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We're back with some more Gilmore Girls! Join us in this journey on social media - @gilmorethemerrierpod.
Christopher and girlfriend Sherry visit Stars Hollow. Lorelai brings Christopher to her parents' Friday night dinner, potentially stirring up family dynamics and past feelings.
February 12, 2002 | The WB
Lorelai and Rory get to Luke's and no one is there! Just one of those lulls. Rory tells Lorelai about her debate competition this week. Lane calls Rory at the diner. Naturally, Lane can see the diner with a telescope from her room where she is stuck cuz she's grounded.
They head home to watch some random British baking show called Two Fat Ladies, but they're interrupted by Paris who showed up because she thinks Rory needs more practice on the debate competition.
Lorelai gets a call from Christopher. Turns out he's close by and she invites him to come to the debate competition. He says he'll be there.
The next day, Rory walks by a payphone and naturally Lane calls it and asks her to pick up a new single for her. Lane is not well.
It's debate time! The topic is a light one - doctor assisted suicide. They do a coin flip to decide who is pro or con. Paris picks pro.
Christopher shows up….with another woman!
Chilton wins. Afterwards, Lorelai and Sookie go to meet Christopher's girlfriend, Sherry. Lorelai and Rory come up with a game plan on how to handle this unexpected visit and they invite them home.
Before they leave, Paris asks Rory to hang out and celebrate but she can't, which really upsets Paris if you can believe it.
Sherry pulls Lorelai aside and is like you don't have to get to know me. Just because we've both had a relationship with Christopher doesn't mean we have to be friends. But she really wants to get to know Rory and asks if they can hang out tonight even though it's Friday night dinner. Lorelai is like uhhh sure.
Lorelai talks to Rory and Rory says she's fine hanging out with Sherry. Lorelai asks if Christopher wants to come to dinner and he's like it's good grub, why not.
They get to dinner, and when Emily hears that Rory is just having this night with Sherry, she's not thrilled and starts to interrogate Christopher about this Sherry. Then Rory bursts out that she doesn't think Emily should miss Friday night dinners unless she's sick and storms out.
Lorelai goes after her and Emily says it should've been you! When Christopher finally got his life together, he should've been with you! To make matters worse, Emily blames Lorelai for everything. She says she's gonna go lay down.
The next morning, Lorelai and Rory meet up at Luke's. Lorelai begs Rory for all the Sherry deets.
And she gives her ALLLLL the deets including how Sherry wants kids.
Lorelai asks Rory if she ever hoped that she and Christopher would get together. Rory says sure I've pictured you being with dad but I've also pictured you being with Pee-wee Herman and living in his playhouse.
Before they can get back to the serious convo, Rory has to run out to watch and make sure the plan to get Lane her CD works, including Kirk stopping Mrs. Kim to talk and Michel jogging by and dropping the CD in the bag.
Back at Luke's, Sherry and Christopher come by to say goodbye. Sherry leaves to say goodbye to Rory and Christopher apologizes to Lorelai for last night. Lorelai says I realized something last night - all these years, I always had you in the back of my mind. The prospect of us being together. I think I subconsciously sabotaged every relationship I've ever been in because I knew you were always there. Now that I know you're not, I can move on. Believe it or not, Christopher doesn't handle that well. He says don't put that on me. You're dumping 15 years of being unhappy on me. Don't blame me. This blowup is loud and naturally Luke watches and does nothing.
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Another month, another batch of Hallmark movies!
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Festive Friday your way to a ghostly Victorian love story!
Follows Zara, a lawyer haunted by Christmas memories, who attends a Victorian dinner where she meets Rafe, a renovator. His ghostly ancestor plays matchmaker by giving Zara a book of love stories, challenging her skepticism about romance.
November 4, 2025 | Streaming
Director: Gillian McKercher
Writer: Catherine Fridey
Cast:
Zara does NOT like Christmas. She's a lawyer who has to attend this progressive Victorian dinner with her friend and co-worker Chloe. It's not great. Her dress rips, her hat falls in the fire, it's a whole thing. Zara is quite smitten by the owner of the estate, Rafe. Rafe tells everyone about a sneaky little ghost that lives at the estate. Chloe sees the ghost. She's a believer. She also sees that Zara and Rafe are into each other.
The next day, Zara finds one of the books from the estate in her bag with Rafe's business card in it. She assumes it's just silly Chloe but it was actually the ghost. But good thing the ghost is sneaky like that because Zara has a water pipe leak in her living room and needs someone to come repair it. Naturally, she calls Rafe who helps renovate houses and he comes over to take a look. He comes over and gets right to work.
The ghost keeps doing stuff that forces Zara to call Rafe. And she starts showing up to Rafe's son's hockey practices. They're all getting attached. Zara and Rafe almost kiss TWICE - interrupted once by the smell of smoke, and the second time by a text. CLASSSIC.
Everything is going great until the snowball fight. She gets really upset when Rafe's son throws a snowball at her. Turns out, her brother used to throw snowballs. She opens up about how she had a brother who loved hockey but died in a snowmobile accident.
