Hello, Dames Nationals! We hope you’re ready to (1) encounter the world’s most Instagrammable nursing home and (2) answer the all-important question: #TeamPeter or #TeamJohn? Discussion will kick off at 7:30 PM Eastern both here, amongst ourselves, and on Twitter using the hashtag #ToAllTheBoys2. We’re so excited to watch with you!
I do not mean to brag BUT. I think all the Lara Jean-ish skirts I listed in the Friday round-up are actually better than this partially pleated one that Lara Jean is really wearing in this sequence.
My dad is a widower and my mom is his second wife. I don't often see similar situations dealt with gracefully, so I so appreciate the Fakesgiving scene.
I thought the book dealt with that well, too, in kind of an echo of what folks are saying about Peter & John Ambrose each being "right" choices--their dad's ability to date is never portrayed as any kind of evidence that he didn't also love their mom dearly, or that everyone was expected to forget her.
And Mrs. Rothschild is completely fine hearing a story about Lara Jean and Kitty's mom. When I was little my brothers' grandparents would come to dinner sometimes. I called them grandma and grandpa too.
The thing is I really think this is Peter trying to be thoughtful; he wasn’t getting those singing valentines to Genevieve because that’s what he does as a boyfriend, but because that’s what Gen as a girlfriend would want. Lara Jean has a different attitude to public attention. Their reality is private!
The thing about #TeamPeter v #TeamJohn is that, unlike most other love triangles in popular discourse, there’s not really a wrong choice. Either one will be a kind and thoughtful but imperfect boyfriend to Lara Jean if invited to do so. They’re also both dreamy as hell.
I am appreciating that on Twitter there are very clearly two style-coveting factions emerging: Stormy's green outfit* people and Lara Jean's mustard yellow sweater vest** people.
*divine, does excellent things for her eyes, I could not pull off
**would buy and/or knit in several colours, given the opportunity
He’s trying SO HARD to handle this right and there’s just... no answer that would make her happy, because the problem is in her anxiety and no one else can solve that.
Man Valentine’s Day in high school was so weird and intense. I hated it. A boy once sent me poetry written out on the cards of the carnations he’d bought me asking me to prom. Anonymously. I almost died of anxiety. (I went to prom, it was fine, I wouldn’t do it over.)
The singing was more of a college thing, at least for me, but there were definitely THINGS of this nature happening. (This was more of a Mean Girls candy cane scenario, but with carnations.)
I do not mean to brag BUT. I think all the Lara Jean-ish skirts I listed in the Friday round-up are actually better than this partially pleated one that Lara Jean is really wearing in this sequence.
Got my popcorn, got my Spindrift, just hit play!
My favorite scene in the movie, happening now!
It’s visually stunning!
Hiiiii friendos!
My dad is a widower and my mom is his second wife. I don't often see similar situations dealt with gracefully, so I so appreciate the Fakesgiving scene.
I thought the book dealt with that well, too, in kind of an echo of what folks are saying about Peter & John Ambrose each being "right" choices--their dad's ability to date is never portrayed as any kind of evidence that he didn't also love their mom dearly, or that everyone was expected to forget her.
And Mrs. Rothschild is completely fine hearing a story about Lara Jean and Kitty's mom. When I was little my brothers' grandparents would come to dinner sometimes. I called them grandma and grandpa too.
The thing is I really think this is Peter trying to be thoughtful; he wasn’t getting those singing valentines to Genevieve because that’s what he does as a boyfriend, but because that’s what Gen as a girlfriend would want. Lara Jean has a different attitude to public attention. Their reality is private!
If they were still a fake couple, he would have sent them to LJ ...
Yeah and that’s part of what makes the dynamic so interesting!
The thing about #TeamPeter v #TeamJohn is that, unlike most other love triangles in popular discourse, there’s not really a wrong choice. Either one will be a kind and thoughtful but imperfect boyfriend to Lara Jean if invited to do so. They’re also both dreamy as hell.
That's something I super, super appreciate about this series.
I love that the series isn't all ONE TRUE LOVE ONLY but more "many loves are possible in the course of a lifetime"
Like if John Ambrose had responded first, he would have been the boyfriend.
“I was obsessed with him in like the fifth grade. Well, him and Michael B Jordan in Creed” wow teens are... much younger than me, somehow
Time is a construct but w o wwwww
SHOW HAVEN A PICTURE OF HIM.
YEAH KITTY
HE SHOWED UP FOR HER. HE LISTENED AND REMEMBERED AND CARED AND HE CAME TO DRIVE HER HOME. IM SOLD.
I love that Gen is here in this slouchy sweatshirt, messy bun combo to show that she’s also vulnerable.
And that she and Lara Jean are wearing the same thing almost, but in opposing colors.
And LJ had a Bun of Sadness too!
I know Stormy is brassy and messy but there is some real wisdom to “hearts being broken is part of life”
#pensivebake HE HANGS ON EVERY WORD SHE SAYS
Seriously, if someone wrote me a letter that said "I like reading with you. You're pretty" NOW, it would work for me.
