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Christmas She Wrote (2020, Terry Ingram)
12/25/21
#Christmas She Wrote#Hallmark#Dylan Neal#Danica McKellar#Countdown to Christmas#April Telek#Andrew Francis#Dan Payne#Karen Kuper#Ronald Patrick Thompson#Jerry Wasserman#Keith MacKechnie#Christmas#romance#romcom#TV movie#writers#newspaper#columnists#laid off#publishing#exes#gay
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Christmas She Wrote - December 6th on Hallmark Channel
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Well, today, I slapped together several playlists about my loser nerd OC’s and some of their relationships, and was reminded in stereo of just how painfully questionable my taste in music sometimes is. ………Yay?
#todd's playlist has been redacted because it is objectively the most questionable#and considering that annie has 'down with the sickness' on her playlist THAT REALLY SAYS A LOT about how questionable todd's playlist is#………also i ran out of space in the photoset because i'm not magicking together a way to post 19 screencaps right now#i'm tired and it's silly and even making it 18 by continuing to redact todd's does not make me more inclined to do the thing#ocs tag#that story with the mutants that i should find a working title for fml#antoinette chamberlain#dylan mckellar#josie quinn: empath disaster#josie x pete#julian richter#margot gabriel: chainsmoking disaster#pete arden: dramatic disaster#pete x seb#sebastian moncrieff: mutant disaster#seb x stephen#mine: playlist
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Christmas She Wrote - photo preview (2 of 3)
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When Kayleigh’s (McKellar) New York advice column, “Your Best Self,” is the casualty of belt-tightening by the paper right before Christmas, she heads home for the holidays to reconnect with her family and consider what’s next. Kayleigh’s quiet Christmas at home gets turned on end when Tripp (Neal), the new editor in chief responsible for the decision, suddenly shows up to woo her back and make her loyal readers happy. Kayleigh’s resolute in her decision to stay put so Tripp extends his visit to try and sway her. Claiming she’s already taken a new job with her local paper Kayleigh quickly gets to work on a daily column about how to be your best Christmas self. Over the next few days as Tripp attends the various holiday activities in town highlighted in the column, he begins to loosen up and enjoy himself and Kayleigh starts to see him in a different light. An attraction between them begins to develop but a past love of Kayleigh’s (Dan Payne, “MatchMaker Mysteries: A Fatal Romance”) resurfaces and could create a detour to their budding romance.
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Christmas She Wrote
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Christmas She Wrote
Each movie will be given a rating between 1 to 5 after initial viewing. 1 being a movie I will probably not watch past the first time. 5 being a new holiday favorite that I will be watching multiple times through out the season.
Let’s go! So it’s obvious that the Hallmark Channel deals with a not so secret formula. They re-use job positions, shooting locations and similar family/love backstories. For me I don’t mind a story that includes another CEO type character or party planner of some kind. I want it to stand out form the others we’ve seen. With this movie being about a writer, we’ve seen a travel writer get stuck with a father and daughter at a cabin for the holidays to a writer who goes to a winter resort to try extreme sports for her article to two authors on a book tour together. While they all have characters that are writers, those small things make them different. This plot wasn’t a huge standout to me. I will say I appreciated seeing Tripp as the boss do the chasing to get Kaleigh her back and making that the love interest vs being undercover as a writer or falling for someone in a town somewhere. That being said, I enjoyed Kaleigh and Tripp. I thought they were sweet together. I loved Kaleigh with with her sister and niece. Then of course I loved the friendship between Kaleigh and Stephen. Plus the whole thing of Stephen and Ben was super adorable as well. Overall the characters were good. I thought Danica and Dylan were great together. I enjoyed seeing them as leads. The kiss was good. I wouldn’t mind seeing them paired together again in the future as well. Plus it was nice seeing Danica reunite with Andrew and seeing them go from a crush relationship in one movie to best friends in this one. Overall the movie was good. Nothing spectacular but good.
Rating: 4/5 - While I wasn’t my favorites writers plot they’ve had, it’s hard to deny the charming actors and characters within this movie. It’s certainly not my favorite Danica movie but in no way was it my least favorite.
