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Mainly, because I needed a way to justify watching so many of them, but also as a way to help other people waste way less time than I have looking for a good, made-for-TV Christmas movie. After roughly a bajillion new movie premieres, it is time to bid adieu, even though I feel like I have barely scratched the surface of the roughly bajillion new movies the channels have released during the holiday season. I spend a lot of time and a fair amount of money on this blog, and don’t have ads, so any help is always appreciated. I do plan on coming back next year, but I do have plans on moving away from focusing on new premieres and more on posting old reviews I’ve have queued up for a while with an eye for shutting down this blog in the next year or two (making it an even decade looks appealing, even if the monetary math makes more sense to shut down next year….

Mainly, because I needed a way to justify watching so many of them, but also as a way to help other people waste way less time than I have looking for a good, made-for-TV Christmas movie. It was a film that I thought was going to be about a group of friends falling in love and messing around during Christmas, but was actually just another kind-of-rote “they’re fighting for the same promotion” romantic comedy! If: You think that not all pots are created equal, if you have a Christmas village you put up on the mantle ever year, or if you feel like you don’t get to put your budgeting skills to enough use at your current job. If: You don’t know what reindeer are, if your Christmas work parties did not make you feel closer to your colleagues, or if the word “intrude” exists at your house.

Mainly, because I needed a way to justify watching so many of them, but also as a way to help other people waste way less time than I have looking for a good, made-for-TV Christmas movie. When he is assigned to review a hotel in Grand Valley for its value, he sees this as the perfect opportunity for a Christmas family vacation. (x) In My Humble Opinion: I thought this movie was going to be about the plucky artist who wants to save her family lodge and the depressed widower business man who wants to shut it down until he learns about the power of love and Christmas and small towns. I have given up my Friday nights for this blog for the past month or so to watch made-for-TV Christmas premieres, and I haven’t regretted that decision so badly as I did while watching Christmas at Grand Valley.

Mainly, because I needed a way to justify watching so many of them, but also as a way to help other people waste way less time than I have looking for a good, made-for-TV Christmas movie. Even when Joanna meets someone who’s a better fit on paper, and when Ted’s ex gives him another chance, the two wonder if they’re meant for each other despite their differences. A Christmas for the Books has an overused fake dating trope, and a couple I didn’t want to see end up together. Sometimes I wonder how hard it is to mess up fake dating, and then a movie like A Christmas for the Books reminds me that it’s very easy.