#hallmark Christmas

[asexual--bard]

Hallmark Christmas movie but the high-powered prosecution attorney lead ends up stuck on a holiday trip to Gävle, where a local Swedish man teaches her to love the solstice and midwinter fire rituals and revel in doing Crime and they burn down the Yule Goat together.

[crowleysgirl56]

I don’t know about you but I desperately need Good Omens Hallmark figurines for Christmas. How there was basically NO season 2 merchandising is beyond me.

Come on Hallmark give me the goods! (Also give me the Doctor Who goods as well. It sucks that I keep seeing them advertised on my socials and yet they’re NEVER available in Australia!)

ALSO where were the pop vinyls! Come on, Crowley in a million different outfits would have sold like hotcakes. Bildad the Shuite pop vinyl! Hello! Who was in charge of this, because you definitely dropped the ball. Like a lead balloon.

[copperbadge]

i just saw a, uh, somewhat remarkable post on Reductress's instagram referencing hallmark christmas movies and thought you might have a chuckle (or maybe a scandalized giggle)-- www.instagram.com/p/ClgoKq8rHl0/

Honestly Anon I was prepared to be mad about this because the Hallmark discourse is like 60-40 enraging-satisfying but this came down squarely in the Satisfying:

[ID: A stock image of a handsome man in a baker's outfit and food-handling gloves, holding a baguette and smiling at the camera, a rack of cooling trays next to him. The caption reads "I'm a hot smalltown baker and I simply don't have enough cum in me to fuck all you corporate lawyers this season." It is watermarked with the creator website, Reductress.]

[cutelittlepurplesouls]

I`ll be home for Christmas by punkshort

NSFW

Having just caught your fiancé cheating on you, you decide to come back home from the big city to Austin for the month of December to try to figure out your next step. You had no idea you would be getting more than you bargained for with the handsome single dad who built your parents' house.

[gwainesworld]

"Eoin Macken is one of the best leading men I’ve seen in a movie like this, exuding flirtatious charm and romantic heat in his performance without ever putting the moves on Rose. I don’t know how he does it – some of it could be the accent – but as Sean, he manages to amp up the sex appeal of this movie in a way heretofore unseen in most other Hallmark films." (Liz Kocan/MSN - Decider on Eoin Macken's performance in 'Tis The Season To Be Irish - 9/11/2024)

[ghostsofwintersnight]

[cupcakefoggy]

Looking for some Christmas-y prompts? Love Hallmark movies and want to get in on the fluffy, melodramatic, trope-y action this holiday season? Well guess what, me too...so I'm posting my #HallmarkHoliday prompts EARLY this year! ^_^

[lifeofloon]

Dorothy just came home to join the rest of the Golden Girls. 😍

The series is now complete after 4 years.

[instantcaramel]

We have to get so drunk @quinbi

[mankisses-blog]

[copperbadge]

Mr Badge, as an (unwilling?) connoisseur of Hallmark Christmas movies, do you have any recommendations for particularly good or enjoyable ones?

Ah, see, the problem is they're so much of a muchness, and I never pay attention to titles, so I could be like "well there's the one about the cookies" which, there's actually like 15 about cookies, and I have no idea which is the one I saw, and also because they're made in about two weeks by like, four guys with a binder and a camera, often the information about them online is incomplete.

I do have a few, but I also want to caveat that Hallmark Christmas movies are rarely something you just sit down and watch. Usually they're something you put on in the background while doing other things, or you sit and "watch" them while surfing on your phone or doing handcrafts or something. Most of them are extremely difficult to focus your entire attention upon. :D

If you can catch the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries "Happy And Friends Yule Log", it is far and away the finest yule log out there. The focus will be, for a while, on a fireplace with a merry fire burning, flanked by gifts and Christmas trees...then it will cut to a Christmas ornament for a minute, and when it cuts back, kittens and puppies (and the occasional potbelly pig) will be cavorting in front of it. I believe all the animals in the film are rescues, and Happy The Dog and Happy The Cat, who are the "hosts", are adorable. (You can see an earlier year's here.)

Also if you're looking for a bit of a very gentle romcom without the Christmas angle, basically any Hallmark movie featuring or produced by Kavan Smith is A+ by Hallmark standards, especially since as he's gotten older he's generally cast women his age to play opposite him, and they don't really worry too much about airbrushing out the odd wrinkle or grey hair. He really loves Hallmark movies and he has really good taste in scripts.

Finally, if you're looking for ideas for movies to watch, listen to the podcast It's Christmastown -- they review and analyze Hallmark movies, so you can listen to the podcast, get their view on it, and then decide whether you want to watch it. Jeb and Dave are really funny, too, and super nice to talk to.

Anyway, I have a few titles below the cut...

Christmas At Pemberley Manor is a fun one especially if you like Jane Austen because it has nothing to do with Jane Austen. It's just a modern-day AU with about the skill level of a tenth grader just trying out fanfic for the first time. It is, however, still pretty charming, and has the closest thing I have ever seen to an actual villain in a hallmark movie. Also the Darcy character is fun to watch because he's so clearly a better-written character trapped in a Hallmark film. I believe it's got at least one sequel, though I haven't seen it. (I've heard the other Hallmark Austen AU nonsense, Unleashing Mr. Darcy and its sequels, are pretty good, but I haven't seen them.)

