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Week 8 of (possibly) 10 can you believe it?! I still haven’t fully decided if I’m taking the final week of Christmas off from Lifetime yet, but that’s not the point! We had another full week of movies from 7 Lifetime, 3 Hallmark, 1 Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, 2 GAC Family, and 2 UPtv to get through. What are you waiting for?! Santa is nearly ready to visit and we have a lot to talk about!

Guys, I think my brain is about to explode from all the Christmas movies. Will I complete this task? At this point I don’t know! Week 7 brought it all: really horrible Lifetime movies, a perfect Hallmark movie, and a whole new channel of movies to catch up on. First thoughts: skip all of lifetime this week but DO NOT MISS A Very Merry Bridesmaid of Hallmark. It’s the new gold standard.

Nobody panic, but we’re officially into the final month of 2021. The November wrap-up is short because I literally cannot fit any more on my plate than I already have! Trust me, I’m judging myself and my neglected TBR list. Even though there’s individual wrap-ups on all the movies, I give you the must watch from November and somehow I did manage to read four books this month, three of them Christmas related (obviously). Sarah Morganthaler is going to be a new favorite of mine based on how much I love The Tourist Attraction and it’s sequel Mistletoe and Mr. Right. Tessa Bailey wrote a spicy Christmas book this year called Window Shopping, and I finished out the month with Georgia Toffolo’s Meet Me in London - she had me with Christmas in London. Now, I’m back to Christmas movie watching and thinking about the upcoming 2022 vision board!

It’s Thanksgiving Week! That means one thing: the Christmas movies are really heating up now. We had thirteen new movies to watch over the holiday weekend and some were great (Unexpected Christmas and Merry Liddle Christmas Baby), some were okay (Making Spirits Bright), and some just missed the mark (A Castle for Christmas and Christmas CEO). All I really want to know is: is there a spy going around the networks? Because a few of these nearly identical storylines this year are a *little* sus. Catch the whole rundown now and deck those halls!

Only 4 weeks left on Christmas movies and week 5 was a huge dumpster fire. I’ve dubbed this week the week of no chemistry pairs and Notebook plagiarized scenes. In the name of Hallmark, Santa Claus, and snow globe promises, PLEASE let week 6 be better than this! It’s all here on this week’s podcast from the third Princess Switch on Netflix, to Hallmark, Lifetime, and UPTV. Remember to download the FrndlyTV app for all your watching needs, now including Lifetime!

We’re nearly halfway through the 2021 Christmas movie season (in weeks) and what a grab bag it was this week. Hallmark delivered again with four more solid movies, some that I liked more than others, but then there was UpTV and Lifetime. Lifetime kicked of Its a Wonderful Lifetime with two knockoff Hallmark movies and I’m not impressed. UpTV had another painfully long and boring Saturday, but brought it on Sunday. It’s just a shame they failed to put their lead actress Kayla Wallace’s name anywhere. Overall, it’s 5/8 on movies for the week. As I always say, I watch them so you don’t have to!

After learning shocking news this week, I felt like this podcast was a must. Being your resident Christmas Queen, I feel like it’s my duty to make sure you watch all the best Christmas movies every year. But there’s too many kinds of Christmas movies to just have one small list. Oh no, there’s sub-genres here! From your classics (seriously if you haven’t watched White Christmas it’s on Netflix and we can’t speak until you do), to childhood favorites, to today’s pop culture staples, to even yes, the Hallmark best-of, here’s your list of the movies I think are a yearly must watch. Because if you don’t have sub-genre categories for Christmas movies do you even love Christmas?? Listen now and then get to watching!

Netflix and UpTV have joined the chat you guys! That’s right! This week on binge or cringe there are eight movies up for grabs to talk about. Honestly, I don’t know how I’m going to survive watching them all but I’m going to try! Hallmark dominated the week with four knockouts; Gingerbread Miracle, Next Stop, Christmas, Debbie Macomber’s a Mrs. Miracle Christmas, and A Christmas Treasure. They’re all worth bingeing. Netflix had one good one in Love Hard - “say it’s the Mormons” will live rent free in my mind now, and one flop in Father Christmas Is Back. And then there’s UpTV - the Big Lots version of Hallmark. I don’t know what was worse, the plot lines of Christmas with a Prince: The Royal Baby and A Royal Christmas Engagement, or the wardrobe and prop departments - who let the plastic hangers on set?! Grab your fuzzy socks and jingle bells, we have a lot to talk about!

Guys, do I have a fun podcast for YOU! This week I found “Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance” at a local bookstore and the way I snatched that up so fast. Instagram got to pick the story and here it is! If you want to rebuild the story for Chrissy, make sure you’re following along on Instagram at SockBunStudios to pick the story this week! But until then - what will our heroine Chrissy do when she’s let go from her job and dumped by her big city boyfriend? Find out now!

Guys, I can’t lie (seriously I’d be off Santa’s nice list) Hallmark absolutely CRUSHED it this week in the 2021 Christmas movie line up. Okay, Christmas in Harmony wasn’t my favorite, but Coyote Creek Christmas with Janel Parrish and Ryan Paevey? If there’s not a sequel next year I swear…and HMM dominated the 10pm spot again with The Christmas Promise with a true American icon Patrick Duffy. Rounding it out was Christmas Sail and I wasn’t expecting much but left crying so, you could say Hallmark nailed this weekend’s movies.