{"id":64220,"date":"2025-12-29T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=64220"},"modified":"2025-12-29T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:01:30","slug":"karens-rantstelevision-nobody-can-count-in-christmas-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/karens-rantstelevision-nobody-can-count-in-christmas-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"KAREN’S RANTS\/TELEVISION: NOBODY CAN COUNT IN CHRISTMAS MOVIES!"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOBODY CAN COUNT IN CHRISTMAS MOVIES!<\/h1>\n

Since I wrote so much about Hallmark\u2019s holiday movies in my Christmas column, I figure this is the perfect time to follow it up with my major complaint about almost all of them. And that is\u2026they never portray passage of time<\/em> right!<\/p>\n

I honestly began writing this<\/em> article\u2026a year ago! And now, after watching so many this season, I\u2019m upset about the topic all over again!<\/p>\n

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The movies will state something like this, but then have scenes with TWENTY days left until the holiday!<\/p><\/div>\n

It happens every year. Well, at least since 2017, when Mr. X and I began viewing them. He initiated our new-ish tradition of watching tons of Hallmark holiday movies because we don\u2019t decorate or have get-togethers anymore. We never seem to have enough time, (nor energy<\/em>!,) these days for everything we used to do for decades. Some of those movies are good, most are pretty bad to awful, and a very few are actually wonderful! So that latter group make seeing them a worthwhile activity. (I lauded the recent best ones in that previous article, which you can still read right here: itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-merry-christmas-2025<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But what drives me crazy in almost all<\/em> of the films is that usually-erroneous portrayal of time<\/em> in them.\u00a0 They never seem to know exactly how many days it is till Christmas! I\u2019ve never seen one movie do it right! Can no one count<\/em> in these movies? A character will say something like, \u201cWell, we have only three days to do our shopping for Christmas morning,\u201d and then we\u2019ll see them do activities for at least five<\/em> more days!<\/p>\n

It seriously happens in just about every TV movie that we see at this time of year. And trust me\u2014we\u2019ve watched at least two hundred of them over the years! And it\u2019s not just Hallmark who does it wrong\u2014we\u2019ve noticed those errors on other channels, as well, such as UP, GAF, the CW, and even the obscure Bounce TV.<\/p>\n

The weird thing is that\u2026sometimes they even have the days written out <\/em>in a scene or two! At first I thought that revelation was really helpful because the timing just had<\/em> to be correct in those, right? But even then it\u2019s usually at least a bit<\/em> wrong.<\/p>\n

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But they’ll show us the characters doing NINE days worth of activities!<\/p><\/div>\n

Would it be so difficult to just get those numbers right? If they have to mention the days or weeks until Christmas, why can\u2019t they just number them correctly? I\u2019m beginning to take it personally, because many other viewers would just let it go. But I cannot. It\u2019s such a little thing to have the dialogue be mathematically correct that I feel they\u2019re doing it wrong on purpose at this point.<\/p>\n

Someone\u2014the writers, proofreaders, script supervisor, continuity person, editor, director, producers, and even the actors themselves\u2014should catch all these mistakes! (On my very first guest-starring role on a national TV show, I caught something like that in the script, and even as we were shooting the scene, I told the director that my character wouldn\u2019t be in it! I now sort-of regret causing myself that omission, but how was I the only person on such a professional production to have realized it?! Leave it to the newbie. I think that Hallmark needs me on their productions, in any<\/em> capacity, don\u2019t you?)<\/p>\n

And why is the deadline<\/em> for everything\u2014stories, newspaper articles, pictures, payments, buying a new house, getting a job, you name it\u2014in most of these stories exactly on Christmas Day??? Who does<\/em> that? The only Christmas deadline in real<\/em> life is for the gifts! They must be bought, wrapped, and delivered by then. Dot, dash, end of story.<\/p>\n

And, actually, that\u2019s the end of this<\/em> story, as well. You get the drift. Now, please excuse me while I go start working on a believable<\/em> holiday romance screenplay, so that we\u2019ll all have something correct time-wise to see in a couple of years!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOBODY CAN COUNT IN CHRISTMAS MOVIES! Since I wrote so much about Hallmark\u2019s holiday movies in my Christmas column, I figure this is the perfect time to follow it up with my major complaint about almost all of them. And that is\u2026they never portray passage of time right! I honestly began writing this article\u2026a year<\/p>\n

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