Candy Cane Candidate

So Lifetime isn't about women anymore.

It's about the agenda. IN this case it's about politics and someone running for office and having gay siblings and co-workers and, this completely turned me off.

I tried to watch this. Lifetime actually had good X-Mas movies a few years ago, but this year, they decided women no longer mattered.

Much like EVERY other Hollyweird station and movie, they essentially made it about the L. G. B. TABCs.

Women no longer matter to Lifetime.

This was bad...just move on from Lifetime.

Opponents in an election is not the most common Christmas movie premise. Other than that, this movie covers a multitude of other common tropes. Even the potential job far away is part of the usual formula. The two leads frequently rehash their high school days. The conflict and climax are a bit unusual. What no broken pipes?

I didn't like Julia for most of the movie. She softens a bit in the second half, but in the first half she has a huge chip on her shoulder and seems to be constantly picking a fight, not just with Parker. Parker on the other hand is almost totally positive. Jacky Lai and Jake Epstein have chemistry mostly thanks to Epstein. They occasionally have some nice banter.

The movie is pretty heavy with liberal political themes. There is a secondary romance with two high school boys who kiss. Julia is constantly pushing green themes. I didn't notice any racial issues other than the fact Julia is Asian.

Some issues of relatively low significance: What's with several slow-mo's of people walking down stairs? And then there are the messages that someone with poor eyes, or a small screen can't read.

Whenever I'm watching these types of movies, I willingly accept a suspension of disbelief, because it's a movie, not a documentary. At the same time, I expect some level of plausibility. Julia has just lost an election for Boston City Council (appears to have been a special election) and returns to her hometown on the other side of the state to think about her future (run again or work for the green company, both worthy choices). Nevertheless, I have no idea how Julia can consider a run for mayor of her hometown, considering that she's a non-resident who may or may not have filed any papers in an off-camera moment. I'm also thinking that there's no way an outgoing mayor can arbitrarily change an election date to suit her personal schedule - don't they have a city charter that covers things like special elections and what happens if the mayor dies or resigns? Election irregularities like this could put them all in jail. These problems could have been resolved by some handwaving on part of the writers. For example, having the city solicitor say that he/she has checked the charter and that special elections have some flexibility around residency and election requirements would preserve that suspension of disbelief.

I really enjoy some of the hall mark Christmas movies

And after watching a couple of these life Christmas things it made me realize one of the things i like about hall mark stuff is they don't go over the top pushing a political agenda

This script to this movie is so blah that it doesn't even begin to disguise the political over tones

Considering that Asians have started being brutally physically attacked in this country in some areas by the very platform this movie is scaffolding, it makes it doubly disgusting.

Watching Lifetime Holiday movies is like watching stereotyped interviews of beauty pageants contestants. After the tenth one running on the "World Peace" platform, you realize they all are empty-headed morons.

What happened to real wit, humor, and feelings? And, by the way, what happened to Christmas values and spirit?