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I've watched a few of these this Christmas season and I was very excited to see Hallmark's first Lesbian iteration of its classic rom-com formula. Given that it's hallmark my expectations were on the floor, and I was pleasantly surprised by this movie as it featured something we rarely see in hallmark movies: character development.

The main conflict of the story is that the two main characters are set up by their overbearing parents who (kind of funnily) want them both to just find someone already. Being sympathetic to each others situation they decide to "fake" being together in order to relieve some of that pressure for the holiday season, and in a surprise twist nobody saw coming, actually kind of fall for each other.

The movie develops this by placing the characters in (somewhat) realistic situations where their feelings and pasts are tested, such as when Kylie (the villain) name-drops the blonde character's ex-girlfriend and awkwardly shoehorns in that she moved to WeHo which causes her to pass on a karaoke night because she was feeling a bit overwhelmed from that. Idk, there were lots of small moments like this that made the movie feel like it had some actual meat to the characters here versus the usual one-wordedness of the vast majority of them. It's something you do not usually see in most of these movies.

The two main characters had a little chemistry that didn't actually fel forced between them, which was a nice surprise!

I also need to mention that Kylie, the poet, visual artist, (& more) is the source of like 90% of the movie's conflict for basically no reason. She's the reason for the disaster Karaoke scene, she's the reason behind the giant teddy bear pickup, and she at the end of the movie just blabs that Humberly's character is going to be travelling to Japan (something she ABSOLUTELY was never told) to the blonde main character which obviously causes a rift and deprives them of having an actual discussion. I never expected to see a villain in a hallmark movie, but it was a funny surprise that they seem to have created this accidental one.

Overall, one of the more watchable movies of the season featuring some actual characters versus cardboard-cutout stereotypes. More like this hallmark, please.

As soon as Hallmark released the ultra-cute poster for Friends and Family Christmas, I was dying to see it. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a disjointed dud with scenes of one female always running to work and the other babysitting the former's parents.

Their one-on-one moments, albeit brief are gold and I wanted more of that not just thirty seconds here and there before they run-off in opposite directions.

I'm sort of bummed they didn't give us the Hallmark princess moment of Dani walking down the stairs all gussied up, and Amelia turns and and she's speechless. No. They meet on the stairs as Amelia turns around from talking with a co-worker😐.

In all honesty, I'm unsure how they started liking one another. They're rarely together. They don't decorate the tree they buy. They don't make holiday crafts despite Dani dragging Amelia to these events. Instead, Amelia is doing all of this with Dani's parents, while she's running around like a chicken with her head cut off.

I took off stars because I fell asleep twice and finally made it through the third attempt.

I was looking forward to seeing this mainly because of the gay female main characters.

Either the editing was off or the story was off.

There really didn't seem like enough interaction between the two for a love story to happen. It kind of jumped from one thing to the next.

I enjoyed the parts that actually had them talking to each other about their life. Getting to know each other, but there were few. The actresses did wonderful in their roles. But the whole scenario just seemed off to me. I have watched it a few times, well watched certain parts. The ones where they talk and connect. I hope in the future maybe check to make sure it kinda makes sense.

I have probably watched about 200 hallmark movies? Honestly have lost count I love them so much. Christmas ones are some of my fav in the genre but they tend to be formulaic as we know so basically I watch all these films knowing everything and after a while they tend to merge together. This one definitely won't and no it's not only because it's one of the few with LGBQT+ representation but because the story is not your usual (city not town) neither of the characters give up their dreams for each other but rather chose to move forward together and the families are supportive but also no one is adding pressure on the characters to be anything but what they are. Love love! Also that final sequence in the park.

Did I say that Ali Liebert is cute? No matter who her character is romantically pursuing, she is an absolute sweetheart. And best of all, here her character is after another woman. And should I say, a much younger woman!

Usually though, Ms. Liebert portrays a woman filled with much more lufe and whimsy. Maybe because she is an executive producer on this movie, she thought she had to be more reserved. C'mon Ali, let it loose!

Okay so now this website says that I have to add over a hundred more characters to pad out this review. How about that Taylor Swift? I don't care much for her, but don't mind if you do.