Back to falling in love UNTIL he shows up to be a witness in a case that she's working on. He's a witness for the opposition! She doesn't take it easy on him which really hurts his feelings. So she QUITS HER JOB!!! The ghost pushes Rafe off a ladder and breaks his leg so that she'll come to sit by his side and they'll make up.
They all spend Christmas together and she tells everyone that she's gonna open up her own law firm so she can fight for what she wants to fight for. And Zara and Rafe finally kiss.
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It’s time to continue our 2026 Rankings! Today, we’re ranking the films starting with A Season to Blossom and going through A Castle of Our Own.
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The cruise comes to an end.
About this episode: On the final day of the cruise, the passengers reminisce about their journeys and embrace their last chance to make lifelong memories.
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It's Tuesday which means there's a new Hallmark movie to review!
Interior designer Grace runs a business with her best friend and her brother in the quaint town of Ivy Glen but is too busy for a real relationship. Ryan, a successful New York City financial advisor and Grace's former high school crush, returns home planning to sell his grandmother's historic St. Nicholas House. The mayor convinces him to revive the holiday tradition, setting the stage for an unexpected reunion.
2026 | Hallmark
Director: Bradley Walsh
Writers: Ansley Gordon, Kathleen Knox, Bob Sáenz
Cast:
We meet Grace. She's hanging out with Quinn who is really into her. Grace is really excited to be in charge of decorating the town Christmas tree. Her main goal? Getting the contract to decorate the entire town!
We then meet Ryan. He's a big city finance boy who is trying to figure out what to do with his grandmother's historic St. Nicholas House. He's planning on listing it but gets a call from the mayor. The mayor calls him to see if he'd be interested in reviving the beloved Ribbons and Bows charity fundraiser. He's not so sure about this. So he heads back to his hometown and is pumped to bump into Grace. The sparks are flying.
The mayor comes by Grace's office to see if she'd be willing to talk to Ryan and convince him to do the fundraiser. If she does this for her, she'll move to the top of the list of potential decorators to decorate the town next year. Grace's bff Melanie is pumped about this because they're both single and ready to mingle.
Quinn goes to the St. Nicholas House to talk to Ryan to try to find out about what his plans are for the house since Quinn is a real estate agent and he has a very interested buyer. Ryan says if he decides to sell, he'll call him first.
As Quinn goes to leave, Grace shows up. Ryan asks Grace if there's something going on with her and Quinn. She's like oh it's nothing, we just hang out sometimes. She convinces him to move forward with the fundraiser and that she'll do all the heavy lifting!
Maggie starts hanging up mistletoe around town to help make sure that Ryan and Grace get together. They start hanging out a ton. She even tells Quinn that it's just not going to work out between them.
Everything is working out great aside from not being able to find a 14 foot Christmas tree. But he surprises her by finding one!
But Quinn ruins everything by telling Grace about his plans to buy the St. Nicholas House.
He decides ultimately he's not going to sell. The party happens. And they end up kissing under the mistletoe.
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It's Marvel Monday and we're meeting the Eternals!
The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.
November 5, 2021 | Theatrical Release
Director: Chloé Zhao
Writers: Chloé Zhao, Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo
Cast:
This movie starts off with too many words. But no fun music like Star Wars, so I didn't read it.
Cut to a triangle flying close to something that looks like the sun. Inside, these folks in funny robes stand back against a wall when a voice says it is time. This gold stuff turns into their suits. Apparently they don't know each other.
It's 5000 BC in Mesopotamia and a crazy sea monster eats this kid's dad. Suddenly, this superhero flies in and takes that monster down. We see the other heroes take down other monsters. We got a group of 10 superheroes on our hands. They stand in V formation and wait for the people to thank them. One of the heroes leans down and hands a kid a knife.
Here's who we have:
Ikaris: basically Superman
Sersi: can like mess with matter
Thena: creates a weapon out of pure cosmic energy
Kingo: laser fingers
Phastos: creates advanced weapons and technology
Makkari: basically the Flash
Druig: mind control
Gilgamesh: Hulk but not green
Sprite: can change the appearance of things and appears as a child
Ajak: the spiritual leader and healer who serves as the primary communicator with their Celestial creator
Cut to present day and that knife is in a museum as an artifact that shaped history.
The Eternals are still alive, cuz they're eternal. Sersi and Sprite live together in London. Ikaris left her without explanation centuries earlier. She's moved on and is now in a relationship with human Dane. When the trio is attacked by a monster like in the beginning. They're called Deviants.
Ikaris arrives just in time to save the day.
The Eternals were under the assumption there were no more Deviants. Which is why the Eternals haven't been in action for the past 500 years.
We see a flashback of when Sersi and Ikaris got together…and I mean got together. #NotMyMarvel. They end up getting married.
Back in the present, the 3 Eternals make it to South Dakota expecting to meet up with Ajak, only to find her dead.
So it's time to get the band back together to figure out what to do next.
