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I've tried to watch My Sweet Austrian Holiday a couple times and unfortunately not even Will Kemp could keep me tuned in. Since both were already in a similar movie - Love, Romance & Chocolate with Lacey as the lead - where they played friends, I didn't see any chemistry between Will and Brittany Bristow except the friend kind. And I like Brittany, I'm just not sure she has that certain something that makes her a great lead.

Since the current crop of HM holiday movies have been underwhelming so far, as I was watching A Merry Scottish Christmas yesterday, I started thinking about sequel storylines for the movies I do like. So that's my game for today - what favorite holiday movies would make for a good part 2, and what could that storyline be. For A Merry Scottish Christmas, my idea was: In the year after little Ainsley's first Christmas, Lindsay is working with Mac's mother at the clinic and they're working on expanding it since the nearest hospital is over an hour away Brad, Sarah, and Jo have been working on expanding the Glencrave Christmas to attract more visitors to help pay for the clinic expansion Lindsay and Mac are already married, perhaps there's a surprise xmas pregnancy that everyone figures out ahead of time except Mac Hijinks ensue I also have ideas about A Christmas Melody since that was on recently too lol. Not sure anyone else's brains work like mine but I like to think up these scenarios as I'm trying to fall asleep. I create an entirely new movie in my dreams. Now if I could only pitch them to HM and get paid. 😊

I just don't understand the folks at HM & HMM sometimes and their casting decisions. Hemmens and Ghanimé are arguably 2 of their hottest actors, why are they not in a movie together? Do the suits not watch their own movies to see who's giving chemistry and who isn't? This has been a weird holiday movie season, with more misses than hits so far, and for me that is almost entirely on the casting of the leads. Because if I don't like them together, their standard movie formula isn't gonna work for me at all.

Round and Round was one of my faves from last year and I really wish they would play it more often than some of their other movies. And quit sticking it at 2am in the morning. I liked everyone in it, loved how the cousin with the fake British accent and the comic store dude kept hooking up. All the scenes in the comics store were great, and the leads had really good chemistry - they were both funny and charming with each other. And it's always great to see Rick Hoffman on my screen.

Agreed. I think it would have made more sense if she were a VP in her mom's company but was all about the business and finances, but her mom has a softer heart. TC could discover her mom's decades-long giving to the town where she was born and then her mom makes her go on the quest to find them herself in order to take over the company and find the giving spirit so she'll continue on once she's in charge.

And see, I think there's tons of opportunities for some great comedy by skewing Jay's ability slightly in different ways. In addition to them popping up out of nowhere, Jay could only see one of the ghost's heads and not their whole body. Or vice versa, and all the jokes where he thinks Crash does have an attached head because he assumes he can only see his body. Or he sees only one ghost at a time so it looks like one of them is talking to themselves. Or he suddenly hears them talking unexpectedly in his ear. It would be different enough from Sam's ability to leave room for potential conflict but also really heartwarming moments for them as a couple who can see ghosts together. By making his ability unpredictable in how it presents to him, there's a whole slew of new ways to get laughs out of Jay's reactions, but now he will also be 'in' on the joke and not the continuous butt monkey of it.

My theory is that CBS chose to back the Brinks truck up to Kathy's door to get her to star in a weekly tv series and slashed everyone else's budget to pay for it instead of giving up any exec salaries and bonuses. But I'm cynical that way. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I think smaller groups of ghosts makes sense sometimes especially as a viewer, it's easier to focus on the background character reactions in a given scene. When they're all together I miss a lot of the actors' physical reactions since I can only watch so many at a time. And they're all so good at 'acting' in the background of scenes so I really enjoy watching them. As someone else mentioned, it would've been cool to see a kid reacting to seeing Alberta. Mark was in the play, it would've been a perfect time to see his son again in the audience watching the performance. Missed opportunity for a small scene to have a big impact. The boy could've even waved bye to the ghosts watching in the back of the room, a nice reminder about some kids being able to see them plus a callback to Mark's son's visit to the house in S1. I'm getting irritated by Jay's continued mistreatment at the hands of literally every soul in his home though. Please do not have the ghosts fuck around with his restaurant once it finally opens, show. For me, that would cross a line into extremely malicious behavior by the ghosts. Just, don't.

