With all the movies to already watch at the end of the season, I never had time for Hallmark's non-stop stream of holiday films. This gave my wife and I a chance to actually sit down and watch some of them. For a while I've always joked that Hallmark's Christmas fare was better categorized as, "A mishmash of contemporary romance movies that happen to take place in December," but we've been pleasantly surprised with what we've seen so far. What it lacks in stereotypical Hollywood larger-than-life sensationalism, it makes up for by being incredibly down to Earth. It's a very nice change of pace.