Sersi is the new leader and meets with Arishem - the Celestial that sent the Eternals to Earth. Sersi learns that the Eternals' mission was actually to prepare Earth for the Emergence of a new Celestial. See, for millions of years, he has been planting Celestial seeds inside planets where the energy from large populations allows new Celestials to be born. The Deviants were sent to destroy the apex predators of each planet to ensure the development of intelligent life, but the Deviants evolved and started eating said intelligent life. So he created the Eternals to fight them. Now that the population of humans has reached the necessary size to allow the new Celestial to be born, Earth will be no more.
Sersi doesn't love this and tells everyone else.
Everyone is down to stop the plan. Everyone except for Ikaris. We find out that Ajak wanted to stop the Emergence and save humanity, so he led her to the Deviants and allowed them to kill her. Sprite joins Ikaris cuz she's in love with Ikaris while Kingo chooses to leave, agreeing with Ikaris but not wanting to hurt his friends.
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This is too long. Thanks for the memories
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The final selection from Ry-Guy for Christmas in July is a 2012 Christmas classic!
Romance blossoms between two music teachers who compete for the same job.
November 3, 2012 | TV Movie
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Kevin Commins
Cast:
An all boys school is merging with an all girls school to create...a school. But both music programs are being retained. Diana and Ken have very different approaches to their music classes - Diana is all about music education while Ken is all about just experimenting with music, such as doing a drum circle. So they go to meet with their stressed school principal, Mrs. Gelder, who suggests that the two submit their own individual entries to a Christmas carol contest. Winner gets the music teacher gig.
They have to submit duos, so they hold auditions. Diana gets two girls - Liz who is called "the girl most likely to…" and Amy who is just super shy. While Ken gets cool boy Billy & smart boy Carlo.
Diana and Ken find themselves hanging out more and getting to understand each other more, especially when they find themselves at the principal's house for a holiday feast.
Amy's mom comes to talk to Diana about Amy not doing the competition. It's too commercial. But after Diana pleads for her to reconsider, she gives in and says Amy can do it unless it becomes too much for her.
The competition turns into quite the school feud which is frustrating because Diana and Ken find themselves getting matched up on their online dating site. But they finally end up just having dinner together and it goes great. Naturally word gets out and spreads all over school.
Billy really wants to win, so he siphons the gas out of Liz's car.
They end up getting caught and Diana blames Ken.
The competition happens and the teams join forces. Diana realizes Ken is a good guy and they kiss and keep their jobs.
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It's time for another truly insane Festive Friday movie!
During a freak blizzard, a remote British lodge is shut down with just two guests: Ellie, a sarcastic travel blogger, and a handsome, overly polite guest who's definitely not from around here. Turns out, he's Prince Alaric, stranded while trying to escape royal duties. With only each other and no Wi-Fi, sparks (and snowballs) fly.
December 8, 2025 | Streaming
Director: E J Marshall
Writer: Craig McLearie
Cast:
This movie is 1hr and 11 minutes and you'd think that would mean they'd get right to it. Wrong!!
We see scenery for a while.
Suddenly, we're in the woods. We meet Ellie. She's a travel blogger who is trying to find this remote lodge. She walks around in the woods for a longgg time, saying things like "oh no" and looking at a map.
She finally finds a lodge and when she walks in, she sees a guy. He's very confused by this check in book thing. So she helps him. His name is Alaric. When the lodge owner shows up, she assumes they're together. Ellie explains she's trying to find the wellness retreat. Turns out she's way lost and with the big storm hitting, she's gonna have to stay the night. The internet is down so she has to pay cash for the room which she doesn't have, so Alaric pays for her room. She's very annoyed by Alaric but when he says he doesn't know how to cook, she offers to make them dinner.
They eat and talk. He doesn't know what a blog is. It's a whole thing.
Suddenly, another couple shows up. They met at the lodge decades ago and come every year. But the lodge has slowly become less popular.
They decide to all decorate the lodge together.
Martha shows back up for some reason. She's grumpy.
The next morning, Alaric tries to make breakfast and it's an absolute disaster. Ellie comes in and is both horrified and charmed. She encourages him to loosen up with the way he talks. But they're having a good time hanging out.
She tries to get to know him more - where he's from, why he talks this way, etc. He's not having it. He thinks she's gonna use it in one of her stories. So they get in a snowball fight.
He opens up about his troubles with his family. They don't see eye to eye.
They all sit down to eat together but first, Christmas crackers. In his cracker is a paper crown which makes him real upset and he storms off.
She goes to calm him down and tells him how nice this trip has been because of him. He finally tells her that he is a Prince, but he doesn't want to be. She agrees to keep his secret.
Later that night, they talk some more and end up kissing big ones under the mistletoe.
The next day, THEY FOUND ALARIC! Ellie wants to go with him but he says it won't be safe. He says his goodbyes and leaves.
Ellie is finally able to make it home. She's feeling sad, so she goes onto her blog to read some good comments and respond to some comments about how amazing she is.
She starts to write blogs called The Prince and the Nobody. And it starts blowing up. She gets a call from a publisher who wants to publish a book version.
I'm unsure of the timeline but it seems like the book comes out and it's a smash hit. She wants to go back to the lodge to have a book reading. Alaric shows up and tells her that he's denounced his title and wants to be with her. They kiss and decide to spend Christmas together at the lodge.
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