I am absolutely ecstatic that Jay finally gets to really see the ghosts. No one deserves it more, considering all that he's put up with the last 4 years..... He rolled with finding out his wife can see ghosts and that ghosts actually exist His wife lies to him regularly about the ghosts taking her side when they have a disagreement He's cooked countless foods only to watch most of it get thrown away because the ghosts wanna smell his cooking but can't eat it. He prepared a whole reception meal for that ghost non-wedding He finally has a restaurant but it's still on property owned by his wife He can never be sure he's alone, especially doing something as simple as taking a shower His dreams get invaded and then he's asked to basically turn his mind into a singles bar so Sass can get his groove on That's just a very small sample. For me, it's way past due for him to see them. And I understand other folks like the joke of him being clueless as stuff is happening around him but for me, it's beginning to just look cruel. Sam absolutely has the best possible husband for herself but I'm not sure I can say that Jay has the best possible wife. I love our ghosts but Jay is my favorite character and I want to see him be able to join in. Maybe he doesn't see the ghosts all the time, and has no control when the ability shows itself, so he could be in the middle of a conversation with a living and suddenly Isaac and Hetty appear next to him (but have been there the whole time) and they're also in the middle of a conversation and that throws him. That would make for some very funny scenes. I want Jay to be more valued in this little family. With all their hijinks and demands of him, I don't feel like the ghosts actually care about him the way they do Sam. He doesn't get any scenes with them like the most recent one last night with Sam and Alberta. It's understandable, but after a while, for me, it feels mean.

I'm not a lawyer (and don't play one on TV) but, I would assume Matty had her own Matty at her law firm who did the grunt work. I've worked for a lot of C-suite folks, you'd be amazed at how unsavvy they are with tech. I can't count how many times I've had to show someone something as simple as pinning a google doc in their bookmarks. So Matty not being a whiz at computers doesn't bother me. What does bother me is the grandson. I think they really fucked up by casting someone so young. Involving him in these schemes is making him a criminal at 12 years old, and I refuse to believe his mom would be okay with that because really, what mom would want her child's guardians corrupting him in the name of 'justice'? It is such a huge misstep that I'm finding it hard to get too into the show, and it isn't making me like Matty or her husband or sympathize with them in any way. If they wanted the grandson to be a white hat hacker, they should've made him at least 17, and 19 with a baby face would've been even better. He could've pretended to be younger when Olympia came by the apartment, no one would know. As it stands, I think TPTB are gonna have to bring on an older tech person to work with Matty, otherwise she'll continue to look like a really bad grandma and I won't root for her. I like Olympia. She's had to work hard to get where she is. And, I don't think her soon-to-be-ex and the Meerkat are dating and they sure aren't living together. Because their children are old enough to ask who's bra that is in their daddy's bedroom lol. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Ok I'll say it...Tyler seems a little old for Hunter King. I know she's in her 30s but she still has a baby face to me so she reads younger. Maybe they'll have great chemistry and I won't notice 🤷🏽‍♀️🫣

Just started following this forum but I've been excited for this new show. We got a premiere date - Feb. 24th at 2pm ET: And....Clifton Davis as the patriarch!!!!!!! I've missed him..... https://tvline.com/lists/beyond-the-gates-cbs-soap-opera-cast-premiere-date-tamara-tunie/beyond-the-gates-tamara-tunie-anita/

If I remember correctly they said she had a 5 head instead of a forehead. And yes, she was dating an exec so it took a while to get her run off canvas. Eventually Y&R execs cut her loose. I believe a celebration was had in the Y&R forums lol.

Lol Tammin Sursok played briefly on Young and the Restless as Paul's daughter, and the streets used to call her 'Tammin Sure Sucks'. There's no way I was gonna watch this movie, even with Brent's cute behind lol. 👀🤭

They showed the flashback of Trevor giving up his pants from the episode as the work folks were talking about it but I don't think they specifically referenced where it happened, just that it did happen.

Aw, T-money! I'm so happy for you. 🥹 Roberta's comments were killing me. She had so many great lines in response to the shenanigans around her. All appropriate and hilarious. The Plan B 'Lego hair' rumor making its way to the neighbors via Nancy? Priceless. I'd like to see Pete actually visit there, it would be a good opportunity to show some more new ghosts but in a recurring fashion. He could even take up with that Farnsley matriarch ghost, if they wanted to really give him a girlfriend. Considering every cop/FBI/Law something show almost always have stories about some suspect that's found to be living under an assumed identity with credentials they bought off the dark web with bitcoin, and said suspect has a Very Important Job inside a government agency or corporation and no one knew until just now, I have no trouble believing Trevor bought a full package identity, with SSN, work history, etc and set up his own Chime account to get his checks direct deposited lol.