A Shoe Addict's Christmas was memorable at first mainly for the title, but if you can put up with Candace Cameron Bure's....bureness (I would normally recommend avoiding the ones she's in because she generally insists on a high level of evangelism) it's actually a really charming story and Jean Smart is fucking hilarious in it. :D And I think...the thing about A Shoe Addict's Christmas is that like many Hallmark movies, under the fluff there is something interesting about the way these movies view womens' lives. You can make all the jokes you want about Big City Woman Coming Home To Get Negged By A Man but that's actually pretty rare. Most Hallmark Christmas movies are about a woman who is unhappy with her life and is challenged -- yes, by the love interest generally, but that's how romances work -- to examine her choices and make ones that are better for her. Which is very much what this movie is about -- a woman reliving her life through memories of the shoes she wore and loved, and wondering what would have happened if she'd made different choices.

There's one about a bakery getting bought out that I thought featured a man as the baker and a woman as the Agent Of The CEO but I can't find that one so I think I must have mixed it up; in any case Christmas In Love is a movie about a kringle bakery that I recall as being pretty enjoyable.

This is a Lifetime movie and I'm going to caveat that also I am Not A Jew, but as a student of Judaism I actually really loved Mistletoe & Menorahs, which is about a toy executive who gets mistaken for being Jewish and has to learn Jewish custom and tradition in order to make a big pitch to one of the executives. It was written by a Jewish man and clearly some of the artistic staff were also Jewish, and I think there's a depth to it that I really found delightful. The example I always point to is that her Jewish love interest, at one point, is waking up from a nap and goes to the door wrapped in a blanket to let her in, and the blanket is fringed and draped to look (obviously deliberately) like a prayer shawl.

Netflix also has one, or had it, IDK if it's still available, called A Christmas Prince, and it was heavily influential in how I designed Fete For A King. I thought an extremely nice touch was that the prince's younger sister is visibly disabled and as far as I can recall it's not a huge deal ever, there's no magical healing or even a desire to be different, she's just...disabled and present as a whole human. (I'd need to rewatch so like, don't necessarily take my word for it, but I recall really liking the sister both as a person and as disabled rep.)

Netflix also has a whole series of Christmas movies starting with The Princess Switch which are about a princess and a baker who look startlingly alike, and both The Princess Switch and Princess Switch 2: Switched Again are fascinating. I can't really say whether or not they're good, but they're so fucking bonkers it almost doesn't matter. They're the best kind of zany because they're not playing it for ironic laughs, they really commit to the bit.

Lastly, I have mixed feelings about the Signed Sealed Delivered For Christmas movie (which is a holiday movie based on a pre-existing series, but you don't have to have seen the series to understand it) because it's got some weird problematic evangelical stuff in it, but also the Signed Sealed Delivered films/series -- about a crew of people who work in the dead letter office of the USPS -- are kind of charming. They have a really compelling setup and feature a number of characters that very obviously code as autistic, who work in jobs where their skills are appreciated and get nice romances with pretty people. And the romantic hero drinks YooHoo out of a wineglass which you really have to see to understand the weird hilarity of.

Hallmark also has an app that if you download it will put every new Hallmark Christmas premiere movie on your google calendar (ask me how I know: my mother did this and it put every Hallmark film coming out that year on our family calendar) and they usually release between 20 and 40, so sometimes it's good for a laugh just to sit down and watch one and giggle at the production values or weird writing.

Anyway, I hope you find some enjoyable ones to watch this holiday season! If you see any you like drop a comment or a reblog so other people who are interested in the bizarre cultural phenomenon can watch too :D

[fabledenigma]

In the Source Link, you will find a gif pack of Casey Deidrick in 2021 Christmas tv movie - A Very Merry Bridesmaid.

Casey is the main male role in the movie - Drew Vaughn. Boy next door and best friend of Paul.

Source - FabledEnigma

[gwainesworld]

'Tis The Season To Be Irish (Sunday 10 November 2024 at 8/7c on Hallmark Channel). Christmas movie starring Eoin Macken and Fiona Gubelmann: "Rose, a nomadic house flipper, heads to Ireland to renovate and sell a cottage, but her plans are upended when she meets Sean, a local realtor determined to preserve his town’s heritage. As she works on the cottage and embraces Irish Christmas traditions, Rose finds herself falling for Sean and questioning her fear of settling down. Together, they must confront their pasts and discover if love is worth taking root." (more at Hallmark Channel)

[ghostsofwintersnight]

I wanna know something

Reblogs appreciated for larger sample size, and if you want to leave your favorites in the tags go ahead!

And yes I know it’s early but hallmark airs them earlier every year so it’s fine

[cupcakefoggy]

If anyone liked my Spooktober prompts, I'm back with the Christmas Edition! Create some holiday fluff -- or some indulgent melodrama -- with the Hallmark Holiday prompts.

[andantenewsgraziesoso]

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