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Christmas Fictions: Why They're Still a Guilty Pleasure

2022-12-16T18:18:30.754Z


DECRYPTION – Formerly reserved for the afternoons of TF1 and M6, Christmas romances are now a ritual of the first evening parties and the platforms make them loss leaders for their catalogs.


Your Christmas or mine

(Amazon Prime Video),

I hate Christmas

(Netflix),

Love at first sight before Christmas

(TF1)… Cute tales are back.

Every day its triple dose of TV movies and series under the garlands.

We are close to indigestion.

Formerly reserved for the afternoons of TF1 and M6, snowy idylls and returns to the family fold have colonized the first parts of the evening and the platforms make them their loss leaders for their respective catalogs.

No matter the starting synopsis - two lovebirds who arrive by mistake on their in-laws' New Year's Eve, a nurse who has to recruit a fake boyfriend to arrive accompanied by her parents - misunderstandings, happy endings and reconciliations are guaranteed.

"The holiday season is a nest of contradictions"

“Before making the film

Your Christmas or Mine,

I had trouble seeing the appeal of this playful genre, full of humor and the absurd

.

If only filming when, in the middle of summer, you are buried under a big sweater singing traditional hymns

, confides the facetious…

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Source: lefigaro

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