Here is a pretty good Hallmark Movie that is not a sappy love story!

It stars the girl who was the daughter on Friday Night Lights.

She is a pretty good actress and might be the replacement for Candace Cameron Bure as the featured star of Hallmark.

It is not sappy and it is pretty interesting. Yes you have to suspend your disbelief a few times but I bet you will enjoy it,

I didn't know that Hallmark was turning to Horror to get ratings now that so many stars have left!

 

 I think that my current favorite show on TV is "When Calls the Heart" on the Hallmark Channel. Yeah, it's a sappy family show with a story that was originally based on a love story between a Mountie and schoolteacher, but it improved over time. It is based on this town in Canada and is sort of a cross between a soap opera and Little House on the Prairie. There are various characters that are cliches but still fun in an old-fashioned way. The noble Mountie. The shady saloon keeper. The virginal schoolteacher with the big tits. The Jewish storekeeper. The black preacher. All the people you expect to see on the Hallmark Channel.

One of the main couples is the owner of the sawmill Lee Colter and his wife the editor of town paper Rosemary. She was introduced as the former girlfriend of the original Mountie who was after the schoolteacher and later she married the richest guy in town. They are married in real life so their chemistry is really great. The one problem they have is that she can't seem to get pregnant. Season after season they are all sad because they can't start a family. They always seem to be ready to adopt whatever orphan that shows up but they never do. Until this season. The sawmill guy finally slipped one past the goalie. It is set in Canada by the way.

I thought that was great until I realized one thing. If they had a kid it would be Rosemary's baby!

Can you imagine the horror? A little demonic child in a wooden cradle screaming "You can suck my dick you fucking lousy Mountie!" "Teacher leave that kid alone and show me your tits!"

Hallmark will do anything for ratings it seems.

Rosemary's Baby!

The first GAC family movie I saw left a lot to be desired.

 

I have been contemplating switching to GAC TV instead of Hallmark as they have hired the former President of the channel and bunch of their biggest stars. They are planning on going back to the basics of what made Hallmark great. No gays and toning down the interracial marriages to something resembling reality as only 9% of the marriages are interracial in the United States. So I DVRed a couple of them including their first offering "Jingle Bell Princess."

This had a bunch of classic Hallmark tropes. A princess stranded in Middle America well in this case Maine. You know bumpkin town. A widower who lives with his Mom and his precious daughter because he ist distraught over the loss of the wife. He even had the obligatory black best friend which is fine as they are protrayed as a black traditional family who are fully intergrated into the community as is the case in most places. The princess lands her plane. She wanders off the plane to find a cute puppy with a jingle bell around it's neck and the plane leaves without her. Shut up it could happen.

There are a couple of problems with this movie. First is the size. The movie is smaller than the frame of your TV. I don't know why that is. It seems to be cheap movie making. The cameos are not up to snuff. No faded stars of yesteryear like you would get in Hallmark. The Santa character is just some played out Canadian unlike Hallmark where he would be William Shatner or somebody like that. The romance is rudimentary and the conflict was no big deal. Still it was a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours.

They just need to up their game. I think Candace and Danica will force them to improve.

Heres hoping.

Aunt Becky gets F@cked really hard!

Lori Loughlin is in the news again as her attorneys are asking for discovery that might clear her. You remember her case? She was arrested for spending $500,000 to get her idiot kid into USC. Now she didn't do it like the old timey protestants or the Kennedy's did by buying a library or something. Instead she paid a hustler who couched it in the form of donations when it was really payoffs. What the scumbag FBI did was arrest the parents and made sweetheart deals with the scam artists and coaches and administrators who took the bribes. They just wanted some big names for the perp walk. It is just further  amplification of the degradation of the FBI.

I can't believe we are wasting our resources on this bullshit. Like the Roger Stone prosecution it is just a political process meant to destroy what makes America great! Aunt Becky!

It's funny. Hallmark dumped her immediately from their show "When Calls the Heart" and from her ubiquitous mystery movies. Well now the ratings for WCTH are in the toilet and they sort of miss her. I guess they have burned their bridges and can't bring her back. So I say they pump up the ratings and bring another famous aunt on board.

The Good Witch is just spooky!

I love Hallmark Movies and the Hallmark original series that they produce for the family market. It gives me a window into life outside of Brooklyn. I call those places "Hallmark Town." It's where everyone is nice and looks out for each other. People are polite and help each other out. And nobody pays for anything. It is all free. I almost never see anyone pay for coffee or cake or whatever they are purchasing in service of their story. So I was shocked when the Good Witch actually paid for her freaking sandwiches and they told us the price.

You see the Good Witch owns a small business just like me. But unlike me she can give the store away. She always seems to be giving people something that her witchy powers tells her will change their life. In this episode she gives this dude an expensive scarf that reminded him of his dead wife. Seriously? How can you run a business that way.

I think about this all the time when Chip regales us with his adventures at various restaurants in his town. I mean I don't think he lives in Hallmark Town but it ain't Brooklyn either. In this episode the Good Witch picks up two sandwiches and two large coffees and pays $15. Is that right? In Brooklyn we are talking about $20 or $25 or so. Unless you are talking Subway. Now I personally love Subway and Blimpies and other low end shops. But it is just not what a deli sandwich costs. The pork store sandwiches are $10 each on half a hero loaf. Coffees go for $1.50.

Anyway I had to shout at the TV. Ok the prices freaked me out. But at least she paid for them. Progress.

America needs to realize we have to start paying the bill. There is no free lunch.