Today on The Spill, we’re kicking things off with something special: introducing the newest show in The Spill family: Morning Tea. It’s your weekday hit of celeb news, pop culture drama and internet chaos, all in the time it takes to drink your morning coffee (or tea!). Tune in at 8am Monday to Thursday for the headlines you need to know, then come back at 3pm for your regular deep dive right here on The Spill.
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It’s the season of TV romance, and with Lena Dunham’s new series Too Much dropping this week, we’re diving headfirst into the world of rom-com style TV shows.
From classic comfort watches to underrated gems, today we’re rounding up the romantic comedy series we can’t stop thinking about. And if you’re a fan of the genre, get ready, because Laura’s bringing some undercover gems you probably haven’t heard of.
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Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and borders that this podcast is recorded on from Mamma Mia. Welcome to The Spill, your daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura Brodney and I'm Cassina Luci and coming up on the show today. Oh my god, guys, you might hear the excitement and my voice. I have been dying, dying, dying to do this episode for so long. We are talking about the best romantic comedy TV shows, not movies of all time and heaps that you probably haven't heard of or watched before. So get excited.
But first, you probably have noticed in your feeds a new little fun thing from us here at the Spill, and it's called Morning Tea. Now, Laura, this has been in the works for quite a while. Can you kind of explain to our listeners what this is.
Yes, this has been in the works for a while, and the story behind it. I'm trying to take an emotional here, the story behind it actually really really because Morning Tea is a new roundup of celebrity gossip news headlines that drops into the feed now every morning at eight am on Monday to Thursday, so Friday mornings are still Weekend Watch, but Morning Tea is there Monday to Thursday. It's hosted by the incredible Ash London, who I feel like she needs no introduction, one of the biggest radio stars Australia's ever seen. She's also co host on The Spill many times. She knows every single thing about pop culture, celebrity, entertainment, music, everything she hosts that And the reason we've introduced this little extra show that pops into your feed in the morning is because and this is why I get emotional, because this podcast has been around for nearly six years now. Myself and so many other people over the years have put all of our blood, sweat and tears into making this show. And what's really lovely about that is that our audience has grown so significantly, especially in the last few years or the last year over forty percent, like our numbers are through the roof, and that just makes me so happy that everyone it's so nice, and also just the community of people that we have and the people who message me saying that The Spill is like a bright spot in their day or it's like their little treat of the day, or they listen to go to sleep, or they listen to it when something sad is happening in their lives and want to hear us praddle about romantic comedies like it's so nice and so What we've been getting as our numbers have been getting bigger and bigger and bigger, is this demand from listeners who have message just emailed us, commented on our social called us on the pod phone, and left voicemails, which you can do. We'll put the link in the show notes. We love your messages, and what they've been saying is that we want more, more content, more episodes. To the fact, there's one particular comment that we got on one of our Spotify episodes.
Do you want me to read it for you?
Yeah, please read it.
I'll read it.
Because I've only been working on the spill for maybe like six months on and off. I do feel like I'm kind of ringing in to like celebrate with you guys, but I do.
I'm really proud of you. You've done so well.
You're part of a spell fan now, like once you're in your in I know, no one gets to leave.
But you guys have been working so hard on this show.
So one of the listeners that this is so you can listen to the compliment and really like let it marinate. Allison said, I would love for this podcast to be a full hour or maybe an option for an added podcast for other stories that aren't made headlines.
You could call it a spillover. That's a great name.
