The ads for this new 4 part series sounded like a good idea with 4 women supporting each other over the ups and downs of love and life. But the first episode was somewhat disappointing. The characters were likeable enough, and the idea of two pen pals finding each other was a cute idea, but there were too many instances where there was dishonesty, deception, and pretence. You have to wonder how any relationship could start like that and survive. The characters are all in their 30's but act like silly teenagers. I have enjoyed both Marcus and Brittany in other movies but this was definitely not their best effort. Perhaps the next one in the series will improve and show more maturity and realism.
24 Reviews
Nic and Sydney installments
mccabe-shannon5 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The ratings are totally reversed in my opinion. Nic's pen pal was far better than Sydney's Journey.
Overall it's a cute concept. But it also seems they don't talk all too much, but the one referred to the ladies as aunties to her kids. And yet they set up a video call when someone is in a love club emergency and not just regular daily friends. It's 2023. Where is the text chain? Sydney sends an email to say she needs them. And in both they all just drop everything for a week?
Nic: the inn is closed for remodel and yet, they are able to get there right away to stay? Even with lying about who they are. It's unrealistic. She is trying to get her business going and yet she spends all this money for a job she won't get paid for? And when an inn closes for remodels they aren't looking for someone to go in and swipe out the doilies and add s'mores and a charcuterie board to a "honeymoon suite" it's just silly. And he talks about what's in her letters. So wouldn't she ask if it wasn't you how'd you know what I wrote? Do you know what was written back? Woulda changed everything. Proper ending. I liked these characters.
Sydney- she had to pivot after getting hurt in college so she has a blog now. In the other episode it sounds kinda new. What else has she been doing for 10 years? Blogging is obviously a full time job but it didn't really seem like it here. This whole time they sounded like 3 years out of school not 10. Bryce broke up with her 4 times in college the last being just walking away on NYE. They couldn't be that serious to keep pining after him for a decade. And not seeing him in 10 years then all the sudden non stop. A doctor goes to a conference him and his hospital group of runners aren't staying in town for a week to do a half marathon. It's just stupid. February in Canada and they are wearing light jackets to run and a dress or jeans and a shirt? Hmmmm. Again the friends drop everything to stay with her while she trains to cook up this situation. And she hasn't run since she got hurt a decade ago? Bryce is a total tool. It's pretty bad. Just. No. Definitely should have like a 4 while Nic's story is a 6.
Overall it's a cute concept. But it also seems they don't talk all too much, but the one referred to the ladies as aunties to her kids. And yet they set up a video call when someone is in a love club emergency and not just regular daily friends. It's 2023. Where is the text chain? Sydney sends an email to say she needs them. And in both they all just drop everything for a week?
Nic: the inn is closed for remodel and yet, they are able to get there right away to stay? Even with lying about who they are. It's unrealistic. She is trying to get her business going and yet she spends all this money for a job she won't get paid for? And when an inn closes for remodels they aren't looking for someone to go in and swipe out the doilies and add s'mores and a charcuterie board to a "honeymoon suite" it's just silly. And he talks about what's in her letters. So wouldn't she ask if it wasn't you how'd you know what I wrote? Do you know what was written back? Woulda changed everything. Proper ending. I liked these characters.
Sydney- she had to pivot after getting hurt in college so she has a blog now. In the other episode it sounds kinda new. What else has she been doing for 10 years? Blogging is obviously a full time job but it didn't really seem like it here. This whole time they sounded like 3 years out of school not 10. Bryce broke up with her 4 times in college the last being just walking away on NYE. They couldn't be that serious to keep pining after him for a decade. And not seeing him in 10 years then all the sudden non stop. A doctor goes to a conference him and his hospital group of runners aren't staying in town for a week to do a half marathon. It's just stupid. February in Canada and they are wearing light jackets to run and a dress or jeans and a shirt? Hmmmm. Again the friends drop everything to stay with her while she trains to cook up this situation. And she hasn't run since she got hurt a decade ago? Bryce is a total tool. It's pretty bad. Just. No. Definitely should have like a 4 while Nic's story is a 6.
Misused potential
MickyG33327 March 2023
5.9 stars.
Somewhere amidst a genius concoction, and a cast of potentially likable characters, stands "The Love Club". Unfortunately, I felt the need to bail out after a sassy girl and a prissy girl let a seemingly genuine guy have a thorough whipping; meanwhile another girl remained neutral and the last girl was somewhat indifferent. After all of this confusion had transpired and "The Love Club" had been devastated by the bull in a china shop that I will refer to as a dead end script and a lifeless pairing of two actors, I am spent...
