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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
exhilarant famous landscape painting
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Rebellious sienna preventive strike
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I still watch Film
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Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
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but yet you know nothing of it
Carmine Fluffy Deer Antler
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Wild ivory sanctuary psychic
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
Nubile Chad French Chef
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True Detective season one
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Olive chapel
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Best answer so far
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Garnet piazza
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Olive chapel
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
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Amber associate crotch
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Boyish Disturbing Bawdyhouse
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
jet drunken hell quadroon
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Rebellious sienna preventive strike
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social network.
Sooty hairraiser tanning salon party of the first part
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Olive chapel
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
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Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Olive chapel
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Nigger Feet
Rebellious sienna preventive strike
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"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
Garnet piazza
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Olive chapel
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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Olive chapel
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Olive chapel
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Copper out-of-control newt
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
lake hairy legs gas station
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
Nubile Chad French Chef
  05/28/25
Good one
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
Exciting church building
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Olive chapel
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walnut abode
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
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Road Trip
Self-absorbed diverse antidepressant drug corner
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this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
supple bearded church
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Olive chapel
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Fishy contagious goyim volcanic crater
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
house-broken institution water buffalo
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Im a Curator
Fishy contagious goyim volcanic crater
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Three Kings
Amber associate crotch
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1999
Fishy contagious goyim volcanic crater
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Wonderful Brass Orchestra Pit Circlehead
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Black Hawk Down
Electric temple alpha
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this
racy filthy foreskin
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Wild ivory sanctuary psychic
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
Vermilion spot place of business
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
racy filthy foreskin
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Self-absorbed diverse antidepressant drug corner
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tyvmft
racy filthy foreskin
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Self-centered incel
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Harry Potter
Hyperventilating charismatic potus meetinghouse
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
nudist trust fund affirmative action
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Good one
Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version
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house-broken institution water buffalo
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Nighttime Titillating Headpube Sweet Tailpipe
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: exhilarant famous landscape painting

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Rebellious sienna preventive strike

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Wild ivory sanctuary psychic

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Garnet piazza



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Carmine Fluffy Deer Antler

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Wild ivory sanctuary psychic

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: Nubile Chad French Chef

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: maize partner

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: Olive chapel



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: racy filthy foreskin



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac Iridescent Indian Lodge Nibblets



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Garnet piazza

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Olive chapel



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Amber associate crotch



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Boyish Disturbing Bawdyhouse

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: jet drunken hell quadroon

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Rebellious sienna preventive strike

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Sooty hairraiser tanning salon party of the first part

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: Primrose Gaped Menage Background Story

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: shaky kitty cat cuck



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Olive chapel



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Self-absorbed diverse antidepressant drug corner

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: Olive chapel

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Rebellious sienna preventive strike

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: twisted french university

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Garnet piazza

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: Olive chapel



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966422)



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Garnet piazza



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Olive chapel



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: shaky kitty cat cuck



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: Olive chapel



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Copper out-of-control newt

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: lake hairy legs gas station

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: Nubile Chad French Chef

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Exciting church building

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: Olive chapel



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: walnut abode



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Self-absorbed diverse antidepressant drug corner

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: supple bearded church

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: Olive chapel



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Fishy contagious goyim volcanic crater

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: house-broken institution water buffalo

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Fishy contagious goyim volcanic crater

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Amber associate crotch

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Fishy contagious goyim volcanic crater

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Wonderful Brass Orchestra Pit Circlehead

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Electric temple alpha

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: racy filthy foreskin

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Wild ivory sanctuary psychic

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: Vermilion spot place of business

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2)#48969260)



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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: racy filthy foreskin

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Self-absorbed diverse antidepressant drug corner

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: racy filthy foreskin

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Self-centered incel

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: Hyperventilating charismatic potus meetinghouse

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: nudist trust fund affirmative action

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: Sable Dashing Candlestick Maker New Version

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: house-broken institution water buffalo



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Nighttime Titillating Headpube Sweet Tailpipe

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: Hyperventilating charismatic potus meetinghouse

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Nighttime Titillating Headpube Sweet Tailpipe



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