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Wow, it has not been a good February for Hallmark, based on the comments here. I was away for a couple of weekends, though it sounds like I didn't miss much. I tried to watch the 'Love Club' last weekend and lasted about 10 minutes. Plus, nothing coming up looks very good either. I guess Love-uary was a bust. Here's hoping for Spring Fling. Thank God for DVRs. So far this week I have watched Wedding Every Weekend and Project Christmas Wish. Now I have a hankering for some Andrew Walker so it will probably be Bridal Wave.
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9 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
Maybe there's a medical reason for it, but combine that with his other behavior and I'm outta there tv-wise until he's gone.
Welcome back.
I first rolled my eyes at Patti's purple hair, but darned if I didn't get sucked in when she went big on the DD and got it right. Maybe it's just relief that Jake is gone but I really enjoyed her.
I knew Pemberley was either Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility because although I can't read Jane Austen, I will watch either of those two movies any time they come on.
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1 hour ago, Bronx Babe said:
I am frankly fed up!!
You know, I am starting to wonder if it was a hobby I had that I'm now over. I liked some of the Christmas movies, tolerated some, and completely passed on others. There are more 'can't watch' actresses than actresses I like, with most of them in the 'tolerable if I like the guy' category. It was always about the men for me, but even they don't appeal to me as much any more (the 'douche' from the avalanche movie is a good example - I used to really like him, but I've turned off the last two movies he was in because he wasn't enough to make me stay.) Plus they're getting younger and I always said as long as they were older than my son (currently 34) I could watch them, but that doesn't really seem to be the case in a lot of the movies anymore.
Truth is, I like this site more than I like watching the movies most weekends.
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51 minutes ago, EyewatchTV211 said:
They explained part of it later, but not some of his assumptions that were somewhat mysogynistic.
It won't surprise me to find that you're right. I just remember his trying to explain what to do in the case of an avalanche, saying that they were going to 'bury' her so the dog could find her, and her interrupting to snottily tell people that of course they weren't going to bury her, she would be in a sealed tube blah blah blah. Really?? I'm sure people thought they were going to seal her under a mountain of snow and wait for the dog. Then they ended up putting her in a snow fort with 4 snowballs in front of the entrance.
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I get the relief over the end of the veil movies (for now) and sometimes we have to take the good where we can get it. I am currently watching Winter In Vail with Lacey who I don't like and Tyler Hynes, who I do like, and I know I've seen it before, but I can't help thinking it's exactly the same as the movie where she and Brendan Elliott inherit the same house. Maybe it is and he hasn't shown up yet, but I'm gonna bail on this too so it will remain a mystery.
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Did anyone watch last night's disaster, Love In Glacier National Park? Maybe I'm just over the whole thing. I used to like Stephen Huszar, but this and his Christmas movie where he played a bodyguard were both awful and the lead female was just a bitch. Why do they do this? Who wants to watch someone who is unpleasant all the time and why on earth would a good looking guy give her the time of day? Her sister was ridiculous and I won't even get into the masseuse who thought she would just show up at the guy's house with her pyjamas, and not just stay over, but sleep in his bed? With his daughter there?? In a Hallmark movie???
I bailed early and had no desire to check back.
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13 hours ago, dgpolo said:
I had a favorite one in 7/8th grade (late 60s) it was gold and the shirt that went under it was brown with little gold flowers on it. It was my favorite outfit until I grew out of it.
I think mine was brown corduroy and the shirt was gold with brown flecks.
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3 hours ago, Welshman in Ca said:
It is a sweater in the UK not just England so you are 25% correct.
Given that I was talking about England, not about places where sweaters are called 'jumpers,' I'm gonna take the point.
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16 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:
I don't think of a jumper as a sleeveless dress since you wear it over a top with sleeves.
Agreed. Not to mention, I think in England a jumper is a sweater? I thought a sleeveless dress was a 'shift.'
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Nooooo. I don't think I can watch that guy again. The bouncing up and down, rapid-fire delivery, squinty eyes, pounding on the microphone and mostly, that thing he does with his mouth, had me actively rooting against him.
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Was that supposed to be a Canadian accent, Ken?? Because nobody I know sounds like that, but I guess the closest would be residents of Newfoundland, which is an island in the Atlantic, not Pacific, like Vancouver.
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7 hours ago, Miss Bones said:
I was just thinking ahead that someone would jump in and say how handsome he is, because he has one of those faces that probably reads handsome to a lot of people.
Yes, his face reads handsome to me, but it's really his abs that I find attractive, and until recently, we could count on seeing them at least once in every movie.
@Bronx Babe, respectfully, I think we've waited long enough. Who is The Phantom of the Opera, and who is Fran Drescher without (I'm assuming) the New Yawk accent?
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18 hours ago, Ailianna said:
Even though he did a lot of tv music, as soon as I saw "Mike Post" I immediately said Law & Order.
I thought Rockford Files (well for 27 seconds I thought 'the James Garner detective show where he lives in a trailer and drives a Firebird,) knowing it was wrong but I was pretty sure that show had a Mike Post theme.
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2 hours ago, norcalgal said:
ps…as I’ve posted before in these Veil movies, soooo weird and awkward that the other two husbands aren’t there in the wedding scenes of whoever got married. I guess this allows the two who aren’t the focus of the movie to be each other’s wedding date!