What a supreme disappointment that started off so full of promise, with an original idea and four women who appeared to be up to the challenge. I lost interest as It was starting to deflate a quarter of the way in, and was totally flat by the half-way point. I stuck around simply out of curiosity to witness the inevitable derailment of one of the most wrecked stories ever given the green light by Hallmark.
The lead female is completely impossible. I have liked her in every other role she's done, so why did they have to ruin her for this? She comes off as rigid and snappy, and not a woman I'd pine for even remotely as he does. The other three women are hit and miss and I could delve into each one individually, but I don't feel like taking the extra time. I will simply add that they don't jive as a group of old friends, but rather seem forced and awkward too often, especially for women in their 30's.
And then there's the final reveal of the true pen pal, which was most unwanted and best left a mystery as I shivered in revulsion at the whole scene.
This film is rotten. WARNING: KEEP OUT!
Somewhere amidst a genius concoction, and a cast of potentially likable characters, stands "The Love Club". Unfortunately, I felt the need to bail out after a sassy girl and a prissy girl let a seemingly genuine guy have a thorough whipping; meanwhile another girl remained neutral and the last girl was somewhat indifferent. After all of this confusion had transpired and "The Love Club" had been devastated by the bull in a china shop that I will refer to as a dead end script and a lifeless pairing of two actors, I am spent...
What a supreme disappointment that started off so full of promise, with an original idea and four women who appeared to be up to the challenge. I lost interest as It was starting to deflate a quarter of the way in, and was totally flat by the half-way point. I stuck around simply out of curiosity to witness the inevitable derailment of one of the most wrecked stories ever given the green light by Hallmark.
The lead female is completely impossible. I have liked her in every other role she's done, so why did they have to ruin her for this? She comes off as rigid and snappy, and not a woman I'd pine for even remotely as he does. The other three women are hit and miss and I could delve into each one individually, but I don't feel like taking the extra time. I will simply add that they don't jive as a group of old friends, but rather seem forced and awkward too often, especially for women in their 30's.
And then there's the final reveal of the true pen pal, which was most unwanted and best left a mystery as I shivered in revulsion at the whole scene.
This film is rotten. WARNING: KEEP OUT!
Awful movie!!
husna_athan18 February 2023
It was boring from the very first few minutes.
It was unbelievable the story and the cast had no real relationship with each other even the friends.
It was a lie movie.
But not only that it was not interesting to watch.
The plot was awful, I kept on hoping to enjoy it even a little bit.
I think they tried to copy The Wedding Veil 👰 Series but not even close. I loved the entire Wedding Veil Series but this deserves only 1 star for trying.
These are 30 year old actresses why were they trying to act like teenagers??
They looked so bored lol
Sorry but I never hated a movie so much.
I was looking forward to this.
Don't waste your time... Just awful in every way.
It was unbelievable the story and the cast had no real relationship with each other even the friends.
It was a lie movie.
But not only that it was not interesting to watch.
The plot was awful, I kept on hoping to enjoy it even a little bit.
I think they tried to copy The Wedding Veil 👰 Series but not even close. I loved the entire Wedding Veil Series but this deserves only 1 star for trying.
These are 30 year old actresses why were they trying to act like teenagers??
They looked so bored lol
Sorry but I never hated a movie so much.
I was looking forward to this.
Don't waste your time... Just awful in every way.
could not sit through
sarajimi2 May 2023
I have a high tolerance for Hallmark movies but this was horrid. Maybe the plot would work if the characters were middle schoolers but they are adults. You know Nicole is in trouble when one of her first lines is about wanting to find a man to complete her. Fast forward ten years and she still has the same mind set. She ends up engaged to a guy who is a caricature of the typical Hallmark bad boyfriend, which is saying something. So she sets out to find her college pen pal with whom she felt a connection by cyberstalking him then messing with the remodeling of his business. Which he finds okay because he too felt a connection. That's all in the first third of the movie. It just goes downhill from there.
There were some funny lines and I liked Josh but Nicole is so neurotic and insecure I just couldn't finish. She should be a cautionary tale, not the heroine. And this movie falls into the sexist trope that the woman can lie and scheme with impunity but let the man out one for wrong and he has to grovel for forgiveness. No thanks.
There were some funny lines and I liked Josh but Nicole is so neurotic and insecure I just couldn't finish. She should be a cautionary tale, not the heroine. And this movie falls into the sexist trope that the woman can lie and scheme with impunity but let the man out one for wrong and he has to grovel for forgiveness. No thanks.
