Falling in Love Montage

Leap year only comes around every four years, and this year — our 8th anniversary — marks the second leap year we’ve experienced as a podcast. We couldn’t think of a better time to finally bring you an enthusiastic discussion of the oft-mentioned 2010 rom-com Leap Year — but we didn’t do that.
Instead, we’re here with an enraged dialog about the best-forgotten 2010 rom-bomb Valentine’s Day. The movie about the holiday Valentine’s Day. The one that happens every year.
Enjoy. ❤️

It’s the 20th anniversary of the beloved film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’s The Notebook, and that means we and our podcast are really old, and that means it’s time to finally cover this movie. 

Join us as we ascend the figurative Ferris wheel that is this 2004 romance. Do our pants get pulled down? Do we fall in love? Has this metaphor already worn itself out? 

For a podcast that has never covered a Hallmark movie in its 7+ years of existence, our fans sure love to throw Hallmark holiday movie memes and articles our way. Now it’s our turn — see how much you like it* when we throw Hallmark holiday movie content at you, haha! 

Yes, for this holidaymonth, we are talking about the holly-jolly, gay-appareled, made-for-TV stone-cold Hallmark masterpiece, The Christmas House. Is it destined to be a holiday classic, or is it merely a 90-minute makeover montage? Unwrap this gift and find out!

*we hope a lot

Aristotle and Holland Taylor once said, “The law is reason, free from passion.”
Valerie and Helen once said, “Oh man, we really should cover Legally Blonde at some point.” 
And six or so years later, here we are — covering 2001’s beloved Legally Blonde with long-overdue repeat guest, beloved Vanessa Riley from The Square Roots Podcast. 

Habeas corpus! 

To round out our whirlwind 2023 sampling of various Bennet and Darcy types (a Darcuterie, if you will), we’ve brought back our bestie and official Austen correspondent Tracy Tanoff for the third time/adaptation this year. Spooky month brings us to our likely last Pride and Prejudice for the foreseeable future — the 2016 action-comedy-horror-chick-flick Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. 

Will Charlotte become a zombie? Will love conquer all? Is Helen a dirty Wickham apologist?? Find out on this month’s exciting episode!

Find Tracy on Bluesky at @haveloved.bsky.social, and hear more Tracy on this year’s episodes on Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Fire Island, or our other classic Austen episodes, Emma (1996) and Sense and Sensibility.

Our spooky theme song was put together by the very talented Jon Biegen — you can find him at @jonbiegen on all socials. 

We waited a long time to see our oldest friend grace the silver screen and make it pink, but Barbie is here now, and we are glad to be able to bring our OK-maybe-not-as-objective-as-they-could-be thoughts to you in this, the year of our Lord*, 2023.

*Greta Gerwig