Podcast in a Pear Tree: Christmas Movie Reviews · Aaron Lee Harvey, Danielle Espino, Samantha Gifford

Here comes the spice, Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce and bunches of Bs

·25 min

Aaron Lee starts by apologizing for the audio settings. He says something seems off from the recording and that those settings will get checked in the future. Samantha, Danielle, and Aaron Lee then settle into what they have been watching this week. The conversation lands on Christmas in the Spotlight on Lifetime, which they read as a lightly inspired Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift story. The panel jokes that Lifetime has done this kind of thing before with William and Kate and with Meghan and Harry. They say they were not mad at it. They also keep coming back to the guy playing Robert. The movie's parents also caught their attention. The father is a pastor. He is not for the marriage. He sends the couple into marriage boot camp and says he will marry them only if they pass. That setup pushes the story into a kind of meet the Fockers situation, because the parents are not what the hosts expected. The family has even come back from Europe. At the local pub, everyone plays the newlywed game. One question asks for a desert island Christmas song. Josh Groban's Oh, Holy Night comes up first. Danielle says that if she goes contemporary, Mariah Carey should be the pick, but she lands on Kelly Clarkson's Underneath the Tree. The song gets stuck in Aaron's head enough that he repeats it back and says he will listen after recording and report next week. The episode closes with the group talking about Red One next week and Christmas Quest on Sunday. They also mention Lacey Chabert promoting the film on Access Hollywood with Kit Huber and ask listeners to rate, follow, and give five stars.

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A Lifetime holiday chat that starts with a Swift-and-Kelsey parallel and ends on Christmas-song picks.

This episode of Podcasts in a Pear Tree settles into Christmas in the Spotlight and leans into its lightly inspired Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift framing without losing sight of the film's basic setup.

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You get Swift-Kelsey holiday lore, a marriage-boot-camp plot, and a very serious Christmas-song debate.

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