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3 times you were really proud of yourself and why. 3 ways you are similar to Scully. 3 favorite poems. (I love learning about you). <3
Hi there, curious anon. (FWIW, I am super boring).
Three times I was proud of myself:
Getting good exam results on my A Levels (way back last century), because I was the first one in my family to take them and even though I didn’t go to uni, the combination of results was good enough to have got me into several good places. I wasn’t a brainy, super student but I was tenacious and worked hard for my success.
Confronting my horrible neighbours about their out of control dog, even though I knew I would be abused for it. Confronting my general manager about my bully boss’ behaviour towards me and others, even though I knew it would risk my own wellbeing and position. I hate confrontation as a rule but these were important things to speak up about.
Finding the courage to overcome my fear of public speaking to be able to tutor, facilitate author talks and writers panels and give readings of my own work. I talk through the shaky voice and hand jitters and I get better every time I do it.
Three ways I’m similar to Scully:
I am a private, reserved person and only let you know what I’m feeling/thinking if I know/trust you.
I build walls to protect myself because, frankly, life is shit and we all need emotional armour to continue. Give me all that passive-aggressive I’m fine stuff and I will keep my head up high and get through.
I fancy the pants of one Fox William Mulder and wouldn’t mind waking up to that fine face and body every single morning.
Three favourite poems:
I am not a huge poetry fan but I do love:
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas because it’s simply beautiful.
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke (studied WW1 poetry for those A Levels!) because it sums up the futility of war and in that first person style, it really hits home.
I Love a Sunburnt Country by Dorothea McKellar because it’s so quintessentially Australian. It really sets your mind’s eye on the landscape here.
Great questions! Thank you.
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Is Hallmark Out of Ideas?

Or have they just found a formula that works? Pretty sure it’s the latter, but this year’s list of holiday flicks has more than just familiar faces. The plot lines themselves seem recycled not only from previous Hallmark movies, but holiday films from other networks as well.
I vowed last year that I wouldn’t watch or review Hallmark movies after the fiasco of the company bowing down to bigots and showing their anti-LGBTQ asses, but this year’s line up feels like an olive branch and I’m willing to give them a second chance. Am I optimistic that Hallmark has embraced the LGBTQ+ community and is targeting us with its stories? No. But I’m willing to see what changes they’ve made to take this step forward.
Same goes for the whiteness of their casts. From what I’ve seen so far, the films are more diverse with black leads and even a mixed race couple. Welcome to 1967, Hallmark. But these are changes they’ve made to reflect what the public has asked for, and I’m interested to see how it goes.
If you’re still set against Hallmark movies, Amazon Prime and Netflix both have great holiday flicks (I’ll be reviewing some here later this month!) that cater to a much wider audience.
Now, onto this year’s selection!
No way do I have time to watch and review all 40 of Hallmark’s offerings, but I’m hoping to get through 20 or so. This year they’ve given us 3 movies that focus on musicians, 2 with Lacey Chabert (ugh, pass), 2 with Holly Robinson Peete, 2 with Royalty, 2 with carousels (why?), and of course, the one with the gays.
A few classic leading ladies are back, such as Alison Sweeney and Candace Cameron Bure, and the rest are a decent mix of the usual suspects and new blood. Below I’ve listed only the flicks I intend to watch. I’m in Canadaland and don’t have the Hallmark channel, so my viewings depend on the films getting picked up and rebroadcast by another station. This means I may not have access to the entire list, but here we go!
The Christmas Ring, starring Nazneen Contractor and David AlpayA reporter (Contractor) takes her latest story to heart: While telling the love story behind an antique engagement ring, she turns to the ring owner's grandson to learn more about his family's history. This just sounds really sweet and a good slow burn.
A Timeless Christmas, starring Ryan Paevey and Erin CahillCharles (Paevey) travels from 1903 to 2020 to experience a futuristic Christmas, with the help of his charming tour guide (Cahill). Ryan Paevey and time travel? Yes, please!
