As I’ve said before, 2020 is the year of diverse Christmas movies. We have had gay couples, black couples, and Jewish couples. Now Lifetime has given us an Asian-led movie.

Suzy (Jacky Lai) is an architect trying to win a promotion at work. When she comes home for the holiday, she finds herself participating in a Gingerlicious Baking Competition with a classmate from high school, Billy (Tony Giroux). Can she overcome her feelings of inadequacies to accomplish her dreams?

I love that there are so many diverse movies this year. Everyone deserves to see themselves in a cheesy Christmas movie. They may not be great movies but representation is never a bad thing.

With that said, A Sugar & Spice Holiday is another movie that tries to put too much into it. The whole movie is named and themed after Suzy baking with her grandmother. Then they try to force in this work promotion with a looming deadline that keeps getting pushed up. If they had only focused on the baking, this could have been a pretty good movie. The work stuff felt completely irrelevant.

Beyond that, the movie isn’t too terrible. The acting is decent. (With the exception of the baking competition judges.) If you can ignore the work-related stuff, the plot isn’t particularly bad. Is it worth watching? Yeah, give it a try. But don’t eat the stinky tofu!