It's a great name. And also we did consider it, but yeah, but also this message from Alison, which is so lovely. Also, I've also been pushing for the spill to be an hour every day, but it just hasn't got across the line. But what we've been getting from listeners like Alison and so many other people is like they just want more and more and more content. So that's what Morning Tea is. So the idea is that you wake up in the morning, and as you're getting ready for work, exercising, commuting, looking after your kids, or maybe just lying in bed and having a lovely slow morning, the first thing that you're going to do is open up your phone and listening to Morning Tea because it has got all the biggest headlines, all the biggest stories. It's a little bit of scandal, it's a little bit of humor, it's a little bit of lightness and it just gets you ready for the day. And it's a quick little yes, it's four to five minutes. So it really is just the headlines to really because as we know, mornings, you've got to be sharp, you've got to be organized, you got to get things done quickly, and so that is the way to start off your morning with Ash London's beautiful voice bringing you all the goss. And then three pm every day Monday to Friday, the Main Spill Show is still dropping into your feed. In the afternoon. We'll do a big deep dive, we'll do some analysis, we'll bring you some stuff, some gossip we probably shouldn't say out loud, we'll do. I'll give you a history lesson so sexy of Me. But we'll also touch on so many different things. And of course the Main Spill Show will still have all of our normal TV and movie bits and interviews we can watch us still there. So it's all the stuff you love from the Spill, but just this extra hit of morning tea first thing in the morning, eight am. So as always, we love you guys telling us what you love about the Spill. So let us know what you think of Morning Tea, what you're loving about it, And as you can see from Allison's comment and the many other people you send us a comment and say we want an extra show, we will make it. So guys keep asking. You never know what's going to happen.
Now.
What I love about our Friday show is that we we usually do like some recommendations, some of our favorites.
It's all about like a deep dive.
Now.
You have been suggesting this incessantly on our channels for weeks and weeks and weeks, and we finally had to say today, Okay, Laura, for God's sake, we'll do it.
Now.
This is the best romantic comedy series of all time. I'm going to give you a couple of my favorites, which are more like more well known, and then you're going to give us the ones that we don't know.
Yes, and I should say before we jump too, that is how we going to do it, yea. What is a fun, frivolous Friday episode about love and romance without some rules? Ye rules is what I bring.
To We're about to say, I'm about to say, Laura will now come in with her.
Rules, because this is what you want from a pop culture podcast, No, not just to define things. So obviously we were talking about TV romantic comedies because, as you would have heard in our Weekend Watch episode this morning, Lena Dunham's new rom com has just come out on Netflix Too Much. Even though it's a rom com and a drama, Lena Dunham said her catalyst for making the show was as a bit of a love letter to the romantic comedies she grew up watching in all the movies that she loved, and so that got me thinking that we always talk about romantic comedy movies, and obviously there's so many incredible romantic comedy movies out there, but I feel like we don't talk enough about romantic comedy TV shows and they are also very very important. So that's what we're going to do today. So we've defined a romantic comedy TV show as obviously something that is a comedy that has lightness and frothiness to it, but something where the love story is the central driving part of the show and it is the end game and you do get that love story payoff at the end. So that is how we're defining a romantic comedy TV show.
Okay, I'm going to start with one that is on the newer side. It only came out last year on Netflix. Nobody wants this.
Never heard of it except for the fifteen podcasts we did it.
I know, I know we've talked about it a lot. Now.
We don't have to go.
Too much into it because I know probably everyone's over it. But it would be remiss if I didn't mention it, because I think it fits the genre.
What did you love about it? That's we've never talked about this before, we haven't.
I really loved the comedy. I liked the cross cultural development of a love story that's not like a typical love story, and something centered around religion. It's not something that we really see very often. This agnostic woman going for this Jewish rabbi. I just thought it was a really interesting take. I also really liked.
The side characters like go Good.
One of my favorite characters is Sasha, played by Timothy Simons. I don't know if you ever watched Veep, did you watch Veba? He was in Vape, he was Jonah in Veab, and it's just he's such a great character. He's so funny. And the new season is coming out in October.
Oh, yes, our calendars are marked.
Yes, so we don't have long to wait for season two. But I think in terms of fitting your rules, it really.
Yep nails it.
It really does.
The other one that I wanted to do is one that is a bit older, apped filming in twenty eighteen, and it's a New Girl.
My God, New Girl is just one of my ultimate comfort watches. But I think what it doesn't get enough credit. Maybe it does, but like the hardcore fans know that as much as that is an incredible ensemble comedy, it's the love story that is so perfectly done. Romantic comedy writers dream of a love story.
