Meh.
This might as well be a Hallmark Movie of no particular note. I almost suspect it is kind of a gentle spoof of all the Hallmark Christmas movie clichés. Snowball fight, hero falling on heroine in the snow, Reserved serious mother/queen unbending, child in the house who starts out as a spoiled brat but turns into an ally of our heroine. I liked the two main leads all right and did enjoy seeing Alice Krige. Maybe I am giving Netflix too much credit and it’s just another in a long line of mediocre Christmas romances. It has no reason to exist. **7 our of 10 stars**
December 19, 2017
18 minutes in and I can buy in to “gentle spoof”; otherwise it’s the worst thing I ever saw and a travesty of monumental proportions. I saw somewhere that a seasoned reviewer gave it 7 stars……off with her head. 😉
It would have been cool if he actually was his father’s son as the result of an affair or surrogacy or something. That’s playing fast and loose with an adoptee’s feelings springing it on him that late in life.
I’m afraid I don’t remember a thing about this one!
I want to say Tsk Tsk but I understand because I don’t either. 🙂 I’m hunting around for something good to watch.
Have you seen North and South based on the Elizabeth Gaskell novel?
I’m confused. Not North and South with Kirstie Alley surely? All I can find are podcasts of the Gaskell novel.
Oh yuck, NO! My favorite British Mini-Series. Possibly only surpassed by the 1995 Pride and Prejudice, to which the romance part has been compared. It has some sadness and tragedy, but a good end, similar to Dickens. It is streaming on Britbox, or check your library for the DVD set. Or buy it. You will not regret it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417349/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_8_nm_0_q_North%2520and%2520South
Okay thanks. 8.6 on IMDB!!! My favorite British Mini-Series is the 1981 Brideshead Revisited which also gets an 8.6. Silly me, when I got to England we went all the way up to York to visit Castle Howard where it was filmed instead of making a beeline for Steventon and Chawton. 🙂 My other all time favorite thing was Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos”. It has a 9.3!! I must have exquisite taste. 😉