When movies change their titles, it makes it very difficult for me to look up the names of the actors in the cast. For example, Lifetime’s Match Made In Mistletoe was originally titled Christmas In Washington. I understand why the producers or whoever may want to change the title of a movie. It just makes my work a little more difficult.

Emily (Natalie Lisinska) is an interior designer tasked with decorating the Belmarian embassy for their annual Christmas charity ball. However, Magnus (Damon Runyan), the new ambassador, doesn’t want the embassy to be overly Christmassy. Will Emily’s holiday cheer melt Magnus’s frozen heart?

I have always given Hallmark movies a hard time. In reality, I think it’s Lifetime that has the awful Christmas movies. Hallmark has emotional cheese but Lifetime is just bad. I’m pretty sure it’s the Lifetime movies that break my brain.

Anyway, let’s talk about Match Made In Mistletoe. The acting is awful. Everyone in the embassy talks like stereotypical “rich people” or “high class” people. It’s annoying. Emily’s mom, Amanda (Kathleen Laskey), talks like a stereotypical mom. She’s either chastising everyone or it’s like she’s talking to a child who is up past their bedtime. And Emily? She has so little confidence in herself that you can feel it in everything she says or does. It’s difficult to listen to any of them talk.

On top of that, everyone makes a BIG GIANT deal out of everything. Did someone take a picture of Magnus and Emily together? Well, he’s definitely going to get fired for even talking to her. Don’t want the embassy to be overly decorated? Sorry, you can’t have one poinsettia plant in your office. And I still don’t know what Big Dan (John Cleland), the “bad guy,” has against Emily. He just hates her with his entire being for seemingly no reason.

Ugh. Whatever. Don’t watch Match Made In Mistletoe. I’m starting to think that maybe no one should watch any Lifetime movies ever.