Katie Reynolds: 0:16

Hello and welcome to. My Husband Made Me Do it, the podcast where we review rom-coms that my husband made me watch. I'm your host, Katie Reynolds, and I'm Lydea Irwin, and today we are watching what I think is the Netflix original. Oh God, started early. Netflix original Irish Wish yes.

Lydea Irwin: 0:33

Irish Wish Irish.

Katie Reynolds: 0:36

Wish. This is a terrible name. Who came up with this name?

Lydea Irwin: 0:39

Wow, it's very descriptive, but Irish Wish is in fact a Netflix original. It's available on Netflix. It's a romantic comedy fantasy from 2024. It's rated TV PG and it's an hour and 33 minutes. Today's IMDb summary actually comes from Netflix because it's a Netflix movie, so I wanted to read the Netflix tagline. In Ireland to watch the man she secretly loves marry. Her best friend, Maddie, makes a wish that has all her dreams coming true, for better or worse.

Lydea Irwin: 1:10

yeah, that's fair yeah, I thought it was a good one. That's why I was like oh, it's actually like describing the movie without someone who might have had a little more knowledge of the movie.

Katie Reynolds: 1:19

Actually writing the description. Yeah, imagine that. So we open with a classic. It's basically the webster's dictionaries definition of uh, what a wish is, is it? No, it's not webster specifically, but it's a dictionary definition.

Lydea Irwin: 1:32

Definition of a wish. I don't know if it's a dick. It's like cannot or probably won't happen that seems like like, but it's cannot or probably won't, seems like a horrible thing to say that it's a wish.

Katie Reynolds: 1:45

It, just it's. It's a white text on a black screen. Yeah and it's. Oh, it's a hard for a rough ride, people. We've got a red carpet event in New York City.

Lydea Irwin: 1:57

Yeah, book tour, book again. More books, more books, because rom-coms Right.

Katie Reynolds: 2:01

You've got to be involved publishing.

Lydea Irwin: 2:10

You know, a publisher, a books because rom-coms right, you've got to be involved publishing, gotta be an author, publisher, a lawyer, and you have to be in new york or san francisco or we're really checking our boxes these past few weeks here.

Katie Reynolds: 2:16

All of the cliches, yeah for sure. And we have our, our klutzy girl. She gets her scarf caught in the taxi door.

Lydea Irwin: 2:21

Taxi just drives off, she's so distracted by the author of the book who she's in love with and that she misses, that she closes the door on her, on her scarf? Yeah, and if we find out that the friend is the author, Paul, and she is the editor of the book, Madeline or Maddie?

Katie Reynolds: 2:41

and she wrote most of it apparently yeah, she edited quite heavily.

Lydea Irwin: 2:49

Yes, and it's a fantasy novel. It's romance, maybe fantasy. Yeah, it's because he mentions at one point in like two scenes from now he was gonna have the lovers like drown in a lake yeah, she decided that was not a good idea. So there's definitely lovers. There may be fantasy, I'm not sure it's real unclear. But she so obviously has feelings for Paul, oh God, and he so obviously does not. Yes, and she is oblivious to the obviousness, that is, he does not have feelings.

Katie Reynolds: 3:27

But her friends, her very close friends, friends do not know that she has feelings for paul, so she's, she's tamping them down.

Lydea Irwin: 3:32

Well, yeah, they also haven't met paul, no, so she's. We've got a phone conversation with her mom in ohio.

Katie Reynolds: 3:38

Yep, Jane Seymour who paid for Jane Seymour to be in this movie?

Lydea Irwin: 3:43

she scenes Does she?

Katie Reynolds: 3:45

actually interact with any of the other characters. It's weird.

Lydea Irwin: 3:49

Yes, one character, not the same, and she doesn't really interact with her. They're in the same scene. They are in the same scene, but that's true. They could have been filmed totally independently. I'm not convinced they're in the same place, yep Nope. Outside of that, she is physically apart from every character, even the daughter, even the daughter.

Katie Reynolds: 4:11

They're just on the phone.

Lydea Irwin: 4:12

Yep, she's going to tell him that night.

Katie Reynolds: 4:15

Yep, that's what she's going to do. Yep that she's in love with him, and he also is going to.

Lydea Irwin: 4:18

Yeah, he's got something important to tell her he's off. Oh, the friend gave her the scarf. It's a sample from Bergdorf's. So we have the two friends Emma and Heather. Emma works at Bergdorf, heather does question mark.

Katie Reynolds: 4:37

Doesn't matter. Heather is just so unimportant in this movie, so unimportant. We just need a third girl, yeah, so that we can end up with awkward scenes later where we have a third wheel who is not heather, or a fifth wheel, yeah well yeah, sorry, Emma and Paul.

