Christmas Land

The title says it all. After playing the best friend in Golden Christmas 3, Nikki Deloach (the mom from Awkward) gets her first Christmas Cheddar lead. This is the same big city girl in the small rustic town, but this time it's a Christmas themed tourist attraction she's inherited, which creates a high Christmas factor setting. In case we forget the small town is better, her suitor in the little hamlet is the local lawyer, who rejected the corporate life to provide legal council to gingerbread cookie bakers and Christmas tree sellers. Thanks to an only in tv coincidence, he went to law school with her current suit and tie beau, who says his jeans and flannel counterpart had a "reputation." The meaning of this is never explained, the look on his face implies that maybe he banged lots of co-eds, or it's just academic jealously, we'll never know. Our heroine is ready to just sell for a profit, then decides to fix it up first, and you can pretty much guess the rest. All the while, Hallmark's prejudice is in full force as the lumberjack barrister bad mouths cities at every turn. Even the lead character can't take it anymore, asking "What exactly happened to you in the city, were you mugged or something?!" It's a refreshing dose of meta-realism, and with Deloach at the helm and heavy yuletide background, it works. MSG approved.