My teen & I were just like "those are lines that WORK"
i love how Lara Jean's OB/GYN dad is way more permissive than the OB/GYN dad in 10 Things I Hate About You. Progress!!
IT IS AMAZING.
That dress is a confection.
The word “confection” was made for dresses like this.
Stormy got the message about the movie’s color scheme.
Imagine breaking up with someone with their NAME on your FACE
If an alien had to find out what teen girls like from Reading YA lit, that alien would become a concert pianisy
Oh gosh this retroactively explains a few things about my adolescent bookworm years, trying to "impress" my "friends" with my (middling) piano skills.
OHHHH KATE. OHHHH NOOOOOO.
I am appreciating that on Twitter there are very clearly two style-coveting factions emerging: Stormy's green outfit* people and Lara Jean's mustard yellow sweater vest** people.
*divine, does excellent things for her eyes, I could not pull off
**would buy and/or knit in several colours, given the opportunity
I am bifashionable and bisexual
Would wear both
“I need a break from the contortions of being someone’s girlfriend” is some real Adult Wife energy; as an anxious girl I really ID with Lara Jean
Stormy and her plotline are about the only thing I remember clearly from the book; hello, friend! Excellent dress!
That said, I would absolutely be a knitting club, games-circle-communist resident if we were neighbours.
Same, but I'd definitely do both with booze in hand, swanning about in gilded brocade
Isn't she John Ambrose's grandmother in the books?
Like, ex-step-grandmother, I think
Yes, I believe it is a late-book twist when they get (very trope-y spoiler) at the nursing home? Or at least that's how it lives in my memory.
Yes, like she keeps trying to set Lara Jean up with her grandson and Lara Jean isn’t having it and then it turns out it’s HIM
This movie’s color palette is so turquoise and I enjoy it
A small part of me wishes that LJ got to do the big romantic gesture this time.
This is a SMALL romantic gesture, which is part of why I like it so much
Trina is A DELIGHT.
I'm hoping for more Trina in #3
Yes!
I’m such a Kitty. “SHE CUT DOWN HER HEDGES. THAT IS A METAPHOR.”
"i love hollyhocks!" - also a coded message
I'm an old lady who can remember watching John Corbett on Northern Exposure.
Same same saaaaaame a boat of dreams since 1990!
Chris in The Morning!
Took the last bit of ice cream from my husband citing "I'm an athlete"
Kitty knows what Peter prefers.
KITTY is firmly #TeamPeter
He’s trying SO HARD to handle this right and there’s just... no answer that would make her happy, because the problem is in her anxiety and no one else can solve that.
Lara Jean stoke that “people will line up for you” from the lesbians in Grey’s Anatomy season five, I will NOT be fooled
She’s no better than her plagiarizing boyfriend
I’m glad she finds out in private from stormy about the poem
Chris sent Trevor a Backstreet Boys song? Or should we assume it was another girl?
I hope it was Chris!
I'm only half the music snob that Chris is and I loathe that song.
As evidenced by my decade-long love of the movie Waitress, I love a good baking montage.
JAM has had a real glow-up
I would love to hire the production design team from this movie for my house.
sameee
The yellow accessories tie them together and I’m interested to see how that changes as the Plot happens.
Man I forgot how good LJ’s room is
First film immediately started. And now we're at the part where Margot crawls into LJ's bed with her shoes on so I'm stopping.
I love all of this, but am reminded that teen volunteers are the worst!
I would have been stormy telling her to go, but there’s just two of them!
There’s so much pink and red in the shot when JAM is there. As opposed to cool blues and greens when LJ is on her own and has her thoughts collected.
Man Valentine’s Day in high school was so weird and intense. I hated it. A boy once sent me poetry written out on the cards of the carnations he’d bought me asking me to prom. Anonymously. I almost died of anxiety. (I went to prom, it was fine, I wouldn’t do it over.)
OMG I was homeschooled for high school so I just. This? Happens? My Capricorn would dieee
The singing was more of a college thing, at least for me, but there were definitely THINGS of this nature happening. (This was more of a Mean Girls candy cane scenario, but with carnations.)
Nooooooooo I never saw that in college either! I really need to start keeping an eye out for this lmao
Please write your letter on scrap paper, you are ruining your beautiful stationary!
Her lipstick looks incredible, considering.
This imaginary Peter is jealous and possessive in a way real Peter is not
Oh great point. Maybe like she's absorbed these ideas of love where your boyfriend is supposed to be jealous and possessive?
As a former MUN debater who married my Asian high school sweetheart, I'm #TeamJohn. My wife is #TeamPeter.
I adore Chris. Her eye makeup doesn't work.
I wish I had worn more bad but fun eye makeup when I was a teen ://
I stuck with a lot of purple eyeshadow.
Same & same
It's just not flattering, but teens wear bad eye makeup. It is a fact.
I used to wear blue mascara. It was a real Time.
OMG that yellow dress. OMG his beautiful smile
That. Was. Wonderful. But too short!
I clearly need to reread the book because I have NO MEMORY of how it ended? But I thought they got snowed in? Brains are weird.