Hosts Bridget and Shani return from hiatus for a season focused on romance adaptations, outlining upcoming titles and inviting 2026 adaptation requests. They review Ali Hazelwood’s standalone contemporary romance The Love Hypothesis (fake dating, grumpy/sunshine), discuss audiobook narration by Callie Dalton and Teddy Hamilton, and note a tonal shift when a harassment “villain” plotline appears late. They rate Olive 3/5, Adam 3/5 (Bridget 4/5), describe the spice as “classy” with limited on-page sex, and give the book 3/5. They then review the film adaptation (directed by Claire Scanlon; written by Sarah Rothschild; starring Lily Reinhart and Tom Bateman), calling it unfaithful and criticizing changes that reduce Olive’s agency, add a third-act breakup, alter harassment details, diminish side characters, and deliver weak chemistry, costumes, and sex-scene filming; they rate the adaptation 1–2/5 and do not recommend it, previewing Practical Magic next.

00:00 Recording 2 - Sep 28, 12:58 PM

00:50 Season Lineup

03:42 Narrator Review

04:33 Cover Art

05:18 The Villain Problem

08:02 What We Liked

11:26 Classy to Nasty

12:32 Heroine Rating: Olive

14:25 Hero Rating: Adam Carlson

19:30 McDreamy to McSteamy

20:01 Favorite Lines

20:27 Book Rating

21:52 Movie Adaptation Review

23:14 Were You Faithful?

26:26 Third Act Breakup

33:13 Sex Scene Discussion

36:03 Casting & Costumes

42:57 Creative License: But Why?

55:27 Adaptation Rating

58:06 Sign-Off

Well, hello everyone and welcome to Romance At a Glance.

I'm your host Bridget, and with me as always is my co-host Shani.

Hi, Shani

Bridget, I'm happy to see your face.

I'm happy to be back, Bridget

I am so happy to be back, y'all.

It is time for another season of Romance at a Glance, and this time we are

talking all things romance adaptations

Oh yeah, Bridget, I'm excited for this.

I am s-

you to know you were born for this, Bridget.

You were

I,

to do

for adaptations.

it.

I mean, I do absolutely love adaptations.

They are my favorite thing.

Even though they break my heart so many times, I still keep

coming back hoping for the best

That's like spoken like a true romance lover, like

I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do.

So as we said, you guys, this, season of Romance at a Glance, we are back

from hiatus, and we are gonna be talking about adaptations only.

We are going to review the book, then we are gonna review the adaptation, and

we are starting with The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood We are also going to

be talking about Sense and Sensibility, Practical Magic one and two, Wicker.

Shani, I'm stoked for Wicker, I'm not gonna lie.

It's based off a short story, so guys, we're just counting it.

Okay?

We're just counting it because we want to and we can, and it's our

podcast, and we get to do what we want.

We do what?

We are also gonna talk about Warm Bodies, Pride and Prejudice, the new version.

of course, we will sprinkle in a little bit of debate about the Keira

Knightley version and the OG version, and kind of where this one ranks

amongst those two excellent versions.

later in the fall/Christmastime, we are gonna be reviewing Guarding

Stars and In a Holidaze, and it's just gonna be a fun time.

I'm very excited

I'm very excited too, and I'm very excited for that Pride and Prejudice debate.

Pride and

You would be.

I mean, you're just on the wrong side of history.

I don't know what to tell you

I don't know what to say.

I was gonna say, I'll fight you and your children and your

All right.

Well, everyone, we are so happy to be back with you.

We cannot wait.

If there is an adaptation that is coming out in 2026 that you would like us to talk

about, please let us know and we will see.

We have a couple slots left on our list.

And of course, there are so many that have already been projected for 2027,

but if there are any that you are, like, dying to talk about, please let us know.

Obviously, Heat of Rivalry season two will be a big contender.

But if there's anything else, let us know, as always, on Instagram

or TikTok or our website.

You can drop us a line via email, however you would like to.

Carrier pigeon to our, our homes.

And without further ado, Shani, I think it's time to get this shit

poppin'.

Get a thought,

Romance at a glance.

Uh-huh.

Romance at a glance.

What you saying now?

Romance at a glance.

Go ahead, girl.

We are talking Love Hypothesis.

As we said, we're gonna review the book first, so here it comes, by Ali Hazelwood.

The synopsis is, "As a third-year PhD candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe

in lasting romantic relationships, but her best friend does, and that is

what has gotten her into this pickle.

Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to happily ever

after was always going to take more than a heavy-handed Jedi mind trick.

Scientists require proof.

So like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and

kisses the first man she sees.

That man is none other than Adam Carlson, a young hotshot professor

and a well-known butt head."

I added that, guys.

That's not in the original description.

"Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab

tyrant agrees to her charade and be's her fake boyfriend. Hijinks ensue. Many

things ensue," and that is the plot.

Shani, tell the people about the narrator.

How did you like the audiobook?

About the narrator, Callie Dalton and Teddy Hamilton, I

thought they did a good job.

Honestly, like to me, there was like nothing to really write

home about, which is how I feel like a good narrator should be.

Like, I should like not really be thinking about the narrator.

And I didn't really think about them too much, so they

didn't take away from the book.

I think they did their job solidly

That's what you can ask for 'cause there's bad narration and there's

great narration, but as long as everything else is good, that's good

The only time a narrator really sticks out to me is if their voice

is so deep and yummy, and I just, like, fall in love with the narrator.

That, like,

Yeah

I'll, I'll say like, yes, they added so much to it, but

that's just 'cause that's my,

That's your thing.

You know

That's your thing, yes.

You do enjoy a deep voice.

Yeah,

me today with my cold.

You sound good though

thank you.

This book is a standalone.

It is not part of a series.

It is contemporary romance leaning into the fake dating, grumpy/sunshine tropes.

I will say the cover art, normally I'm not a huge fan of animated covers, but

I thought the animated cover was cute.

I thought it gave you a real clear picture that there's some chemistry, you know,

sort of lab equipment in the background.

She's in a lab coat.

you know, his little eyes are open in the kiss, so it's like a surprise.

I thought it fit the book quite well

I think sometimes when I, see a cover like this, I really do think

of a fun little rom-com that I should not think too deeply about,

It sets the tone for

And I think this matched that.

Like, you know, this is like a potato chip book for me, so, like,

I agree with you.

it

Going into that, did you find the sort of evil character of the book

who harasses her, did you find that that came out of left field for you?

'Cause this was your first time reading the book, right?

