Pick Me movies and TV

You can also watch Luckiest Girl Alive. It’s based on the book by Jessica Knoll which encapsulated female trauma and rage without villainizing it. It’s one of the rare non Pick Me stories on Netflix with a strong female message. I loved it and Mila Kunis did a great job. The book made a really strong impression on me two years ago and I’m glad they did it justice.

But trigger warning though. Depicts some scenes of assault but I fast forwarded through those as I knew when to expect it.

Thanks for the warning!

You could switch over to Apple+ and watch Bad Sisters. 😉

Lol, I watched it too🤣!

I love romance movies that are about yummy food and "finding yourself" lol... but I agree this movie does was not it.

Instead, I recommend:

-Eat Pray Love

-Tortilla Soup

-Under the Tuscan Sun (Loved this one!)

-No Reservations

-The Waitress

I watched it too and it was all just pick me behavior. She seems so desperate and thirsty

DISCLAIMER: My secret guilty pleasure is watching cheesy holiday romance flicks (use of "cheesy" redundant, lol!) and mocking myself for it because, cheesy or not, the movies are just SO BAD. Bad writing. Bad acting. Bad directing. Even bad wardrobe and make up sometimes! I watch, like a car wreck, unable to look away, telling myself, "This is soooo stupid. I can't watch this anymore." Then, I might turn it off, or I might keep watching, or I might resume watching later because, 'tis the season! (Thanks a lot, Santa Netflix!) Yesterday, I watched TWO, including the aforementioned Love Hard. (What does that title even have to do with the plot/theme? That love is hard? It's not even really about actual love, except at the very end--and that love is EASY, happens overnight! Plus, that title could be for ANY rom-com, super generic.) Friday night at dinner, my friend was telling me how she'd just seen that and, ultimately, liked it. Just hearing her talk about it grossed me out. I said, "Let me guess, she ends up falling for the dork because he's such a great guy!" Then, I went on to rant how we NEVER see it in reverse. No guy is falling for a dumpy. dorky girl because she's just so nice and spunky and sincere, and whatever. She's physically unattractive (+ socially awkward), but, yeah, she wins his heart! NOPE. Ain't nobody ever trying to push GUYS that way. So, I told my dining companion that I already hated it. "I hate that so much," I said, "that she ends up liking him--the dork!" (+LYING, MANIPULATIVE CATFISH DORK) But, she convinced me to give it a try. I admit there were a few mild LOL moments sprinkled throughout (mainly when they showed the creepy loser profiles on Flirt Alert), and I actually did think the ending was sweet, how they copied the "Love, Actually" scene (which, admittedly, is also a bullshit theme, which I actually resented---confessing love to your BFF's new bride?! And, she finds it endearing and rewards you with a Christmas kiss?! Just, GROSS. Vulture moves). BUUUUT, ultimately, my verdict remains the same, The Dork DOES NOT get the Hot Girl. NO. NAY. NEVER. (As the drunk Irish sing!) I feel the same as what I expressed to my friend during dinner, "They should just become really good friends. That would be cool. Nothing more." I only half-watched, anyway, didn't pay rapt attention. I mean, these flicks are hardly compelling cinema, LOL. Merry Christmas, Ya'll ! Ho-ho-ho, ya' hoes!

Most anime shows that center around high school or young adults are super pick me.

I have not seen this but I might watch it for a laugh 🤣

This all reminds me of the FDS Classic, The Princess and the Bum episode (podcast)! Love Hard, in particular. How a guy is a manipulative liar, getting the girl by deceptive means, ensnaring her into his web for his own selfish motives....Then, when she discovers his Real Deal, she's mad for, like, 5 mins., but then falls in love with him because he learns to chop mushrooms (Princess and the Frog) or does some other "bar-is-in-the-asscheeks-of-Hades" basic shit. (LOL, Thank you, Savannah, for this FANTASTIC phrase.) In this case (Love Hard), he turns out to be a gifted candlemaker (what you've always dreamed of, ladies--call Mom and tell her you've found him!) who makes weird-ass scents like "Smelly Old Grandpa" and "Creepy Grease Monkey", etc. (my names, not his, but not far-off, either.)

PS Last Night's Cheesy Holiday Flick #2: "Holiday With A View" starring Absolutely Nobody I've Ever Heard Of/Know (except Vivica A. Fox, in a minor role, +someone I eventually recognized as Bobby Ewing from Dallas--most of you girls weren't born, alas). This movie perhaps takes the (fruit)cake of the bad holiday flicks so far this season--and the bar is in the Highest Heavens! It's HARD to be the WORST holiday romance flick. What makes it so supremely bad? It's just SOOOO BORING. Basically NOTHING happens the whole time. I swear to Gawd, there were so many times I said to myself, "It's like the writers left the page blank...there's just NOTHING there." I mean, like, the actors had nothing to say or do, as if they weren't given lines and weren't good at improv, either. They're just THERE, standing, sitting, creating nothingness, just awkwardly on-camera. It was actually kind of weird, tbh. I know these scripts are formulaic and written in a couple of weeks, but, even still, this was the WORST of the misfit toys. (Classic Rudolph reference.) And, that's saying a LOT, having just watched the Castle movie with Brooke Sheilds and Cary Elwes, which also dragged with blank spaces where action and dialogue should have been. (Elvis has left the building and the writers have left the script.) But, if you like 70s supermodels (grotesquely exploited as children, pimped by Mommy--Chris Jenner wasn't the first MOMager) producing their own holiday flicks so they can star in them at the age of almost 60 (queen shit), CRINGE-making fake Scotch accents (in a movie that takes place in "Scotland" i.e. LOTS of awful fake accents since they're all "Scottish"), or REALLY bad makeup that actually makes the actors look WORSE (Brooke, I just can't with those eyelashes), I highly recommend it! Also, for you Princess Bride fans out there (I'm not among you; never seen it/wanted to), Cary Elwes is not looking bad at all for a man almost 6 decades old. Props. (But, yes, his foundation makeup is so glow-y and shimmering, it has flavors of the Cullens Clan, not the Clan MacCleod! LOLLOLOLOL!