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re: the end of the 24/7 Christmas movies. Count me in on those who enjoys the 2+ months of the endless movies. The christmas them gets old but I like that there is usually something on one of the other channel that I can enjoy watching. Not only am I sick of GG, Frasier, Reba, Murder She Wrote, Matlock, the schedule doesn't work for me. Movies start at 8, when I start work. The last movie starts at 5, and I get home at 5:30. That leaves me with only 1 to choose from and by 7 it's the rerun crap again. And yes I do know there are other channels, but HM is my default channel for wiling away the time. I can abide even some of the worst movies if I pause for a while then FF through commercials that I can most other channels. I vote for movies or original series on both channels all the time.

I thought of that too then discounted the theory on the assumption that Kat would be old enough to remember Del being pregnant or not. So I think if something along those lines it would more likely be Kat not Jacob being found. I also think the blackmail is related to something else, like finding/stealing a baby, not about Jacob's cover story.

I am less interested in who pushed Alice in to the pond and whose baby that is than I am other things. The clock in Elliot's wall.....it will have significance somewhere down the line but I don't remember hints of this before. We've learned about Cyrus and a little bit about Casey and Evelyn. We've learned about Susanna and a little bit about Vic. But neither of those family dynamics have been fleshed out to my satisfaction. We see Colton and another boy in front of Elliot's house in the 70's, I'm guessing at that time Colton and Vic were friends. Somewhere things went sideways as Vic is so bitter towards the Landry family, seemingly even more so than the Goodwins. In a small town like that even when people aren't in the same social class, it's not unusual for marriage to happen between them. I'd like to know more about how the Armstrongs got done dirty...if they did. I've seen speculation that Susanna married a Goodwin and that's how the porrtait ends up in Lingermore, but Susanna's gravestone lists her as an Armstrong and women back then didn't keep their maiden names, so I don't think she ever married. I'm also interested in the backstory of Coyle's / the Pointe and how that plays into everything. I thought Kat was way too dismissive of Alice's assertion that Casey could possibly be her future granddaughter. Kat and Elliot.....oh hum. I like Elliot and on the one hand I'm so happy that he's finally gotten what he wanted his whole life, but they just don't seem like they're going to last. He's way more into her than she is to him. She'll drop him in a heartbeat for a real-time Thomas. I was confused by Del and Sam. She sees him in the cafe and asks like they're not together anymore, and then later they're having sexy times up in the loft. What is that about? Is she just hiding the relationship from Jacob so he doesn't have to think of his momma with another man than his father? And Jacob, poor kid, doesn't feel at home there. He loves the farm but has not friends or social lift. I wonder if he and Danny will meet up again or if that is a throw away storyline. Also, Jacob had a brother William and a nephew Jacob who were never seen nor heard about since the original sighting. I get that they needed William to exist to show the lineage from Elijah down to Colton, but odd that he was never seen when Kat when back to visit, nor does Jacob mention him at all. Also, what happened to the dog?

I don’t know what that means. But I will say that if they will immediately stop playing that, I will not only. Invite Lume lady to go for happy hour drinks, I will go clothes shopping with the original “dancing” Jardiance lady.

I'm debating. It's dick move and I'm not a streamer and I'm not exicted about paying extra. That said, I love this show and really don't want to wait longer to see what happens next.

While that’s funny, this is a fun forum about lists of 5. Your disdain for the current version of Hallmark is evident in every post you make. Can we keep this forum as intended?

While telling Kim about the new weight rule he tells her that the good news is they’ll be disguising the weight to stay on theme. I thinks it’s safe to infer that the big red bag of “presents” is the disguise

Quoting myself to add the 5th, Natalie Hall. I was originally thinking Rhiannon Fish because I hated her in the first 5 movies I saw her in (whales, bald eagles, photograph, the inn w/fake boyfriend, and something else). Then she did Norwegian Holiday which makes me sob and she was really good so now I can't hate her.

This one is a keeper for me as well. Marc Blucas is so dreamy. And I tear up at this one even though the female lead is not a favorite.

