Yeah, I can imagine the new non gay channel will feature a lot of guys bein' guys with the fellas (no girls allowed) - tackle sports, wrestling, guy time in the sauna, helping your bro stretch before lifting, etc. Nothing to read into there, not at all.
I actually will watch some of the hallmark movies. They are breezy, light, and I get to look at a good looking woman for two hours, and bonus, she doesn’t have any negative traits. Some of them have some really nice scenery too given where they are filmed (BC mostly). It is interesting, beyond the whole gay thing, they have also gone more ethnic. Polish, Mexican, Italian families etc.
Cultural conservatives' belated discovery that the Hallmark Channel has a big gay fanbase reminds me of the "discovery" in the 90s that Disney had a lot of gay fans and employees. They were genuinely shocked and upset.
Candace Cameron was my crush when I was a kid. I lost some of my teenage innocence when I started to hear the horror stories about how the producers body shamed her (a teenager) for some mirror weight gain.
A lot of abuse was accepted. Molly Ringwald's piece in the New Yorker on John Hughes was heartbreaking
As one of the few women on this board I can unequivocally say that I have never watched the Hallmark Channel nor the Housewives BS. So there
At at some point, about 2/3 of the way through the movie, the woman will tell the good man "you weren't honest with me about (some secret he's kept), I don't think I can trust you anymore" and break it off ... before ending up with him in the end ...
there are four basic categories of these movies: Christmas (or some other) magic brings people together. Woman leaves big city and finds love and happiness in a small town, often her home town. The mistaken identity/big lie The royal guy meets common American woman. Some overlap between those, but basically it’s almost always one of those plot lines.
I think that's "Lifetime Movies" ... those are "my husband has a secret locked drawer in his desk, maybe I should look in it" type movies.
I don’t mind Hallmark movies where the worst thing that happens is the cookie recipe is lost and the two good looking leads are single. My wife however is more Dexter, Breaking Bad, and anything demented. I’m regularly frightened about my eminent demise.
I share your wife’s interest in complex, imperfect characters … you know, like people are in real life.
I'm shopping a show to Hallmark called Breaking Good, its about a down on his luck HS chemistry teacher who has cancer, and through the help of his former student he is able to afford chemotherapy and beat cancer.
This predated Frozen, but I take your meaning. Our daughter is 26, so we did not deal with multiple renditions of "Let it Go" daily, nor go broke at the "Bibbidy Bobbidy Boutique", like we would have had she been born later. The Mouse doesn't seem to want us anymore - days at the Parks are getting unjustifiable in terms of cost. We are going to Candlelight Processional this year as we have for years (other than the pandemic), but that may be it.