Yeah, it's my first time reading it.

Okay

I feel like I have so many things to say about that whole situation.

yes, did feel like it came out of left field.

I did not like it.

I did not like how it happened.

It felt very cheesy for me.

Sometimes I feel like in a, in a story, author, like, doesn't know

what to do or whatever, and so then they do something that just make, that

feels off-putting for me as a reader.

It feels like they didn't know what to do, and they didn't put that much thought

into making the villain situation, and that's what's bothering me.

I was like, "Oh, is that what we're doing?"

I, I, okay, so this is my second time reading it, so I wanna be very clear that

this time I didn't find it as shocking because I already knew what happened.

So I wanna just throw that out there.

The first time I read it, though, I remember being like, "Wait, what the

fuck's going on?" And, like, paging back and being like, "Wait, what did I miss?"

Because the first, like, two-thirds of the book are a fake dating rom-com,

and then the last third of the book is pretty heavy, and the cover is animated.

And I remember being like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, I didn't know,"

'cause there's, like, no trigger warnings or anything like that.

So I was like… There was a lot of stuff in the beginning of the book where she's

talking about how, like, the dudes in her lab, like, basically, like, suck, and

they will steal her equipment, and she has to bring it home with her, or they

won't give her preferential treatment on certain, you know, like, equipment

that she needs to do her experiments.

So she's there at all hours of the night, and she's sort of, like, makes it work,

like many women do, to get around the sort of patriarchal system of the PhD program.

And she talks a lot about how it's, like, a whole bunch of

white dudes and then her and Anh.

And so I, I, I think, like, upon the second readate- rereading, there was,

like, a little bit more foundation for it, but I was still, like, legitimately

shocked the first time I read it.

And- Sometimes I'm okay with, as you know, I'm okay with real life issues being in

my books, and sometimes I just want the heroine to, like, learn a little bit about

herself, trust someone, trust herself, get railed, and have happily ever after.

Exactly.

It didn't make me hate the book, thankfully, but I do remember the

first time reading it being like, "Oh, are we go- oh, we're going…

Oh, okay, this is gonna, like, take over the whole second half of the romance."

I think a potato chip book needs to know when it's a potato chip book, know?

Like, I think the author needs to know what kind of book she's writing

I will say the things I liked about it.

Shani, you know fake dating is my favorite trope, so obviously I

love when two people have a secret.

I love when they are on their little coffee dates, and at the beginning they're

like, "Okay, well, like, maybe you should buy my coffee. That's a thing couples do."

And then towards the end, you know, she's like holding, touching his arm and all

these other… So I like the evolution.

I thought the pacing of their romance was really good.

I really liked how slow it was, how like, you know, them being together on all

these little fake dates meant, you know, there's no pressure, and so then they

were able to honestly talk about things.

You know I love that so much.

I was so happy Malcolm immediately knew that it was not fake, and that

he was like, "This is a terrible idea, but, like, I'll support you."

Yeah

I thought her reason for doing it I thought was like a good piece of her

character, how much she loved her friend and wants her to be happy.

And like also like how silly she is that she's like can't convince her

friend, and is like, "You know what? The only option is obviously I gotta

date someone else," like I, I, I thought all of that worked for me.

And, and even though there isn't a ton of sex on the page in the book, I

thought their one sex scene was very good

I, so I agree with, like, almost everything you said there.

I did love that they had, like, a sisterhood with her

friend, and that wasn't gonna become a point of or whatever.

I loved that.

Mm-hmm.

I did think… I think the reason for her doing it and everything, like…

and I think this is why the second half of the book getting heavy feels

so weird, is like, the reason she did it and everything is so kind of cheesy

in, in, in a fine way, but it's so light and cheesy that you don't really

see the, the second half coming so hard in the, on the page, you know?

Like, so, like how she's… is with her friends, how she's goofing off

with them, how her friends kind of like, you know, mess with her, all

that stuff is so fun and light.

and I really enjoyed that a lot.

do like the, I do like, grumpy sunshine, pairing.

I do like fake dating, but it's like, it's sometimes hit or miss for me.

I like when there are, a lot of fun scenes that they encounter

in the process of fake dating.

so I thought this was cute, like I, I really did.

Now when it came to, like, the sex on the page, one, there was just,

like, not enough for me, but I I did lo- I did like their sex scene.

I did want the second night when they, when they woke up the next

morning, wanted more from that scene.

It was kind of like a, oh, she went down on him and then fade

to black-ish kind of situation.

That pissed me off.

Like, I was like, "What?" Okay.

so I did want at least one other sex scene to happen for them,

and I wanted it to be spicier.

Mm-hmm.

I'm a big fan, okay, of, in real life, use protection.

But I was actually a big fan that they did not use protection in this

book because, as you know, I love cum.

And it, and I really dug that.

thought they could have played a little bit with that a little

more, you know, wanted to

Yeah.

were gonna go

Yeah.

Mm-hmm

it could have been good.

so yeah, that was, like, not enough for me in, in

Yeah

Wanted more intimacy

Yeah.

I would definitely say, I mean, we're gonna get to our classy to nasty

rating, and maybe we'll just do it now.

But I would definitely say this b- I said this book was classy.

Like, there's one descriptive sex scene on it.

you know, I was happy he went downtown for an extended snack, but I wanted,

you know, for it to be more than, like, maybe two chili peppers,

because there is one on the page.

I would definitely have needed, after that, more.

But because, again, because we went into the sort of heaviness, then you

don't get, like, the sexplosion that you would normally get in fake dating,

where when they finally… They've had these, like, simmering feelings.

It's been bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, and by the time they get up

to the top and finally consummate, then they just, like, fuck like rabbits,

'cause they've been waiting forever for that to happen, and we didn't get that.

It went straight into, like, earnestness, which I think fit

their characters and was fine.

But,

listen, I

you don't get,

I'm

you don't get the sexplosion.

Okay?

I want a sexplosion, all

Yes.

I'm gonna coin that term, sexplosion.

You

It's someone or- Someone probably already said it before.

I don't know.

let's talk about your heroine rating.

What did you think about Olive?

I mean, I'll solid three.

Like, she did nothing.

I feel like she did the thing.

It was nothing for me very spectacular, but nothing also

that was like a super takeaway.

She was supposed to be like all quirky and, you know, not that

graceful and, you know, whatever else, and I think that's a good fit.

I didn't-- the thing about Olive is like, probably this book in general,

is that it's not spectacular for me.

