365: Sweet Home Alabama

I Hate It But I Love It

Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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It's Romantic Movie Month once again and we're talking about SWEET HOME ALABAMA! We discuss how Reese Witherspoon can (almost) do no wrong, how this movie is surprisingly sad, and Jocelyn pitches a fashion line.

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0:00.0	And I'm I hate it but I love it. I high by everybody. I high by, everybody. I high by,
0:27.0	I want to know, welcome to I hate it, but I love it. I am Jocelyn Getty.
0:31.0	I am Kat Angus and this is the podcast about all the pop culture
0:33.8	you love and hate simultaneously. It's February romance movie month and we are kicking
0:39.4	things off with 2002 Sweet Home Alabama.
0:42.8	Now am I correct in thinking or did I memory hold this that this is Reese Witherspoons
0:48.0	a follow-up to Legally Blonde?
0:50.3	Yes, this was really what sort of cemented her as like, okay, she's kind of taking over the America's sweetheart title from I guess Meg Ryan at the time?
0:59.5	Ah, yes, okay. All right. So please tell me me what are your feelings on Sweet Home Alabama?
1:04.3	Oh boy, what a sanitized version of the South this likes to present, where zero black people
1:12.1	apparently live, just a town full of white people.
1:15.6	Okay, sure.
1:17.6	Everyone in this movie kind of stinks.
1:19.2	Yeah.
1:21.2	And for Melanie Smoot, our main character of Melanie Carmichael, which is what she's going by,
1:28.0	I feel bad for her.
1:31.0	Yes.
1:32.0	It's like, clearly she had a lot of trauma that led to her running away and leaving everyone behind.
1:40.0	And the fact that by the end of the movie she's like, well, I guess I'm back here to this place that made me feel bad.
1:47.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:48.0	Yeah.
1:50.0	Okay. All right.
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