You've Got Mail

She wrote Sleepless in Seattle.

She wrote You've Got Mail.

But Heartburn It's an autobiographical novel about her viciously painful divorce from Carl Bernstein.

It is the anti-meet cute.

Now let's pivot to a different psychological profile in our matrix.

Mm.

What if your ultimate comfort watch is You've Got Mail or its cinematic ancestor, The Shop Around the Corner?

The lineage here is fascinating to trace.

Look, this movie...

This movie is more cynical than You've Got Mail.

yeah

i mean and i thought you've got mail was real cynical but not quite cynical enough um for its view on the way that technology has infiltrated our existence it's getting more and more

upsetting i'm sorry it's getting just more and more upsetting to see all these older things that i'm like oh my god if we just fucking paid attention we just right listened to artists trying to warn us

A lot of times what I see is I go, oh, we've made it worse since then.

And I know this because...

And I don't know this, but I'm saying my frame of reference for this is in You've Got Mail-

[laughs]

... which is a classic fall, fall love story, if, you know, in case you guys haven't seen it.

I didn't even know that.

I've never seen the whole movie, I don't think, so I have to watch that now.

What? You've never seen You've Got Mail?

I thought that I did not know.

We did a few things in the city.

And I don't think that we went to this bookstore on purpose because of You've Got Mail.

But I remember being in there and kind of feeling like this kind of feels like the bookstore and You've Got Mail and they had a big poster up.

And a little thing that said that, like, you know, this is what it was based on.

So been there and then have also been to the Cafe Lalo, I believe it's pronounced.

And it's just... they're going to a movie i mean usually when when a couple is going to a movie they might be talking about the mood like they're not having a conversation like this so i think i always love the juxtaposition of having ridiculous conversations but doing something that's like very ordinary

like a socialist or an anarchist or something it

happened in spain people do really stupid things in foreign countries the next time you watch you've got mail please please please put the captions on or just go and read the script specifically from that scene i think it's it's just written really well

Like nothing but, you know, autumn leaves and a good iron jumper.

And You've Got Mail is another.

I only watched this yesterday.

Love that.

The first time you see Meg out and about in New York in You've Got Mail, she's literally carrying a pumpkin to the sound of the cranberries.

So it's the most autumnal.

Tom Hanks says to her over email, he says, don't you just love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies.

So Sean,

whose gaslighting bothers you more? Tom Hanks of Meg Ryan and You've Got Mail? Or Alison Williams in this?

Tom Hanks.

100%.

a good one.

You've got mail.

Yeah, don't get me started.

Thank you, Jen.