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It was one of the last Hallmark movies I saw before they changed. Brendan Penny is one of my favorite Christmas candy actors. The movie is very creative, sweet, candid, and you get attached to the characters because they know how to show it, LESS IS MORE. Even my ex-husband who doesn't like this genre has seen it more than once. The story is well written and resolves itself and not by the strength of the script. My favorite part, is when they talk about the case he had as a journalist and he tells her about his situation. There are things that seem true to us, that in the end are lies, we have to be careful with what we read and hear. I like how she uses that case she had, and that led her to write little Christmas stories with morals to make up for it, and I liked that parallelism of the protagonists of the Film Noir of the 40's, that instead of killing their sorrows in alcohol, bitterness or contempt, Greg, our anti-hero hero, writes about real Christmas stories to raise the Spirit in humans. I loved it!

Buddha said, "If one gets caught up in an idea, believing it to be 'True', one loses the opportunity to know the Truth".

We tend to have prejudices about places, people or beliefs. They dissipate when we approach to know their point of view, there to corroborate it or not. I have an open mind, I am a believer, but not a Christian, and I must say that Christian productions become very good and interesting over time, and this series proves it. It makes me sad when people label, locking themselves to the idea of listening to them, and with that they lose a valuable perspective that can enrich it, which is sorely lacking in our society. We need PERSPECTIVE. The Truth is the Truth, it just is and it takes different shapes and sizes to tell you what you need to know. A 10 for Pureflix.

It is neither good nor bad, just wasted. I liked the beginning, those chocolate scenes foreshadowed something interesting, maybe it was my fault, I set expectations. The movie has so many themes that do not fit. In my opinion, the qualities of the boyfriend macho, dies, she only suffers at the funeral. There could have been an interesting story, of her getting to know herself, starting her healing process, analyzing what connected her to such a man. The film could have concentrated on her career as a chef and stopped in the world of chocolate. Pure chocolate is healing. It could have concentrated on the school, the desserts and she could have focused on chocolate, its healing power, its elaboration, the kitchen is an inexhaustible source of so many uses and she could have instructed us as an audience. As soon as they show the school, she could have taken time to restore herself, to have time alone to heal, to get to know herself and to build her future relationship with Alex. But they put a spirit, of a macho man who pursues her, she like a madwoman desperately looking for a relationship. The problem of modern society: "it confuses spiritual needs with love needs", and we have a lot of failed relationships. If you can't be alone and be happy with yourself first, how can we expect others to do it? Modern movies, promote everything that no must be done: 1- Bad education, rudeness as power 2- Promiscuity as liberation, when it is slavery and a lie, this has more than 50% of responsibility for female unhappiness.

The movie is resolved by the script, not by the story.