The Hallmark of a Cheesy Movie

Hallmark movies.  Cheesy Hallmark movies.  I think I have watched at least twenty already this season and it’s only November 17.  Oh I know they all have the same plot.  Plot?  well….for the most part ‘professional woman leaves her big important job in the city to find a reason to go back to her small hometown.  Searching for her father.  On business – to close a big deal.  To visit her widowed mother.  To learn about her roots AND she has to stay because she ran into a tree with her car which,  conveniently, won’t be ready until after Christmas. Or the weather has landed all the planes flying out.  Or she’s desperately needed to help with the town’s traditional Christmas festival or Christmas concert or town square tree lighting.  Oh yes…the male is usually the town handyman and seen, found and run into everywhere with a secret professional degree that he is not using.    Of course, she is always keeping some deep dark secret that doesn’t get revealed until she stops hating the male protagonist (that is usually her high school sweetheart and/or ex fiance).  They always hate each other until finally….they don’t.  But then her deep park secret is revealed and one or the other feels betrayed and leaves and then they have a change of heart and come back and everyone lives happily ever after.  I have watched a few that have deviated from this formula but they all end well.
AND I think that is why I like them so much.  There is not one that I haven’t teared up at some point.  I am a sucker for nostalgia and sentiment and I make no apologies.  No one gets shot at or stabbed.  There are no riots.  No politics.  No affairs.  No sex (shown on screen).  Actually it doesn’t even hint that this might be taking place. Just good, down home, corny-ness.  The homes are over decorated and the town is over decorated (even by my standards). Everyone is working at jobs that they love – that I would love.  Running a bed and breakfast or an inn.  A bakery.  A christmas store.  A ski resort.  A tree farm.  A horse ranch. A farm. My own personal favorite  – the Christmas designer. These characters chop down their own Christmas trees.  Are ALWAYS drinking hot cocoa.  Skating.  Did I mention that the male is usually heavily involved in some profound charity that is changing people’s lives??  I mean what’s not to love?
I’m looking for corny in my life (to steal a quote from one of my favorite holiday movies).  Seriously,  2020 needs some down home run-of-the-mill cheesy Christmas spirit.  These movies remind me of all my favorite Bing Crosby, Johnny Mathis, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kenny G christmas music which I have been listening to for three weeks now. There are no Christmas police right?  Forbidding me to enjoy the season before December 1?   If I have to hole up in my house and not socialize then I will watch whatever movies I want and drink all the hot cocoa and listen to all the music tunes and have my house totally decorated and have as many twinkle lights as this house can power AND I’ll drink eggnog if I want. 
Thank you Hallmark for keeping me sane.  Love,  a fan.