![]() ![]() You could get a kid who learns the miracle of Christmas, but he’s autistic, and the anti-vaxxer miracle is, he learns how to talk. He’s searching for his long-lost father, but it turns out the guy’s a no-good drunk. ![]() What if we took all these tropes, but made them dark? That would be cool.” You could get a guy coming to a small town, but it’s in arid Nevada instead of snowy Maine. Sometimes when watching a Hallmark Christmas movie, you think, “Hmm. There’s something on this list for everyone - it’s just that some of these somethings are much better than others. Christmas-themed scripted miniseries like Dash & Lily (well worth your time) and reality series like the baking competition Sugar Rush aren’t included, and neither are the movies Netflix licenses, but which also air on other platforms. Here are all Netflix’s original movies, ranked from worst to best. But don’t worry: Motion Picture Corporation of America, a major feeder in Hallmark’s Christmas deluge, is also making Netflix movies that are well within the Hallmark formula. While Hallmark’s movies follow a strict formula, Netflix has been smart enough to branch out into more genres, including animation, teen films, and even something akin to an action movie. The streaming service got into the original-Christmas-movie game in 2017. Last year, 50 million viewers tuned into it at one time or another.īut Netflix is actively out to disrupt the TV game in virtually all sectors of programming, including the realm of syrupy holiday entertainment. One of the few success stories on linear cable these days is the Hallmark Channel’s annual Christmas takeover, where the channel only shows its sappy, conventional, shockingly conservative original Christmas movies from Halloween until New Year’s Day. ![]()
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