Yahoo Lifestyle The Best & Battiest Moments From This Past Weekend’s Holiday Movies
Once again it’s the season to be merry and watch every new holiday movie as it debuts! Each Monday, we’ll take a look back at the previous weekend’s premieres to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with a new list of superlatives.
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Least Gratuitous Shirtless Scene
BET+’s Style Me for Christmas gets points for stylist Tiffany (Raven Goodwin) pointing out to R&B singer Tedee (Mario) that he needs her after he cooked breakfast in overalls sans shirt. But Netflix’s Hot Frosty, our top pick of the weekend, wins for having walking snowman Jack (Dustin Milligan) repair a roof topless. Obviously, he would’ve worked up too much of a sweat otherwise. Also, he had to literally stop traffic so influential Jane (Lauren Holly) would reverse her vehicle into a snowbank and need Jack’s assistance (“Do you want me to get behind you and push?”), thus thrusting the plot forward.
Best Tears
This is why you hire Lacey Chabert to play a widow who falls for a fugitive snowman in Hot Frosty and is reminded that love, however fleeting, is worth the risk.
Oldest Cliché to Rear Its Head
As we’ve stated before, if Hallmark movies have taught us one thing, it’s that you never stop eavesdropping before you hear the end of the conversation! In Hallmark Channel’s Jingle Bell Run, Avery (Ashley Williams) only heard the producer of The Great Holiday Dash reality show suggest that retired hockey star Wes (Andrew W. Walker) amp up his flirting with Avery for the finale. She left before Wes responded that he never should’ve agreed to the ratings scheme in the first place and that what he’s feeling for Avery is real.
Biggest Reach
In Hallmark Channel’s Confessions of a Christmas Letter, matriarch Settie Rose (Angela Kinsey) was so desperate to pen a Wall of Fame-worthy Christmas letter that she decided to use her emergency fund to hire her favorite young author, flown in from Puerto Rico (!), to spend two weeks with the family and be her ghost writer. We could have gotten to the worthwhile ending — Settie winning with her own honest appreciation of her imperfect, loving family — just as easily if she’d hired a local struggling novelist from a freelance job site.
Debate of the Week
The Rose family wore their matching onesies for two weeks in Confessions of a Christmas Letter. Don’t most people just wear their matching pajamas on Christmas Eve? Discuss.
Most Educational Film
I will admit that until the pub trivia in Lifetime’s Christmas at Plumhill Manor, I did not realize that all the gifts in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” are birds. But I wasn’t expecting the network’s Holiday in Happy Hollow to make me Google why Danes throw cinnamon on single 25-year-olds (a real custom adapted for the annual Happy Hollow Spice Toss) and the Mexican tradition of carving radishes on Noche de Rábanos.
Too Risqué for Hallmark
We are 99% sure you’ll never catch an ex show up at the door in Santa-themed lingerie on Hallmark Channel, as Nicole (Sincerely Ward) did for Tedee in Style Me for Christmas, our runner-up pick of the weekend. We are 100% certain you’ll never see something as hilariously naughty as what Ray’ah (Pretty Vee) did to Tedee’s sofa. “This is the perfect couch to bump and grind on,” she told her boss, Tiffany, before they gave it a test run in multiple positions.
Best Morning After
We didn’t get to see the immediate aftermath of Tedee and Tiffany’s mistletoe makeout in Style Me for Christmas, but Christmas at Plumhill Manor gave us cute kitchen banter between architect-turned-inheritor of said English manor Margot (Maria Menounos) and plum-cider brewer Thomas (Kyle Pryor), handsome son of the groundskeeper. “You couldn’t wait just five more minutes to get breakfast in bed?” he asked her, wearing last night’s clothing. Cheers to Lifetime for acknowledging that these two adults would’ve spent the night together. (LOL to Thomas thinking Margot would’ve eaten that full English breakfast.)
Inconsequential Act That Annoyed Us the Most
Margot not changing out of her ivory satin suit before drinking red wine on her couch in Christmas at Plumhill Manor made us anxious. See also: Beau (Nathan Witte) placing cookies into an oven that either hadn’t been preheated or was just used at a different temperature in Hallmark+’s Unwrapping Christmas: Mia’s Prince.
Most Dangerous Event
In Great American Family’s A Christmas Less Traveled, Desi (Candace Cameron Bure) and Greyson (Eric Johnson) paused their poignant road trip to Maine to partake in Cinema in the Snow — a drive-in movie theater in a forest in December. Even if they could remain cozy enough under their single blanket for the length of a film, it wasn’t safe for them to sleep in that old red truck overnight!
Most Valuable Carol
“Silent Night” had a moment, being crooned a cappella by Tedee to win back Tiffany in Style Me for Christmas and as a blended family sing-along with Indian instruments in Hallmark Channel’s Christmas with the Singhs.
Sexiest Xmas Sweater
We’ve been seeing a lot of cardigans this holiday movie season. The one Kyle (Kevin McGarry) wore from day (coaching youth hockey) to night (strolling town) in Hallmark Mystery’s A Reason for the Season is among our favorites.
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