Underrated part of Hallmark/Lifetime Christmas movies is how people make comfortable upper middle class livings doing things that hardly anyone can survive doing in real life. - ThreadSky

craigcalcaterra.bsky.social • 89 days ago

Underrated part of Hallmark/Lifetime Christmas movies is how people make comfortable upper middle class livings doing things that hardly anyone can survive doing in real life.

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akameatfork.bsky.social•89 days ago

and, they overestimate the amount of hot cocoa stands in random towns

(don't get me started on the color of the red wine offered)

craigcalcaterra.bsky.social•89 days ago

Yes, I appreciate the irony of a blogger who actually makes a living blogging saying this.

jgoldstrass.bsky.social•89 days ago

Your life really would make a fine choice for leading man in a Hallmark movie.

craigcalcaterra.bsky.social•89 days ago

Lolol

aalange.bsky.social•89 days ago

Excited to watch “Calcaterra Christmas” coming Dec. 19th to Hallmark Network

itstony.bsky.social•89 days ago

Beat me to it!

hugetinymistake.bsky.social•89 days ago

An overworked magazine editor meets a small town hardware store clerk. Together, they make 867,000 dollars

goreckis.co•89 days ago

I think I saw that episode of House Hunters.

Also the one with the butterfly farmer and the rock pile collector whose budget was $3 million. That was relatable.

hyounpark.bsky.social•89 days ago

This is part of the fantasy; being able to give up responsibilities to an average dude who is attentive and self sufficient.

Not even joking, a deep social analysis of Hallmark movies says so much about where we are as a culture right now.

alexisg.bsky.social•87 days ago

NYC-based Tv sitcoms where 20-something coffee shop workers live in huge centrally located apartments always make me laugh (but not for the reasons they intended)

paulflower.bsky.social•89 days ago

They're like all the people in the upper peninsula, living off their ties to some distant, ancient monarchy.

tarheelguy.bsky.social•89 days ago

So like the entire cast of Friends.

josephpbelli.bsky.social•89 days ago

Also, how many involve royalty from some vaguely British nation that isn’t the UK.

I recently saw Danica McKellar play a plucky American girl who won the heart of a prince despite the consternation of his handlers in not one but two different films.

Can film writers self-plagiarize?

expatpgh.bsky.social•89 days ago

A handsome furniture maker selling coffee tables to the locals wearing a couple of grand of Patagonia gear.

bballhist.bsky.social•89 days ago

the houses that people owning struggling bakeries live in!

patricklindsey.bsky.social•89 days ago

Working as a safety inspector at a nuclear power plant with just a high school diploma.

chadsupp.bsky.social•89 days ago

These must be the same characters who eventually find themselves on some form of house hunting “reality” show.

solzyatthemovies.com•89 days ago

Tonight's Chanukah movie (aside from getting Chicago's Jewish community so wrong) features a lawyer who becomes a bartender very quickly after getting laid off...

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