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2 hours ago, Coffeewinewater said:
Why is CCB wearing an ugly wig in every movie?
I'm excited about the Gourmet Detective series coming back. I thought it was done.
Candace posted about it. They have her turning back and forth on the mysteries and the Christmas movies so fast it was damaging her hair going from red to blonde and back.
She didn't say this part, but I suspect with Lori having her legal issues and Jen (and two of the new actresses in the stable) being on maternity time off...
I also enjoyed the Gourmet series. One was off when they had Brooke overplay being bitchy, and some of her character's police non skills were slightly jarring, but overall they are fun and show chemistry. And the murder plots flowed well.
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In the kitchen trying grated butter for biscuits. Love in Design, a Danica McKellar movie, is on.
I notice that during a scene where the lead and supporting couple go to play trivia at the bar, the set people gave both woman the same wine in the same wine glasses, both men got the same beers in the same pint glasses, but with each scene cut they drained a little of each out. Why so much effort for continuity, but not beverage diversity?
I know they have these figured out down to an exact formula, but...
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On 7/30/2019 at 10:37 AM, marketdoctor said:
In real life, this happened with Roy Cohn and J. Edgar Hoover, among others. I think they had Starlighter as a counterpoint: someone who is trying her best, but struggles with her faith, and with temptation, but still tries really hard to do the right thing.
Although that sounds close to Lysenkoism, if the compound V rearranged your DNA (like radiation does), that could be passed on to future generations.
It's not a shot-for-shot adaptation, but in talking with someone who read the comics, they did a good job with the adaptation. As someone who had not read the comics, I liked the counterplay (The Deep is very shallow; Starlighter kind of just wants to be normal, etc.) It keeps me thinking, and has the mix of comedy and tragedy that often comes up in life.
If V rewrote genetic code somehow it could be passed in semen, so at least it makes some sense. To save people a few clicks: Stalin didnt like Jews, and thought genetic science was too Jewish. So the Soviets invented a new science. Lysenkoism was the belief that exposing seeds to harsh conditions passed along a resistance to their offspring. It was stupid
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After Matt Lauer I knew where the hero command center scene was going as soon as the doors closed. Pretty sure both the male and female actors have had that pitch thrown at them a few times.
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6 minutes ago, rainsmom said:
Is that the one with Holly Robinson Peete? I like here, but dang, Rick Fox is AWFUL. I mean, he's nice to look at, but she has more chemistry with an office chair than with him. He is just dead in that role. I haven't hated the movies... just regretted his casting.
He is terrible. Holly is a well loved actress, who is wasted here. The mystery plots are choppy and in one her supporting actress had more emotional range.
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The Ruby Herring wasn't horrible. The lead played the character a bit too detached and they tried to cram too much family and back story and events into the first movie, but it may calm down into a good series.
The cross word ones are fun. I would like to see another gourmet detective, all but one of the movies were good. Picture wasn't horrible, and hopefully it gets more personal when the lead isn't pregnant.
Morning show isn't worth watching
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On 8/14/2019 at 6:14 PM, VMepicgrl said:
Agree with all you said. Also, honest question - would the new will stand even though the lawyer worked with the criminals? Or would it revert back to the other? They seemed to have the new will mostly stand since Ro's mom had the power to give away the company. But the chef was apparently going to only get the money that was explicitly stated in the first will.
I am an attorney, but I have never done probate law. From what I remember from law school it depends on the state. There is a Uniform and Revised Probate Code that floats around, but unlike the other uniform laws each state either adopts their own totally different version, or a version with pretty big tweaks.
On 8/14/2019 at 4:14 PM, rainsmom said:This bugged me. I was glad to get a new movie, but really bummed that this was absolutely meaningless to the main plot. I wanted it to BE the main plot, even though that's a well known trope. I like that trope.
The story they did was, as you noted, unnecessarily complex to the point of being ridiculous. And Aurora was treating Nick like crap to the point that I thought he should dump her ass.
Wasn't this the first movie where they didn't have a book to base it on? Showed.
A lot of people were being jerky. Lynn the Chief is the only one who needs to be a little bit of a jerk to sell her hubby/homicide detective's working with Roe as seeming natural as a reaction.
Roe was not directed well here. Even Gladys was being a jerk before.
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On 8/4/2019 at 5:49 PM, DoctorAtomic said:
Did anyone make it to the end?
I did. Felt like I wasted some TV hours that would have been better spent watching something good.
The bad part is that this could have been great. Turn down the 'petulant children' part of the crew by about 50%, think through some of the plot points a little more. The hologram idea was well done, the lead is skilled and a well loved actress in scifi, the special effects were well done.
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A Taste of Summer. I wouldn't have guessed the leads were married in real life. They were cute, though, and showed growing chemistry on screen during the movie.
