As Alan Rickman once said, "it's Christmas, Theo... it is a time of good cheer, so bring me my retro spoiler special on Love Actually. OK, we're paraphrasing. But, because you demanded it after our little mini-detour on the regular pod the other week, as a very special Christmas treat, Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara, and Love Actually mega-fans James Dyer and Terri White (who has seen it, somehow, over 200 times) got together to have a good old natter about Richard Curtis' 2003 paean to love and the power of Christmas.
No Richard Curtis this time (and, if we're honest, ever, if he gets around to listening to this). It's just Team Empire chewing the fat over a very divisive Christmas movie. Two of our team love it. Two of them are on the ambivalent side to say the least. So a good time is guaranteed for all – there are terrible impressions (not all from Chris), dissection of the film's most troubling threads, and the most astonishing pronunciation of the word 'necklace' that you will ever hear.
Enjoy. Merry Christmas!
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