Like that, and you know that there's all these stories about so Elizabeth Merriweather created the show Love Her, and during the early episodes, Zoe Deschanel and Jake Johnson, who played Yessca Day and Nick Miller, weren't actually allowed to do too many scenes together because their chemistry was too good.
Oh I love it. I love it so much.
And they just hit it off straight away.
And you know, obviously a lot of the time with these kind of sick comedy shows, that relationship develops, but it really is from the very beginning, you can see that there is chemistry between the two of them, and.
Again it's just so funny. It's so silly.
The guy who plays Winston Bishop like Lemonne, Yeah, he's so funny, Like as he grows it gets quirkier. But my favorite is definitely Schmidt Max Greenfield. Just how during the pandemic with his daughter those funny TikTok.
He is hilarious. I loved him in Running Point as well recently, but I just I just will find him like the hottest man ever. Also, Veronica Mars fans know him as Leo, but he is so good at that show.
So yeah, he was gonna quick acting before he did this.
I know, and this is the role that really gave him his new stardom.
But yeah, my favorite like bit that they do throughout the series, and it's not part of the love story, but I'm a bit of a comedy fan.
Yeah, my favorite bit that they do is the douchebag job.
Oh yeah, yeah, and how they stomp it at the wedding.
It's so funny.
Damn it.
I can't find my driving moccasins anywhere.
All the way he says, youth, youth everywhere are you. I quoted him in a lot which doesn't really fit in with my day to day life. I quesht weird. So it's just he's got a quote for everything, or at least weird.
He's so funny. Anyway, that is kind of my favorite. That's on Disney Plus. Now you can watch all seasons.
And it's such a good rewatch too. We watch it every couple of years. It really holds up.
Yeah, it's a great rewatch. It's just fun, it's cozy, it's easy.
Now.
The last one is a really obvious one, but I have a confession. I've never seen it. It's Emily in Paris.
Get out of here. Well, you know what, I'd rather you say I haven't seen it than say it's bad, I hate it or I don't understand it. For those people who say I don't understand it, what is there to understand? It's a pretty basic plot point and a pretty basic promise. Anyway. Obviously I really love Emily in Paris, not even in our I don't hate watch anything. I only love watch. So I really like it and you can continue. What's it about?
Okay, So this is like I guess it's about a.
Girl whose actually what you think it's about.
Okay, she's a marketing chick in I'm guessing New York, Chicago probably, yeah, Chicago.
And then she flies over to Paris because she gets a job over there.
She's transferred by her company yep.
Okay, because they wanted to have like an American lens on, like the Perisian life. Yeah, she goes over there, and then she meets downstairs from her house is a really hot guy and he's French. She's in ridiculous outfits and high hills and it's very glamorous.
Yes, yeah, that's it. That's the story.
I mean, that is kind of the story part. That's what it's meant to be. Like, I just want Emily and Paris just so beautiful to watch. It does really pre will I think you would really like it. Like, yes, there's some silliness to it, but it's meant to be a silly keeper. She's also not meant to be for French people. They would never watch it. I think most of them don't even know it exists. It's for the basic girls like.
No, but I love hors and I pride myself on being very Perusian.
No wait, okay, no, no, you can love Paris. Also, her version of Paris is obviously like an American idealized fantasy to an extent. But whenever I go to Paris, I don't think of Emily in Paris like they're two kind of steppy things, except for the fact that she goes around to a lot of the very touristy sides and loves them. And I also feel that that's what you do when you go to Paris for the first time, and there's no shame in that. There's no shame in seeing the Eiffel Tower or the Louver or something and getting excited, because that's fine when you see that for the first time. You should be excited, otherwise you're dead inside. Do There's a thing called Paris syndrome where people go to Paris with such high expectations and when they go outside of some of the city centers and they see the rubbish and see the normal houses, people have been hospitalized over Paris. That's a truth act over Paris syndrome, because the shock and the disappointment of this world that they built up is not there anymore, Are you kidding?
