Love Stinks! Month continues its mission to dismantle the "happily ever after" this week on We Drink & We Watch Things with the 2009 indie-staple, 500 Days of Summer. This is the ultimate "not a love story" about a boy who meets a girl, and it’s an episode where our own perspectives are as non-linear as the film’s timeline. Grab a drink - maybe try Lemar's Sweet Disposition - and join us as we revisit the greeting-card-writer’s guide to heartbreak.

This week, we tackle the sharp divide in our viewing experiences, as Mackenzie grapples with Tom’s projection and entitlement, while Lemar navigates his own deep-seated nostalgia for this quintessential hipster time capsule. We examine Tom’s selective memory, looking at how he ignores every "we should just be friends" warning to chase a soulmate fantasy that only exi ...