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‘The Holiday Sitter’ Review: Hallmark’s Gay Rom-Com is Just Okay
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Starring: Jonathan Bennett, George Krissa, Chelsea Hobbs
Directed by: Ali Liebert
Intro: The Holiday Sitter Review
After two years of releasing movies with homosexual supporting characters (2020’s The Christmas House and it’s 2021 sequel), Hallmark Channel has finally released its first holiday rom-com with a leading same-sex couple. Mean Girls’ Jonathan Bennett, who also starred in The Christmas House films, cements his status as the Lgbtq+ King of Christmas in this year’s The Holiday Sitter.
It’s a bold shift for Hallmark, considering Hallmark Media’s tepid relationship with the LGBTQ community. In 2019, Hallmark refused to air an ad with a lesbian couple from wedding company Zola after pressure from anti-LGBTQ groups, a decision they later reversed.
Controversies aside, The Holiday Sitter is a quaint holiday film that’s just as charming, if not also as corny, as any other made-for-tv Christmas movie.
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‘The Holiday Sitter’: Hallmark’s First Christmas Movie Featuring Same-Sex Couple Is For “Other People In The World Who Want To Be Acknowledged”
Starring in a Hallmark Christmas movie today isn’t much different than appearing in Mean Girls 18 years ago, says star Jonathan Bennett: just enjoy he did with Lindsay Lohan in 2004, he “meet cutes” an attractive single in a rom-com type setting in The Holiday Sitter.
This age, however, Bennett is making a little history: the movie debuting Dec. 11 at 8. p.m. marks the first time a Hallmark holiday flick revolves around a same-sex couple. In this case, Bennett plays a confirmed bachelor named Sam who agrees to watch his teen nephew and young niece while their parents are away. He ends up falling for Jason (George Krissa), an easy-on-the-eyes neighbor who’s far more adept at attentive for kids.
“We’re doing all the classic things that we love in Hallmark movies,” Bennett tells Deadline. “We’re doing the tropes that we’ve reach to love and expect from watching Hallmark movies. We’re just turning up the comedy and having two men as the leads in
Jonathan Bennett to Star in Hallmark’s First Gay-Themed Movie
Jonathan Bennett, leading known for his role as Aaron Samuels in Mean Girls, says his upcoming trilogy of films,The Groomsmen, will feature the first gay-centric main storyline in a Hallmark Channel movie.
Bennett, 43, told People that he will play the character of Danny in the films, starring alongside Tyler Hynes and B.J. Britt, who have previously starred in other Hallmark Channel films.
“Playing the character of Danny in The Groomsmen — not only are we telling a story of friendship and love, but…telling a story about a wedding,” he said in an interview at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25.
“This is the first period we’ve had a male lover wedding on Hallmark as the lead storyline,” Bennett said. “And that’s a huge move for the gay community so they can see themselves represented in these stories.”
According to Hallmark, the movie follows “the lives and affectionate relationships of three leading friends of different backgrounds, cultures and sexual orientations…as they each find devote and wedding blis
As a longtime relationship girlie, I romance love love a cheesy Hallmark Channel romance, and their Christmas ones are the best: they inject holiday soul into my veins and require absolutely no critical thinking whatsoever. That’s what I want to be doing all holiday season. No thinking, just vibes.
Unfortunately, us sapphics include largely been missing from the Hallmark holiday romance conversation. Every year, linear people get dozens of movies in which generic looking women in fabulous coats head to small towns to fall in care for with grumpy lumberjacks. And while I love it, every year I can’t help but believe “when’s it going to be our turn?” This year, Hallmark finally gave us their first lesbian Christmas relationship movie, Friends & Family Christmas. It’s everything I cherish about the genre, and there were no bearded men in flannel trying to kiss anyone under the mistletoe.
When Happiest Season was announced, I was so fucking delighted that we were finally getting a sapphic holiday love affair. And I like that movie. But it’s not really the “light Christmas romcom” that I was hoping for. Not every woman-loving woman movie has to have the main conflict revolve around coming