Jessica Hynes

Let's talk about some of the female characters a little bit.

Let's talk about, just real quick, Jessica Hines, who is awesome in this and most other things she has appeared in, as Yvonne as the mirror to Sean, because everybody in Yvonne's group is a mirror to somebody in Sean's group, as we see in that great, quick scene of Yvonne's group and Sean's group passing each other.

as they are lovingly referred to in the commentary and the behind-the-scenes featurettes, the doppelgang.

Yeah, I love that.

Subbuteo player.

Uh, you got, um, Jessica Hynes, so they're all...

they all used to do Spaced.

Oh, yeah.

But yeah, really, really good comedy, American comedy.

about a group of young people would recommend highly i would also recommend east of eden on netflix which i've now finished thoroughly enjoyable adaptation of the great american novel it's dark and it's desperate at times but the plot the pacing the visuals the casting the performances are all in service of the themes of acceptance guilt and freedom east of eden is time well spent i think and I finished 2012 the BBC again this is one of my shows that I've gone back to I've gone backwards in a way because I started with 2026 but similarly to that it was the marketing team that brought me the most laughs a really good comedic ensemble with Jessica Hines and Olivia Coleman the standouts going to take a little bit of a break before I go into W1A but I will complete that little series of shows and I've also finished the five-star weekend which is on Sky and Now TV I don't think I'm the intended audience for this, but I was hooked by the charm of the cast, the sparky dialogue and the twists and turns.

It's basically about a woman who's a kind of baker influencer whose husband has passed away and she invites different friends from different parts of her life to spend time with her in her home for a weekend in Nantucket.

I think the twists tailed off naturally,

anything! Does it treat women well? Does any Edgar Wright movie treat women well? Because that was something, we were in a WhatsApp group and someone pointed out that they love Shaun of the Dead, but feel like it could have stronger female characters.

which especially coming after Spaced which was co-written by Simon Pegg and Jessica Hines who plays Yvonne in this movie the sort of question of like there were better female characters in Spaced and then this Liz is good but like is sort of not sexy lamp territory but not

far off

yeah there's a danger of it becoming sexy lamp

I have a child what does that say about me

parenting gay

I love the alternate movie that's going on with Jessica Hines as Yvonne I would love to see that

yes it's very like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead kind of thing but like I feel like Yvonne is like the hero but we just don't know what she's off doing

Sure.

And get in Dave, get in Jessica Stevenson for, uh, Brigitte Nielsen.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, whereas I went, went a different way.

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Inefficiently bumble around.

And then we run into Jessica Hines' character.

Yes, yes.

Who's going through and is like, she's the action hero team.