![]() This wasn’t abjectly awful, but it was very, very bland, despite Sanchez giving it all she had, and then some, in every scene, which mostly made me more eager to watch Sanchez’s FOX Fantasy Island movie/double episode next month, where I think her energy will play a lot better in a campier setting.The holiday season is the perfect time to binge watch feel good movies that remind you of family, friends, community and love. If nothing else, this movie gave us Sanchez in some ridiculous furry earmuffs dramatically ringing a bell like some Hunchback of Notre Dame third grade play. Of all the things that make no sense at all, this maybe bugged me the most. ![]() I know I would.Īnd why did they decorate the vines? That’s nuts! The lights would warm them, which they very specifically don’t want, and it only makes it harder to do the harvest. You know, the part of the bell that actually makes noise? Though it is also possible that the town intentionally sabotaged the bell so that crazy vineyard owners couldn’t summon them from their homes in the middle of the night to serve as free labor. Of course, he’s smarter than all the townspeople, who apparently couldn’t figure out that their bell didn’t work because it was missing a clapper. I mean, he’s handsome, but it’s a significant plot point that he came to upstate New York in December without a winter coat-it’s possible he’s not a genius. Honestly, what does Declan even bring to this partnership, besides a booty call for Sanchez? He got the date for the harvest wrong, nearly destroying the winery, or so we’re told. Then at the end, their dad’s best friend just gifts them the winery? Like, has the sister been working for free up until now? A second ago it was barely surviving, and now it’s going to support at least two households, assuming Sanchez and Bent live together, one of which will soon be expanding, based on all the baby talk? And what does this guy do that he can give away his business, and take nothing in return? Or are they, in addition to being full-time jobs for the three of them, also going to pay for the father figure’s retirement in Florida? Sanchez better watch her back lest she be taken out by a pack of 10-year-olds forced to wait to open their presents because mom and dad were working, for free, in your fields. These clearly wealthy people rely on “volunteers,” who pay to stay in hotels, to harvest their wine? And even without them, the townsfolk hear this “ancient” bell-shown being held up in the tower by a bike hook, as all historic landmarks are-and just willy nilly come out, fully dressed in the middle of the night, to give up their Christmas and help these, again, obviously wealthy people harvest wine? Lots of disappointed kids in that town. Though it was filmed in Canada, it was just the other side of the border in Niagara at actual vineyards that do make ice wine.īut beyond some technical wine elements, the business side of this movie made absolutely no sense. But that even with that, they still rested most of the drama on yet another overheard misunderstanding was grating.Īs someone who likes wine, though not ice wine, I appreciate they mostly stuck much more closely to reality in both technical winemaking know-how and place, than most such “wine-themed” Christmas movies. That they didn’t just wake up and see it had all worked out. And, hey, at least it was a swingy Christmas song, not public domain Silent Night that folks pretended was “their song.”Īlso liked that the movie had some non-magical moments, like the initial wrong date frost prediction. There were things to like here, like Sanchez’s in-joke skepticism at dancing to Christmas music. Lyriq Bent was also a solid lead, and we’ll see him again later this season on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries for Our Christmas Journey with Hollie Robinson Peete. ![]() ![]() Roselyn Sanchez is very charming and I love the diversity here, including all the Latinx elements she brings to her character, though it’s a little suspect that her fairly close in age “sister” has no accent at all, unlike Sanchez, and her mother’s comes and goes. Where to Watch?: Lifetime will re-air it in this, and future seasons It’s also available to purchase on iTunes or to watch, with ads, for a limited time, on (cable login, required)
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