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

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Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
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  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Soul-stirring gas station
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I still watch Film
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Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
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but yet you know nothing of it
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
cerebral orchestra pit
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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True Detective season one
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Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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Milky Dysfunction Yarmulke
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Gay ceo house
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
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How to train your dragon
Soul-stirring gas station
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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flickering lodge
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
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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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Nigger Feet
Soul-stirring gas station
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"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
up-to-no-good stirring circlehead range
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
irradiated well-lubricated bawdyhouse dopamine
  05/28/25
Good one
Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
Charismatic Stage
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flickering lodge
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
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Road Trip
Cheese-eating alcoholic sweet tailpipe
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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flickering lodge
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
Cracking faggotry trust fund
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
Histrionic metal step-uncle's house persian
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Im a Curator
Cracking faggotry trust fund
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Three Kings
Milky Dysfunction Yarmulke
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1999
Cracking faggotry trust fund
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Balding thriller theatre
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Black Hawk Down
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this
chest-beating pocket flask parlor
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
cerebral orchestra pit
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
nudist address
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
chest-beating pocket flask parlor
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Cheese-eating alcoholic sweet tailpipe
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tyvmft
chest-beating pocket flask parlor
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Excitant Church Building
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Harry Potter
Awkward Principal's Office
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
opaque liquid oxygen hall
  06/03/25
Good one
Talented maize puppy school cafeteria
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Histrionic metal step-uncle's house persian
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Amethyst Aphrodisiac Native Gunner
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Spectacular temple international law enforcement agency

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

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Soul-stirring gas station

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: cerebral orchestra pit

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: racy puce becky friendly grandma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: bearded seedy dilemma coffee pot

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: cerebral orchestra pit

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: irradiated well-lubricated bawdyhouse dopamine

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Mischievous walnut den

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: flickering lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: chest-beating pocket flask parlor



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: effete filthy goyim



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: racy puce becky friendly grandma

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: flickering lodge



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Milky Dysfunction Yarmulke



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Gay ceo house

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: drab floppy institution

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

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: Soul-stirring gas station

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Pea-brained fear-inspiring piazza

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: chartreuse offensive hell candlestick maker

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Curious garnet locus



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: flickering lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Cheese-eating alcoholic sweet tailpipe

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

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: flickering lodge

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Soul-stirring gas station

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Impressive sneaky criminal office

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: racy puce becky friendly grandma

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: flickering lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

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.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: racy puce becky friendly grandma



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: flickering lodge



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Curious garnet locus



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: flickering lodge



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: wild exhilarant nursing home

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: up-to-no-good stirring circlehead range

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

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.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

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: irradiated well-lubricated bawdyhouse dopamine

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: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Charismatic Stage

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: flickering lodge



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: Electric partner toaster



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

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

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Cheese-eating alcoholic sweet tailpipe

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Azure area stock car

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: flickering lodge



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: Cracking faggotry trust fund

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: Histrionic metal step-uncle's house persian

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: Cracking faggotry trust fund

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Milky Dysfunction Yarmulke

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: Cracking faggotry trust fund

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Balding thriller theatre

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: free-loading 180 foreskin

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: chest-beating pocket flask parlor

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: cerebral orchestra pit

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: nudist address

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

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

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: chest-beating pocket flask parlor

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: Cheese-eating alcoholic sweet tailpipe

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: chest-beating pocket flask parlor

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Excitant Church Building

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: Awkward Principal's Office

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: opaque liquid oxygen hall

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: Talented maize puppy school cafeteria

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Histrionic metal step-uncle's house persian



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Amethyst Aphrodisiac Native Gunner

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: Awkward Principal's Office

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Amethyst Aphrodisiac Native Gunner



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