Roselyn's accent could have been overplayed, but the director and writers stayed way short of imitating the Modern Family stereotype.
I didn't buy the 9.95 bottomless wings pricing. I have seen some bars do 50 cent wings, and they are losing money to keep selling beer at $5 a craft beer and $3 a bud draft
Her classy restaurant set should have been placed in a bigger room. After they jammed the cameras in, it looked like her seating area was a 1990s McMansion combo living and dining room
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On 8/9/2019 at 12:06 AM, MSterling said:
I finally got around to watching the latest Aurora Teagarden and was so pissed when Aurora looked up the last person to check out a book was. Libraries can't give law enforcement that information because they don't save it. My sister has worked for two different libraries in different states and neither kept those records.
We had this fight in the late 80s, when the ALA voted to not keep records after the book comes back just to avoid this. That is why folks in libraries are so upset about overdrive letting their library borrow records get requested by the FBI on BS non warrant "requests", plus Jeff Bezos giving up amazon book records to the FBI on request
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6 hours ago, TVFan17 said:
(They were even planning to do a 4th Fixer Upper Mystery movie at one point, according to Colin Ferguson, but the plan was ultimately cancelled.) So, although nothing has ever been officially stated as to why Flower Shop ended, I wonder if it was a money issue, or if Brooke wanted to have more control over casting and story decisions (I think she was one of the Exec. Producers on it).
I don't want to sound bitchy, so I will say it straight. Jewel didn't even have chemistry with herself in her series
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20 hours ago, Irlandesa said:
Wasn't her movie one of the highest rated from the holiday season last year? If so, she'll be around if she wants to be around. Look out for her to get a mystery series.
I will lay down a $5 bet for the 'chorus teacher murders' series
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4 hours ago, TVFan17 said:
Tyler Hynes and Kellie Pickler have been filming The Mistletoe Secret together, and they are the same age, but will they be a good match? I have my doubts about that pairing. I haven't seen any photos of them together, in the same shot, so I can't get a sense of whether they would look good together.
They shut down Kellie's talk show (which was an really awkward pair up with Ginger Z's husband) so she has nothing but Hallmark movie time open
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3 hours ago, sistersledge said:
Fine, twist my arm, I'll admit it. I sobbed like a baby at the end of Love and Sunshine. And I don't usually watch the military ones, even though I love the military. I'm also not a dog person.
That might be why I didn't see that ending coming. And of course the happy follow-up.
I have a soft spot for Danica, we are the same age and I remember watching the wonder years.
We were active duty, a long time ago. In the old days the military was just as dangerous, but the media covered for Bush sr and Clinton.
Team Spirit 1989, 47 people died. For an exercise. And the media yawned.
I was glad they made the dog handler enlisted. Although 12-18 months for a dog to max out on his deployment time is a little short/
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On 8/3/2019 at 7:35 AM, BrainyBlonde said:
The first Matchmaker Mysteries movie has been filming for the last two weeks up in Canada and is scheduled to air on HMM Sept. 29th. The series stars Danica McKellar, Bruce Boxleitner as her retired cop father, and Victor Webster as the police detective the heroine works/butts heads with while trying to solve crimes. This is the series idea/concept Patti Stanger a.k.a. the millionaire matchmaker brought to Hallmark a few years back.
Danica has set up a special Insta account for this new series where she's posting pictures/stories of the making of the movie: The Matchmaker MysteriesShe has been making a big twitter push, too.
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If this is the best humanity has left, a bunch of 20 year olds with the emotional control of 3 year olds who just drank jolt cola, who lack all professional judgement or logic, then the aliens are correct to cover the earth in crystals and wipe us out.
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On 7/30/2019 at 9:04 PM, Bronx Babe said:
I thought a cup of cocoa was the stereotypical beverage of choice only for their Christmas movies.
Imagine my surprise, watching Summer Villa, when that was the drink whipped up at night by our otherwise surly romantic lead to cure the heroine's insomnia that he didn't even know she had. And this was supposed to take place in the South of France during a hot weather vacation season.
Building on this, unless you have lived in Europe, you don't understand the downwind effect of the Atlantic.
No matter what the latitude is, Europe is way warmer. The south of France and northern Italy are Mobile Bay, Alabama. Germany, except the Alps foothills, is north Alabama/west Tennessee, and the Alps foothills are eastern Tennessee. London is Cincinnati, Ohio
Watching Summer Love while having an extra glass.
Had some Hallmark star morality thoughts.
Rachael Leigh Cook is in this one, and she was in some stuff that was pretty salacious in her middle initial career (ie, 11:14). Then Tricia Helfener had her clothes off as much as on before Battle Star. But the same company kicked Lori over the side as soon as she was charged.