Paris is my favorite city. I love Paris so much.
No, Paris is also. I mean, I know it's one of my favorite city street no one's ever said that before, but I guess there are parts of it that don't look like Paris. Well.
I think if you're going look outskirts of Paris is very different to being in like where the show, and it's like very bougie and expensive. Obviously, if you're going in to the you know, outer our endorsements, it's a bit different, you know. I think it's a point of pride for me that I haven't seen it because twenty twenty to twenty twenty five it's had so much hype and the fact that I've gone this long without watching it, I.
Can't start now.
I understand. No, I don't understand that at all. I just think that if you want to watch it and it's this lovely, frothy, romantic comedy esque TV show, you should just watch it. That's not the if. I'm like, that's not the thing to kind of get hung up on, is all I would say. Some people don't like it because I think it's silly, and like, yes, it is silly, it's also not meant to be a drama.
I don't mind silly I like like feel good silly.
It's my favorite. I'm really being on having like very kind of soothing TV shows, especially that I watch like Saturday and Sunday morning. I've got a band. None of my friends are allowed to ask me to brunch or breakfast anymore. Call me, talk to me, go near me, because that is my calm time where I wake up whatever time I want, and I go outo my living room and I have all my bunches of fresh flowers. Oh, light my candles. I know you have children.
How to do this so much?
Laura, Well, one day you come visit me.
We had kids like I.
You know, Well, this will come back around different seasons for different parts of life, and I'll make my beautiful coffee and I all I want to do then is watch something very soothing, that's beautiful and that just like looks lovely on screen. And Emily in Paris is really that show. And also there are some great performances in there from Lily Colins, who players Emily Cooper does the part that she's meant to play like she does that fine, but a lot of the side characters, all the people who work in the French office, Sylvie incredible, Mindy incredible, Like, there's a lot to love about it.
Watch it. Okay.
So, now that we've gone through some of the obvious choices, do you want to take us through some of the ones that we most likely haven't seen?
Yes, Yes, this is the moment I have been waiting for. Okay. So the first one I wanted to bring up is a show that I absolutely fell in love with when it came out back in twenty and nineteen. And it's a really beautiful rom com series called Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Like the Yeah Grant movie.
Yeah, like the very very famous movie Hugh Grants. So I know you're gonna say, but Laura, that's a movie. Well, Mindy Kaling, Mindy Kaling. It's like I'm on the defensive today. I'm like, no one saying you think about rom coms. Mindy Keayling, one of my very favorite TV actresses writers' creators, adapted the movie, which was originally written by Richard Curtis, who, if you look up that band's name, has written every big rom com that we love. Here's the godfather of rom comms. Mindy Kayling loves rom comms and she loved that movie, and so she adapted into a TV series where the overall premise is very the same, but it's different in terms of like she switched the characters, and one of the big switches is that there is now a female lead. It's Natalie Emmanuel, who people would know from Game of Thrones, Fast and Furious, that really hot vampire movie The Invitation. She plays our lea girl Mayer, and she's an American, but she ends up moving to London where her college friends are, and it tells the story of these four American friends, Maya, Craig, Ainslie, and Duffy and they reunite for this very fabulous London wedding. Something happens, and then it follows them over their lives of the next year that tell all of their different love stories. And it's just this beautiful, Like if you just want to watch something like really frothy and lovely with incredible dialogue that's set in London, and it's really beautiful to watch. The performances are so good. Mindy Kaling's script is like ten out of ten and like, you don't have to have seen four weddings in a funeral, although you should watch that. What's great movie.
What's it streaming on?
It's on Prime video now. It wasn't when it came out, so yeah, it came out so many years ago. And anytime people message me, because I had so many message mostly from spillers on Instagram being like, oh my god, laur it's Saturday and I need something to watch, and they always want like often like it's just an easy to watch TV show and Four Wings in a Funeral the TV series is always top of my list to send because I just know so many people haven't watched it. So it's on prime video so worth watching. The next one I wanted to recommend, since we're talking about Mindy Kaling is the MINDI Project. Have you seen it?