The Cinematic Equivalent To Eating Gravel
thomford-7801820 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Imagine, for a moment, that you are an Anglo-Saxon serf, living a quiet life on the banks of a river in the early ninth century. The entirety of your world is confined to the village in which you live, to the tanneries on the edge of town to the bakeries that set your hungry stomach to rumbling with not but a whiff of their deliciously perfumed air. Your modest hovel lies in the shadow of an ancient stone stele, a relic of the Romans who once conquered and ruled these lands. You know nothing of conquest or savagery, though. Yours is a peaceful life, difficult at times, but far from loathsome.
One day, as you stroll along the banks of the river to check your father's eel traps, you notice something in the distance, like a great bird gliding along the face of the water. But no, it's not a bird at all, but a sail, striped the white of virgin snow and the scarlet of blood soon to flow. The trap falls with an unheard splash from your limp hand. You've heard the tales from the coastal villages, but never would you have dreamed that such a thing could happen in your sleepy little hamlet. They've come to kill and to rob - the raiders of Denmark and Norway. The Vikings are upon you.
In blind terror, you race toward the town square to raise the alarm, though you know it will do no good. There are no great warriors in your village, only old men with time-gnawed swords and reedy children with sticks. As you ready yourself to fight - nay, to die - you have but one solace to lend strength to your soon-to-be-hewn limbs: At least you'll die before you have to see "The Love Club."
I have to wonder if Hallmark intentionally created the protagonists of this movie to be the most unlikable characters in any form of artistic medium ever. The primary protagonist, a back-stabbing harpy named Nicole, is engaged to a man named Warren, who commits the ultimate sin in her eyes of confessing that he thinks having birdhouses on the front porch might lead to bird-related messes. With her marriage to the bird-hating fiend fast approaching, Nicole takes out a set of old letters she received from a pen pal in college, which contain poetry that she thinks is brilliant. Given her likeness for said "poems," Nicole also likely finds the jokes on Laffy Taffy wrappers hysterical, and gets all of her medical advice from Web MD. That is to say, the poems are complete and utter garbage. They're the excrement that mediocrity passes when it's eaten too many clichés. But Nicole is not only still obsessed with them after a literal decade, she loves them enough to track down the man who wrote them.
Again, Nicole is still engaged throughout this entire process. Her fiancé has no idea that there's anything wrong in their relationship., and she does nothing to indicate to him that there is. She's more interested in finding the mystery man from an old college assignment than she is in the thoughts and feels of the human being that is Warren.
To aid her in her stalking, Nicole calls in her three best friends from college. I won't get into all of their personalities, because there's really no need. The four-headed jackass operates as a hive mind of sorts, each facet identical in awfulness and unlikability. Throughout the movie, they all prove themselves to be not only perfectly fine with lying through their teeth, they also engage in casual privacy-invasion (rifling through a man's office and computer while he's away) and fraud (pretending to be a team of designers that a hotel had hired). Every one of them is terrible.
Now, let's move on to the love interest. His name is Josh, because this is a Hallmark movie, which means that if the man's name isn't Luke, Max, or Blake, then it's Josh. The dude is a Grade-A, FDA approved lunatic. He learns early on that Nicole is NOT, in fact, the designer hired by the hotel he works for, but is instead a deranged psychopath who stalked him online until she figured out where he worked. Is Josh in any way turned off by this? Absolutely not! He pursues Nicole like she's Orange Soda and he's Kel Mitchell. He contrives numerous Machiavellian schemes to make Nicole "realize that he's the one she should be with." Keep in mind, they've known each other for a couple of days.
I could go on, but I'd rather not. If you're not completely revolted by these characters yet, then there's nothing I can say that will change your mind. Bottom line is, Nicole is a cheating, lying, sociopathic stalker who pursues a fantasy romance with maniacal fixation. Josh is a desperate lunatic who must live a very sad life indeed if the only woman he can connect with is one who sneaks around behind her fiancé's back, weaving a web of lies as she goes, to steal herself a new man.
Absolutely awful in every way.
One day, as you stroll along the banks of the river to check your father's eel traps, you notice something in the distance, like a great bird gliding along the face of the water. But no, it's not a bird at all, but a sail, striped the white of virgin snow and the scarlet of blood soon to flow. The trap falls with an unheard splash from your limp hand. You've heard the tales from the coastal villages, but never would you have dreamed that such a thing could happen in your sleepy little hamlet. They've come to kill and to rob - the raiders of Denmark and Norway. The Vikings are upon you.
