WinnieWinkle

Yep. I mean I do get that a bunch of people sitting around making the exact same points and agreeing with each other wouldn't exactly be riveting TV but c'mon!

I'm sure I remember Sheldon (or possibly Mary) talking about Georgie having been married and divorced a few times. I don't recall any mention of children though. For some reason I had the impression that Missy's first baby was also the first grandchild in the family.

That episode bugged the hell out of me. Mary had valid concerns about moving that went beyond her job at the church but that episode didn't really go into that. It was also really unbelievable that a second tier coach at a high school in small-town Texas was being scouted to coach at a big college. Did that ever really get explained? If so I don't remember it. The whole point of that episode seemed to be to underline that George and Mary have a troubled marriage and it's mostly Mary's fault.

I'm totally stealing that line from Joy! I love the way she can say something serious but make me laugh at the same time.

My parents were flying to England when a passenger seated near them died. No one really needed to make an announcement because, sadly, the solution to the deceased passenger was to keep them in place but covered with a blanket. Mom said it was a very quiet flight. Pretty grim.

After reading the comments here I wasn't sure about watching Love, Lights, Hanukkah but I'm glad I did. Really enjoyed it. Maybe I was just in the right mood for it or something but I found it very touching and, for Hallmark, well done.

Or the flip side to this are the parents who are so obsessed with their kids behaving perfectly that they can't let their kids be kids. One thing to keep a tight rein on their behavior in the mall quite another at grandma's house! My ex brother in law (note the ex part) drove us all crazy at family gatherings by seeming to think his kids were actually not in Nanny's living room but at boot camp and he was the Sarge in Charge,

Thank you so much for explaining the back story. Absolutely agree on liking the movie and hating the ex!

My grandchildren mean the world to me and I am glad my kids live close enough that I have been a part of their lives (well this year being 2020 that's less true but anyway...) but I've had to struggle with setting some boundaries. I raised my kids, I am not going to raise my grandkids and it did take awhile to negotiate that fine line between helping out and being taken advantage of!

I just saw an older one THe Mistletoe Promise. It wasn't bad at all but if anyone else has seen it I wonder if you can help me out. I have 2 questions about it. First, I admit I don't always pay close attention when I watch these movies so I may have missed the explanation but why oh why does the lead female character STAY working with her toxic ex-husband for 4 years??? And second, why is the ex-husband so toxic? I mean I loved to hate him which is the way you should feel about a well written villain but I still kept wondering what the hell - what is he gaining by being so nasty. Was he trying to force her to leave the company and she wouldn't go? Which circles around to my first question. Sigh. I probably am overthinking a Hallmark movie!

Saw two minutes of it. Two minutes was more than enough.

Not sure if you're joking or not but Asner appeared in several Hallmark films and actually got nominated for an Emmy for one of them.

I get really irked on TV shows when they have an older couple and they have someone admiring the longevity of a marriage and say "Bill and Jane have been married 26 years" as if that's a really long time. Well ok, it's not a short amount of time, but when Bill and Jane are obviously at least in their 60s and have adult kids them referencing 26 years just makes me think the writers failed math in school.

I can't remember if they say it or not on YS but is vacation bible school meant to be for the whole summer? My mother didn't work outside the home when I was the age Sheldon and Missie are so we stayed home and watched TV and roamed the neighbourhood. I can remember being a bit jealous of friends who got to go to camp - but I don't think any of them were going to bible camp!

I think if both people in the conversation know the conversation is over then how you end your call is entirely up to you. The situations I'm citing though aren't that clear cut. To me just hanging up after someone else has spoken is just not something I think I'd do. I know if I were the one at the other end of the call I'd assume the other person was either mad at me or that their house suddenly caught fire!

How can anyone claim Trump made any decisions with regard to Covid out of concern for safety? Am PVRing so haven't seen this yet but did she really make this claim with a straight face?

I can be a sucker for the feel good commercials that are meant to tug at your heartstrings but the one for Coke with the Dad going through a Huge Ordeal in over to deliver the daughter's letter to Santa just leaves me cold. It doesn't make any sense and annoys me excessively.

Not sure I agree that it's been unnoticeable. I think in some ways Hallmark can't win. They try for some diversity and they get people horrified that they've messed with the formula they love or they get people saying they aren't doing enough or what they're doing is token or silly or just plain doesn't work. For me the biggest problem I have with the current crop of movies is that on the whole they just haven't been that good. Ok, I did like a few very much, but overall? Not really. They can diversify the cast and try to reach a wider audience all they want but if the writing sucks, well the writing sucks.

It was a litle weird. He was definitely the sassy bff gay character that we've seen on Hallmark (and to be fair other places as well) for years now - the actor played a similar character in one of the Evergreen movies come to think of it. However the love interest was actually interesting and broke the mold both in terms of the way his character was presented and also in his interests and profession. Which I liked. As you say, baby steps.

This year Hallmark seems to have decided to throw caution to the winds (well gently toss caution caution to the wind) it will be interesting to see what happens. If they will bow to the pressure of the pearl clutchers or at least keep things moving along the lines they've established this year.

I didn't mind this because it was made very clear that he screwed up (which was refreshing) and that she was being hired back at the demand of the bigger boss. What bothered me was the way the friend (name escapes me) got hired back full-time only because he was the best friend of the lead character. Now that rankled. I didn't mind Christmas She Wrote - not going into the list of movies I will watch and re-watch for sure but it was an ok way to pass a few hours - and I did like the secondary romances (more on that in a minute*) - the thing is though I felt like it had some real promise but it was like they had to rush to finish it and it ended up falling flat. * I read a review of this movie where someone said they had to turn it off part way through because something happened that clashed with their morals (or something like that) I am assuming, correctly I believe, that it was the way the gay best friend found love in his home town. I guess it's ok to have a gay character as long as they stay strictly in supportive friend mode. Heaven forfend that they actually have a relationship with someone. Think of the children. Yuck.

I've noticed this before but a Christmas movie I was just watching did this every single time - people who are on the phone and just hang up. No good bye, no see you soon, nothing. The person on the other end says something and the character we're watching just hangs up. Who does this? Maybe once in awhile or if you got a crank call or something. But in conversation with someone you know or are doing business with you just hang up?? I don't think so!

Swimming against the stream here but I really liked A Timeless Christmas.

If they talk about the events of the week-end with their guest I don't think so!

It's interesting how we can interpret things differently. To me he wasn't simply asking a question, he was playing "gotcha" and I felt that he was trying to put the little woman in her place.