It's just a comfort read.

like, it feels like a Hallmark, you know, like a… I love to watch those little

cheesy Hallmark movies in the wintertime.

This book felt like for me, you know?

So like a solid three

I, yeah, I liked her.

I, I sometimes struggle with characters, as you know, who the other MC is making

it so obvious that they like them, and they, like, refuse to see it.

Sometimes that can irk me, where I'm like, "Yeah, well, he obviously feels the

same way, you dum-dum." however, I did love that she's, like, works really hard.

I think sometimes female characters in books, even when they are, like,

scientists or teachers or mathematicians or whatever, don't… They don't,

like, lean into them being really smart and good workers, you know?

They lean into, like, "Oh, but they're, like, fun and sexy," you know what I mean?

And I feel like I liked that she was just, like, very good at her job, and

she was insecure about presenting, but, like, she knew her science was good.

And when that dude asked her to, like, pull together this whole huge

report, she immediately was like, "Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'm, like, not

gonna sleep, but I'm gonna do it." And so she was, like, up all hours, like,

working hard and doing it, and so I really like that about her character.

and also, I thought her relationship with Ahn and Malcolm was lovely, and, her slow

falling in love with Adam, and, like, slowly realizing, hey, she can trust him.

Shani what do you think about Dr. Adam Carlson, our fair hero?

Again, I gave him a three.

one thing that I wanted from him is like, I don't know, I wanted

him to get there a little sooner.

Like, about her, I wanted him to… I, I wanted a hair more playfulness, and I,

I just wanted him to get there sooner.

I was like, ah, you know?

so yeah.

I just, I really honestly, like, I didn't, again, I didn't have great expectations,

but I did love the kind of…

I did love that he, was very like kind of staunch to who he was though.

Like, I thought that added a really funny element to him being like,

you know, the, professor everybody's scared of, and him being kind of

like s- sticking to his ethics.

yeah, that's how I felt about it

How did you feel about the fact that you find out from his friend that he's

been into her for three years, and like the big reveal that he's the one

from like the first chapter of the book that you find out at the end, that

he's like been watching her from afar and, but felt like he shouldn't date

her because she was a PhD candidate?

Well, I didn't feel like I needed that, that data.

You know what I mean?

Like, I felt like that, that data is meant for me to be like, you know, feel

even yummier about them as a couple.

but I can feel quite as yummy with them having discovered love when they did.

I actually prefer that he wasn't watching her because he was so autistically coded

in such a way that, like, reminds me of a friend of mine who, like, literally

thinks… I used to have, I used to say that the only way he would, like,

pay attention to a woman is if she had video games strapped to her, know?

if she just directly came at him, and was like hey,

i'm into you." You know what I mean?

And I kinda like that element for him better than this

Mm. I could see that.

I, I liked him.

I liked that he was a person of action, so when she was being sort of

grilled in the coffee shop about her project, he was like immediately… He

didn't, like, say it in a subtle way.

He was like, "That's a terrible question.

Shut up." And he, like, got, you know, was like, then gave her five specific

questions to answer, and he was willing to, like, stand up to his own peer to

interrupt him, to be like, "No, fuck you, that's a stupid thing to say to her.

How dare you ask her personal questions?" I liked that when she came into the

room at the end, at the restaurant, he immediately stood up and walked

over to her, even though she had just broken his heart, like, a day

before or whatever, two days before.

he still immediately was just like, "She's here, I'm there."

The guy was, like, trying to talk to him.

He was like, "Get the fuck out of my face, bro." Before he even knew what

was wrong with her, before he even knew why she was there, he was just

like, "No, you're here, so I'm here.

I'm listening to you."

Yeah

I liked that he always, like, believed everything she said.

He didn't, like, question her about her own feelings about things.

He didn't, like, demean her own feelings.

He always… I feel like sometimes there can be a tendency, in real life

and in books, and in movies, where a character will, you know, do those little,

like, put-downs, you know, couched as, like, a compliment, like a backhanded

one, but there was no backhandedness.

He was just like, "You're brilliant.

You're amazing.

Your research is great.

I already read all of it.

I already know this.

I will help you if you want my help.

If you don't, I don't care.

That's fine.

But I will help you.

You're capable." Like, in, you know, when she got accepted for the panel, he was

like, "I've been on that panel reviewing," or whatever, "reviewing panel people.

It's all blind.

We don't know who you are.

It's just the research gets picked.

So, like, your research is good because otherwise they wouldn't have picked

you, because that's how it works." And so I like that he was so matter-of-fact

and, like, upfront about all of that.

Like, like she was confu- like, she was unsure if he liked her for real

or it was just the fake dating.

But, like, she was never unsure about him believing in her as a

scientist and, like, her core person.

Like, she always was very sure he respected her, he liked

her, he knew she was brilliant.

She didn't know if he was in love with her, but, like, I thought that was… I

really liked that about his character.

And, and I also think, you know, we talked about this so many times in books

and in real life, who you're friends with is really important for an MC.

Like, do they have friends?

Do they have good friends?

Do they have funny friends?

Do they have mean friends, you know?

and I thought the fact that his best friend is, like, a little golden

retriever who falls in love with her best friend and is, like, teasing him

and is like, "You don't even love me.

Come to my birthday," and he's like, "It's not your birthday.

We talk every day for 25 years." Like, for a man to be like, "I love

this best friend enough to talk to him every day for 25 years," I think

immediately Ollie's a green flag.

Yeah

so I gave him four stars, actually.

I thought he was, I thought he was good.

McDreamy to McSteamy, what did we think?

in the book?

I mean, McDreamy.

Mc-

the book.

We're only on the book.

We are about to get to the movie.

McDreamy?

I think he was mcIndulgent because he was so, in, like, the most beautiful possible

way, when she would go on her little rants or she would be eating crazy things

or ordering all these sugary drinks, he was just so, like, he just l- like, he

was just charmed by her and so indulgent in that, like, affection for her.

My favorite line in the book is kind of going along with my theme about what I

like about the book/him and her, and it's just him saying, "I wish you could see

yourself the way I see you," because he always sees her in, like, the best in her.

followed closely by her saying, "You're so big," and him saying, "You can take

it," which is always just a nice… It's just nice when people say that.

It's just nice, okay?

is lovely.

I love that.

what would you say your stars are, one to five?

one to five for the book is a three for me.

Solid, round, right?

potato chip.

Book

, I waffled for quite a while between three and four, and if we did half

stars, honey, which we don't, we stand by our principles, I probably

would've done a three and a half.

