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I know what you mean, WinnieWinkle. Are they visiting Santa for next year? I can't believe kids are already out of the house if this year's gifts have not yet been opened. It's like deciding on Dec. 20 to do some giant town square function on Dec. 24. Firstly, how are you supposed to get anything done in 4 days and let everyone know, but secondly, are there really that many people with no plans for Christmas Eve who are inclined to now go downtown on that day?

Do you mean the guy riding the stick? Or the guy playing guitar with his stick? Those were the only actions I could see that might fit your description, and both of those are actions quite familiar to any hockey fan.

No worries, Ailianna, I think I know what you mean and agree with what you say. Richards was noticeable at times, but he didn't really take me out of the game. I think I like him, actually. More than Ken, who I must admit I liked more than I thought I would.

That makes sense I guess, though the last time I watched, Abigail had sort of broken up with Bill and was flirting with a minister (who doesn't appear to be in the show anymore, or at least not in any of the episodes I've seen.) Did he disappear as part of the Lori Laughlin purge, or had Abigail moved on from him as well? As I mentioned, I was back in the thread from when Seasons 6 and 7 originally appeared (2019.) It is interesting to read the comments today as the general consensus then was that the show was done after both Laughlin and Lissing left. I enjoyed the episodes of Season 7 much more than any I saw in the first 2 seasons. I don't disagree with this statement. I find the character of Rosemary to be much more tolerable than the first couple seasons where she was a whack-job and I don't care for the actress who plays Elizabeth so maybe that's why the character is uninteresting to me, though regardless of the era, what a hardship to be a young single mother courted by two handsome men after her handsome husband dies.

I hope this is an appropriate way to find out some information about the show. I decided to check out the show because it was full of Hallmark hunks. I watched Seasons 1 and 2 and while I really liked Daniel Lissing, I don't care for the actress who plays Elizabeth and found the show to be pretty boring, so I stopped watching. Over the last few weeks, Seasons 6 (which my PVR failed to record) and 7 (which I am currently watching) were shown as a free preview so I decided to check in again as I really like both Kevin McGarry and Chris McNally (as hot guys. Mixed feelings on their acting.) I knew Lissing and Lori Laughlin were gone and I have no real opinion on that since I wasn't invested enough anyway but was surprised that the young couple are still not married, thrilled that Paul Greene is on the show but can't imagine a storyline less interesting than his and his love interest's, but mostly wondering how Henry went from being the evil mine-owner/mayor to a fairly popular member of the town, to the point where in one episode I saw last night, there was to be a magazine expose on him but nobody in the town would say anything negative about him. What brought about the redemption? Having said that, I think he should get together with the telephone operator, who I think has the eye for him as well. I think Chris McNally is better looking but wooden and Kevin McGarry is also good looking but also seems like more of a personality. I wouldn't throw either of them out of bed but think the Mountie would be a more interesting match. I tried dipping back in the thread to find a spot that would answer my questions but not spoiler me for future episodes, but there is a lot of Lori Laughlin hate and cancellation speculation so it was hard to find anyone commenting on the episodes themselves. Thanks

This movie is no exception. During one scene I couldn't concentrate on what she was saying because the heavy eye makeup was so distracting every time she blinked. She is not much of an actress so I feel like the movie would have been more enjoyable with someone else in the lead. The story was good and there were no times when I felt like yelling at the tv. I didn't know the lead actor so wasn't sure if it was actually the same guy at first. He did a good job in both roles.

I have seen a few of these and enjoyed them over the years. No idea this was the type of content Hallmark Channel used to produce. We watch Hallmark movies on W Network in Canada, and I just assumed that all the movies were romances or mysteries.