A Nashville Christmas Carol, starring Jessy Schram, Wes Brown, Wynonna Judd, Sara Evans, RaeLynn, Kix Brooks, and Kimberly Williams-PaisleyJust as Vivienne (Schram) is about to accept a new job across the country, she's reminded that leaving everything she built isn't necessarily the best way to move forward. The Spirit of Christmas Past (Brooks) and the Spirit of Christmas Present (Williams-Paisley) show her just that. My secret country heart won't let me skip this one.
The Angel Tree, starring Jill Wagner and Lucas Bryant. A writer (Wagner) is determined to solve the town's biggest holiday mystery: Who is the person granting all of the wishes on the angel tree? In the process, she reconnects with someone from her childhood (Bryant) who helps her find the answer. I love Lucas Bryant even more than I love Ryan Paevey and Jill Wagner is great with mystery shows.
A Godwink Christmas: First Loves, Second Chances, starring Brooke D'Orsay and Sam Page. After returning home, Sam (Page) catches himself stuck in traffic next to his high school sweetheart, Margie (D'Orsay). This is a series and I haven’t see the first one, but I like a challenge.
The Christmas House, starring Robert Buckley, Jonathan Bennett, Ana Ayora, Treat Williams, Sharon Lawrence, and Brad Harder. Phylis (Lawrence) and Bill (Williams) hope that having their two sons at home over the holidays will help them find a way to grow stronger as a family. While there, both sons reveal that they are also struggling with problems of their own. Aka, the gay one. Thing I’ll be looking for: physical affection between the husbands. They’ve already chickened out and skipped the courting of the gays, so I expect them to act like a other married Hallmark couples, dammit! I badly want this film to be better than I expect it to be.
A Christmas Tree Grows in Colorado, starring Rochelle Aytes and Mark Taylor. Firefighter Kevin (Taylor) is the only thing standing in Erin's way of planning the best Christmas celebration ever. That means, it's up to her to win him over to get a celebration-worthy spruce tree from his property. Pretty sure Hallmark already made this movie in 2017. It's called Miss Christmas, starred Marc Blucas of Buffy fame, and was so boring I couldn’t finish it.
Good Morning Christmas!, starring Alison Sweeney and Marc Blucas. When two TV hosts are forced to cozy up to the competition over the holidays, they learn that they have more in common than they thought. Another familiar plot! This sounds very much like an ABC family movies called Broadcasting Christmas, with Melissa Joan Hart and Dean Cain (before his head was fully up his own ass). It was decent and who are we kidding, this has Alison Sweeney and I'm going to watch the shit out of it.
Christmas by Starlight, starring Kimberley Sustad and Paul Campbell. The days for The Starlight Café are numbered. That is, until Annie (Sustad) meets Williams (Campbell), who works for the development firm looking to demolish the restaurant. He proposes an out-of-the-box idea that forces Annie to consider how low she's willing to go to save her family's business. Hallmark leaning hard on what Hallmark does best. Depending of what she’s willing to do, this could be a very different movie!
Five Star Christmas, starring Bethany Joy Lenz and Victor Webster. Lisa (Lenz) is determined to secure a five-star rating for her dad's bed & breakfast. But when she meets (and falls in love with) a mysterious B&B guest, she's shocked to learn he's the travel critic behind the review. Another classic Hallmark trope, hopefully put to good use.
If I Only Had Christmas, starring Candace Cameron Bure and Warren Christie. A bright and cheery publicist (Bure) works with a scrooge-like business owner (Christie) and his team of The Wizards of Oz-inspired characters to help a good cause. My teeth hurt just reading the synopsis, but I'm still going to watch it.
Jingle Bell Bride, starring Julie Gonzalo and Ronnie Rowe Jr. When Jessica (Gonzalo) travels to a remote town in Alaska to track down a rare flower for her wedding client, she becomes smitten with the small town charm and one of its locals (Rowe Jr.) Julie Gonzalo is a gem and a mixed race leading couple is new for Hallmark and I’m going in with an open mind, but I hope they figure out that mixed race pairings don’t have to include white people.
