. But
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