Hallmark has traditionally been the more conservative of the two major made-for-TV Christmas flick purveyors. The Christmas House (Hallmark, November 22 at 8 p.m.) So come, sift with us, as we break down the year’s absolute deluge of holiday fare into relevant subcategories:Īll the Networks Finally Agreed That Gay People Exist, Even at Christmas But hey, if you sift through enough lumps of coal, though, you just might find some cubic zirconia. Or, they just used all the movies they’ve been sitting on that weren’t good enough for past years’ lineups, and now the B-team of Christmas B-roll is getting its year in the spotlight. Although this year, we have to ask: How did they do it in 2020? How did the powers that be manage to pull 82 new Christmas movies (and one Hanukkah film!) out of their proverbial gingerbread asses, amid all the lockdowns and quarantines and restrictions and malaise? One might call it a Christmas miracle. Take the same haggard tropes - the struggling inns, the small towns, the career women who must be cured of their unladylike ambitions by falling in love with boring men - and just switch the names and actors around, and it’s a tradition that works year after year. You know that thing people say about Taco Bell? That the whole menu is just five ingredients (tortillas, cheese, meat, beans, sauce) remixed and rearranged in infinite combinations? Made-for-TV Christmas is the Taco Bell of entertainment genres. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Netflix and Lifetime Your definitive guide to 2020’s absolute deluge of made-for-TV holiday fare, on Netflix, Hallmark, Lifetime, and more.
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