In blind terror, you race toward the town square to raise the alarm, though you know it will do no good. There are no great warriors in your village, only old men with time-gnawed swords and reedy children with sticks. As you ready yourself to fight - nay, to die - you have but one solace to lend strength to your soon-to-be-hewn limbs: At least you'll die before you have to see "The Love Club."
I have to wonder if Hallmark intentionally created the protagonists of this movie to be the most unlikable characters in any form of artistic medium ever. The primary protagonist, a back-stabbing harpy named Nicole, is engaged to a man named Warren, who commits the ultimate sin in her eyes of confessing that he thinks having birdhouses on the front porch might lead to bird-related messes. With her marriage to the bird-hating fiend fast approaching, Nicole takes out a set of old letters she received from a pen pal in college, which contain poetry that she thinks is brilliant. Given her likeness for said "poems," Nicole also likely finds the jokes on Laffy Taffy wrappers hysterical, and gets all of her medical advice from Web MD. That is to say, the poems are complete and utter garbage. They're the excrement that mediocrity passes when it's eaten too many clichés. But Nicole is not only still obsessed with them after a literal decade, she loves them enough to track down the man who wrote them.
Again, Nicole is still engaged throughout this entire process. Her fiancé has no idea that there's anything wrong in their relationship., and she does nothing to indicate to him that there is. She's more interested in finding the mystery man from an old college assignment than she is in the thoughts and feels of the human being that is Warren.
To aid her in her stalking, Nicole calls in her three best friends from college. I won't get into all of their personalities, because there's really no need. The four-headed jackass operates as a hive mind of sorts, each facet identical in awfulness and unlikability. Throughout the movie, they all prove themselves to be not only perfectly fine with lying through their teeth, they also engage in casual privacy-invasion (rifling through a man's office and computer while he's away) and fraud (pretending to be a team of designers that a hotel had hired). Every one of them is terrible.
Now, let's move on to the love interest. His name is Josh, because this is a Hallmark movie, which means that if the man's name isn't Luke, Max, or Blake, then it's Josh. The dude is a Grade-A, FDA approved lunatic. He learns early on that Nicole is NOT, in fact, the designer hired by the hotel he works for, but is instead a deranged psychopath who stalked him online until she figured out where he worked. Is Josh in any way turned off by this? Absolutely not! He pursues Nicole like she's Orange Soda and he's Kel Mitchell. He contrives numerous Machiavellian schemes to make Nicole "realize that he's the one she should be with." Keep in mind, they've known each other for a couple of days.
I could go on, but I'd rather not. If you're not completely revolted by these characters yet, then there's nothing I can say that will change your mind. Bottom line is, Nicole is a cheating, lying, sociopathic stalker who pursues a fantasy romance with maniacal fixation. Josh is a desperate lunatic who must live a very sad life indeed if the only woman he can connect with is one who sneaks around behind her fiancé's back, weaving a web of lies as she goes, to steal herself a new man.
Absolutely awful in every way.
Indescribably Apalling
drbeeson5 March 2023
This "movie" is absolutely one of the most horrible in Hallmark's history. Truly unwatchable and disgusting. The actors should feel guilty to grace this this "film" with their presence. (Talk about selling out for the Benjamins!!) Disgusting in every way. Terrible script and storyline. For instance, the hapless "fiancé" was treated as disposal, insignificant trash by the lead female actor, who was portrayed as an innocent, helpless "love"victim (I won't mention her real name for fear of permanently associating her acting career with this piece of garbage). Needless to say, the writers, producers, and actors responsible for this movie should be ashamed of themselves. PLEASE don't produce any followup films and the thought of a "Love Club" series is terrifying.
There is a series? I could barely finish this one
flopunturero1 March 2023
I can't believe someone actually put money into making this movie, and that the script was approved. I stayed until the end, to be able to review it and see if something improved by the end of the picture, but everything kept getting worse. This isn't even a movie to watch when you don't want to pay attention and watch your cellphone, because the bad acting and script will make your head hurt.
And they say this is part of a series of movies? Sorry, this was more than enough. The only good part of it is that I turned off the TV and grabbed a book to ease my mind and nurture it after too much dumbness.
And they say this is part of a series of movies? Sorry, this was more than enough. The only good part of it is that I turned off the TV and grabbed a book to ease my mind and nurture it after too much dumbness.