I don't think it's a four.

I think it's a three, but I did enjoy reading it, and I

have read her other books.

So it wasn't like a three where I'm like, "I'll never read that

author again," but it was enjoyable.

was a three where I was like, "Oh, I'd read another one of

her books and see how it goes."

it's a three in,

so

the way that like I eat potato chips.

I'm gonna continue to eat those potato chips because they satisfy

Correct.

Correct.

Correct.

for that

Yes, for those of you who maybe forgot our rating system, one for

us is like we hate this book, maybe it should die, possibly we DNF'd it.

Two is like we really don't like it.

We wish we hadn't picked it.

Why did someone re- recommend it to us?

Three is like we enjoyed this book, solid, potato chip, could read

it again, enjoyed it, good time.

Four, we really liked it, some aspect of it kind of tickled our senses,

and five is like we'll never stop talking about it, we'll read it

all the time, we read everything the author's ever read- written.

with that said, you guys, we're gonna take the quickest break of all time,

and then we are gonna be back with our review of The Love Hypothesis,

a movie adaptation, dun, dun, dun.

All right, everyone, here's the time you've all been waiting for.

We are gonna talk about the adaptation directed by Claire

Scanlon, written by Sarah Rothschild and Ali Hazelwood on IMDb.

However, I just went back and reviewed, and on the actual movie, as the movie is

rolling, it just says Sarah Rothschild as the screenwriter, not Ali Hazelwood.

So I am-- I would be interested to know how that occurred, 'cause

obviously the story is by Ali Hazelwood, 'cause she wrote the book.

It is starring Lily Reinhart and Tom Bateman.

Did you know that Tom Bateman is not American?

And that is why his voice is maybe the way it is in this movie

Is he Australian?

Because he sounds like Hugh

Jackman to me.

I think he's British.

Let me check.

I will Google it whilst we are talking, Shani, 'cause I believe that he is British

does an American accent

An American accent?

Yeah

he is from Oxford

Oh, okay.

England.

I, did

England

I will say that

yes, I did feel that he was doing an American accent, and It wasn't like

super aggressively annoying to me, but I did notice it a little bit.

Okay, first up you guys, since this is our new season, we have new categories.

Get excited.

the first category up is were you faithful?

Were you faithful??

What, what do you think, Shani?

Was the adaptation faithful?

Something that, that were

know what, Shani?

I'm gonna jump in here.

The answer is no.

The answer you were looking for is no.

The answer you were looking for is no, it was not a faithful adaptation

you are correct

of a romance novel.

I don't know what took you so long.

I tell you right now, you were trying to be nice, but it was not faithful.

It was not faithful.

I was trying to see, I was, in my mind I was trying to determine, like,

you know, the spirit to, you know.

But, like, no, I- it was not faithful.

It cheated

It was not faithful.

It cheated.

It cheated us.

well, the next question I have for you, Shani, is did the movie honor the book?

Were the vibes there?

the feeling there?

Did you get the same idea?

I, I do think that the feeling was still there.

Like, I think that the spirit of the book, the soul of the book,

still made it to the adaptation.

However, I s- I would've made different choices.

but I think you, Bridget, do you feel about, whether or not it

honored the spirit of the book?

Shani I would have made so many different choices, okay?

I would have made so many choices.

You guys have five pages of notes.

I'm gonna read them all on TikTok.

I'm not gonna read them all here.

I'm gonna read a lot of them, though.

I… Here's why I don't think it honored the spirit of the book.

One, Lily Reinhart is a stunning creature of a human being, and you

don't have to make her look cute.

She just is stunning.

So why are we dressing her in cutesy little outfits when she's supposed

to be working in a lab all the time?

And she's… Like, she's stunning.

You could literally put her in sweatpants and ratty T-shirts and

put her hair in a messy bun with no makeup on, and she would still be the

most beautiful person on the screen.

So like, to me, it's like there were so many things that were changed, that were

plot points that were changed, and I don't think they were changed for the better.

There were scenes that were added that I don't think added really anything,

and they took up screen time, which means you have to take out characters,

you have to take out other stuff.

But I think for me, the biggest thing is… The two biggest things that we

talked about while reviewing the book are, I think, you know, she's like an,

a regular person who's brilliant but unsure of herself, and I don't think

someone who is a regular person who's brilliant but unsure of herself would be

dressing in the most adorable put-together outfits with perfectly blow-dried

hair and perfect makeup every day.

And perfect… She had, like, beautiful nails, Shani

Yeah.

And

And works in the lab

he, every step of the way in the book, is on her side always, always treats

her kindly, always puts her first, and the fact that there's a third act

breakup that he instigates in the movie and is mean to her, I'm like, "No,

you lost, you lo-", like she… Like,

that was, that was-

I want to know, in, in the movie, did you think she should have forgiven him?

'Cause I'm gonna say, when I was watching it, I was like, "Oh, Shani's

gonna be like, 'Fuck this dude.'"

No, I was livid, Bridget.

I was, I was yelling at the screen.

I was like, "What are you, what are you guys doing?" but also, like,

to, to, us, we hate a third act breakup, especially when that breakup

was soo.. it.

it, it barely had legs.

It barely had a, a toe to stand on.

Okay?

Like, the, the whole

Yeah

like, you know, the guy making the advances at her, her trying to call

him, him just deciding he's just not going to call her, her back, and

there's gonna be no communication.

And like, when I tell you, I was like, "Fuck you all." Like, why?

Why?

Why?

100%.

I d- I don't understand it.

yes.

In

would not have forgiven him, and he would've had to do so much more groveling.

And I also, like,

Yes

he, he's like, "I'm gonna kill you," you know, "Don't ever do that shit to her.

I'm gonna kill you." And then, like, okay, cool, they have,

like, a quickie conversation that, that, like, made it all better.

I thought there should've been groveling.

I want it.

I wanted grovel.

That's what I'm saying.

Yeah.

Again, because they didn't, they didn't honor the book en- enough, and they

certainly weren't faithful to the book's plot, so then they had to change so much

stuff after they changed so much stuff.

It's like a cascading effect.

Yeah.

Everything was

there were so many part… Everything was just there.

Like, just make the…

Again, just make the book, you guys.

But,

make it

I do think there are occasionally times where things are changed, and they're

changed for a reason like budget.

You know what I mean?

Like, you're like, "Oh, this was supposed to be somewhere in a stadium," and

you're like, "We ain't got stadium money, so it's gotta be somewhere smaller."

Fine.

Great.

I love that for you.