Here's my whine about tropes: 1. Inappropriate footwear. My # 1 peeve. The ladies can still look good in footwear appropriate for tromping through the snow instead of cute heeled-boots that are ridiculous when searching for a Christmas tree or running through the airport. 2. The forced fall/run-into-eachother-by-accident. Sometimes it's the initlal meet-up spilling coffee on the other while colliding on the sidewalk. Othertimes it's the stumbling off the ladder while hanging ornaments on the tree that forces the physical intimacy where they feel sparks. SO overused. 3. The other forced intimacy where the woman has flour on their face from baking cookies and he has to delicately and tenderly wipe it off and we're supposed to swoon. Only the best of chemistry can pull this off. 4. Despite the fancy mansions, not one kitchen oven has a timer on it. The cookies go in the oven and the next thing you know smoke is pouring out and the alarms are going off. 5. The give-us-the-best-markieting-pitch-and-you-win-a-job-over-your-rival. If that's how HR at your company work, epic fail. The ONLY movie this worked in was 12 Dates of Xmas (Tyler Hynes and what's her name) when it ended up actually being based on proven track record of performance and right personality for the job.

I don't know what the Venn diagram of Psych viewers and Hallmark Channel watchers is, but there's a lot of overlap in the casting due to Psych doing a lot of filming in Vancouver. It starred Maggie Lawson, has Sage Brocklebank in a support role appearing in about half of the episodes, and had a multi-episode arc for Rachel Leigh Cook. Here's a list of the actors I've seen in both - Ali Liebert, Ben Ayres, Peter Benson, Cory Sevier, Pascale Hutton, Brook d'Orsay, Ashley Williams, Lori Loughlin, Cindy Busby, Bruce Davidson, Steve Bacic*, Vanessa Lachey, Gregory Harrison, Corbin Bleu, Teryl Rothery***, Sara Rue, Dylan Neal, Lauren Soltis**, Patrick Sabbongui, Greyston Holt, Lochlyn Munro. In addition to all those listed by name, there were a number of other recognizable faces - you know, the ones who play dads and moms and bosses and doctors and neighbors and what not. * Steve Bacic. I really like him, why isn't he in more movies? ** Lauren Soltis. She plays the mom or the evil boss in what feels like every other movie. Most of the time I don't like her. *** Teryl Rothery. I always enjoy her and she was so cute in Psych, my first time seeing her young that I recall. Aging beautifully too. Re: Melissa Joan Hart. She did one on Lifetime called Dear Christmas that I really love and have saved on my DVR.

Holiday Crashers was for me the best movie to far this year...... on par with Haul out the Holly from last year, which was second only to Three Wise Man and a Baby. I'm disappointed not too many other people liked it. It was different and fun, had unforced diversity, and good comedy thrown in. the Amazing Race one was enjoyable but could have been better. Ashely was missing her signature maniacal grin, which was a great improvement, but I kept thinking how fun it would have been if it had been an Arielle Kebbel (sp?) reunion. Perhaps the chemistry would have been better. Not to mention, this featured one of my pet peeves, inappropriate footwear. Ashley was running around in heeled boots - chunky heels not spiked - but as usual ridiculous and stupid. That aside it was a fun concept and otherwise well executed.

Least faves: cindy Busby Erin Cahill Ashley Williams Jill Wagner

I'm hoping someone can help me find the title of this movie. I watched it once but don't remember what its name was, and when that happens, I usually just go to IMDB and look up one of the actors I remember and back into it. In this case, I don't remember a single actor's name as none of the usual suspects was in it. The movie had a mostly black cast. I was a woman who lives on a dairy farm and she had a white cowboy/horse trainer/horse whisperer neighbor and somebody was sending her secret love letters to her mailbox. Let me know if that sounds familiar. Thank you Chitown for the answer.

Adding a couple of favorite Christmas movies I didn’t see listed - the Christmas Card; so many things to easily criticize but i love it anyway - two Allison Sweeney movies, Good Morning Christmas with Marc Blucas and Open by Christmas with Brendan Elliot - not a Hallmark movie but Dear Christmas with Melissa Joan Hart and Jason Priestly, i think it was Lifetime