One Royal Holiday, starring Laura Osnes, Aaron Tveit, Krystal Joy Brown, Victoria Clark, and Tom McGowan. Anna (Osnes) rescues a mother and son during a blizzard, only to learn that they are actually royalty — part of the Royal Family of Galwick, to be exact. She takes this opportunity to show the young prince (Tveit) how to celebrate Christmas the non-royal way. I want 'the non-royal way’ to include watching Die Hard in sweatpants and eating pie for breakfast, but I know it's going to be about decorating shit and snowball fights because this sounds a lot like another Hallmark movie called A Prince for Christmas.
Christmas She Wrote, starring Danica McKellar and Dylan Neal. Kayleigh (McKellar) is heartbroken to learn that her romance column is canceled right before the holidays. While home with her family, the person who canceled her column (Neal) shows up at her door to tie up loose ends. That title is a mighty ambitious, Hallmark, you sure you're up for it? Being laid off right before Christmas is something I have experience with, but I feel like Danica McKellar won’t be drinking her way into the New Year.
Cross Country Christmas, starring Rachael Leigh Cook and Greyson Holt. Lina (Cook) and Max (Holt) face the unexpected when a storm hits, potentially ruining their holiday plans. The two of them are forced to work together to figure out a way home — without taking it out on each other. I have watched this movie a hundred times and I’ll watch it a hundred more.
Christmas Comes Twice, starring Tamera Mowry-Housley and Michael Xavier. By the looks of it, Emily (Mowry-Housley) has it all: She's a well-respected newscaster, and loved by many. But in her eyes, she lost the thing that matters most — her first true love (Xavier). A ride on the carousel at the town's Christmas carnival brings her back in time, giving her a second chance at the love and life she deserves. Carousels seriously creep me out, but I’m a sucker for time travelling and do-overs.
A Christmas Carousel, starring Rachel Boston and Neal Bledsoe. Lila (Boston) partners up with the Prince of Marcadia (Bledsoe) to repair the Royal Family's carousel by Christmas. Goddammit, another carousel! But I can’t say no to Rachel Boston or Royal flicks.
Love, Lights, and Hanukkah!, starring Mia Kirshner, Ben Savage, and Marilu Henner. In the height of the holiday craziness, Christina gets back a DNA test and learns that she's actually Jewish. This leads her down a path of self-discovery, even finding romance along the way. I'm already cringing, but let's see if they learned anything from the train wreck Hannukkah flicks of 2019.
Christmas Tree Lane, starring Alicia Witt and Andrew Walker. Meg (Witt) is eager to save the Christmas Tree Lane shopping district from demolition, but things get complicated when she discovers that her new beau (Walker) is linked to the demolition-hungry developer. Alicia Witt is hit or miss, and the premise is very much like the subplot to A Very Merry Mix-Up, which also starred Witt. I doubt this will be as fun as that one was, though.
Deliver by Christmas, starring Alvina August and Eion Bailey. Molly (August) worries that she's falling in love with two different men: Josh (Bailey), a widower who recently moved to town, and one of her clients. But what happens when she discovers that they're actually the same guy? These are the quality tropes I’m here for!
A Glenbrooke Christmas, starring Autumn Reeser and Antonio Cupo. Jessica (Reeser) knows this may be her last normal Christmas, so she escapes to a small town for peace and quiet. Things heat up as soon as she meets the town's fireman (Cupo). Her last normal Christmas? Autumn Reeser? Fireman? Yes.
Swept Up by Christmas, starring Lindy Booth and Justin Bruening. An antique seller and cleaner can't agree on how prepare an over-the-top estate for the holiday season. They start at square one, uncovering the home's hidden treasures ... and secrets. Fingers crossed for literal skeletons in the closet!
Well, that’s it! If you have recommendations or movies you’d like me to review, drop me a message! Happy watching!
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Christmas She Wrote (Hallmark, 2020)
We take cash, credit, frankincense and myrrh!