Katie Reynolds: 4:54

Well, it's not before that. So we have paul revealing what he wants to talk about and he wants their relationship as editor and writer to continue on, because this is the. He's had books before. They just haven't done as well or been as good as when she worked on the book, so he wants her to be involved from inception. So essentially he wants her to write the entire thing, and to do this she'll have to put her own projects on hold. She's very surprised, not what she was not what she was expecting at all.

Katie Reynolds: 5:25

He's gonna meet Emma shortly thereafter. Emma, who has no idea, and even asks her, I believe, if she has any like feelings for Paul. She says no, and so Emma and Paul end up getting they're engaged and they're getting married a few months later yeah, months, it Months.

Lydea Irwin: 5:43

It's a very quick engagement, but they have multiple moments and he writes his number in the book. Like he signs her copy of the book, writes his number and yeah, the cut to the next scene. They're getting married, yep, in Ireland. So they're all flying to the wedding and her luggage is the last one to come out.

Katie Reynolds: 6:03

They're leaving her.

Lydea Irwin: 6:05

Yeah. So they're not going to wait for her, not yet. They're getting all their luggage because there's a lot of luggage to the car and they'll come back for her. And she finds out that the luggage she thought was hers is not actually hers, it's some other guy's. And she realized that when she opens it, she pulls up her favorite skirt.

Katie Reynolds: 6:26

It's a pair of boxers. Yep, because she refuses to look at the tag. When he just says, can you look at the tag? They're both tugging on the bag. She refuses because she knows it's hers bag goes flying open and all of his stuff goes all over the place good, good introduction to that guy.

Lydea Irwin: 6:38

They do leave her behind because she's got a deal. She's got to fill up paperwork, yeah, for the lost luggage, but she'll, she'll catch a cab, yeah, or an uber, which they aren't.

Katie Reynolds: 6:47

There aren't any.

Lydea Irwin: 6:48

There aren't any, because they're. They're not in like dublin, they're in. There was like a second flight to this small village yeah, we don't know where they are.

Katie Reynolds: 6:57

But she asks a bus driver if he can just drop her off at some address.

Lydea Irwin: 7:03

He's like, yeah sure yeah, I guess that that seems to work.

Katie Reynolds: 7:06

It must be on the route, I guess I guess, but guess who's sitting across from her?

Lydea Irwin: 7:10

oh, it's the guy with the luggage whose name is james, but we don't know that yet and he's english and he's english uh, we know that, because we can hear that yeah they have very awkward chats.

Katie Reynolds: 7:24

He's a photographer it's at least real awkward, it's.

Lydea Irwin: 7:27

It's so fake awkward, yeah, it's legitimately awkward because their their first meeting was so weird. Yeah, yeah, and she drops the book and you can. If you're, if you're watching, if you're paying attention, you notice that the book keeps coming out more and more of the bag. She's not doing it on purpose, but I noticed, I was like that that book's going to fall. Oh, I was like they're going to hit a bump in that book. They made that so clear. This book is going to fall. It does.

Katie Reynolds: 7:54

Yeah, and he picks it up. Yeah, and he has thoughts and feelings on the author.

Lydea Irwin: 7:58

Yeah, he's unimpressed yes, because he. Yes, because he's read other things and they weren't good, right. And as she gets dropped off, she's like, oh well, I was the editor of this book. And he's like, okay. And she's like well, you can go and the door's closed. Yes, so she doesn't get her swear off, but she does come in the entire the house is huge.

Katie Reynolds: 8:19

She immediately makes an idiot of herself by almost knocking pricel's antiques yep onto the floor the family's a little bit pompous, but so is Paul.

Lydea Irwin: 8:27

I mean they live in a mansion. Yeah, they have a very big house.

Katie Reynolds: 8:31

They're very wealthy. Yeah, he's not supporting himself in his writing.

Lydea Irwin: 8:34

No, they are the Kennedys, which I found hilarious. They're the actual Irish Kennedys.

Katie Reynolds: 8:41

Yes.

Lydea Irwin: 8:43

Maybe related to the American Kennedys, probably Maybe not, we don't know. Who knows, but they have lots of money and maybe the brother's not a pompous ass, but no, I think the brother's also a pompous ass.

Katie Reynolds: 8:53

Well, probably.

Lydea Irwin: 8:54

Paul has organized a trip for them.

Katie Reynolds: 8:57

Yeah, they're gonna go on a picnic, right.

Lydea Irwin: 8:58

Yeah, the photographer, james, goes to a pub that he's very familiar with. He is in town for a sheep shearing festival.

Katie Reynolds: 9:07

He is, indeed he's an nature photographer.

Lydea Irwin: 9:09

Yes, wildlife photographer and, yeah, animals. So he's been here before the publican tells him. You know you should stick around and find a girl and settle down.

Katie Reynolds: 9:22

Which okay if he's happy doing what he's doing. Yeah, I mean, that seems like unsolicited advice.

