Thursday, December 7, 2017

The Perfect Christmas Present

Two years ago both Hallmark and Lifetime ran Christmas movies about personal shoppers (the MSG Approved “12 Gifts of Christmas” and the far superior MSG Fav “A Gift-Wrapped Christmas” respectively, which I'll get to later). Hallmark had a brunette, Lifetime had a blonde, now Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel has a novel approach to its lead character: a man! Basically, guy finds clients the perfect gift for their intendees, specializing in Christmas (earning him the nickname Mr Christmas, which would have been a better title but might have clashed with Hallmark's Miss Christmas, which I'll also get to) via a questionnaire and savvy research. But a last minute request from a corporate client who's basically too self-absorbed to give a shit, forces him to be more proactive and essentially stalk the woman in question, leading to the inevitable meeting. Basically he's a G rated version of Matt Dillon in There's Something About Mary, maybe he's not as aggressive about it and there's no cumshots to the ear but we are teetering on a morality fence. Most importantly, this could happened January through November they could have called called it The Perfect Birthday Present and it would have been 98% identical; a Christmas themed fundraiser at the end is too little too late. Not MSG approved.

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