I almost kinda think this movie may have been based on reality. Or at least some sort of tabloid rumor. It just gives me that wink-wink-nudge-nudge type of vibe.

Brian Bright (Marc Blucas) and Melissa Merry (Alison Sweeney) co-host a morning (?) television show. Since they don’t get along off-camera, Bright decides to quit the show. The duo must spend Christmas week in the town of Mistletoe before airing the big announcement about Bright’s departure.

What corporate schlub named their television show “Today with Bright & Merry” instead of something like “Have a Merry & Bright Day”? Doesn’t everyone know that ‘merry and bright’ is the phrase and not ‘bright and merry’? It sounds dumb the wrong way. Also, this movie is named Good Morning Christmas! but at no point does this seem like a morning show. Morning show people do not go out at night because they have to be on-set at like 4AM. And it’s super bright outside when they are filming. And their entire show seems to be one small segment where they talk about what they are going to do. At no point are they on TV showing off the town’s festivities, even though we can clearly see cameramen around filming caroling and whatnot.

Beyond the obvious fakeness of their show, Blucas and Sweeney aren’t terrible actors. They have both been on popular TV shows, even if they weren’t favorite characters. Blucas was Riley on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sweeney plays Sami Brady on Days of Our Lives. They don’t have a ton of chemistry together but I suppose they aren’t completely unbelievable as a couple. I could see them as the ‘formerly hated but now love each other’ type of couple. The relationship just wouldn’t move quite as fast as it does in the movie. (But that is true for all of these movie relationships…)

With all of that in mind, go ahead and watch Good Morning Christmas! It doesn’t stand out among the other Christmas movies but it’s also not completely boring. A perfect example of a ‘just fine’ movie.