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When we started this journey, we knew one thing for certain: we love Sam Claflin in a rom com. But every rule has an exception, and even the great Claf himself must be humbled. So, this week, we bring you Love Wedding Repeat— a movie that truly pushes the boundaries of “romantic comedy” by being neither romantic nor funny. Well, actually, it was pretty funny, though not in all the ways it intended to be. This movie also holds a special place in our hearts as it beats our record for “highest number of dick jokes in an hour.” We hope you like this episode more than we liked this movie. 

CW: drug abuse, drugging, cheating, war, kidnapping, cancer, death, alcohol abuse, Taliban, vomit

Isaac Newton once said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” While we cannot know for sure, modern philosophers and hosts of Where Do I Know Them From are fairly certain this phrase was meant to predict the relationship between Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and the girlboss feminism movies that came before it. One such movie, Charlie’s Angels (2019) stars Sam Claflin, and thusly must be covered in this week’s episode. Listen this week as we unpack whether a movie about women has an inherent feminist agenda, and as we discuss Sam Claflin’s uncanny ability to play various manifestations of an oppressive patriarchy on the straight white male. 

CW: car chase, murder, gun violence, Nazism, crushing, sexism

Now, gentle listener, we know what you have been thinking: “Sam Claflin is soft boy, play soft roles, when will he try grizzled?” This week, listener. This week. Finally in his 2019 film The Corrupted, Sam Claflin plays a grizzled ex-con trying to get his life back on track. Can Sam play working class? How many British TV actors can you fit in one mediocre movie? And are there special therapists just for action movie survivors? All this and more answered this week, on Where Do I Know Them From. 

CW: crime, drugs, murder, suicide, gun violence, school shooting, car chase, corruption, dead animals, health violations

This week, we cover Sam Claflin’s 2018 film, The Nightingale. A break from our typical silliness, this is probably our most sincere episode yet, and we strongly recommend everyone give it a watch (after viewing the content warnings of course). Don’t worry though, we still manage to give you a 3 minute tangent on birds and fangirlish gushing about the sound design and cinematography. Jennifer Kent you have our whole heart, even though you made us really hate Sam for the duration of the film. 

CW: rape, murder, stabbing, gun violence, death of infant, colonization, genocide, homophobia, death, gore

End of summer leaving you feeling unmoored? Remember, it could be worse! This week, Alexandra and Elizabeth discuss Sam Claflin’s 2018 survival film, Adrift. Float along with us as we desperately cling to any symbolism and color theory we can find in this vast, vast ocean of unlikeable characters. This week we will finally answer the question at the forefront of everyone’s mind: What can Sam Claflin possibly do to make Elizabeth finally find him unattractive?

Who doesn't love a war movie? This week's episode covers Sam Claflin's 2017 film Journey's End. Based on a play of the same name, this movie covers a week in the life of several British officers on the front lines of WWI. While this movie is soul-crushingly depressing, the filmmakers knew exactly the right recipe to keep us crawling back: naive Asa Butterfield, wise Paul Bettany, and an alcoholic Sam Clalfin. Listen to us unpack this movie and ask the hard hitting questions: Are all war movies about class? How do you make a plot compelling when the audience knows the ending is inevitable? And most importantly, what does it take to prepare a three course meal underground? We've got it all for you this week, on Where Do I Know Them From?

CW: war, death, alcoholism, homosexuality

This one is for all my girlies who love a dark period piece. This week's episode cover's Sam Claflin's 2017 film, My Cousin Rachel. Never did we intend for movies about being in love with your cousin to become a theme on this podcast, and yet, here we are. This film, starring Rachel Weiss, is an adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1951 novel of the same name. As we all know, women are dangerous and this film very importantly warns us that we may all be driven mad by our love for Rachel Weiss. While critics love this film, audiences disagreed, provoking us to ask "are these characters and plot underdeveloped on purpose for mystery, or is this just bad writing?" Support women's wrongs.

CW: death, murder, incest, sex, poison, falling to death, domestic abuse, animal death

This week we enter Sam Claflin's war movie era with his 2016 film Their Finest. While the internet feels definitively that this is not, in fact, Claflin's finest film, we sure had a good time discussing it. Covering a propaganda office during World War II, this period piece has one of the more complicated plots we have ever covered. It leaves you questioning everything: the nature of truth, the role of propaganda in war, and most importantly how someone could ever possibly lack on-screen chemistry with Sam Claflin. Never in all our two seasons have we ever been so starkly upset at the ending of a film. Come on this week's rollercoaster with us as we take a look at how the stories we tell affect and reflect the ones we live.

CW: war, death, cheating, bombing, sex

Fresh off our episode for Love, Rosie we have another movie where Sam Claflin falls in love with a small quirky dark hair girl with great eyebrows. What can we say, the man knows what he's good at. This week's episode covers Me Before You, Claflin's 2016 film co-starring Emilia Clarke star. While not our funniest episode (hard to make a joke about physician-assisted suicide), we do some serious digging in to this film, it's characters and their motives. After a long dry-spell we finally have some more color theory to discuss! Plus, we discuss why Sam Claflin might have considered this role his most physically demanding.

CW: suicide, physician-assisted suicide, depression, trauma, sexual assault, motor vehicle crash, cheating, death, disability, paralysis, suicidal ideation

It's a question as old as time: "can men and women really be friends?" For those of us still shackled to the gender binary, this question has yet to be answered, but this week Alexandra and Elizabeth will try. That's right this week we are covering Sam Claflin's 2014 movie, Love, Rosie, perhaps the most iconic besties to lovers flick since When Harry Met Sally. We will laugh, we will cry, we will try and figure out if it's ok to ask your bestie if you should wear a bra with that dress. This movie is one of our personal favorites and we hope you love this episode as much as we love this movie!

CW: sex, alcohol abuse, cheating, domestic abuse