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Sentimental Garbage

Love Actually (ranked) with Monica Heisey

Sentimental Garbage

Justice for Dumb Women

Queer, Camp, Movies, Culture, Literature, Sex And The City, Society & Culture, Tv, Musicals, Arts

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Writer of Really Good Actually and creator of Sky’s Smothered joins us for a definitive ranking of every relationship in Love Actually

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

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0:27.0

This podcast is sponsored by the new musical The Time Traveler's Wife. If you're a millennial or maybe even older, you'll remember the absolute choke-old that the time traveler's wife had on all of culture and all of society for about 10 years. Between the novel by Audrey Niferniger, which was this huge doorstep book that you found and continue to find in holiday homes up and down

0:45.8

the country and all over Europe. To the film with Rachel McAdams, this is just one of those

0:51.3

timeless stories that people keep going back to again and again and again.

0:55.0

And I think one of the reasons why it's so timeless is that something I say in this podcast a lot

1:01.0

is that Romcoms and any kind of genre movie they offer these

1:04.2

heightened situations that aren't real because they provide a rubric for things

1:08.6

that are real and I think the big thing that the time-traveler's wife gets to with so many people is that

1:15.4

this thing of immovable objects that are in the way of great romances and in the time

1:21.1

traveler's wife the immovable object is that the man literally travels through time and not by his own force of will.

1:28.0

Obviously the story is that this grand and this beautiful and this enrapturing was only ever going to be made into a musical at the west end.

1:36.0

adapted by the multi award winning playwright Lauren Gunderson with music from Joss Stone and the arithmetic Dave Stewart.

1:44.0

Playing now at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End,

1:47.0

this is the big night out of the year.

1:49.0

I can just imagine the gangs of girls with glasses of wine going into this musical and laughing and crying and holding each other and I just can't wait to be among you.

1:59.0

Not only is it the kind of night out that will tug at your heartstrings it'll be visually

2:03.5

stunning with incredible illusions that allow Henry's time-traveling disappearances to play out

2:08.8

on stage. Time is so precious so you book your tickets now at time traveler's wife.com.

2:17.0

Hello and welcome sentimental garbage, the podcast where we talk about the culture we love that society sometimes makes us feel ashamed of.

2:28.0

My name is Caroline, and in my wedding photos I look blue and wibbly.

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