Derailed by Unlikable Characters
athompsonblue10 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
They both lied, yet he's the only one in the doghouse. If he had just explained that he dictated the gist of the letters, then it would be all on her to realize that writing talent is no foundation for a relationship. And she's pretty casual about leaving her fiance in the dust.
I can easily forgive Josh for not writing the letters. But he crossed a line when the set up the whole ruse with the spa guy. And he keeps throwing out lame excuses, instead of just manning up, being honest, and having the self-respect to not pine for a woman who completely forgot the connection they had prior to the authorship controversy.
Why did the spa guy even agree to the charade?
Wouldn't he have expected bad karma?
I can easily forgive Josh for not writing the letters. But he crossed a line when the set up the whole ruse with the spa guy. And he keeps throwing out lame excuses, instead of just manning up, being honest, and having the self-respect to not pine for a woman who completely forgot the connection they had prior to the authorship controversy.
Why did the spa guy even agree to the charade?
Wouldn't he have expected bad karma?
Very Difficult to Watch
EasyWatch5 March 2023
Although I was very happy to see Brittany Bristow and Marcus Rosner in the leading roles, this movie was extremely difficult to sit through and I could hardly wait for it to end. I became bored fairly early in and it was ridiculous for the Nicole character to be so upset with Josh when she, herself, was an audacious liar. With regard to the girlfriends, the Tara character was the least likable on so many levels. These actors may be talented but no one could possibly make that determination from this movie since they were shortchanged by a really bad script and direction. I plan to skip any of the other movies in this series as this was not an enjoyable experience. Hallmark, you can do better!
Just horrible
LtlHippo18 March 2023
I just had to come here and check out the ratings as I watched this monstrosity of a movie. It was just horrible. One of the worst movies I've ever watched on Hallmark. Seems like they were going for a Wedding Veil vibe with the girlfriends thing. It really was a dud from the beginning. The lack of emotion boyfriend/fiance. The sloppy proposal. Her fiance was barely mentioned again during this liefest. It just got worse and worse as the movie went along. I kept hoping something would happen to redeem this movie but it never happened. The lead was upset he lied when she was the biggest liar of them all. So much deception. Just hated this movie and all the characters. The bar guy might have been the only decent one in the movie. The whole wellness studio thing was so stupid. If you want to watch a horrible movie, by all means, watch this stinker that really isn't even worthy of 1*.
More like the lying club
hallmarkmov12 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
There was no love, it's lie upon lie. This movie was really trying to be like the wedding veil friendship and failing miserably. Do these four really know each other? It started off like a drunken meet up and then somehow they all knew each other's relationships and then they email when they have problems with love but nothing else in their life. That's an odd friendship. The letters aren't even from these continently diverse friends but some other pen pal from college. So if they were really friends wouldn't they know about this story a long time ago? The friends don't seem to be dropping everything to come to her aid but rather they had nothing else to do for a week and came along. Its odd how she is sooo into a pen pal she knew nothing about yet is so disinterested in her fiancé? Isn't this cheating? The friends could be there or not and it would make no difference. They don't give any opinions, any advice, maybe warnings against cheating? There's no chemistry with any of the actors, not among the friends, not the main characters, no one. It doesn't make sense why she continued to design the wing when she wasn't being paid and the other company was already getting paid. I guess she got the money back by drinking and eating the food for the suite. The yoga instructor was so strange but again another lie. The lies are just endless in this movie!
Not worth watching
teepack-753126 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I had somewhat high hopes for this movie. The premise seemed okay (another Wedding Veil kind of thing with a group of friends who support each other) but this one went off the rails fast. The heroine gets engaged in the opening scene and then immediately goes off on a ladies weekend looking to connect with a pen pal from her college days to see if he is her soulmate. And none of her friends seem to think there's anything wrong with saying yes to a proposal and then immediately trying to find another man? When she meets him, she lies and pretends to be the interior designer he's hired to redo his inn. Lie after lie after lie. This movie ended up being a dumpster fire on an out-of-control barge floating down a burning river. It almost became the second Hallmark Channel movie to receive a 1 from me, but I wanted to leave "If I Only Had Christmas" in a class by itself.
So Bad
dallasallis18 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I'm a Hallmark movie fan - watched hundreds of them over the years. Are they ever Oscar-worthy productions, on any level? Nope, but many are still extremely entertaining, enough so that some flaws can be overlooked. This movie, however, was so bad that I literally had to force myself to finish it.
I won't get into the story except to say that after the second deception, I was totally out.