I have seen it, like, oh my god, so much. You've seen it?
Yeah, only a couple of episodes. I have not like super deep into us. But I do love her finding out her whole history on the office and how she's a writer with bj Novak and like that her whole.
Law is so great.
She is incredible and she's so funny.
In the office, and I love, I do really like the MINDI Project. I just I don't have a lot of time. This is the great thing about working with you, is I just put all of these things in my mind box.
Yeah, and one day you be a mind box yeah, also known as.
Brain Yeah, but for you it's a mind box.
Today it's a mind box.
So the MINDI Project, Yes, it was created, written and starring Mindy Kayling. And again I don't say this slightly. It is one of the funniest TV shows I have ever seen. But also it's very romantic comedy center. So Mindy Kayling grew up loving romantic comedies, but she always thought there was no one who looks like her as a woman of Indian descent on these shows or movies or anything like that. So that was her goal to write a rom com where she could play the lead character and she could live in the beautiful news your compartment, and she could wear the beautiful clothes, and she could run through the streets and have these wild romantic escapades with men. So it is that, but it's also a bit of a send up of those tropes. What's also interesting is she plays a doctor because she made her character just like a little bit insufferable in the funniest way possible, and a little bit of a diva and a little bit just like ridiculous, But then she's also a doctor so that you like her a little bit. So it has all these incredible romcom tropes to it. It's very funny. But what I love is at the central relationship between her and Danny, who's another doctor at her practice, is based on the love story of pride and prejudice. So it's based on like him being this very gruff, unattainable person who like originally really doesn't like her and things. Yeah, and then and then their relationship really evolves. And again not to spoil it, but like you know how like when you're watching a couple get together and like you can tell it's gonna happen, and it's building, and it's.
Building like a hate to love story.
Lovers hate us to love it. I love it. Trope great, Trope, so good, and like the build up and the moment they actually get together is so work. The hype. So the MINDI Project, you can watch it on Prime Video if you haven't seen it.
It's got six seasons as well. Yeah, you can really like get into it.
It could have been fifteen would have watched it, Okay. Another one I wanted to chat about was an Australian show actually that has two seasons out on Binge. I don't know if you've watched this one, Colin from Accounts.
No, I haven't, but I should because I've always see clips of it and I feel like it's really.
Good, so freakin' funny. So it's written, created, directed, starring Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammle, who.
I love Harriet Dyer.
I interviewed her a few times and she's amazing, Yes, and she's incredible.
Patrick Brammel is also so funny. So I should watch this because did you ever watch the one with Matt.
Oh the Wrong Guy? Yes? Yeah, she plays Stevie and that she's so funny. Yeah, she's incredible comedy actress. We're both from Townsvill, so you know connected. So in this show Calling from account so yes, Patrick and Harriet together in real life they created this show together and in it, Harriet plays a called Ashley, Patrick plays a man called Gordon, and they have this incredible meat cute. So a meet cute is the moment in the movie of how your two romantic leads will meet and fall in love. So Colin from Accounts is about that, but also what happens when it goes terribly wrong. So in this you've got Gordon. He's driving his car along. Harriet Dyer's character, Ashley, walks out in front of him across the road and she sees him. They make eye contact. It's a little bit cute and sexy, and then she just flashes a boob, just a casual flash of the boob, just to be a bit saucy and fun. And he sees her, and he gets so distracted that he runs his car off the road and smashes into a dog, okay, which terrifies them both, and so they both take this dog to a clinic. His back legs are broken in at being one of those dog wheely things. At the premiere, they had a dog and he wasn't the wheelly thing, and I'm like, that's probably a good thing, because that would have been very stressful for him. And then they kind of have to come together to look after this dog and then say that they start to fall in love. And it's just like such a funny. It's so Australian, obviously because it's a strange show, but it's just so quintessentially Australian, so funny, the chemistry is amazing, obviously because they're married with children. But it is again one of those shows that I watch it and I just sit in my apartment laughing out loud. But it's also really cute watching them fall in love.