But, like, completely changing the whole plot.

Like, I just didn't like that the m- the book is her idea.

Everything's her idea.

Fake dating's her idea.

She tells him what fake dating is, how fake dating works.

She's like, "We should meet at these coffee shops.

We should do this.

We should do that," and he's just, like, happy to be along.

He's happy to be there for the ride, 'cause he's into her, and he's like,

"I'm down to clown." Everything she does for her career is her impetus.

Yeah.

What-

Sorry, just I hated the way that in

they, they have sex, right?

have that moment, and then that's it.

He's gone when she wakes up, and there's just an M&M heart

on the bed next to it whatever.

And then, like, that's the last interaction they… Like,

before, everything goes to shit.

Like, there's no more them

Yeah。Yeah

that so felt like a prostitute.

It felt less than a prostitute on the bed because at least prostitute gets money

at the end and not goddamn M&Ms, okay?

If a fool leave- leaves me

Yeah

m&m on , the bed, I'm not gonna be like, "Oh, that's so cute." Bro, leave me cash.

Cold hard cash.

I, I hated that scene so incredibly bad, Bridget.

Like, I just want you to know how mad I was,

I did too.

know.

Speaking of the hotel room, I hated that they moved the

harassment from a conference.

Like, this man was so bold at the conference in the book that he

was willing to harass her right after everyone left the room.

Like, he was… felt so untouchable that he was willing to do this right in, like,

a space where anyone could walk in and know that no one would believe her, or he

felt confident no one would believe her.

I did not like him going to her hotel room because first of all, that's fucking

even scarier, because he coulda just raped her right then, and also it, it

makes it, like, more ominous 'cause he's willing to, like, cross that boundary,

and also less ominous because you're like, "Oh, he had to do it somewhere secret."

Yeah。

it ta- You know what I mean?

And also, like, the whole point in the book is that it ruins the high of her

feeling so good about her presentation, and then he immediately ruins it for her,

and so she doesn't get to enjoy it, and she doesn't get to feel, like, that good.

And I, I didn't, like… I, like, I was…

I've been… Shani, I've been trying to stay off the internet,

and I've been unsuccessful.

I have seen so many people talking about how, like, they love this

movie, and it makes me concerned.

Whether you're a book reader or not, this is not a good movie, and this

is not a good romance movie because they don't spend enough time together.

I think what they, what, what the writer of the movie and the director of the

movie really missed is that what makes a romance, especially on screen, but in a

book too, but especially on screen, 'cause you're not in the characters' heads.

You don't get to hear what they're thinking.

What makes a romance, especially a fake dating one, exciting

is that they are together and they are talking to each other.

If you don't get to hear what's happening, you have to say what's happening.

And so in a fake dating… I literally just watched A Candy Jar Vertical, Shani,

and when I tell you that this Candy Jar Vertical, which is only 40 minutes long,

had more tension in the fake dating, and more excitement in the fake dating,

and more sexiness in the fake dating than this feature film with a budget.

Like, because they were… 'cause they have a lower budget, so they

don't have a shitload of extras.

Instead, what they have is scenes with the two characters together all the time.

And so then you get to, like, to remove all the coffee dates,

you remove all of them together.

There were so few times in the movie where it was just them one-on-one flirting,

talking alone, without other characters there with them or interrupting them.

Like, they didn't get to walk down the street together.

They didn't get to sit in the coffee shop each week.

They didn't-

it, it like speaks to that thing though, like, you, you know, where,

when I always think, when this book ends, do they break up, right?

When this book ends,

Oh, yeah.

g- do they

Yeah,

Do they get divorced?

Do they break up?

Do

Right

Like, if when there's

Right

enough, you know, afterwards I just don't believe it.

I'm like, oh, that was a great fling they had you know, for a year.

But they don't have enough in common to, to make it past the… Like, once the

sex is over, and once the rabbit sex is over, was I given enough to fall in love

with for both these characters and for them to fall in love with each other?

Great

that's really what is missing

Yeah.

Here I have a question because we talked about the sex scene in the book.

Let's talk about the s- No, it's not.

What… We- we're skipping ahead, but n- no.

Would you say that the sex in the movie made you sexy

feeling, uncomfortable, wildly uncomfortable for everyone involved?

And do you think when you adapt a romance novel, you should always adapt

the sex scenes as they are in the page?

Or do you think you should base it on what the vibe of the movie you're

telling is, and that this movie could maybe have used instead a nice

montage-y and then fade to black sex, 'cause it would've fit this movie.

I'm not saying it would've fit the book.

It would've fit the movie that they made better if that sex scene had been, you

know, you saw a couple montage-y, you know, gripping of some thighs or whatever,

and you heard him whisper, "It'll fit," and you maybe heard the dialogue, and

then you just wake up the next morning.

Because what… I'm, I don't wanna tell you what I think, but I'm… want

you to tell me what you think first.

Okay.

I, I, I also think that you and I, like, what we w- what we want and require in,

in our sex scenes is slightly different.

I'll start with saying that, I absolutely hated the sex scene in the movie.

I thought it was filmed poorly

It was, mm-hmm.

scene, I- and I rewound

Agree

like, it was so janky, where he picks her up and puts her on a wall.

The way that they cut that scene, like, it felt so put on.

Like, it's a, like, I felt like I was in the room with them yelling cut,

Yes.

do it again."

Yes

Hated it, hated it, hated it.

there was no, there, this scene could've used so much sexy talk,

even just a little bit of just well done, like, you know, whatnot.

Just literally pull the lines from the book.

What are we doing?

You don't even have to write new lines.

Just take all the dialogue

Okay?

Like, I thought it needed a lot of close-ups of touching, skit, thi-

Yes.

that

Yes

and I wanted them to feel over, like, like in the book they don't use a

condom, and when that, when you don't use a condom, that implies that you

got so carried away that y'all weren't even thinking about protection.

Okay?

So in the movie, I wanted that same carried away feeling, and

I think they thought, "Oh man,

Yeah

against the wall, that's sexy." You know?

And also, like, to,

Mm-hmm.

point of, like, adaptations, if I want a Hallmark movie, I will go to Hallmark.

But don't take a romance novel book and make it Hallmark level sexy.

Do you know what I mean?

'Cause I can go get that easily.

So I'm watching an adaptation, I want the, at least the sex that's in the book.

You can go more, but not less for me.

And if you fade to black, I will never watch your shit

Okay.

will never, Bridget,

Yeah.

Oh, watch you.

how I feel.

