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Disregard what I typed above. The hot sauce squirting scene saved this, 100%.

Way to go, show. This complete lack of chemistry date with Margaux makes me fondly remember Nelle's completely weird romance faces. I didn't think that could happen. So nice to have Finn, Anna, and Cassie all upstaged in the acting arena by the two extras in surgical masks. Great effort, guys On the positive side, except for the blue light cast on people's faces on close ups, the lighting people are once again first rate, and the Floating Rib looks like a real older pub. The stupid little courtyard looks good, too. Great set work.

34 Christmas Movies. What?!? The commercials they run are depression, Ph balance downstairs, cooking tools, lesbian mechanic telling us how to lose weight, home care aides, and fibromyalgia. So women 35-65 years old.

My name is tough girl McDA. I am going to break you using the power of this banker box with a newly printed label which actually holds glass from all Sonny's broken glasses this month K. When is my attorney getting here? Oh, and I elect to remain silent.

If both actors are going to keep the same mannerisms and affect I won't be able to remember which one is Jason this week. Oh my god. Another teen shoplifting story? Seriously?

I liked it overall, and she is better without a constant boyfriend. Plus it gave mom an early reason to be around and added a new dimension to bringing in Professor McHotty. The best friend character is hitting her stride, the actors are good but the writing has been so so before. The actors playing the college kids could have been more skilled, but nothing that broke the movie. Two issues: The baddie was pretty obvious, and they really needed Miranda Frigon. I thought her character was a little bitchy when she was in these, but it provided a real balance for the movie between her character and the overly helpful cop-- and the lack is obvious.

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Did we miss a day of broadcast? Because this felt like a Monday recap and catchup show

Watched two in DVR. Samantha is just as likable as ever. You get the sense she likes people and she wants us to enjoy going wherever she is. Plus, the show is informative and easy to follow

Let's just put everyone in the joint, we can rename the show General Lockup

She seems like someone you would trust, which I think is not at all easy through TV.

Watching the Hailey Dean marathon. Between the next to most recent, and the newest, A Will to Kill, Kellie Martin must have had something done. She looked her age before, and now she looks 10 years younger. You can really tell when the movies are back to back. The mystery is fun, too.

God, this is awful. Why was the showrunner trying to kill this thing?

Watching Christmas with Holly while making breakfast, first time seeing it all and without any wine. Mid20s uncle brings his orphaned niece to a family home in a typical Vancouver island town where he meets the sugary cute owner of a toy store. The first 10 minutes are horrific. The child appears to be 5-6. She is totally nonverbal after her parents die. She has an absolute flat affect. The school system doesn't start an IDEA plan, but just tells the uncle they are holding her back. No diagnosis. Uncle calls some distant relative who is a principal who tells him to relocate her from her lifetime home to the island town. No psychologist or psychiatrist. The child is staggeringly mentally ill, and no one in her life cares very much. I have seen it before and she is cured by the power of being around the cute sweet blond, but seriously, WTF?

Plus puppies.

I like the mysteries and the Christmas movies. Watching A Joyous Christmas. The lead actress is pretty and talented. However, Rachel, played by Natalie Knepp, is such a nasty bitch the first 15 minutes I almost turned it off. The script writer and director made a real mistake. Even when she asked questions of the male lead her character should be asking, she was unlikable. They got so bad they had her mean facing when she passed happy holiday kids. Then they saved it when she got to the home for the poor/mentally challenged and was decent to them (mainly Bonnie Bedelia in a difficult role).

Finding Christmas. Tricia Helfer. She is sent to North Carolina and an army guy she is matched with is deployed with goes away after flirty sexy time. then true romance. I had no idea she could do a romance role

Dashing Through the Snow on the 4th of July, got done getting everything ready for the BBQ first. The actors are pretty and pretty good at acting. Cute together. The least nice part was the first kiss, the actress wasn't feeling it. The shadow play on the bed divided by a vertical sheet curtain was fun. Not even the silly 'FBI hunting them' story ruined this. Where was the pupper when they were taking long aimless walks in the faux snow?

Look, gaslight into the insane hospital female character has been done at least 50 times on this show. The actors are all good at what they do, excluding Maurice who has a tendency to half-heart it 50% of the time. This isn't in the top half of that type of storyline, but that isn't the issue. The real issue is that we have a collection of actors in their 40s and 50 acting like they are in their late 20s, across all storylines. The set designers are good, the script writers are good within the plotlines they are given. They should have been churning actors, and they needed better overall 21st century storylines, and neither has happened.

I don't usually watch the regular Hallmark movies unless they are Christmas themed, I prefer the mysteries. I just tried to watch Summer Villa, though. Had to turn it off. Standard 'couple with minor issues with each other are forced to share a vaca place' plot. However, the female lead, Hilarie Burton, had no chemistry at all with the male lead Victor Webster. Even with her side flirts she wasn't believable with anyone. The male lead had more chemistry with the actress who was playing the female lead's teen daughter, then he did with the lead. That's when the movie got turned off.

Castle was my thought as well. Either this is going to be Castle with reversed genders, or it will be terrible. I can't tell which from the promo

So they are trying to kill the show off? This was awful, again

I said this in the Hallmark mystery main thread: The shop assistant's hair is jarring, and I checked IMDB and Sarah is a decade younger than Lori, so it makes sense they do it to make them look the same age.

Waiting for everyone to get here, rewatching Morning Show Mystery. I think the issue is that Holly the person seems really nice, but the character just doesn't connect with the other cast. I get the feeling either Jordana or Anna, who played the producer and the assistant, would have fit the cast better in terms of connecting with them in the leading role, they really seemed to click with the other cast. Plus, cyanide in lethal concentration kills amazing fast. Many of you were alive then, but after the Communist Religious Cult (yes, there was such a thing--the 70s were weird) in Jonestown murdered Congressman Ryan, 900 of them drank fruit punch with cyanide and Valium and were all dead within 5 minutes. They even used feeding syringes to force it down the childrens' throats and they went fast. (Valium cut down on the convulsions as they died.)

The second episode was horrible, some of the worst minutes ever seen on TV