The best Hallmark movies are the ones with a premise so bizarre, so improbable, and so stupid that it comes back around like the Ouroboros, to something amazing.
Holiday Hotline may just be the prime example of this concept in action. The "man falls in love with his Butterball Turkey Hotline guru" concept should have been tossed aside in the planning phase. And yet, combine a dumb premise with a deliciously horrible British accent, unsettling old ladies, cottage cheese ad placements, and a whole truckload of saccharine Holiday spirit, and you get a truly one of a kind style of camp. That is when Hallmark gets it right-- when it fumbles so badly it stumbles into something great.
The best Hallmark movies are the ones with a premise so bizarre, so improbable, and so stupid that it comes back around like the Ouroboros, to something amazing.
Holiday Hotline may just be the prime example of this concept in action. The "man falls in love with his Butterball Turkey Hotline guru" concept should have been tossed aside in the planning phase. And yet, combine a dumb premise with a deliciously horrible British accent, unsettling old ladies, cottage cheese ad placements, and a whole truckload of saccharine Holiday spirit, and you get a truly one of a kind style of camp. That is when Hallmark gets it right-- when it fumbles so badly it stumbles into something great.