That's how I feel about that, Bridget.

All right, Shani, casting and costumes.

How did we feel about casting and costumes?

I, I didn't like anybody and I didn't like the costumes all, I think the c-

I

i think the costumes hurt the casting, if you, if, if that can be a thing.

I didn't

Agree.

The costumes were so bad

y- like I, I, I wanted her, I think I wanted her to look less like a model, and

more like a hu- like a regular person, I

Mm-hmm.

costume wise, I just, I, it just felt like, you know, like, you know, she's,

she's a model, she's not a model.

Put glass- You know, like it felt like at that kind of level of, of cheesiness.

so yeah, I did not like that.

t- I didn't think the acting was spectacular on any of their accounts.

it felt like, when I watch a Hallmark movie, the acting feels cheesy.

This acting felt very cheesy to me.

It felt a little campier than I wanted.

but I think that that comes from, like, an internalized place in my soul.

When, when we talk about romance novels, people don't take them seriously already.

And so when I see the adaptations,

it's like being black, okay.

i gotta be better

everybody else, right?

I can't just show up at the same level as everybody else.

I gotta come in better because people are already gonna talk shit.

You know me?

So, like, when it comes to a romance novel adaptation, just need it to be

better so that we can get more made.

I need it to, it j- it just gotta be better than, what's the status quo.

And so that's kinda how I felt about the acting and, like, the overall feel of it.

It was too campy for me.

I like how Heated Rivalry had, had much more of a seriousness

and commitment to the characters.

and I

don't know if its equilvalency, but

if you watch, like, 360 on, 365 on Netflix, the writing of 365 is the most

horrendous romance novel writing that i've ever seen.

Okay?

Like top three.

commitment the actors made to that horrendous writing sold

it for me 10,000 times over.

I've watched that so many times.

So this did not

угу.

did not have that.

What about you?

I agree.

I mean, the budget was $80 million.

so this was not a, this was not a small-budgeted film.

It wasn't like they made it for $12.

Like, this is… They had a healthy budget.

They had

Yeah, they had a healthy budget, 'cause sh- I'm sure she made a lot of money.

I mean, my problem is that she has made… I don't know if you guys already

saw Look Both Ways, which is basically, like, one of those things where, you

know, one thing changes in your life and then that completely changes

how you, your life turns out and who you fall in love with and whatever.

she obviously fell in love many times on Riverdale.

Like, she was in this other romance called My Chemical Hearts.

Like, she can deliver chemistry and romance, and I thought that her

performance was very performancy in a way that she normally isn't.

Normally, she's very natural.

I thought he was not good.

and I don't know if sometimes when you're acting out of your accent

it's very hard, 'cause that's, like, what you're thinking about.

And also his character is very, like, stilted in the book.

I saw some people online said that they really loved his reactions because it felt

like, you know, sort of like an autism or some sort of neurodiver- divergent rep for

them, which I can completely understand.

I just didn't feel like they had that chem- like, when they were on screen

together, I didn't feel that pull.

I didn't feel that pull and that magic.

I thought, you're right, I thought the costumes were horrific.

I thought her wig was not good.

not.

See, this they need more black women on set,

I mean, they did a job applying it

I'm just

Well, also, like, you gave her a wig because you didn't want her to have, like,

gorgeous blonde hair because again, you're trying to make her look less like a model.

But also, like, it would've been better if she just had blonde hair and it- just

put it in a messy ponytail or a messy bun.

Like, don't blow-dry it first.

Like, make it a little messy.

Yeah

take less, take off her makeup, because no matter how beautiful you

are, in HD if you're not wearing makeup, you don't look as good.

It's just a fact, 'cause the camera's so good now.

also, you know, she's a biologist working in all these labs and

stuff, and she has, like, perfect manicures throughout the whole movie.

And not that I'm sure… You know, don't come for me, PhD

candidates who get manicures.

Maybe some of you do, but, like, her character doesn't.

Like, if you're telling me she works all hours of the night, she's there

at midnight working 'cause she has no social life, that p- that type of

character isn't taking time out of her research to go every three, four, five

weeks to go spend two hours getting her nails done and perfect nail art.

Like, and keeping them long when she has to be grabbing beakers all day and shit.

Like-

One of, one of the things I think is funny that, my, my dad, his best friend is like

the head biologist for, like Costa Rica.

And I go stay at her house like all the time when I go to Costa Rica.

And when I think about

Mm-hmm.

how she dresses and when she showed me older pictures of her, like

when she was younger and stuff like that, it kinda cracks me up

to like see the, to, to, of see

Mm-hmm.

not only that, she has so many creatures that exist in her house and around her

space, and like, like she, she holds flowers and things in her, in her wallet,

in her, o- on her car, hanging on things.

Her jewelry is like, you know, beetles

weird

like… You know what I mean?

and so if you're talking about

about somebody who's a, who is studying who is into science, and you think about

just like the accessories that they might have on, they might look a little

more Miss Frizzle-y than, than she did.

you

Yes.

Then like cute little,

that,

yeah

like I have so many avoca-

Yeah.

a

And she wasn't like to college

and sloths in my house

Exactly.

Yeah, and like, she wasn't going to college.

She was going to get her PhD. She already finished college.

So like, she already had her like, "Oh, I'm a cute coed"

phase, if she ever had one.

But like, you're an adult now in a PhD program.

I didn't like it.

I think one thing this movie did really well, and I think it's probably

because they had such a big budget, they were able to get expensive music.

I thought that the music carried a lot of the movie emotions and

stuff, in terms of just like, a- the access they had to good music.

And so I think the music magic was here for this movie.

I think if you watch this movie on mute or just removed the music, you'd

be like, "Oh, wait. What's happening here?" Music magic, real thing.

Shani, our last section before we get into ratings is creative license.

But why?

But why

Why do you think, why do you think, but why?

But why, Shani?

Why do you think that such creative license changed so much?

First of all, I wanna say they shouldn't have, okay?

Because the only… If you're gonna take creative license, it

Yes

better, and this made it worse, and so

Yes。Yes。

Secondly, I think it's the same reason why I hate Google's new icon for chat.

It's like somebody comes in, right, the screenwriter comes in, and they need to

put their stamp on whatever that thing is,

And

They significantly change things.

I also am curious as to, like, okay, talked about how Ali

Listed as a screenwriter some places and not other places.

And I wonder if there was a back and forth of, like, you

know, like, "We gotta do this.

No, do this.

No, do this.

No, do this.