I mean, too great Aussie, because I actually really love that you put an Aussie show in there.
I just feel like it's really defined what a really modern rom com can be. So there's two seasons out now, they're on Binge. I would watch ten more seasons of this show. Okay. The other one I wanted to do, Sorry, this is just me like this, this.
Is the Laura show now, because Laura, you're so good at this stuff. I just love DV I know you do, and I love TV too, but you, like always are the best recommendations.
I mean. The other thing is like it is my job, so I have an extra incentive to do this, as in it does keep my electricity on and food on my table. So on that note, The other one I wanted to bring up is Modern Love, which is actually a romantic comedy anthology. I don't know if you've seen this one. It actually came out back in twenty nineteen. There's two seasons, and so it's an anthology series, so every episode is its own contained story, which I think is also great, especially if you have a lot of time, because you could sit down and watch one half an hour episode once a week and it's its own contending story.
And it is kind of like Black Mirror.
It's exactly, it's one hundred percent that's what it is. It's Black Mirror from rom com so Black Mira freaks you out. Go and watch One in Love because it's just sweet and lovely. It's mostly romantic love stories, but there is platonic love, family love. There's even a really lovely episode about a woman and her doorman who kind of sees her through all these big moments of her life when she becomes a single mum. I know, I cry so much. It's got an incredible cast of stars, so each episode has its own cast. Wow and some Yeah Deeltels, the hot Anne Hathaway, Dev Purtel is so good at this. Tina Yeah, Tina fe is incredible. Anne Hathaway's episode made me sob and a pap guin Andrew scottson so Mini Driver. It's just so incredible, And what it actually is is It's based off the Modern Love column in the New York Times, which is a very very famous column. It's been going for many, many years. I read it online a lot, and it's a weekly series where they publish all these personal essays about love and relationships. And it's just real people's stories that feature in this column. And it's so beautifully done. It just tells all these little pockets of life. And over the years it's become really famous and there's podcasts about it. Now that's this TV show. So every episode of Modern Love is based on real life people, on these people whose stories appeared in this column.
Isn't it wild?
How like twenty nineteen it came out, This is not really well known.
Yeah. Oh, I feel like it was very buzzy at the time. But I feel like, and especially because like the first season had a lot of big names and the second season came out quite quickly afterwards. But I do feel like it's one of those shows like Four Wings and Funeral where there was a hit of buzz and I feel like it's really fallen off people's radars. Yeah, And so Modern Love, I can't speak highly enough of it. There's so many episodes I still think about all these years later and like there's frothy episodes and some episodes have just made me sob it's really beautiful. It's on Prime, It's on Prime Video. So yeah, I highly recommend because again little self contained.
Do you know why I think it hasn't really hidden? Yeah, because Prime wasn't that big when this came out in Australia.
It wasn't like a.
Massive streaming service yet. So I feel like maybe that's why a lot of people might have missed it.
Yeah. So I'm sure if you have a Prime subscription now you can go in and watch it, because it's all just sitting there ready to watch. Okay, one more because I just feel like I can't finish off this episode without talking about one of my favorite shows of all time, part of Dixie. I can't.
I'm sorry, really, no, really, Why why I said I watched like five seconds and I hated it.
Well, of course five seconds. Also of the pilot, you should know that a pilot is not always a reflection with the real show.
It was too like like, it's so sugary in the best way to sugary, like two American. So I can't everything.
I wanted a wrong com Sugary Americans starring Rachel Bilson. I have watched awful seasons multiple multiple, multiple times, I know, and I'm here to tell you that, and so many other women in this office.
Too, you know, And I know that I'm going to get raked over the goals by this. I know it's very.
