I will now allow Christmas to begin

Hello, good evening, it is Saturday the 6th of December, I have had a busy week, I'm sitting alone on my couch with a pour of wine, and I am willing to allow the festive season to begin.

In celebration of this momentous occasion I have put on my first Christmas movie: Something From Tiffany's, a movie about two people in committed long term relationships who will (presumably) both leave their partners and declare their love for each other within days.

This is a genre of romance that I read year round but only really watch at Christmas and I have very strong feelings about how great it is to watch movies like this at Christmas. I don't know where it's come from! It's not like I did this as a kid, it's not some kind of Matthewson tradition (aside from While You Were Sleeping, naturally.)

I wasn't even aware I felt this way until a few years back when Jamie was snide about A Christmas Prince and I found my feelings genuinely hurt.

They're very inconsistent, these hurt feelings, because I also believe that films of this ilk can and should be great as often as possible. I believe that we deserve romcoms that are really romantic and really funny most of the time. I do think it's a shame that the rapacious desire for holiday movies leads to production timelines that allow for two or even three drafts of a script, and chemistry reads as part of the audition process! I think production values should matter in this an all things!

I love trash but there is good trash and bad trash and I want spectacular trash.

But something about bad Christmas trash is different.