No, do this." Now, if I wrote a book and it's getting adapted, I

would force them to write my name as, as a partial screenwriter even

if I didn't write a goddamn word.

Why?

Beyoncé.

That's… I don't need to say anymore.

Money

But I wonder if, if her hands might have been tied, because sometimes when

you take, when, like, you take a writer and you tell them, "Okay, adapt this

thing," and then you tie their hands kind of behind their back, you end up

with a really janky finished product.

This also feels like it could've been that

I hear you also think, but why?

You shouldn't have done it.

shouldn't it then?

I think, you know, removing Holden, but why?

Making Malcolm, blame her for Adam kicking him out of the program, but why?

Making Malcolm not a good scientist and not good at his job, but why

wasn't Malcolm good at his job?

Why was he leaving the program?

That made no sense.

But why wasn't Malcolm in on the secret with her?

you know, like, but why did that one guy gift her the panel

instead of her earning it?

But why, y- you know, like, didn't he harass her at the thing?

But why did you add four different party scenes?

That made no sense.

But why did you add extra side characters that, again, we don't

care about, we want Holden.

But why… Like, I'm just gonna read the first page, Shani.

This is just from, like, the opening 15 minutes.

But why?

But why?

Are you ready?

I was just watching the movie, okay?

I watched the movie for two minutes before I was like, "Uh-oh,

I'm gonna need a notepad." Okay.

OG me, cute.

No emotion.

But why?

She never dated Jeremy, but why?

Why would her friend even care then?

If she never dated him, then why wouldn't her friend just date him?

That makes no sense.

Exactly.

she, she didn't say that he should file the complaint.

I don't even know what I'm talking about, but why?

She looks way, way too cute all the time.

Why are they in lectures all the time instead of in their labs working?

Dr. Carlson asked to see her.

Why are we removing all of her agency?

Exactly.

this is all his idea?

Why are we removing all her agency?

Her friend is working for him currently.

That's Malcolm, but why?

That doesn't make sense.

oh.

it didn't show it's been three years, so it was unclear how long it had been.

No Henleys.

Where are all his Henleys?

What is he always in a button-down for?

I want a Henley.

I want it forearm flexing, but why?

I did not like him, but why?

He's never nice to her, and he kicks her out of his office, but why?

He suggests the coffee dates, but why?

Why are they in the library and not the lab, but why?

He is charmed and indulgent in the book.

Is she gonna tell Malcolm it's fake, question mark?

Like, they labeled her in the movie as being demisexual.

Did you witness that part?

Yeah.

' Cause in the book they never actually say that she's demi, and then in the

movie they, like, specifically say it.

And I think in the book it… Like, what they're describing is demisexuality.

However, she doesn't label… It's like, to have… I feel like Malcolm's

character went from such a wonder- wonderful character in the book, so

supportive, so fun, so, like, loved her and Anh so much, so in their corner.

He was willing to, like, go along with her shenanigans because they both love Anh.

He ended up falling in love with Holden.

The four of them are gonna be friends.

He forgave Ad- Like, all these good things.

To him, like, it's not cool to be, like, telling your friend, "Oh, 'cause

you're demisexual." fuck you, bro.

You don't know what she is.

Like, you're not in her thoughts.

And then the last one is page one.

Guys, this is s- this is maybe 10 minutes into the movie.

"We revealed his abs too early." And nobody was lusting after him because it

was too early in the book, and because now Malcolm is currently working under

him, so now Malcolm can't lust after him.

'Cause if it had been two years ago, then Malcolm could be like, "Well, it

was two years ago, it's fine. He was kind of a dick, but no worries, 'cause

I'm still gonna go work in corporate and make tons of money, and I can

appreciate that the man is lickable."

That could have still been there, but because he's currently working

under him and currently hates him, now we cannot have fun things

in our lives anymore, Shani.

I turn the page.

But why, bridget?

This is my last one I'm gonna say.

But why, Shani?

This is my last one, okay?

And then I'm gonna stop, and then you can go on TikTok and

see the rest of the four pages.

I hated the fake laughing at the picnic.

What was that?

yeah.

That was so uncomfortable.

So uncomfortable.

I, I 100%

again, like, I was, like, cringing so hard.

I was feeling so much secondhand embarrassment, and not in a good way.

And, like, that's supposed to be…

this

When she puts the lotion on him, I know.

When she puts the lotion on him, that's supposed to be the first time that she's

like, "Whoa, he's a human man with human man body parts and human man muscles,

and maybe I like human man." Like, it's supposed to be her first time of being,

like, recognizing that behind his, like, personality is a physical body.

Do you know what I'm saying?

Because she's not someone who, like, sees someone and immediately

is like, "Ooh, I feel lust." She talks about that all the time.

And so this was supposed to be that moment where she's rub, sensually

rubbing, not awkwardly, not white, ugly.

It's not a comedy.

It's a romance with comedy.

Get it right.

Romance first.

And they made it… Like, that's a scene I would expect to see

in, like, a frat boy comedy.

Do you know what I'm saying?

Or, like, a Mil- or, like, in the best way, 'cause I love Melissa McCarthy,

but a Melissa McCarthy comedy.

Like, that is not what I want in a romance.

want her to get regular-ass sunscreen.

I want her to rub it into his muscles.

I want him to lightly groan a little, but try to hide the fact that he's groaning.

I want her to be rubbing it in for too long.

It's all gone.

She's a fucking adult who knows how to rub in sunscreen.

I want it to be gone.

I want her to still be touching him.

I want him to turn around.

I want her hands on his chest, and then I want her to realize,

"Wait, I should maybe not be still touching him, and maybe I should stop

Yeah.

Can, can I just tell

Okay, I'm gonna stop now, guys, 'cause the list goes on

all of that, but two, it cringed my soul when she wiped the sunscreen on

her pants in the, in the… I, I, I

Oh!

my, OCD, but I was like, "Hold up.

Why

No, I hated it.

Why wouldn't

She spent the whole rest of the day with that shit on her pants, Shani.

Why would you do that?

Would you do…

Why would

It makes no sense.

And

Also, also, okay, this is my last s- so uncomfortable.

This is my last but why.

Why the fuck is Tom there all the time?

She talked to Tom more in that movie than she talked to Adam.

Get Tom the fuck out.

Tom is supposed to be an email.

She's supposed to meet him, like, three times and that's it.

Like, Tom was there all the… Tom was even there, he's supposed

to work at Harvard, but he's still teaching at Stanford?

Like, make it make sense.

