I feel like OP hasn’t seen enough Hallmark movies — the protagonist’s jealous beau showing up is exactly the kind of second act complication they need.
Please put on too much makeup, turn up holding a fleet of disposable designer bags, and then get your heels stuck in the grass for some reason, followed by a tiffy “I HATE it here!”
God I hate her already!
*a tiny chihuahua in a prada bag starts yapping, and then the sprinklers come on for some reason and she starts to lose it as her makeup begins to run*
this is so obscure to me. What does it all mean ?
Hallmark movies have cookie cutter plots usually involving one of the characters reuniting with someone while visiting their home town and then falling in or rekindling love. The characters tend to be divorced or in an unhappy relationship, and one of the driving forces of tension is the push for them to get with each other before the visiting party has to leave
Thanks for the clarification !! much appreciated
for completion and for anyone else confused, cookie-cutter means marked by lack of originality or distinction
They also tend to have a focus on “city = bad, small town = good,” framing the original relationship in the city as being bland and out of touch, while the small town relationship is warm and attentive.
Meanwhile the ‘small town’ has everything bad about cities, but they simply gloss over it.
I like looking at “cookie-cutter” by its namesake. Cookie-cutters create shaped cookies of identical shapes. For an application, consider cookie-cutter houses. These are typically in neighborhoods where there are only a handful of unique blueprints for houses, and so there are tons of identical houses all “cut out” as if from cookie cutters. The Hallmark movie example refers to a handful of plots (as opposed to blueprints), where each movie is “cut out” of whatever cliché plot they choose from the incredibly small amount of plots Hallmark has.
Indeed, I was just picturing the wrong tool. I had those little wheels in mind, the ones used to cut pizza. It made no sense
Thanks for the explanation
Pizza cutter Plots are plots where the story is divided in equal parts between multiple deuteragonist \s
hah !
Gonna order me a pizza and watch cloud atlas
country mouse goes to city and marries city mouse, but country mouse goes back to country and likes country mouse instead
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right up my mouse brain, thank you
But does the mouse get the cheese in the end?
we all get the cheese in the end
He’s going to fall for the doctors daughter? I guess?
The only one who could really reach him
Was the daughter of the doctor, manWell done! I know the reference.
She has massive trust issues and is about to ruin her marriage.
This will do wonders for the trust necessary for a healthy relationship.
Next week: “Help, my boyfriend is too controlling! He doesn’t want to watch my favorite tv shows with me!”