Lydea Irwin: 9:28

It does seem like that. The guy knows him a little bit and maybe he's not as happy as he could be. He's like settled for this, yeah I suppose yeah, it's it's one of those things where it's like sometimes people know you and they know that you're. You're putting on a good, good show, yeah, so, but yeah, this is a bit of unsolicited advice that seems to be continuously happening, yep.

Katie Reynolds: 9:50

Do you know? They go People pushing other people into the direction they want them to go, whether or not it makes sense for them, right, yeah?

Lydea Irwin: 9:57

Yep, so yeah, so we've got this picnic. They go on some boat rides, but oh, there's only two boats. Oh, no, oh, no, oh. But she could totally fit with the friend who doesn't matter and the brother.

Katie Reynolds: 10:09

Oh, yeah, yeah, and the friend who doesn't matter is interested in the brother.

Lydea Irwin: 10:12

Yeah, so she's like no, no, no, no, you guys have fun, I'm going to go for a walk. It'll be great yeah.

Katie Reynolds: 10:19

Oh, we should that her bridesmaid's dress is not there Because it's in her suitcase. It's in her suitcase, and if she doesn't have a bridesmaid's dress, she can't be in the wedding party.

Lydea Irwin: 10:28

Yeah, she'll just have to be off to the side.

Katie Reynolds: 10:29

As a cheering section.

Lydea Irwin: 10:30

Yeah, Yep, all right, that's pompous, so yeah, so she goes for a walk. She finds like a little fairy mischievous fairy and there's like a stone bench or chair, and uh, she says a wish and a lady pops up behind her. Oh, was that a wish? Well, your wish might come true, but you have to do it right do it properly.

Lydea Irwin: 10:55

You have to sit in the chair and you have to close your eyes and you have to make your wish. And she wishes that she was marrying paul. Yep, and that's her thing. And she's like, well, how do I know the wish happened? He's like there's no lightning, there's no anything. And the lady's like what, what do you want? The best I could do is a strong breeze.

Katie Reynolds: 11:14

So she gathers a breeze and all the petals fly off the tree, except there already was a breeze.

Lydea Irwin: 11:19

There was already a breeze happening, strong breeze strong breeze whips all the flowers around so magical.

Katie Reynolds: 11:27

Yeah. Somehow she just wakes up. Yeah, we've reset time. She didn't like go to sleep, yeah, but she's just waking up. Yeah, this is a moment in time that, uh, we're backing up a little bit I don't know, but we're not, but we're not. It's real unclear how like doesn't matter, doesn't matter, doesn't matter yeah, she's in bed.

Lydea Irwin: 11:49

She gets up, she goes to the bathroom. Paul's in the bathroom. He's taking a shower. She's like gasped, you're naked in my shower. What are you doing here?

Katie Reynolds: 11:59

uh-huh and then she also slept in pearls.

Lydea Irwin: 12:02

Let's let's mention that she slept in pearls I did love the nightgown dressing gown thing that she was wearing. I really dig that, but and I will admit, sometimes I'd also sleep in pearls because I cannot be bothered to take them off.

Katie Reynolds: 12:16

Okay, it just felt like such a Lindsay Lohan thing to do, like I can imagine all the characters that she played when she was a child actress. I'm pretty sure a bunch of them did wear things like that.

Lydea Irwin: 12:26

I'm sure they did. Yeah, she and I are wearing pearls to sleep for very different reasons.

Katie Reynolds: 12:30

Why is her wedding dress just in a suitcase, unprotected? It's just like balled up in the suitcase.

Lydea Irwin: 12:38

Yeah, don't know.

Katie Reynolds: 12:39

Also, wedding cake is too tall for the delivery truck.

Lydea Irwin: 12:42

Well, before we get there, she runs into Emma. She's flipping out like, oh don't, oh, Paul's not in there, because she hasn't quite figured out that her dream is coming true. And she doesn't look at the pictures until the friend who doesn't matter comes in and is like she's like, oh, there's a wedding dress and, and on a wedding, I'm I, there's an engagement ring. And look, I'm in all the photos. And she's like, oh, I'm, I'm getting married. And the friend's like yeah, you f*****g idiot.

Katie Reynolds: 13:09

Yeah, like yeah what? What else do you think is gonna yeah anyway so I love that she somehow thought that the woman in the chair and whatnot not magical, even though this lady pops out of nowhere, Just nowhere.

Lydea Irwin: 13:23

And she just loses half a day and yeah just presumably it's hard to say, In theory she could have gone home and wake it up, yeah we have no idea. Anyway, she could have gone home and waked it up. Yeah, we have no idea. Anyway, she comes down and, yeah, she talks with the family about the wedding cake is too big and why don't we just get a smaller wedding cake? She's a genius. She so does not fit into this family.

Katie Reynolds: 13:45

No, not at all, and she's wearing this ugly maroon two-piece dress set. Oh yeah, no, it's terrible.

Lydea Irwin: 13:51

What, I don't know, why I don't know. Would you put Lindsay Lohan in that there's so many times where her colors are just washed out and she does not look?