It seems to me that perhaps Hallmark has 'jumped the shark.' I really started watching them this year for the first time, probably during the summer/fall season when there was nothing else on due to covid delaying most regular shows. Some were really good while others were the standard dreck we are all complaining about now. Characters that are all the same (bitchy, driven women and stubborn men who never left the hometown) the same plot over and over (women coming back to the small town for some reason, only to meet up with the old boyfriend and after saving the bookstore/ranch/bakery, deciding to give up their old life and move home) and even the titles are so similar it's impossible to tell them apart (Christmas/Snow/Harvest/Valentines Day.) A format where you can almost tell what time it is depending on where we are in the movie (bitter and bitchy for the first 45 minutes, friendly and collaborative for the next half hour, then an almost kiss, a run to the final festival/bake-off/grand re-opening at the 1.5 hour mark, the dreaded misunderstanding breakup/trip back home with 15 minutes to go and the final return to the hometown and kiss to end the movie.) Maybe 40 movies per season for years is too much. As discussed just a page ago, one movie was literally made twice with different actors. If I had been more savvy I would have PVR'd every new movie, then deleted 99% of them, so I could re-watch the ones I like rather than get sucked into watching a piece of crap because the movies I liked the most were only played once or twice and On Demand has now deleted them.

Or in some commercials, your 'intimate area.' I think the Charmin bears are heading that way.

Yeah, I guess I could have been clearer. I found him physically appealing for a change (longer hair? more form fitting clothes?) , but agree that both the characters were annoying. I watched most of it on mute anyway since I had seen it before and I have just discovered the band Midland and now I can't stop listening to them. And it's not like you have to listen to a Hallmark movie to follow the plot.

I wish we knew whether Brad had been offered at least a guest week. I would much prefer him to Ken Jennings and I won't even weigh in on such luminaries as Dr Oz and Katie Couric.

OMG, how is that supposed to attract us to Hallmark movies, if half of the love stories come out of one of the early 30-somethings being a widower (do you notice that it's almost always the woman who's dead?) Like it's a curse. As I said in my last post, women date divorced men with children all the time. We don't have to know the nitty-gritty of the divorce, just as we don't know the gruesome details of young mom's death. Just a guy raising his precocious daughter (they're almost all daughters as well) and trying to start over. I agree that it's creepy. I am watching You're Bacon Me Crazy. I know I am definitely in minority territory here, but Michael Rady has never done anything for me. He seems like a great guy and he's probably the best husband material of all the hunks, but he just seems blah to me. Having said that, he is quite appealing in this movie. He is mad at the girl and is being dismissive of her, the way we see the women always act, and while it didn't last (in fact it lasted about 30 seconds,) it was nice to finally see the guy not be the doormat.

She might be a toddler, but she has quite a vocabulary and she seems pretty precocious for a kid that age. Just the kind of kid I hate. I agree that the dead mom thing is kind've overdone. It's also ridiculous that their voices trail off or drop real low when they have to say, 'she's dead!' 'Is her mother part of her life?' 'She (voice drops to barely audible) ... passed away.' All we're missing is the violin music. Why can't they just have divorced parents where the dad is either primary or shared custody dad? Women still fall in love with divorced men, Hallmark. I don't know what UP TV is, but if you were watching the movie this afternoon, maybe it is a version of W Network in Canada, which is the channel that carries all the Hallmark movies.

Good to know. I passed on this movie last night due to the reviews here, but it is playing again today so might check it out. Currently watching Love Is A Piece of Cake. Woman learned to bake with the grandmother and now runs her grandmother's bakery. Despite loving nothing more than baking and honouring her grandmother, she is not sure she can re-open the bakery in a new location now that a nefarious developer (who happens to employ the budding romantic interest) has bought the building. Are we supposed to believe that the grandmother would want her to close her business and leave her dream behind because she might have to move to a new building (because nobody including the grandmother ever bothered to buy the hallowed bakery?) Doesn't say much for her grandmother if that's true. And what's with the high-waisted, wide-leg pants? Not flattering, especially to this actress and her flat butt!

Hilarious, but I don't get why he calls them 'Jimmys Johns. First time I thought I heard wrong but that is definitely what he's saying.

So, because you didn't play with your Mom (honestly, who did?) like the Children's Tylenol ad (or whatever,) when you were sick, your Barbie would lament, 'oh no, we were supposed to go to space today?'

