Hulu cements its status as this year’s much-needed rom-com Mvp with director/co-writer Clea Duvall’s Happiest Season, the streamer’s Christmas rom-com-dram starring Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, and Aubrey Plaza. After the smashing success of its Groundhog Day-at-a-desert-wedding summer hit Palm Springs, Hulu became the talk of Film Twitter with its starry, splashy, Sony-produced holiday love story. And for good reason.
Per Slate, Happiest Season marks a major moment in movie history: it is apparently the first major studio-backed romantic comedy centered around a queer couple. It is a trailblazing enterprise, but more importantly it’s just quality holiday fare.
Happiest Season is a surprisingly affecting tale of family, secrets and lies, all the best ingredients in any good festive jaunt. Following an adorable pre-credits establishing montage that tracks the inception and gestation of their relationship in illustrated picture book form, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalist Harper Caldwell (Davis...
Per Slate, Happiest Season marks a major moment in movie history: it is apparently the first major studio-backed romantic comedy centered around a queer couple. It is a trailblazing enterprise, but more importantly it’s just quality holiday fare.
Happiest Season is a surprisingly affecting tale of family, secrets and lies, all the best ingredients in any good festive jaunt. Following an adorable pre-credits establishing montage that tracks the inception and gestation of their relationship in illustrated picture book form, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalist Harper Caldwell (Davis...
- 12/6/2020
- by Alex Kirschenbaum
- Trailers from Hell
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