Katie Reynolds: 14:03

good. No, and she's an executive producer on this. I know she could have done better for herself with all of it. The girls are going to go apple picking in the orchard and she's being forced to go on a bike ride with Paul. But she doesn't like to ride bikes, she's not very good at it.

Lydea Irwin: 14:20

She's not comfortable with bike riding and we find that out very quickly that she's bad at it. She crashes right in front of the apple orchard. So Emma takes the bike because, oh, Paul can't wait, he needed to get some cardio in. Yeah, he didn't want to go slowly. So Emma takes the bike and just goes after him. They go together and it's like what?

Katie Reynolds: 14:40

It's so weird. Nothing would have surprised me to find out that Emma and Paul were actually having an affair. Oh, 100% Nothing, nothing.

Lydea Irwin: 14:48

None at all. So there's a second wedding dress that they have to go try on the sphinx of wedding gowns.

Katie Reynolds: 14:55

What does that even mean? It's so ugly it is.

Lydea Irwin: 14:59

It's terrible, it really is genuinely terrible yeah but it's like it's a family it's a family heirloom and it was a designer dress a hundred years ago when it was made. I mean, it's in really good shape, for it is four generation wedding dress but it is unattractive it is real, real ugly so we have james.

Katie Reynolds: 15:18

Yeah, with the he's got a copy of Paul's novel. He won it unintentionally he's the hundredth customer yep and yeah, so he gets a copy of the novel and while he's in this bookshop, we have our. What we assumed was a fairy and we will soon discover is actually Saint Brigid, because, okay, apparently she's kind of as a fairy.

Lydea Irwin: 15:38

I don't, yeah, I have no idea she's canceling the sheep festival?

Katie Reynolds: 15:43

yeah, by putting a sign over the poster that says canceled the question is does she actually cancel the sheep shearing festival? Or she just makes him think the sheep shearing festival I don't know, unclear't know, unclear, it's unclear, doesn't matter though. She has powers, clearly she can cancel that sheep festival.

Lydea Irwin: 16:00

She sees him somehow. Oh no, she sees the fairy, and so she's chasing after the fairy in the wedding dress and ends up tripping into James's car.

Katie Reynolds: 16:11

Yes, because the fairy slash saint asks her if she's happy.

Lydea Irwin: 16:16

Yeah, Is this what you wanted? No way. So she chases the fairy. She ends up in the car Right in his lap. He doesn't remember her, yeah.

Katie Reynolds: 16:24

Because it never happened, because that whole thing never happened. Yep, yeah.

Lydea Irwin: 16:28

But she knows that he's a photographer and oh, they just happen to need a photographer because apparently the mom is so horrible that none of the photographers stick around absolutely so.

Katie Reynolds: 16:39

Um mom agrees to triple his fee.

Lydea Irwin: 16:42

Yeah, whatever that may be yeah, and they, they schedule a day to go and look around the irish countryside for good locations, because in addition to his wedding, paul also wants to get like press photos.

Katie Reynolds: 16:56

Yeah yeah, for the tour. I mean, a better person would call them engagement photos, but uh, no, he actually wants them to be yeah, press photos well I mean at that point they'll already have been married, because it's for, was it for?

Katie Reynolds: 17:09

after the wedding. I think, yeah, they're just scouting locations. Why doesn't he go? Why was he? Planning to go I know he ends up getting a black eye. Yeah, so that, yeah, they're just scouting locations. Why doesn't he go? Why was he planning to go? I know he ends up getting a black eye yeah, so that night they're planning on going.

Lydea Irwin: 17:20

She's in bed. Uh, it's gonna be the three of them. She's in bed. He comes in and touches her arm and she's not used to this. So she flips out, attacks him, punches him in the head and possibly elsewhere definitely elsewhere and yeah, so he gets a black eye and needs to recuperate and therefore he doesn't come with them the next day. Positive the girls are getting mani pedis. Yeah, so they can't come. Why are they getting mani pedis without the bride?

Lydea Irwin: 17:50

I have no idea what it's happening here, I don't know. I don't know. Like, like the bridal party is getting many pennies, but the anyway it's, it's just gonna be the two of them.

Katie Reynolds: 18:01

Oh, her mom's not in ohio, she's in des moines, she's in iowa, yep that's coming up later.

Lydea Irwin: 18:06

That was a little bit dyslexia. It's a. It's a four-letter state that has I and o in it. I'm sorry, it's all right. So yeah, someone in iowa, iowa's clock changes and her mom is gonna miss the flight.

Katie Reynolds: 18:21

Yep, don't know why it's the ferry, but why does the mom matter?

Lydea Irwin: 18:27

so she doesn't end up at the wedding oh yeah, she's just sad that her mom's okay gotta force these issues. I guess, but I don't think that would make me. If everything else was going really well, that wouldn't be the thing that would make me. We don't know, I don't know Anyway, why is?

Katie Reynolds: 18:45

Jane Seymour in this movie.