Watching Love In Winterland. Jack Turner (Tanner, the reality show date) is generically handsome but non-memorable to me. Chad Michael Murray (Brett, the old boyfriend) is his usual self. Perhaps Italia Ricci (Ally, the female lead) is an incredible actress because her character is, if not the most unlikeable, then certainly high up on the list of unlikeable female leads in the whole Hallmark pantheon. She is without a doubt the exact character that makes me wonder why I and many others put ourselves through the torture of watching these movies. She is rude, dismissive, intractable, unfriendly, borderline mean, bitchy and miserable. He was a high school boyfriend and she is at minimum, 30 years old now. She's been mad at him for 6 to 8 times as long as they dated. He has apologized at least 2 or 3 times now for what happened 12 years ago!!! and she's still mad, even though everything else in her life has apparently gone swimmingly.

Nope. Still love him. I'm temporarily mad at him, but he's still my favourite because he's cute, kinda funny and his characters are always more interesting than most (except for Holiday Hearts. That was bad.)

I believe the rich mother-in-law paid for the dress which she went ahead and brought to the wedding resort without checking first. I am watching Love In Design because Andrew Walker is in it and awesome as usual and so cute in this one (the buzzcut in Bridal Wave was a mistake in my opinion.) I'm sorry but I don't buy that he and Danica McKellar dated in high school. She is the intractable character that I argue no guy wants to be around but once he escaped after high school, why would he go back down that road again and why is everyone from his friends to her parents trying to get them back together? Not only that, but she seems like she's a lot older than him. I am not buying that she is a young, 30-something career woman which is I believe what she is playing here. She gotta be in her 40s (IMDB says she is 45 and he is 41) which I know is something we have complained about before. Either get a 30 year old actress, or make the characters older. Also, where do these people live that it's clearly summer but it is dark enough at 6:30pm to show an outdoor movie to the town? Ugh. That was a PVR delete. How about a new genre of Hallmark movies where a bunch of the guys hang out for the whole movie, perhaps casually dating and warning each other about the crazy harpies in the town who freak out at them for no apparent reason? That way we could have all the cute guys in one movie, but with limited scenes with all the women that drive me crazy.

OMG, the Hyundai Santa Fe commercial. Both Mom and Dad ask a kid who is old enough to know better if he has to go to the bathroom before going out with Mom, then he wets himself because he couldn't wait?? That kid should have to walk around the mall (or go to school or whatever they're doing) with pissy pants after that little stunt.

Ugh. That looks terrible. Neither lead is appealing to me. Today I watched an old podcast with Paul Campbell and he said they were trying to skew younger to attract the 20-something eyeballs. He referred to their average fans as 'fan-mas' (as opposed to Grandmas.) Actually, as much as I knew that I was that demographic, I was a little offended.

Apparently, dry February is a commercial that needs to be on every break on some channels.

Here I was worried nobody would know who Bobby Sherman was! I also have zero interest in wedding planning. My son is (was?) planning to get married in June and assuming covid allows it goes ahead, my plan is to give them some money and let them do whatever. The last thing I want to do is talk about flowers or food or booze.

Hmmm, I wonder how it turned out? Would there be a mini crisis or misunderstanding with 15 minutes to go? Will someone leave in a huff? Most importantly, will it all be worked out in the end and everyone will live happily ever after? Can't believe you ditched with these questions unanswered 🤣 This movie won't show here until Friday but it sounds like there's no need to cancel any plans. Plans? I think covid was probably the best thing that ever happened to Hallmark movies, despite the hassles to film them. People like me who are housebound are getting pretty sucked into this stuff.

That's a great idea, ShelleySue. Can you imagine wearing your mother's wedding dress? I don't know if my mom even had a wedding dress, and though I kept mine in the closet for decades until I got a divorce and threw it out, I would have been mortified if my daughter had said she wanted to wear the dress I wore in 1980. It wasn't that nice back then. One of the funny things about Bridal Wave is that the lead character was going to wear her mother's (hideous orlon) dress as some sentimental thing for her non-dead mom, but the groom's mother and even the groom tried to talk her into Vera Wang. Also, did anyone actually dream of their wedding in fine detail, right down to the colours of the tablecloths and flowers? I can recall thinking about getting married to every boy I ever had a crush on, including David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman, but I never got down to the nitty gritty of planning the colour scheme and what flowers we would have.