Now that I finished all of the Christmas movies form Hallmark and Lifetime, I can dive into the movies from Netflix and Hulu. Hulu gave us just one movie this year, Happiest Season, but it’s better to have one really good movie over 100 terrible ones.
Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has invited her girlfriend, Abby (Kristen Stewart), to her family’s house for Christmas. Unfortunately, Harper has not come out to her parents. Abby spends the next five days with Harper’s crazy family pretending that she is only Harper’s roommate.
Happiest Season has a lot of big names attached to it. It was written and directed by Clea DuVall. The cast has bigwigs like Kristen Stewart, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Alison Brie, Mary Steenburgen, and Victor Garber. It would have been difficult to make a bad movie with this sort of talent attached.
Thankfully, this was a wonderful movie. I don’t think I could have stood another bad movie. There are a few weird moments but these were true to life. Life isn’t always easy and sometimes there are moments you have to traverse that are weird. I think the characters handled it better than I would have.
This is definitely a movie you should watch. Actually, this might be a good annual movie as well. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.