Lydea Irwin: 18:46

I don't know, it could have just been.

Katie Reynolds: 18:49

You know she doesn't have any family left.

Lydea Irwin: 18:56

Or maybe she's estranged from her family or something like that. No, no, uh, so yeah. So they have like conversations in the car moments. Why aren't you writing your own book? Oh, I don't have anything to say, yes, you do. You're just being afraid anyway. Oh, it's all so dumb yep, they go to the Cliffs of Moher and she's like oh, I feel like I'm in a James Joyce novel. He's my favorite author, he's not your favorite author.

Katie Reynolds: 19:13

he's not there's author. He's not, there's no way.

Lydea Irwin: 19:15

He's nobody's favorite author. No.

Katie Reynolds: 19:17

No.

Lydea Irwin: 19:18

No, but she says that James Joyce is her favorite author. And how pretentious.

Katie Reynolds: 19:25

Yeah well, why do you have to be? She's a book editor. She's writing fantasy. Her book that she wants to write next is about these cliffs it's. I believe it's going to be some other sort of romance fantasy novel I'm sure it is and Joyce is her favorite author no, no yeah, but also I love how we've got James. Oh, you know, you and Paul just seem like you're opposites. They're not opposites. We know nothing about them. Yeah, we know nothing about Paul.

Lydea Irwin: 19:56

We know nothing about Paul. Paul's just an a*****e. We don't even really know anything about her. Well, we know her. Her favorite author is James Joyce Jesus, and she wants to get married at the Cliffs of Moher. And well, why doesn't she get married up there?

Katie Reynolds: 20:09

well, paul wouldn't like it paul wouldn't like it and she doesn't want to create a fuss. It's just so.

Lydea Irwin: 20:16

I don't know over the top, yeah yeah, yeah, Emma is still having moments with Paul back at the house. She's taking care of him, entertaining him, while everyone else is shooting bow and arrows yeah I was like they're shooting something yep, it's archery I don't remember there being guns no, I remember shooting.

Katie Reynolds: 20:38

No, archery is happening for some reason. There's another man now too. Yeah, we don't know where he came from.

Lydea Irwin: 20:42

You gotta have sides, yeah you gotta have two on each side, right, yeah, so we've gotta have two bridesmaids and two grooms but it's another character who has no no purpose whatsoever.

Katie Reynolds: 20:52

we get uh, a torrential downpour, torrential downpour.

Lydea Irwin: 20:57

So they put the top, back up on the convertible, there's a tree in the way. They can't get out. So they go to a pub, yep, and she calls Paul and leaves a message they're going to stay the night.

Katie Reynolds: 21:10

Yep Stuck in the pub.

Lydea Irwin: 21:11

At least there's two rooms. She doesn't like beer, so she tries some of his and she's like oh, that's not bad, as someone who doesn't like beer. No, beer is gross, it's a guinness, it's still gross I'm not a big beer fan, but I don't know. Guinness isn't bad it's, it's the the least objectionable of bad things.

Katie Reynolds: 21:35

Yeah, there are certainly worse choices.

Lydea Irwin: 21:37

Yes, yeah, but I wouldn't go from. Oh, I don't like beer to ooh.

Katie Reynolds: 21:41

Guinness is my favorite, to drinking it every time we see her. Yeah, exactly.

Lydea Irwin: 21:46

Yeah, so they.

Katie Reynolds: 21:47

They play some darts.

Lydea Irwin: 21:48

They play some darts, he doesn't like to talk about himself. No, he has no home base and no ties to anyone.

Katie Reynolds: 21:54

There's some dancing.

Lydea Irwin: 21:55

Some dancing. She's good at it.

Katie Reynolds: 21:57

They're clapping out of time. That drove me a little nuts.

Lydea Irwin: 22:00

So so I have been in a couple movies as extras and things, and when they're filming they don't know what song is going to be playing at that time, which makes me just so confused as to why anyone would add in something that requires rhythm.

Katie Reynolds: 22:18

So anytime they do like a DDR scene, why are we doing this right now?

Lydea Irwin: 22:22

It's, it's real tough. They're like oh, just dance disco to this general beat and it's like, ok, everyone's on a different. It's so bad, like, just just play it.

Katie Reynolds: 22:33

Figure out a song beforehand and play it, or at least just figure out what the beats per minute is going to be.

Lydea Irwin: 22:39

Yeah, and then either slow down or speed up the song you choose. Yeah, so anyway, they dance. We find out that the mom was the one she missed her flight. She's trying to get a new flight to Ireland and the counter girl was a student and is like oh, you missed your flight, you overslept. Haha, I got a chair. This is all my friends for detention they'll get a kick out of this.

Katie Reynolds: 23:00

The principal that's right, she's.

Lydea Irwin: 23:02

She's the principal, yeah yeah, the car will not start the next day and eventually gets them covered in mud when it does start. Uh, they're late for the rehearsal and paul's mother is being.

