2/10
good cast fails to elevate terrible script
26 November 2021
It's reasonably Christmassy, I suppose, with an impressive home as the main location, but I'm hard-pressed to remember even chuckling once during it. Maybe one little smile at the early mention of toilet paper roll Christmas decorations, given my own family's 1970s felt Santa Claus ornament built up around a cardboard tube.

The music is particularly bad, frequently descending into comedy sound effects: never a good sign. It's also odd that a character was repeatedly working on, or talking about working on, or being talked about as working on, her thesis about The Beatles, and yet there would be none of their Christmas music. Rights clearance costs? Then why have them be written into the storyline at all? When said character asked carolers in Victorian costume if they knew any Beatles, that would have been an obvious spot for a cover.
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