OFFICE ROMANCE: Reviewed!
Much like Proust’s madeleine (bear with me here) Christopher’s Huel meal really opened up an entire world of thought for us during the cold open today. Stay tuned for Christopher’s secret tidbit that might save you on a future delayed journey from Victoria station. Perhaps if Brett had included the differences in US and UK attitudes towards pints of ice water … one of us would have been more on board with today’s film! And to be fair to the makers of this film: we also don’t know if we are making a podcast or making fun of podcasts some days. It’s a fine line. For example, once upon a time we had a standard issue cold open segment. Now it's a behemoth! So much discourse before we even get to the 30 second game!
On today’s world famous 30 second game (the cold open game during which, as those who are not new to this but true to this know best: we pitch a content-based improv game to the person we pitched the content to, during which they will be explaining what the podcast is all about … gosh we need a 30 second game for the 30 second game!) the fellas re-enacted the famous rom-com trope of the WAIT TAKE ME BACK scene at the end of a lot of our favourite rom coms, whether they’re AIRPORT based or AIRLINE SHE E O (shout out) based. So the boys did their rom com homage. And Jeffrey won back Christopher. At least thoroughly and romantically enough to get through the episode. We’ll see how the *will they won’t they* of it all progresses throughout the rest of season 7. Maybe one day we can do a season on clay Christopher. And hey. Maybe clay means Patreon. Who’s to know, eh?
As usual, a warning: so many spoilers!
Watch Office Romance here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81939823
More importantly, as mentioned on the podcast, watch Fish Jelly Film Reviews and their review of Office Romance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqTEcmvQX8k&t
We didn’t mention it on the podcast but here is another fun YouTube review from StutterBox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJETOUUfyvI
Oh fuck, Brett is still doing Films To Be Buried With! And it looks like the latest episodes have featured his Office Romance co-stars … and James Acaster! Oh Brett, can I resist your temptations as well as J.Lo did for like two scenes or what!?: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/films-to-be-buried-with-with-brett-goldstein/id1408585620
This is Christopher’s hand-selected highlight from the crazy press tour Brett and J.Lo have been on for this film. Honestly, maybe I should have just watched a supercut of all the press tour snippets for the bang for your buck entertainment value these clips are clearly giving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyh1gK9Rd8
As any good review of a British-adjacent comedy should, our review today got us thinking of Johnny English (2003): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFmFwCRLsK4
And as any Johnny English/James Bond reference should, our review today then got us thinking of Get Smart (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9WNBO3szgQ
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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher was all sad about losing the season before we even revealed the scores for today’s episode! Lol. Also the football team (sometimes a player carries a team like an actor carries a film) and penalty shoot out (Christopher felt like a goalkeeper facing down quite the deficit by the time of the score-reveals) metaphors went hard … perhaps an easter egg for the impending pitch … ?
SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81771560
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