Katie Reynolds: 23:14

She's being a bit of a b****. She feels like one of those people. She is a b****. She's nice to people's faces, yeah, but she's just blasting Maddie behind her back.

Lydea Irwin: 23:23

Oh, absolutely, Emma fills in.

Katie Reynolds: 23:26

Whoa Yep.

Lydea Irwin: 23:29

Maddie shows up, it's fine.

Katie Reynolds: 23:35

The fairy in the stained glass appears and winks at her right before she's about to kiss paul. It's definitely not fairy and she faints. Yeah, it's it's she's.

Lydea Irwin: 23:40

She's figured out who it is at this point. It's Saint Brigid. But why is doing this? I don't know. Again, question mark bored. She has beer at lunch because now that's her new favorite thing. It's a champagne dinner.

Katie Reynolds: 23:54

They are all drinking beautiful flutes of champagne and she has a Guinness Yep Kind of Guinness.

Lydea Irwin: 24:03

Unacceptable. So they do a. How well do you know your fiance?

Katie Reynolds: 24:07

Whoa Woof, this is painful.

Lydea Irwin: 24:11

Who is Maddie's favorite?

Katie Reynolds: 24:13

author who is maddie's favorite author, charles dickens. We've got our friend James mouthing "joyce over on the side because he knows and she's like, yeah, it's totally charles dickens.

Lydea Irwin: 24:24

Yeah, what was the other one? What is your? What song? What was the first song you danced to? Oh, Maddie's a terrible dancer we didn't yeah, because she's a terrible dancer. And then what's?

Katie Reynolds: 24:34

the proposal story they ask her that.

Lydea Irwin: 24:36

Of course they ask her that so she doesn't know the proposal story, but we find out she proposed to him now, frankly, nothing wrong with that.

Katie Reynolds: 24:46

No, the way that this happened it's bad it the desperation, it's so bad, yeah so the reason she proposed.

Lydea Irwin: 24:55

So she asks, she says I want to go to Ireland. And he says, well, the only way I'd get you to Ireland is if we were getting married. So she gets down on one knee on his birthday and proposes oh, it's so bad. Anyway, paul and Maddie have a terrible dancing after the rehearsal dinner. Why did he say yes, I don't know. And Maddie have a terrible dancing after the rehearsal dinner.

Katie Reynolds: 25:15

Why did he say yes, I don't know, I mean, unless there's desperation to keep her as an editor, that might be it.

Lydea Irwin: 25:22

I suppose Because we find out very quickly that he has feelings for Emma. Yeah, and Emma has feelings for him. James tries to convince her that this really isn't what she wants. They have a moment.

Katie Reynolds: 25:34

In the garden.

Lydea Irwin: 25:35

Well, no, not in the. James and Maddie have a moment in the some room where he's packing up his stuff.

Katie Reynolds: 25:44

And then they do end up in the garden.

Lydea Irwin: 25:46

That's the next morning, oh, yes, so we've got Emma and Paul having a moment in the garden, because she goes up to bed. Yep, that happens she sees them, and then the next morning it's wedding day.

Katie Reynolds: 25:59

Oh, before that, though, remember, paul wants her to edit their wedding vows.

Lydea Irwin: 26:03

Oh yeah.

Katie Reynolds: 26:04

He sent her his rough drafts for both of them. Can she please work on it? James, we see, is reading the book. Yep, he finishes it and he notices that at the very bottom in the acknowledgements there's just a line that says edited by Maddie.

Lydea Irwin: 26:21

The mom misses the flight, gets tripped by Ferry and ends up in the hospital.

Katie Reynolds: 26:29

She's closer, though she's made it, I think, at least to Ireland. Nope, I thought she left the country.

Lydea Irwin: 26:35

Nope, no, the, the gate gets moved at the airport yeah and she chases after and she trips.

Katie Reynolds: 26:42

Yeah, she's still in ohio oh, okay, iowa, maybe she was. She was directed to ohio yeah.

Lydea Irwin: 26:50

So the next morning she runs into James and apologizes in the garden. Paul sees them, oh. She's like oh, this is my wish come true. And he's like then why are you so sad? Is she sad? Well, when he says this, though, she's not sad.

Katie Reynolds: 27:10

First of all, he barely knows her, yeah. Second of all, I would not look at her in this moment and be like oh, this woman is just beyond. She's not. She's super sad. She's so broken.

Lydea Irwin: 27:21

She's definitely not as happy as I would expect On her wedding day. On her wedding day, yeah.

Katie Reynolds: 27:26

But it's also a really stressful situation. The family she's marrying into is awful and her family is not there.

Lydea Irwin: 27:34

She's also not. The family she's marrying into is awful, and her family is not there stressed no, she's not, she's just kind of ambivalent.

Katie Reynolds: 27:38

Yeah, yeah, so maybe not sad, she's just ambivalent. Yeah, that seems more tragic, I think I agree yeah so there's a lot of fancy cars.

