{"id":1764891,"date":"2022-12-06T13:33:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T18:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764891"},"modified":"2022-12-06T13:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T18:33:36","slug":"help-this-hallmark-hater-just-realized-her-life-is-a-corny-christmas-movie-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/help-this-hallmark-hater-just-realized-her-life-is-a-corny-christmas-movie-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! This Hallmark Hater Just Realized Her Life Is A Corny Christmas Movie Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhelp-this-hallmark-hater-just-realized-her-life-is-a-corny-christmas-movie-plot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764891&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hallmark holiday movies turn this otherwise-Christmas-lover into quite the Scrooge. I absolutely hate them \u2014 and for all the obvious reasons: Their premises are ludicrous and dialogue labored, turning every predictable storyline into a corny cliche.<\/p>\n<p>So you can imagine my dismay when I realized my own \u201coriginal\u201d love story is nothing more than one bad Hallmark plot, and here\u2019s the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The city-dwelling female protagonist (me) is forced into a small town (my childhood home in the Midwest backwoods) due to an unforeseen catastrophe (coronavirus) when she meets a man who will change her life. A Christmas surprise (a last-minute $35 flight to spend the holiday with his family) moves the plot forward, and just when more calamity (friends dropping left and right to Covid quarantine) threatens to throw things off course just in time for the big New Year\u2019s Eve bash, the main characters improvise with a romantic year\u2019s end stuck at home and his first utterance of \u201cI love you\u201d (though, in true Hallmark fashion, I was the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/23\/what-gave-us-joy-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first one to admit it secretly<\/a> in these pages, in a holiday article no less \u2014 gag!).<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, through all the ups and downs, the leading lady realizes climbing the career ladder isn\u2019t all it\u2019s cracked up to be. In slowing down and returning to her roots, she sees marriage, community, and familial proximity as the blessing it is (I moved back to the Midwest and married the co-star).<\/p>\n<p>Nauseating though it may be, there\u2019s something about a cookie-cutter storyline like this that resonates. After all, Hallmark \u2014 or Lifetime or Netflix \u2014 devotees are aplenty. Something in these derivative plots keeps viewers coming back for more and thus keeps Hallmark <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/18\/instead-of-caving-to-haters-candace-cameron-bure-just-used-their-attacks-to-share-the-gospel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and other streamers<\/a> shoveling out slight variations year after year. It has to be more than the conventionally attractive gentlemen on the posters since those are ubiquitous in Hollywood. So what is it?<\/p>\n<p>As hard as it is to get past the cheesiness and admit it, perhaps the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/giordano_lives\/status\/1599628207481061376?s=20&#038;t=v6Jo7hDAXrITOpNMvE4c2g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reason<\/a> is that Hallmark has its finger on the pulse of something the rest of our culture seems to be missing. Maybe lonely thirty-something ladies on the verge of their biological clocks timing out are coming to the sad realization that their high-rise apartments and corporate bosses offering to fund their abortions don\u2019t really love them back. Maybe an investment in a tight-knit community actually has a higher return than an investment in crypto. Coming home to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/06\/your-fur-babies-are-not-a-good-or-healthy-replacement-for-human-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fur babies<\/a>,\u201d having <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/29\/social-conservatives-were-right-about-sex-new-york-times-columnist-admits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sex with strangers<\/a>, traveling the world solo, and doing everything \u201cfor the \u2018Gram\u201d tends to lose its luster when midlife approaches and those distractions are exposed as a bitter end, not a means to a fulfilling one.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that more and more of today\u2019s women are sick of the radical feminist messages of independence that have promised empowerment but left them more miserable, alienated, intolerant, and confused?<\/p>\n<p>By many accounts, the longer women have internalized the liberation message, the more their happiness has declined. As Zachary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I hate Hallmark movies, maybe they&#8217;re onto something the rest of our culture seems to be missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":994,"featured_media":1764894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}