A/One Snowy Christmas (2021) -
After about half an hour, I started to wonder if the "Contractor" Forest was ever going to start work. Played by Damon Runyan, he was a nice chap, but clearly hiding something and the flat cap made him look quite old.
Whereas I wasn't bothered about Kelly (Elysia Rotaru) at all.
I did like Chris (Darrell Faria) though, he was a pleasant character, which the moody and otherwise unwelcoming inn needed, because Sheila the Mother (Mary Long) was quite loopy and the Sister, Grace (Farrah Aviva) changed her attitude really quickly. It was a shame that she went off on one actually, because she had been a relatively good character until that point.
But, Oh My God!! Where did they find that terrible child??? Georgie Vaughn as Clare was just awful. I would almost say that her performance was child abuse, but in the way that it used a child to cause abuse like some sort of noise and absolute cringe torture.
Overall the story wasn't bad. It had obviously been done before and it was quite grey and dreary, but it was watchable. It was just a shame that it had so many little flaws.
For instance the dialogue was all very forced and quite inaccurate in some ways, like Forest had never done any home repairs before and was making it up on the spot. The way he worshipped Kelly and her family was a bit too much as well.
And Surely somebody on the props team could have made a REAL snowman with all that snow available. It's so obvious when they use that weird felt and looks ridiculous.
There were also a lot of romantic cliches and I personally wouldn't have wanted her if she got arsey at me without even listening to me anyway. Kelly really was a stroppy cow.
Towards the end it got very sickly sweet to the point that I thought I might get tummy ache or my teeth might rot from my gums. Yay! Redemption for everyone!!!! (Insert rolling side eyes emoji), but I might have found that endearing on another day.
I won't say "Don't watch it", but if you've got something else that you're looking forward to, watch that first.
5.49/10.