Lydea Irwin: 27:45

She sends another friend that doesn't matter out to check for her mom and then she tells the priest about and he's like oh yeah, she's a tricksy one. You know, she might grant you your wish, but it's really a real monkey's paw.

Katie Reynolds: 28:00

It's really about what you need and not what you want yeah.

Lydea Irwin: 28:04

And then she talks to Emma. She's like oh, I saw you two last night. And she's like I know you guys are in love with each other and I'm going to make things right. Okay, wedding Mm-hmm, dum dum da-dum. Where is she, dum dum da-dum? Well, there she is. She's wearing some tweed. That's not the wedding dress, old tweed dress. And she, finally, is like I'm going to speak up for myself. I don't want to get married.

Katie Reynolds: 28:36

She happens to look over at James when she says something and Paul's like you this is your fault and they fight. Paul just really ruins this for himself. He has the chance to get out of this looking like a star, because he's not the one breaking this off, she is. He could have Emma, it would be fine. But he has to go and turn this into like, uh, why are you besmirched, my masculinity type thing and James is even like yeah, well, uh, Maddie wrote your book and she's like yeah, I did.

Lydea Irwin: 29:00

Then there's a big fight like knock down, drag out.

Katie Reynolds: 29:03

He even says something kind of snarky. Paul says something kind of snarky to Emma and she's like okay, well, no, I'm out, and so she leaves.

Lydea Irwin: 29:11

So Emma goes to like pick up. Oh no, he said Emma is unimportant, or or like doesn't matter. And she's like I don't matter, f*** you. Yeah, pretty much. And runs off. Maddie gets a call from her mom. The mom's in the hospital. She'll be fine, let's oh. And the friend that doesn't matter says oh, my god. And the priest is like let's keep god out of this. And they both cross themselves.

Lydea Irwin: 29:39

It's a brawl in the church oh yeah, everybody's fighting yeah. Everybody's fighting. and James is like I'm too emotionally involved and we can't be together like this. But she chases after him and they kiss and it's spinning. The world is spinning forever.

Katie Reynolds: 29:56

Well, this is a DIY miracle. I remember Brigid, can't take back what she gave her, so she has to do it herself oh, this is this, the kiss is the spinning?

Lydea Irwin: 30:06

Yeah, yeah, but she does do the yeah. They say goodbye and she jumps in the car to get back to the lake and yeah.

Katie Reynolds: 30:12

Brigid's, like you can't un-wish your wish but you can live your own destiny.

Lydea Irwin: 30:16

That's different. And so she sits on the chair and she's trying to like blow the air back on her and she takes back the wish. She doesn't need the air because Brigid only did that as a secondary thing for her.

Katie Reynolds: 30:30

It was already happening. It wasn't even something Brigid did Wish was already happening. It wasn't even something which was already granted it was already happening, so yeah, so she goes back.

Lydea Irwin: 30:36

She's blow-drying her hair. It's wedding day, but it's she's now just the bridesmaid. Yeah, she's bumped it's a she she's fine, her mom's fine. She calls her mom. She's like how are you in the hospital? Mom, never was in the hospital no, mom was never going nope, she goes to talk to the photographer James. It's a different photographer.

Katie Reynolds: 30:56

Yeah. So she goes to the town. She asks the barkeep where is he? Oh, you just missed him Before that.

Lydea Irwin: 31:04

Paul asks her to start work on the book, oh yes. And she's like, will I get co-writing credit? And he's like that's not how this works. And she's like that's not how this works. And she's like, sorry, you can write your own book. Oh, he had to. Like all you had to do is say yes. He's like no, no, no, you edit, but my name is the thing that's off the books.

Katie Reynolds: 31:20

Nope, she's off, um, but yeah, the pub thing he just left and he's on a bench outside he's waiting for a bus is what it looks like, but he doesn't have luggage with him, nope, so he's probably going to the sheep shearing thing, just something.

Lydea Irwin: 31:34

Just something he's doing something he's not leaving. But they talk, they flirt. She already knows more about him than he previously revealed. Yeah, but yeah, she's going to write her book about the Cliffs of Moher and would he like to come with her at the end. Yep, really so, Katie. After each movie recap, I like to ask you to rate the movie on a scale of one to five emojis. This week we are going with the beer mug emoji, because why the f*** did she automatically switch to Guinness? I?

Katie Reynolds: 32:05

don't know, it was like her new personality. I'm a Guinness girl. Yeah, I like Guinness.

Lydea Irwin: 32:12

So, katie, how many beer mug emojis are you going to rate Irish Wish One One, I hated this. Wow.

