top 10 hallmark christmas movie formulas, ranked:

bb8s:

  1. two strangers pretend to be engaged to appease the wrath of an angry, blonde mother who will comment on the woman’s loneliness throughout christmas dinner 
  2. ordinary new york city girl falls in love with the prince of a small and entirely white european country 
  3. corporate shill learns how to love from a small town business owner running a bookshop/dog park/inn/christmas tree farm
  4. two strangers get stuck in an enchanted vacation home that tricks them into falling in love
  5. an unhappy extremely rich widower hires a woman to be a governess/tutor/party planner for his children in the style of sound of music
  6. two strangers get trapped in a magic elevator and are forced (??) to be unfaithful to their current partners
  7. two corporate shills compete over a promotion and eventually realize they want to fuck on the desk
  8. two traveling strangers get stuck in a snow storm and fall in love in a small, conveniently placed, overly christmasy inn
  9. business woman returns to her hometown for work and reunites with her overly masculine ex boyfriend
  10. person A (talented) enlists help from person B (just hot) to win a floral/ice carving/baking/parade competition