Marcus Rosner is the only reason I rated as high. He's often cast in the worst movies Hallmark has on offer, but still a favorite. IMO, Brittany Barstow isn't a strong lead but this was one of her better performances. I didn't care at all about any of the other characters so doubt I'll continue on with the series.
I won't get into the story except to say that after the second deception, I was totally out.
Marcus Rosner is the only reason I rated as high. He's often cast in the worst movies Hallmark has on offer, but still a favorite. IMO, Brittany Barstow isn't a strong lead but this was one of her better performances. I didn't care at all about any of the other characters so doubt I'll continue on with the series.
Truly Horrible
mzmays5 March 2023
The plot of this movie was awful. It was hard to get through. The lead in the movie "Nic" was insufferable. She lied about everything but gave Josh a hard time about his lies. I did not root for them to get together. I felt Josh could do better.
Nic spent the entire movie chasing the author of some letter from 10 years prior. And like most Hallmark movies it takes to the very end for her to discover that she was wrong. I know Hallmark lost a lot of their lead actresses/actors last year. Did they also lose their writers. Hallmark 2023 has been kinda bad so far. I'm holding out hope that it will get better.
Nic spent the entire movie chasing the author of some letter from 10 years prior. And like most Hallmark movies it takes to the very end for her to discover that she was wrong. I know Hallmark lost a lot of their lead actresses/actors last year. Did they also lose their writers. Hallmark 2023 has been kinda bad so far. I'm holding out hope that it will get better.
Very, very hard to watch! first movie review only!
frankjmonaco-447457 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
We have watched a very lot of ROMCOMs since the pandemic started, and this was far and away the worst we have ever seen. Where to begin?
The script was terrible and we don't blame the Lead actors. When the plot revolves around lying and deceit, you can expect problems!
The 4 lady friends acted like high school kids and it was painful to watch their interactions - painful might be too generous😩
We especially disliked the cringeworthy yoga / massage sequence - harder to watch, if you can believe it, that the four friends interactions, which was very bad!
Finally, the idea that someone, engaged, would pursue a never met old pen pal (while still engaged) is not really the best theme for a ROMCOM.
Don't waste your time!
The script was terrible and we don't blame the Lead actors. When the plot revolves around lying and deceit, you can expect problems!
The 4 lady friends acted like high school kids and it was painful to watch their interactions - painful might be too generous😩
We especially disliked the cringeworthy yoga / massage sequence - harder to watch, if you can believe it, that the four friends interactions, which was very bad!
Finally, the idea that someone, engaged, would pursue a never met old pen pal (while still engaged) is not really the best theme for a ROMCOM.
Don't waste your time!
Cheating and Lying the new Hallmark
juliefolden11 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Hallmark has reached a new low with this movie. The main character spends the entire time cheating on her new fiance. No depth to the character, who completely lacks, ironically, character. This could have been a fun new series, like the Wedding Veil movies. Unfortunately it completely lacks any substance, morals, or values. The male lead character isn't much better. No depth, along with his lies and scheming make him completely unlikable. Very weak plot. Weak acting, just no substance at all. Hallmark really needs to get a clue on who their fan base is or they will lose it completely. Not worth the time wasted to watch. Do not recommend.
So she's a sabotager?
Stormlight218 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
"I've been trying so hard to find the perfect person that I've just been sabotaging everything." -Female lead
That should be the tagline of the movie. Nick basically spent the whole movie trying to cheat on her fiancé, with the script writer/director trying to show us that she's this sweet innocent women just wanting to find The One. She's looking for someone else to be her true love, she's going on dates with other men. How did she think this was okay? At least break up with your fiancé before you go on this silly trip to sabotage everything. And she and the male lead lied several times to each other...are we supposed to be rooting for them to be together?
And this is supposed to be a four film thing, with each woman getting her own movie to find true love? I sure hope the writers for the next scripts drastically change the tone of the movies so they're not like this one. But I probably won't watch them anyway.
That should be the tagline of the movie. Nick basically spent the whole movie trying to cheat on her fiancé, with the script writer/director trying to show us that she's this sweet innocent women just wanting to find The One. She's looking for someone else to be her true love, she's going on dates with other men. How did she think this was okay? At least break up with your fiancé before you go on this silly trip to sabotage everything. And she and the male lead lied several times to each other...are we supposed to be rooting for them to be together?
And this is supposed to be a four film thing, with each woman getting her own movie to find true love? I sure hope the writers for the next scripts drastically change the tone of the movies so they're not like this one. But I probably won't watch them anyway.