Popular and she you have to watch more than a few seconds, so it get Heart of Dixie so stressful that you haven't watched it. You know, if they haven't watched it, that you're just not even giving it the kudos it deserves. But Heart Dixie is about Rachel Bilson, who again incredible actress, who really can lead a rong com like that's her, that's her Nie, She's a good leading lady. She plays doctor Zoe Hart and yes she is a heart surgeon living in New York, very very fancy. Yeah it's not really it's not trying to be at all like subtle at anyway here. And she misses out in this huge job opportunity because her supervisor at work tells her that even though she's called doctor Heart and a heart surgeon, she doesn't have a heart. She has no bed signed manner. So he tells her to go and work as a GP for a year and then come back to the hospital and she'll have a chance. And then she can't find a GP job because obviously they're all filled for the year. And then she remembers that this strange old man in suit has been coming to her graduate in her events and stuff for over her life and keeps offering her a job, writing to her a job and saying, I own a medical practice in a tiny little town called blue Bell and Alabama, and I'd love to hire you. And she was like, okay. So she gets on a plane and a bus and takes all her fancy clothes out to this tiny little town called blue Bell, only to discover this is all the first episodes on Teaser. Only to discover that the man who gave her the job is actually her father who she didn't know and he's just died. And then she stays in the town to be the doctor. And it's this whole fish out of water thing because she's like a big city, glamorous girl and it's a little town where they still dress.
It's like sweet Home, Alabama, completely on stereods about Reese with a spoon in it.
Yeah, but Rachel Bilson is so good inness and also it's got these amazing side characters. Obviously, Gilmore Girls is so much of a better show. But the Town of Bluebell mirrors the Town of Stars Hollow in a way of.
Like I didn't like.
No, we're not doing no.
Sorry, sorry I can say I'm sorry. Okay, listen, you might as well.
You just trashed my family. Do you know that? Did you watch all of Gilmore Girls? No, you watched five seconds.
I watched the season. Listen, I don't hate it, but that's not I'm so sorry.
You should see how upset Laura looks at me right now.
It's my favorite TV shows. I know all the time.
I know I understand Laura, and I'm really sorry. I really do apologye. The TV shows that I really love aren't really like dramas like that. Okay, I'm like Parks and rec or Veep or Brooklyn nine nine. So it's just not my type of show. I'm really sorry. Like I've watched it, but I'm just not like obsessed with it.
I can't. I can't.
I try version a less good version of that, and like, really agree, American, I don't like that.
No, I'm just trying to say, Okay, maybe it's not for you, but the people who love Gilmore girls, people with humor, heart and soul, those people who love the town of styles Hollow and the fact that they've got the little quirky town square and all the different characters live in it. If you like that is also in Heart of Dixie. I should also say it's got one of the best performances from like a side comedic actress who becomes a leading lady, which is Jamie King, who plays Lemon Breeland. And I think out of everyone, you would like her because she comes off like, oh, she's just sugary, sweet debutante, but she is an evil mastermind. She's so clever, she's so like manipulative, and she very much becomes the lead character as the shows go along. Also, it's got my favorite thing in a love story. It's got haters to lovers and a very unexpected love story. The whole time you're watching Heart of Dixie, they're setting up this is the main love story. This is the main love story. This is the main love story, and it changes and it's the best payoff.
But if I'm going to watch like a fish out of Water series, and I'm going to watch like Ginny and Georgia.
Oh see, I can't get behind Jinny and Georgia. I really no. Oh, I really like it. It's good TV. It's just it hasn't sucked me in in the same Oh, I.
Like it a lot more like at least because it's got like a bit of quirk to it.
Yeah. I mean, so these shows you wouldn't know because you haven't watched all of them. So that's that. So Heart of Dixie is on the stand, and there's so many episodes, and I just also again, if you're looking for really comforting, lovely TV, I have watched every episode so so many times. It's just really good. It's got a really good cast.
And also, please don't hate me and send me death threats.
Okay, guys, you do what you need to do at the circumstance. I'm not going to tell you guys what to do.
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