Katie Reynolds: 32:21

Talking about it, I hated it even more. I was thinking, oh no, maybe I'd give it a two or something. No, this movie feels like it was written by a child. It's bad. It is so cliche, it's not fun. There's nothing fun about it. No, I, I spent too much time thinking about like, okay, well, why the heck is Jane Seymour in this movie? Or why is this happening over here? Or what the heck is going on with Saint Brigid, or you know why is this happening? And it was just I. I didn't enjoy it at all. It was just so badly written and just, it was nonsense. I wouldn't recommend this to anybody, that's for sure. Wow, yeah, this is, this is as bad as our worst movies no 1.5, give it a 1.5.

Katie Reynolds: 33:14

He's gonna say this is this is, it's not valley girl, it's not valley girl no, it's at least bright and colorful, but no, it's just dumb.

Lydea Irwin: 33:23

It's so dumb I feel you, I I'm gonna give it a two and a half. That's generous. It's it's a, it's a rom. It's exactly what you expect from a rom-com it is a hundred percent a rom-com.

Katie Reynolds: 33:33

It's the kind of rom-com that gives rom-coms a bad name.

Lydea Irwin: 33:37

It's a Netflix Christmas rom-com without the Christmas.

Katie Reynolds: 33:42

Yeah, which makes it less excusable.

Lydea Irwin: 33:45

It's textbook rom-com. Why are these things happening? You meet cuted a little too hard. You just went for it and like I can respect that a little bit. It wasn't, in my mind, one of the worst things we've ever watched. No, I was just irritated. That's fair if you, if you turn off, this is one of those. If you turn off your brain, don't think about it. It's an enjoyable. The scenery is gorgeous, the music was good. We hate paul it.

Katie Reynolds: 34:18

It was really spoon-feeding us our feelings like yes, there was no nuance about this person.

Lydea Irwin: 34:25

Yeah, that's how you feel about this person.

Katie Reynolds: 34:27

It's real short, it's only an hour and a half yeah, we had all sorts of extraneous characters that added nothing. Yeah.

Lydea Irwin: 34:35

It was.

Katie Reynolds: 34:35

Why? Why is this happening? Give me something to work with.

Lydea Irwin: 34:39

Yeah, I feel bad for.

Katie Reynolds: 34:40

Lindsay Lohan because I'll admit she was an executive producer. I know she was.

Lydea Irwin: 34:47

She was better in this Than she was in that other snow movie we saw. That's what I was thinking Like, like it was better. Her acting had improved. Yes, and I I think, as she gets more movies, maybe that are less trite as she funds her own projects. Yeah and yeah but I think maybe, as she doesn't fund her own projects, maybe she'll she'll get picked up again. People will realize, oh, maybe we'll give her another chance.

Katie Reynolds: 35:10

Not if this is the c*** that she's in. She needs it's. It's okay to be whimsical and to have fun, yeah, but the way that this was done, it it didn't land for me and I don't know who would really enjoy this movie.

Lydea Irwin: 35:26

It's a rom-com for children. Without being a children's movie, it's very much a my first rom-com. Admittedly, I think we've had better babies first rom-com.

Katie Reynolds: 35:34

Admittedly, I think we've had better baby's first rom-coms, but in fact there was one that I repeatedly called that and I don't remember what it was. I don't remember for the life of me.

Lydea Irwin: 35:43

I'll look through the list so I can think about it, but if you remember what it was, let us know.

Katie Reynolds: 35:48

Chances are you've listened to the episode more recently than we have.

Lydea Irwin: 35:53

But it really it was just spoon fed, it was really, and I'll have to admit I've totally forgotten what chris rated this movie was it a two. It is now.

Katie Reynolds: 36:04

It is now because I've forgotten he won't know, it's fine sorry, Chris I I was quickly texting him like remind me what your rating was, but he hadn't gotten back to me in time and I was like, oh s**t, no, he's probably like heavily involved in a video game, right?

Lydea Irwin: 36:23

now, yeah, I'm sure he is.

Katie Reynolds: 36:24

It's not happening.

Lydea Irwin: 36:25

But well, Chris is giving it a two, Because I said so. It was around there. I think I wrote two, I think it yeah. I, it was around there, I think I wrote two, I think it, yeah, I think it was right. Um, but anyway, with, with, with his reading of two, it actually rounds out real nice math to two. So two beer emojis for for irish wish the the movie. That is the hardest thing to say wow, yeah that was in a long time why would you name it that? I don don't know.

Katie Reynolds: 36:54

Did no one say it over and over?

Lydea Irwin: 36:56

again Irish wish, irish wish. It's definitely not a thing you want to say five times fast.

Katie Reynolds: 37:01

You need to think about it a little bit before you attack that one. Yeah, it's tough Anyway.

Lydea Irwin: 37:07

So with that, that, two beer emojis. That is going to be our show.

Katie Reynolds: 37:11

And we have no idea what we're watching. Next time we have no idea what we're watching because we didn't talk about it.

Lydea Irwin: 37:16

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Katie Reynolds: 37:37

There will be something. We don't know, we don't know. Hopefully better than baby's first rom-com. So, all right, bye, everyone Bye. We'll see you next time.