This starts off enjoyable enough. Kind of the standard format of girl leave hometown for the big city to be forced to return to hometown for some reason or another, gets into a series of events and makes a life changing decision story.
Good
1. Cute, even though not completely new, way the MFC and MMC meet up
2. The development of the romance was just the right level of interaction with good dynamics as the characters realized their attraction for the other.
3. Causing the MFC to go out of her comfort zone and be forced to go home and learn that sometimes things aren't as bad as you remember.
4. Helping the MFC see avoiding home doesn't avoid the feelings, they're hiding waiting to get out.
Bad
1. Female is totally self-centered! She's terribly abusive to the step-father for no apparent reason, which is addressed much later in the story, and just makes her that much more of a selfish princess. She later apologizes but the apology comes with STRINGS attached. Help me, my project is ruined and I thought of a replacement, but now I need all you people I abused and threw a tantrum about (was packing all my stuff up to abandon you at Christmas time), but I apologized so now do my bidding and help me win this contest. UGH!
2. Drives all the way to enter the contest and then because they won't do it on her schedule, has another fit demanding the models IMMEDIATELY get the outfit of now, now! Because she's leaving.
3. Yes, family is more important than things, but she made a commitment and then didn't follow through leaving them in a lurch, this after they made allowances to let her enter in the first place because of another lost contender and in a selfish manner took her things and left when she could just as easily have left her items apologized and still be able to go to her family. Which if her family had been that important in the first place she would have left them so this whole segment is lame!
4. Overall? Seriously that's the winning fashion, I wouldn't wear that bulky uncomfortable thing to clean the toilet let alone be seen wearing it, this is supposed to be something the general Joe buys, yeah it's great for working on cars because it covers up the REAL clothing underneath, but to be the clothing, eww.
5. She still wins after stomping out like a 2-year-old taking her ball back and not wanting to play the game. Wow! What about the people who showed dedication to their craft and STAYED??? Were all the other items that bad? Even his reason for choosing her, someone who wants family more than work, yeah, what "for profit" company said that ever? And on top of that she makes demands about the offer.
6. The I love you ending way over the top and so unbelievably lame ending.
I think Hallmark is trying to go overboard with putting out Christmas themed movies and they're getting watered down and too formulaic to actually be all that great anymore. :(
Good
1. Cute, even though not completely new, way the MFC and MMC meet up
2. The development of the romance was just the right level of interaction with good dynamics as the characters realized their attraction for the other.
3. Causing the MFC to go out of her comfort zone and be forced to go home and learn that sometimes things aren't as bad as you remember.
4. Helping the MFC see avoiding home doesn't avoid the feelings, they're hiding waiting to get out.
Bad
1. Female is totally self-centered! She's terribly abusive to the step-father for no apparent reason, which is addressed much later in the story, and just makes her that much more of a selfish princess. She later apologizes but the apology comes with STRINGS attached. Help me, my project is ruined and I thought of a replacement, but now I need all you people I abused and threw a tantrum about (was packing all my stuff up to abandon you at Christmas time), but I apologized so now do my bidding and help me win this contest. UGH!
2. Drives all the way to enter the contest and then because they won't do it on her schedule, has another fit demanding the models IMMEDIATELY get the outfit of now, now! Because she's leaving.
3. Yes, family is more important than things, but she made a commitment and then didn't follow through leaving them in a lurch, this after they made allowances to let her enter in the first place because of another lost contender and in a selfish manner took her things and left when she could just as easily have left her items apologized and still be able to go to her family. Which if her family had been that important in the first place she would have left them so this whole segment is lame!
4. Overall? Seriously that's the winning fashion, I wouldn't wear that bulky uncomfortable thing to clean the toilet let alone be seen wearing it, this is supposed to be something the general Joe buys, yeah it's great for working on cars because it covers up the REAL clothing underneath, but to be the clothing, eww.
5. She still wins after stomping out like a 2-year-old taking her ball back and not wanting to play the game. Wow! What about the people who showed dedication to their craft and STAYED??? Were all the other items that bad? Even his reason for choosing her, someone who wants family more than work, yeah, what "for profit" company said that ever? And on top of that she makes demands about the offer.
6. The I love you ending way over the top and so unbelievably lame ending.
I think Hallmark is trying to go overboard with putting out Christmas themed movies and they're getting watered down and too formulaic to actually be all that great anymore. :(