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18 hours ago, Dani said:
She also just adopted a 3 year old and is in the process of adopting a 1 year old. I would think we won’t see her on Hallmark for a while but I’m fully expecting her to prove me wrong.
I read a few weeks ago that they are now filming the Canadian only movies in 7-10 days. That is very doable for a new mom for next year, she could start filming Jan/Feb for 1 week, come home, bounce again for a spring filming...rinse and repeat.
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Watching the Gourmet Detective movie on now. These were really good, given the Hallmark restrictions of no real violence, no blood, and no overt sex or drug abuse.
Hopefully they get another now that the Garage Sales are off.
Side note: Honestly, I feel like they overcharged Lori, if they should have charged her at all
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10 minutes ago, In2You said:
She is way calm for this being her first birth. #actingskills
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Was on a gossip site. Jen Lilley went into labor while on the red carpet at the Hallmark new shows reveal event for the Television Critics Association this week.
It sounds like a movie script
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It seems 2019 is the year Hallmark leading actresses get the movie and then get pregnant.
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Waiting for the new movie, and watching A Christmas Detour. CCB ends up leaving her fiance for reasons after a long movie.
Sarah Strange is the second level couple. Her character just abuses the hell out of her husband. He needs to dip out and give her the bird the whole time.
Plus the fake snow won't melt indoors
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On 7/25/2019 at 5:02 PM, Kohola3 said:
Hallmark Movie Checklist
Corporation/big business – bad
Family run business – good agreeCurrent boyfriend/girlfriend – evil, self-centered, work-obsessed – bad, write plot to dump them
New man/girl perfect in all ways or has seen the light - good or the protagonist converts from career driver or converts the new manCommoner – bad
Prince/Princess – good even with evil royal parents because in Halmarklandia everyone wants to be a Prince/Princess I have only seen one exception, where a princess bails from royal life to be a hotel planner with hotel exec manAny non-Christian holiday – non-existent
Christmas - good agree mostly, they did a Halloween and a new yearsBig city – no redeeming features
Small town – perfect in all ways agreeDead – bad
Person in a coma wandering around as an angel/helper/in an alternate universe – good agreePerson of color, Asian, First Nations – ignored
Caucasian – apparently the only actors on contract with Hallmark partial agreement, recently there have been two black couples, and the BF couples have been minority or mixed a lot latelyDivorced – bad (unless the divorced person is pure evil and can be used in the plot) - bad
Widow/widower – good some of the older one had a divorced spouse where s/he was a plot device of moving away with the child, but was otherwise and okay personMinimalist Christmas decorations – bad, person hates Christmas
Covering every surface with Balsam Hill crap – good plus free product placement in addition to commercials plus comically fake snow dumped aroundShort hair – bad
Long hair twisted around an industrial strength curling iron – easy to do but bores the heck out of the audience short hair can also mean manic pixieOR
Natural hair – bad
Wigs – also bad because the wigs are awful lolUsing a thesaurus to substitute words for “amazing” – bad
Using the word “amazing” 100 times per story – goodUsing a costumer to select appropriate clothing for the weather in the scenes – bad
Allowing people to wear whatever they have handy even if it means wearing a dress and no outwear in the snow – yeah, sure, saves money and nobody will notice lolTaking a direct route to the destination – bad
Getting lost/stuck/in an accident/flight cancelled/sharing a car with strangers – good and will ultimately result in love with fellow traveler 'road to' movies need a wandering journey with obstaclesSkiing, snowboarding, tennis, football, sports of any kind – bad
Skating in Christmas movies – mandatory along with snowball fight sport are okay if manly and off stageBuying baked goods at a grocery store – bad
Smiling family baking together or small town bakery – good especially with lots of decorations lolHaving all of your faculties – bad
Amnesia – good chuckleAppropriate weather for the location – bad
Fake snow in cities that never, ever have it – good because the audience is too stupid to notice unless they live there lolChild/children of widow/widower hate the new love interest – bad
Child/children of widow/widower initially hate the new love interest but come to adore him/her – good or the surviving parent chooses a new life parent based solely on the reaction of a 5 year oldSmall, middle or lower class bungalow – bad if less than 3000 square feet
McMansion no matter what job the owner has (unless it’s a homey farmhouse but still huge) – mandatory yepPrincess/Prince speaks with the accent of the country in which their fictitious kingdom is located – nope
Princess/Prince speaks with a British accent because that’s apparently what all royalty does or the Hallmark actors are capable of – yep yepCoffee, tea, milk, pop, water – bad
Cocoa – the only drink offered unless it’s one of the myriad wine movies unless the protagonist owns a coffee shop or bookstore-
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Grand Hotel - General Discussion
in Grand Hotel
We watch it on demand, sometimes 2 weeks after