2025 Hallmark 🎄movies (and their recurring summaries) Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story

[underpants]

Featured 2025 movies
Three Wisest Men: The third installment in the "Wise Men" movie series continues the story of the Brenner brothers.
Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story: A Christmas-themed romantic comedy.
Christmas Above the Clouds: Follows siblings on a family Christmas river cruise through Germany and Austria.
A Newport Christmas: A new holiday romance.
Melt My Heart This Christmas: A Christmas-themed romantic movie.
We Met in December: A new holiday film.
The Snow Must Go On: A new Christmas movie premiering in late November.
She's Making a List: A new holiday movie premiering in December.
A Keller Christmas Vacation: A holiday movie starring Jonathan Bennett, Brandon Routh, and Eden Sher.
Other movies and series
Tidings for the Season: Starring Tamera Mowry-Housley, this movie features a single mother whose son meets his favorite newscaster.
The Christmas Cup: A new holiday movie premiering in late November.
Christmas at the Catnip Café: A new Christmas movie.
Single on the 25th: A new Christmas movie premiering in December.
A Suite Holiday Romance: A new Christmas movie premiering in December.
Christmas On Duty: A new holiday movie premiering in November.
A Royal Montana Christmas: A new holiday movie.

https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/

[debm55]

1. Thank you underpants, That is so funny and true.

[Ocelot II]

2. The only Christmas story I ever really enjoyed isn't on Hallmark.

It's a tv series on Netflix, called "Home for Christmas" (Hjem til Jul), in Norwegian with subtitles, and it's hilarious. It has many of the Hallmark tropes but with some very adult twists.

[NNadir]

3. It makes me miss my mother-in-law. Whenever we visited her...

...in assisted living, she had the Hallmark Channel on.

All the men were handsome, the women, beautiful, the children, cute, and everyone was stumbling unexpectedly in to true love and romance in their highly successful high paying careers.

As my mother-in-law spent a long time withering away, in some emotional and physical pain, I was glad she had it.

Funny story: Whenever I visit a person for the first time, I check out their book shelves to try to understand something about who they are. When I went the first time to meet my future mother-in-law, this before I was actually in a relationship with my future wife - the "just friends" stage - I noticed that the book shelves were filled with these romance novels featuring pictures of hot guys and hot women on the covers in these sexy clothes and sexy embraces.

I kinda wish I didn't know this, but my mother-in-law's relationship with my father-in-law was not really "hot." Apparently he had a very low drive. However, when they were young, they were both very good looking; they could have been models for the cover of the dirty books. For my mother-in-law the books were happy fantasies that she couldn't realize.

On the other hand, as I was in love with my future wife although she didn't know it, I kinda figured that if she grew up around this stuff, she'd be pretty "hot" if we ever advanced to being lovers.

We did and she was.

This said, my wife's bookshelf was one belonging to an inquisitive mind built around science and justice. She didn't need those books.

We lived them.

On the other hand, our lives, I can say, were not Hallmark movies; they were filled with sound and fury, signifying everything, all the joys of struggling, really struggling toward deeper and and more profound love.

[underpants]

4. Great post. Thanks.

[True Dough]

5. My aunt ALWAYS has the Hallmark channel on when I go visit her

I have no interest in watching those movies on my own, but when I'm sitting at her place (usually on the loveseat in front of the TV in a small apartment), I can't help but stare at the screen. The volume is usually down because my aunt and I are talking, but it's like I'm looking for the flaws in these "perfect" settings that they've created with actors like mannequins.

It's bizarre.

[underpants]

6. Plus there are constants/standards

That’s why my wife made the bingo cards last year.
That’s just one 6 variations but most of the squares are the same just in different spots.