In this episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil discuss the popularity of Hallmark Christmas movies.
Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show:
- The Hallmark Christmas movie is a bona fide super-genre. Niki referred to this New Yorker article about how the form took over cable television, and Natalia drew on this piece at The Lily about the tradition of hate-watching the films.
In our regular closing feature, What’s Making History:
- Natalia recommended Noreen Malone’s Slate article, “How the School Reopening Debate is Tearing One Elite Community Apart.”
- Neil discussed the Netflix series, Casa de Flores.
- Niki shared Kat Eschner’s Smithsonian Magazine article, “The Un-Christmassy Origin of Gingerbread Houses.”