No kidding. Even with a young child, Lacey can skip over to Greece from Boston, not once but twice, but didn't even bring her husband to the wedding. Why wouldn't he come with her to the wedding, even if only for a dirty weekend in Greece? (I know, I know, Hallmark, but Kevin McGarry!) Especially because neither he nor Lacey even knew the bride and groom.
2 hours ago, Irlandesa said:Did they ever figure out the meal situation or is the bad cook going to continue to be an awful cook?
I was pretty sure this movie was going to end up with Alison and Victor staying in Greece and him taking over the kitchen. I guess that's progress; 5 years ago that's how this Hallmark movie would have ended.
I wonder if a conscious decision was made for the couple to kiss at the end of every scene they had together? Just random kisses between spouses, but it seemed like every single time they spoke! Maybe I only noticed it because, although I know I differ here, I thought there was less than zero heat between them.
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3 hours ago, Deskisamess said:
I dont really mind, but it is fun to see someone run a category from top to bottom.
I can understand 100% why they play the game as they do now - get as much money as quickly as possible and hopefully have a fair amount of cash when they find the Daily Double, and if I were on the show today that's how I would play. However, as a viewer, the old way was easier to keep track of the category and as someone mentioned upthread, sometimes there is a trick to the category where it might take a clue or two to figure out what they're looking for.
The goal of the players (earn as much $ as possible) is not necessarily the same as the goal of the viewers (to be entertained while testing our own knowledge.)
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1 hour ago, MerBearHou said:
Jessica Lowndes (one of my can’t watch)?
That sounds like a good guess. I don't really like her but love December Bride for some reason, despite their mentioning that term 500 times during the movie.
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1 hour ago, Bronx Babe said:
Okay, who is the male lead with bizarre cheekbones who looks like Lon Chaney Sr. as The Phantom of the Opera?
Cameron Mathison
1 hour ago, Bronx Babe said:#2: What's the name of that lead actress who resembles a sanitized version of Fran Drescher?
Danika McKellar
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This is not a comment on which strategy was better, but it does appear that since James Holzhauer was on, nobody starts at the top of the category and works their way down anymore. They either do all the high value ones first, or they focus on the 3rd and 4th clues, looking for the Daily Doubles.
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We should make a game of this. @Bronx Babe will provide some vague, slightly unflattering characteristic (pig nose, turned-down lines on his mouth) and we can try to guess who it is. We could try it with the women, but they would all be the same - long, ringlet hair (brown or blonde) bitchy, self-important, intractable personality, immune to charm, prone to eavesdropping on half a conversation, then jumping to conclusions that always make the other person look bad, can be hard to identify from a distance due to owning 6 or 8 winter coats.
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4 hours ago, Katy M said:
I was a little distracted for a bit because there was an ambulance and police car otuside and I was wondering what was going on.
I said murderers.
I hope these two are not related.
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32 minutes ago, DrSpaceman73 said:
Too bad yogesh is gone. No more stories about how great and famous he is back to his podcast I've never heard of.
Even Jeopardy superchamps are recognizing him now. From his podcast?? I was expecting tomorrow's story to be about how Alex Trebek himself reached out to beg Yogesh to be on the show.
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4 hours ago, Clawdette said:
I can't remember: Does Victor Webster ever have gray stubble? He's a little older and well-built.
I was just going to post this. He certainly fits the description. Isn't he the husband in the Alison Sweeney veil movie?
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3 hours ago, Bronx Babe said:
ugh, you mean they're repeating all those veil movies?
Repeating? They have two new ones to sell, chapter 2 for Autumn Reesor and Alison Sweeney. Lacey's character is pregnant and even Hallmark wouldn't use the same storyline for all 3 would they? Maybe one of them gets a dog and one gets a divorce.
3 hours ago, Bronx Babe said:Nobody saw Groundswell?
Wasn't that actually from a few months ago? Isn't it the one where there was some comment on her wearing a wetsuit rather than a bathing suit (or something like that?) I have no recollection of the story or the lead actor, who is handsome but does nothing for me.
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47 minutes ago, Bronx Babe said:
I should amend the "goatee" -- it is actually what appears to be a perpetual white stubble which gives this actor the appearance (at least in that area of his face) of a mangy old dog, which he most definitely does not resemble overall -- his general look is dignified. Unfortunately I cannot come up with any movie title. He is tall, well-built and solid, with a down-to-earth demeanor/personality.
OK, well, let's try to narrow it down. Does he usually play a Dad, or a boss? Is he a city guy or on the farm? Is he a mayor or an evil corporate guy?
Now I will have to watch all movies with an eye to identifying the guy (who sounds like James Brolin,) and given the next couple movies are veil movies which I won't be watching, it could be a few weeks before I see anyone who resembles him. Although, I do have a ton of good Hallmarks on my PVR (some more than once) I guess I could go on a binge tonight and watch a few. I'll report back if I find any tall, well-built, solid, down-to-earth, mangy dogs in any of the movies. And can I just say that I would love to watch a movie where he is the main guy?
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Jeopardy! Season 39 (2022-2023)
in Jeopardy!
Mayim walks like a 4 year-old wearing Mommy's high heels for the first time.