Hallmark Movies
An increasingly popular moment in the holidays, the Hallmark Channel Christmas movies are both a topic of great joy and hilarious jokes/memes/derision. However, these kind of movies are not limited to only Hallmark Channel. They also appear on Lifetime, Amazon, Netflix, and other streaming services. Hell, there's even one on Discovery+ featuring the Pioneer Woman.
What I mean by a "Hallmark Channel Movie" is a, generally, made for TV movie that is no longer than 90 minutes. They are typically fairly generic and unoffensive. These films are by no means good but, they aren't bad either. Most of the time. Sometimes, they do veer toward bad but, that is an exception. These are the films you fall down a rabbit hole and the next thing you know, you have watched 5 of the same movie with different actors. As a note: I assume Hallmark has actors under contract and they would make a certain number of movies with them. As such, you may get the same actor in 10 movies a year with a few of those being Christmas movies. Unfortunately, this does nothing to dispel the notion that Hallmark movies are generic and almost exactly the same.
Overall, these films are really what "popcorn movies" should be defined as. They are quick to consume, not filling and mediocrely pleasing.
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