Hallmark's "Love in Store" QUIZ!!

Starring:  Alexandra Breckenridge and Robert Buckley

Released:  2020

Summary:  Rival home shopping hosts with different selling styles are forced together as they compete for a promotion, but they find themselves having on-air chemistry.

Image:  Crown Media, United States LLC

Kids Like Watching Home Shopping Networks?

In this movie, Terrie Carpenter reveals being a TV host on SHC's home shopping show is fulfilling her lifelong dream.  Being a child in a divorced family, she always looked up to Sharon St. Clair, the woman in charge of SHC, because she was a woman who had it all together when Terrie's life was a mess.  Terrie always watched the show with her grandma and dreamed of one day having her own segment on the show.

Do kids like home shopping channels?

I liked watching shows with my granny too as a kid--like Three's Company or The Andy Griffith Show, but I would leave when it was time for her to watch Rockford Files or Matlock.  (Yes, I am dating myself).  Still, had she turned on QVC, I would have bolted like I was shot from a cannon.  

I find it hard to believe a child would find a home shopping channel anything less than the most boring program on Earth. Any kid who is willing to sit around watching something that dull should be assigned chores or sent outside to play.

Your One Wild And Precious Life

The line "your one wild and precious life" is the catchphrase David is known for on-air, and it's repeated throughout the entire movie.

This mantra is a call to action.  It's not so much about accomplishing some enormous feat as it is living life to the fullest, since it's so short.

It was originally penned by Mary Oliver in a poem entitled, The Summer Day.  I will be honest--I hate most poetry.  On rare occasion, I'll stumble across a good one, but I find most of it meaningless, like someone couldn't think of a novel to write, so they slapped a few lines on paper and called it an accomplished piece.  Whatever.

The Summer Day introduces us to someone who has been strolling through the fields, trying to make sense of life.  The speaker admits to being blessed, but says she doesn't know exactly what a prayer is or who made the world.  Her solution to the brevity of life is to make the most of our time.

A pretty soulless poem.  The author analyzes a grasshopper's actions and draws parallels to her own life to find meaning.  Pretty sad when you turn to a grasshopper for significance. These musings make me feel sorry for her because she clearly does not know God, and without Him, life is pretty meaningless and temporal.

 

Break-Up By Text

Nothing scares away boyfriends faster than a girl talking marriage.

Noah has been dating Terrie for two years and initially says he's still not ready to take the next step?  How much time does a man need?

Have you ever been in Terrie's shoes?  Dating a guy forever with no long-term commitment?  It happens a lot.  Many guys aren't ready to put a woman first.  It seems their priority list includes career, hanging with the guys, working out at the gym.  In other words, their top three favorite people are Me, Myself, and I.   If your man is getting the milk for free, he is even less motivated to buy the cow--not that you're a cow.

After a year, the future of your relationship should start coming into focus.  One of the biggest mistakes women make is hanging onto a relationship that is going nowhere.  Some guys are skilled at stringing you along to keep your hope alive so you stick with them, even though they offer you no promises.

Before you know it, life passes you by.  If you're single, don't let anyone rob you of the best years of your life.  

After Terrie presses Noah about their future, he breaks up with her by text.  That's what she gets for all the time and love she's invested in him--he doesn't even show her the decency or courtesy of dropping the bomb in person.          

In my mid-twenties, before I married my husband, I dated a guy I thought was "The One."  I ignored all the red flashing alarm lights warning me to jump ship.  He often alluded to us getting married, and then one day, after a year of dating and shadow promises, I received a letter in the mail telling me it was over.  A letter in the mail!  I didn't have texting then, or else he would have probably opted for that, just like Noah.  As if that wasn't bad enough, I learned less than two months later, he married the girl he had dated right before me.  Double whammy!  I digress.

When Noah finally realizes he let a good one get away, he tries to win Terrie back by proposing to her while she's on the air selling diamond engagement rings, but it's easy not to feel to sorry for him.  He had his chance.  

They say you sometimes don't know what you had until it's gone.  However, the right guy should know.  If you have to break up with someone to get their attention, or if they only want you back because they are jealous you're with someone else,  it's all about their ego and not about you at all.

 

Escape Room

Did you like the escape room scene in the movie?  It was a welcome deviation from the usual activities couples do together in standard Hallmark plots.

Do you remember how Terrie figured out the puzzles so quickly?

She said, The trick is figuring out what is stopping you and work backwards.

That line served as a great metaphor for David in the movie.

Words Tell, Emotions Sell

Words tell, emotions sell is one way David's selling style differs from Terrie.  She prefers to research each product to educate viewers so they can make informed choices.  David prefers to make selling fun and less informative.

Books have been written on how to tap into people's emotions for selling purposes--words that create urgency, words that make something "exclusive," words that evoke anger or fear, or words that offer reassurance.  Marketers are trained on the right power words to use to get the desired response.

When we want facts, it's easy to Google the boring details. When you're watching something on TV, you enjoy engaging emotionally.  

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