Starring: Danica McKellar, Dylan Neal, Andrew Francis, April Telek
Plot Synopsis: When Kayleigh, a romance writer, has her column cancelled right before Christmas, she heads home to reconnect with her family. Kayleigh gets an unexpected visit from the man who cancelled her column who fights not only to bring her back to the publisher but also for her heart. (x)
In My Humble Opinion: Christmas She Wrote is a film that feels like it should have been made by Hallmark five years ago and not in 2020. In fact, I can’t believe this movie got greenlit in 2020.
The entire premise works out like this: Danica McKellar, popular columnist, gets fired right before the holidays and heads home to lick her wounds. A couple of days later the man who fired her has been told he has to rehire her. So he tries calling her a few times. She blocks him. He travels to her hometown. She tells him to back off. He tells her he’s not leaving until she comes back and checks into the nearby inn. They fall in love??????
At no point does anyone point out how creepy all of his actions are. In fact, the inn owner claims that Neal’s character only does things because he’s pure of heart. And I was just sitting there like, “No, let’s not encourage this behavior!”
Maybe this would have be fun five years ago but it’s 2020. We can do better.
That’s the most glaring way this film is dated, but even its tropes feels years too old already. Danica McKellar’s character has an ex-fiancé named Dan who adds nothing to the story but keeps getting thrown in their in order to create a love triangle we don’t need. As if we were still living in 2011, and a story could not be popular unless it involved a lady choosing between two mediocre dudes.
Honestly, even the way the movie tries to be progressive feels mired in tropes that have already been dismantled years ago. Danica McKellar has a Gay Best Friend played by Andrew Francis who mainly exists to be supportive and occasionally flirty with a dude. However, the film works very hard not to make him too gay which becomes incredibly awkward. A scene where his character asks out someone he knew from high school seems to be going to the ends of the Earth to avoid using the words “gay” or “bisexual” or “into men romantically”. The closing shot of a bunch of couples dancing makes sure to have the Best Friend and his love interest off to the side walking around and not touching each other because that would be too gay. It’s a very 2000s mindset of “you can be gay, but like only in a supportive of straight ladies way!” that doesn’t really work in this decade. Or well, it shouldn’t.
But nothing about Christmas She Wrote works in this decade. It is firmly a film that was made for another time yet somehow was filmed in this one.
Watch If: You are writing a metaphorical romance novel, if you require all your Uber drivers to have a phone charger or if your best romantic gesture is an open bar.
Skip If: You have never had to make small talk at your company’s Christmas party, if you have eaten dinner alone during the holidays or if your writing speed is slower than that of Santa’s sleigh.
Final Rating: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆
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I just watched Campfire Kiss and it wasn’t my favorite but I didn’t hate it. I didn’t think Danica McKellar was great in this movie. Her character also was just very annoying and uptight and over dramatic for me. I liked Paul Greene’s character. I liked both relationships between the parents and kids. Dylan Kingwell was also kind of cringy in my opinion. I liked the story and the setting. The chemistry between Steve and Dana was okay but Dana was ridiculous and annoying at the end. I liked the ending and the whole setting and activities they did at the camp. Overall it was okay. My thoughts during the movie:
Dana is kind of uptight.
Aw. Poor cute little awkward boy. He has a crush.
She’s so prissy and easily razzled.
Dana is such a scaredy cat.
Steve probably should’ve asked her permission but she definitely overreacted.
Oh my gosh! That was one of the cringiest things I have ever seen.
Dana’s being a little ridiculous. Robyn’s his ex-wife for a reason.
She needs to stop running away from Steve.
Arthur climbed the wall one time and he was acting like he knew it all.
Steve is a very good dad.
That kiss looked almost as awkward as their hug.
Dana just needs to relax and just let things happen for once.
Lacey and Arthur are cute friends.
Dana is being so stubborn.
I’m proud of Steve for putting himself out there.
Middle schoolers are so awkward.
That whole confession was kind of really awkward and cringy.
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Christmas She Wrote (2020)
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Christmas She Wrote - photo preview (3 of 3)
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