Starring: Maggie Lawson and Paul Greene
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Who remembers Maggie Lawson from the detective show Psych that aired from 2006-2014? She played a detective in the Santa Barbara police department and was the love interest of “psychic” detective, Shawn Spencer. For the duration of the series, the two were an item in real life, but their relationship died with the show.
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Another Story About A Writer
The Hallmark lineup has been saturated with stories about writers. Apparently, researching other professions to incorporate into the script isn’t in the budget.
Not only is Katie Connell (Maggie Lawson) a freelance journalist and novelist, so is Ben Baxter (Paul Greene).
Plot Twist
We see another reversal of protocol with this saga: instead of the Evergreen movies being based on books, novels are written based on the movies by Nancy Naigle.
Christmas Time Capsule
Cheesiest Parts of the Movie
- The young boy, David, found a key in the last Evergreen movie that made the church bells chime. He has to find a key again in this one? The new key made the alley wall fall apart to reveal the advent calendar. Couldn’t the writers invent a different discovery? The key had been hidden under the sleigh stationed at the Christmas tree lot. Hard to believe in regular sleigh maintenance that no one discovered the hidden compartment or that it hadn’t simply fallen out during one of its excursions.
- Some of the acting is horrible. David acts like he just read his lines for the first time two minutes before the movie starts. Hannah and Elliot jumble their attempt to express their growing attraction and embarrass themselves with poor performances. Thomas’s acting is passable, but his approach to Mayor Michelle is a little stiff.
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- Katie opens one of the advent letters, and it requires her to pick an activity she loves to do but doesn’t do often and get the town to participate. She chooses for everyone to build snowmen. Anybody notice how perfectly round all the fake, Styrofoam balls are? Instead of the “snow” being heavy, the Styrofoam looks airy enough to float away with the slightest breeze.
- While it’s a cool idea to refill the advent boxes and hide them behind the wall for another 50 years to be “discovered,” the cat is out of the bag. This was kept a secret for 50 years because it had never been done before. Now that it is to become a tradition, it’s unrealistic to think this will remain a secret.
- Kevin Miller (played by Mark Deklin) from the second Evergreen movie is credited for his appearance at the very end of this third one when he surprises girlfriend, Lisa Palmer (played by Jill Wagner), but you never see the two connect. It looks like Hallmark spliced old footage into Tidings of Joy to create the illusion of his presence. Otherwise, why would we see every couple in town kissing except Lisa and Kevin?
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