It didn't make any sense he was still at Stanford except for that

they wanted to add a third i-

I said, okay, hear me out though.

Like, why are they not running this by romance readers?

Like, why are they not, like, I f- I just feel like

Shani, we are Tech Avail.

Everyone, we are Tech Avail, okay?

We will read your script.

We will fix it for you.

Yes.

don't

also, Shani, hear me out because we're about to watch a whole bunch

of adaptations next year, okay?

And all those adaptations will have either been green-lit or written or

filmed after Heated Rivalry came out.

Yeah

one was written before Heated Rivalry came out, and it was filmed…

Hold please, I'm gonna look.

When was it filmed?

It was filmed in the summer of 2025, which was last summer, so it was filmed

before Heated Rivalry came out, okay?

So it was written and filmed before, before everyone realized,

oh, wait, actually romance readers want a faithful adap- adaptation.

And I wonder if the success of Heated Rivalry is going to push

for more faithful adaptations

Yeah.

in the future.

But then this movie also has done very well.

It's number one on Prime.

They've already made back their budget.

you know, she's had, like, a very successful press tour with all of

her costumes from old, you know, old celebrities over the years.

She's, like, re-wearing costumes and stuff or whatever, costumes for the runway.

You know what I mean.

not the runway, the red carpet.

The red carpet

So I also wonder if people are gonna be like, "Yeah, but that one was successful,

so we can still change whatever we want." I'm just intrigued as we go

forward to, like, revisit that question.

I, I'm intrigued too.

I think that Heated Rivalry is the standard.

Like, you know, some of you guys might have heard us talk about in the

past, one of the reasons that Bridget and I were interested in doing this

podcast is because we were actually interested in producing romance

novels with, like, HBO level sex.

You know what I mean?

So, like, that's what I want to see.

I wanna see a faithful adaptation with great sex scenes

Yep.

not fade to black.

If I wanted a fade to

Yep

read Christian romance.

Okay?

I'm not reading religious romance.

here to see the pinga.

Now, if, like, and I wanna see

Ja

o- I wanna see that in my things.

You know?

Why I get to see the girl's titties and everything else, but I don't

get to see what he working with?

some bullshit for me.

Okay?

So so I hope that we're getting that level.

And the thing about it is I actually, I mean, you can have some really

hot shit without seeing too much.

again,

Agree.

was

Has anyone seen Atonement where she's on the ladder?

I mean,

there's,

that's the hottest shit I've ever seen in my life on screen,

and you don't see anything.

So am I.

Incredible.

Okay?

You know, and

It's awesome

want them to, think about that, like, and I think this is like when you're

in the book, when you're, like, when your brain is in the book that

you're reading, you're in the sex scenes, you're right there with them.

You're, you're, you're…

we're

Yeah.

Yep.

a creeper.

When they say he's touching a leg, I'm seeing a close-up of that leg

No

And so I think

Yes

and directors think about what they're putting on the screen, they

have to understand that we are, we, our eyes are the character.

Half of us put ourselves as

one of the characters

in the story

Yeah

like a God-like creature that's right, right above

Yeah.

they need

Yep

wide shots generally are not the thing for romance.

Like, get us in closer.

No。Yeah

date and it's a little more intimate and whatever, like, get them in closer.

I wanna see them leaning on the table together

Yeah.

I want them

I don't care what's happening in the rest of the coffee shop

Not at all.

Like, I want him leaning into

No

and she's leaning back feeling uncomfortable.

I wanna feel uncomfortable with her.

I wanna be that close that I'm

Yes.

close in their face right now

Yeah

smell his breath." That's how close I wanna be.

So I think that, I f- I feel like there's some, a, a, a bridge.

I think, I think Romance at a Glance could bridge this gap for a

lot of romance novel adaptations.

Yes.

definitely reach out to us,

Yes.

it

Yes, please.

from bridgerton to others

Yes

filming the scenes correctly, and I will die on the hill that

Agreed

dirty in how they shot her in the Bridgertons.

dry as a bone.

Dry as a bone.

Good lord.

All right.

Adaptation rating, Shani, as an adaptation, I'm giving this a two.

yeah,

Because technically they had, they had the same characters.

but yeah, it was not a good adaptation.

you are also thinking two?

You're feeling a two?

I'm feeling two.

I would,

Or what are you feeling?

I feel generous at a two.

I,

I feel gen- I feel, I'm like borderline one 'cause I have five pages of notes, but

I, I

I'm gonna go two

I'm giving it a two because you gave it a two, and I feel like

I should just be a little bit

I think I'm gonna give it a one.

I hate this movie.

What am I even talking about?

This is a terrible adaptation.

I feel bad about it.

I don't feel bad about it.

It's a one.

Movie rating out of five, I'd say I do not recommend.

If I was watching this movie and I hadn't read the book, I still would

not think she should end up with him.

I did not get any warm fuzzies.

I hated that they added mean girls in the bathroom for no reason.

Where are we?

I hated her friend.

I thought anh was fine, but I hated Malcolm, which, like, it was a bummer.

I don't know.

I just feel like I would've been, like, maybe two.

Maybe if I had never read the book, I'd say two out of five.

Yeah, like if this

I don't think it was, like, the worst movie ever made,

but it was not a good movie

only, it would only be a

It's not Hallmark.

You can't judge it on Hallmark.

This is…

It

But it's not on the Hallmark Channel, so what would you give it?

movie, Bridget.

This is as lame and cheesy as a

I know, but I'm saying it's not, so what are you gonna give it?

Oh, I literally, I told you I only gave it a two because I, I,

like I really wanna give it a one.

I don't like this movie.

I do not

Give it a one, Shani

I rewound so many times this movie.

So, and whenever I have to go

'Cause you were confused about what's going on?

because I'm like, "What's going on?" Also, I'm so disinterested that my ADHD takes

over, and it, like, starts replanning the movie, that I miss scenes, then have to go

Yeah.

That's

Yeah.

this was for me

Well you guys, you've heard it here first.

We hated it.

We would not recommend it.

Don't watch it if you haven't yet.

It's not worth it.

The adaptation is not good.

The book is much better.

And we are coming at you next week.

We are gonna review Practical Magic one, the book and the movie, and then

we are gonna read the new Practical Magic two book and movie, for a little

fun, 'cause I've never read either, and so I thought that that would

be a little fun, switcharoo for us, 'cause it has love, but it also has

destruction and Halloween witchy vibes.

So Shani, until, next time dear friend, may your books be your lover

And your hand your best friend

Bye for now, kids