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"Favorite song?" "Brown-Eyed Girl."

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Author heroines getting their best writing advice from the men who love them.

Little Women (1949) Anne of Avonlea (1987) Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016) Up Here (2023)

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Chad is Dick's son, he's protected no matter what. Which leaves you and me.

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For someone soft and sensitive, this world is less than fair.

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You're not the boy who didn't belong in the schoolyard world. You don't get pushed around anymore, and you never will.

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Four days until Up Here premieres on Hulu!

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Let's talk about Can I Ever Know You? (Finale) for a second. First of all, the lyric change is brilliant. You've been hearing this song at the beginning of every episode for a while now, and you know how it goes, so when Lindsay says that first "I can never know you," you're expecting Miguel to echo it back like he always does, but instead he flips the script and replies with "Can I ever know you?" This comes right on the heels of that conversation with his dad where his dad tells him he needs to be able to let people in instead of living his whole life locked in his head. The fact that Miguel makes that first move is an incredibly poignant way of showing the growth he's gone through.

But also, even though this is the finale version and not the theme song version, the introduction of lyrics you've never heard before gives it even more of a theme-song-like vibe. It's reminiscent of old school sitcom themes, where they would tell you in the opening what to expect from the show you're about to watch ("We drive each other crazy, we defend and we attack"), but it also reminds me of the way sometimes the lyrics would change during the end credits (like Gilligan's Island, Happy Days, The Facts of Life, etc.) either because there was more to the song, or because they wanted to leave you with some kind of parting words before you turned off your TV, while also persuading you to tune in for the next episode ("but something stronger always seems to keep us coming back.") Then Lindsay and Miguel turn to each other to sing the rest, and that's when they officially go out of theme-song-mode and into musical-love-duet mode.

AND THEN, Lindsay's inner voices interrupt, and Miguel turns toward them because he can see and hear them now, too. He's read her self-insert story, so he knows what kind of insecurities and fears are following her around. And when his inner voices show up as well, Lindsay knows it right away, because he's finally ready to share parts of himself that he kept guarded before, and he already has, to an extent, by illustrating her story and adding his own character to it. And eventually they're able to tune all those voices out together, because they have each other's support; they just had to be willing to be honest enough and vulnerable enough with each other to be able to reach that point.

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Joan and Lindsay, 1983 || Jorge and Miguel, 1999

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We finally got a promo!!! And my gawd. 😳

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Two weeks until Up Here premieres on Hulu!

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By New Year's, I'll be fine.

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My next countdown post is queued for tomorrow, but here's a bonus since we just got new promo pics via Up Here's official Instagram.

8 days until Up Here premieres on Hulu!

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Y'all, I just noticed the ominous reprise of Smart Smart Smart Smart Baby playing in the background when Miguel's boss asks him if he took down the firewall, and I'm dying. 😂