Made me longing for Gilligan's Island reruns.
gfrasmd6 March 2023
To paraphrase "Jerry Maguire", this movie had me at the first sequence. There we have four dejected young women who barely know each other, meet at a New Year party, and grieve about having gotten dumped. The lead character, Nic, comes out we the words: "We are four strong women...", while they look miserable and hapless. This did alert me to what was coming. Of course, they turned out to be four unlikable characters with the psychology of a four-year-old with attention deficit and the morals of feral cats. These heroines, who expect to find and deserve 'the one' eternal love, resort to, or encourage, cheating and lying to reach that goal, with such unabashed superficiality that probably explains why they were dumped, should be dumped, and avoided like poison. What follows becomes irrelevant, awkward, illogical, when not appalling. The movie remains unpleasant, boring, devoid of credibility or redeeming aspects. It made me realize that, although I thought I liked Brittany Bristow, I have never watched a movie in which she starred as the lead actress that I have ever wanted to see again o even could watch entirely. Whether the problem has been the poor quality of the scripts or her lack of a real personality, every single one I, now, remember as insipid or annoying. Is she getting so many roles because of her father being a producer?
I understand that this film is intended to be the first installment of a four-part series dedicated to the love adventures of the four ladies here introduced. Based on the the insight appreciated in the first production and the the appeal of these heroines, I already know I will stay away from the Hallmark channel on those dates. I may have to search for reruns of Gilligan's Island, so much more entertaining ad intelligent than this.
As a long standing Hallmark aficionado I was prepared to accept some "hit or miss" consistency in their offerings. Yet, lately the "misses" have become almost a standard, which I find disheartening.
I understand that this film is intended to be the first installment of a four-part series dedicated to the love adventures of the four ladies here introduced. Based on the the insight appreciated in the first production and the the appeal of these heroines, I already know I will stay away from the Hallmark channel on those dates. I may have to search for reruns of Gilligan's Island, so much more entertaining ad intelligent than this.
As a long standing Hallmark aficionado I was prepared to accept some "hit or miss" consistency in their offerings. Yet, lately the "misses" have become almost a standard, which I find disheartening.
Terrrible and unwatchable with the DVS service. Worse DVS ever!
wayne-46126 February 2023
1st I'm going to rate the DVS (Descriptive Video) service that ruined my wife from watching (listening) to the Love Club movies. My wife is legally blind but has some vision, we use the DVS to help her navigate through the movies.
Here's what DVS is supposed to do:
Video description (sometimes called "audio description" or simply "description") makes television programs and movies accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Short verbal descriptions of action or key visual scenes in a program, such as the setting, costumes, and facial expressions, are provided to add context.
DVS is supposed to be an enhancement to the movie not take over the movie. This DVS service was louder than the talking in the movie, but also talked OVER the characters in the movie. Sometimes you get a group of people together and a couple of few are talking at the same time, then you don't comprehend what anyone is saying. Same can be said about DVS that takes over the movie.
I would have given the movies a 3 or 4 rating. Not Hallmark quality and rather juvenile but have to rate it as a 0 (oops only goes down to 1) because of the DVS.
Couldn't find the DVS service company to complain to them, if anyone finds out please let me know.
They tried to copy the Wedding Veil theme, which had great actors/actresses , which this didn't. Theme was bland and a lot of lying and terrible scripting.
Really disappointed in Hallmark movies in general the last couple of years. I always check on lead characters in the Hallmark movies to see if I want to watch it.
I want to go back to the pre 2019 moves.
I'm not a writer and this is only the 2nd time I'm written on IMDB but had to say something about the DVS service.
Here's what DVS is supposed to do:
Video description (sometimes called "audio description" or simply "description") makes television programs and movies accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Short verbal descriptions of action or key visual scenes in a program, such as the setting, costumes, and facial expressions, are provided to add context.
DVS is supposed to be an enhancement to the movie not take over the movie. This DVS service was louder than the talking in the movie, but also talked OVER the characters in the movie. Sometimes you get a group of people together and a couple of few are talking at the same time, then you don't comprehend what anyone is saying. Same can be said about DVS that takes over the movie.
I would have given the movies a 3 or 4 rating. Not Hallmark quality and rather juvenile but have to rate it as a 0 (oops only goes down to 1) because of the DVS.
Couldn't find the DVS service company to complain to them, if anyone finds out please let me know.
They tried to copy the Wedding Veil theme, which had great actors/actresses , which this didn't. Theme was bland and a lot of lying and terrible scripting.
