Chinggay and Patty speed through eight movies in under a week and weed through the naughty ones so you don’t have to watch them. Fast forward through holiday mediocrity and more couples in trouble and hit pause for a surprise makeout scene. We see Patty’s most beloved tropes from across the Pond demolished, and Chinggay gives in to Love, Actually-inspired schmaltz. The clear winners of the week are Hallmark’s go big or go home fare: a zany neighbourhood comedy and time-traveling Bethany Joy Lenz with 1940s Kristoffer Polaha in “A Biltmore Christmas.”
Our Christmas Mural (Alex Paxton-Beesley, Dan Jeannot)
Catch Me If You Claus (Italia Ricci, Luke Macfarlane)
A Season for Family (Brendan Penny, Stacey Farber, Benjamin Jacobson, Azriel Dalman)
Christmas in Notting Hill (Sarah Ramos, William Moseley)
Letters to Santa (Katie Leclerc, Rafael de la Fuente)
Holiday Road (Sara Canning, Warren Christie)
Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up (Lacey Chabert, Wes Brown, Stephen Tobolowsky, Melissa Peterman, Ellen Travolta, Seth Morris, Jennifer Aspen)
A Biltmore Christmas (Bethany Joy Lenz, Kristoffer Polaha, Jonathan Frakes, Robert Picardo)
Thanks to Pietro Lazatin for our music and Paola Lazatin for our cover art
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