Really disappointed in Hallmark movies in general the last couple of years. I always check on lead characters in the Hallmark movies to see if I want to watch it.
I want to go back to the pre 2019 moves.
I'm not a writer and this is only the 2nd time I'm written on IMDB but had to say something about the DVS service.
One of the worst.
jigjag8124 March 2023
I don't usually write reviews but this movie was such a disappointment and I reached my limit with Hallmark's diminishing quality. I don't expect award winning writing, my expectations are reasonable. I have come to the conclusion thought that Hallmark does not employ a script supervisor for any of their films. Endless continuity issues and adolescent writing skills frequently damage what could be entertaining stories. It's disrespectful to viewers. This movie was barely tolerable. I could list several questionable examples but I honestly don't want to give more energy to this movie than I already have. If they use the same writers on the next segment expect the same subpar quality. Hallmark can be charming and touching fare, a guilty pleasure. I wonder if there was a shift when several actors (who are not all missed) left for another channel. The movies Hallmark has put out since at least the holidays have been less than gripping. The mystery channel movies have been significantly more engaging and interesting than the standard HMC. Hallmark, please do better.
What are you? Twelve?
hagerman-8485931 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Worst of the worst. Watched the first movie in the series, Nicole's Pen Pal, and it leaves me wanting less instead of more. The title character behaves like junior high school kid looking for a date to the spring dance. She starts by saying yes to a marriage proposal when her body language clearly shows that the answer is 'no'. Next she regresses ten years in the past, cyber stalks her pen pal decides to go meet him and drags along 3 of her equally adolescent friends. She starts by concocting a lie as an excuse for her presence there. When one of her friends asks what she will do when he discovers the lie she responds "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it." This is one of the worst movies I've ever experienced. I wish I could give it 10 thumbs down. 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back. In short, Don't bother.
Insufferable
amandielion6 November 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I watch romcoms for a living. This is one of the worst I've ever seen.
Four awful, AWFUL women befriend each other and eggs each other on in lying and deception.
Nicole, the queen bee of obnoxiousness, stalks a self-loathing shell of a man, only to become furious at his lie ten years ago, when she herself has spent the entire story emotionally cheating on her soon-to-be husband.
The last time i felt this disgusted by a character was when I saw the tunnel scene in Gaspar Noé's Irreversible. The first movie, Nicole's Pen Pal, is probably what will make me change career. So thanks for that, I guess.
It's safe to say I won't be watching more of this series, and everyone involved in this project sjould be ashamed of themselves for making this garbage come to life.
Four awful, AWFUL women befriend each other and eggs each other on in lying and deception.
Nicole, the queen bee of obnoxiousness, stalks a self-loathing shell of a man, only to become furious at his lie ten years ago, when she herself has spent the entire story emotionally cheating on her soon-to-be husband.
The last time i felt this disgusted by a character was when I saw the tunnel scene in Gaspar Noé's Irreversible. The first movie, Nicole's Pen Pal, is probably what will make me change career. So thanks for that, I guess.
It's safe to say I won't be watching more of this series, and everyone involved in this project sjould be ashamed of themselves for making this garbage come to life.
Sydney's story was THE WORST!
dahotnessk5 July 2023
I couldn't finish Nicole's story, as it's a story told over and over. Not even Marcus Rosner could keep me interested in continuing to watch.
The one with the lady having to pick between her soon to be ex husband and the other guy, couldn't bother finishing watching it either. The friend group lacks energy and I could tell how the story would end, and I was right. So what was the point hallmark??
The last installment was ok. Actually watched it from start to finish and it was cute.
But Sydney, O M G! The man clearly doesn't want her, but she's seriously been sitting around for 10 years pining over him!? "I want him to see that I belong in his future!" Girl get some self esteem and new friends! Because the way they needs to talk some serious sense into her, yet they sit there and let her carry on with this desperate mentality!? Who writes this mess?? I had to turn it off and I don't care to see it again!
The one with the lady having to pick between her soon to be ex husband and the other guy, couldn't bother finishing watching it either. The friend group lacks energy and I could tell how the story would end, and I was right. So what was the point hallmark??
The last installment was ok. Actually watched it from start to finish and it was cute.
But Sydney, O M G! The man clearly doesn't want her, but she's seriously been sitting around for 10 years pining over him!? "I want him to see that I belong in his future!" Girl get some self esteem and new friends! Because the way they needs to talk some serious sense into her, yet they sit there and let her carry on with this desperate mentality!? Who writes this mess?? I had to turn it off and I don't care to see it again!
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