For my final Christmas movie review of 2022, I headed over to the Roku Channel to check out A Merry Single Christmas. I can’t tell you how happy I am that this season is over.

Morgan (Chelsea Gilson) and Liam (Andrew Rogers) have been dating for five years. When he doesn’t propose on their anniversary, as she was expecting, Morgan breaks off the relationship. Sad and depressed, Morgan signs up to attend a Christmas Lonely Hearts Club retreat. Also sad and depressed, Liam signs up for the same retreat. They try to pretend that they don’t know each other but their feelings get the better of them.

It’s movies like this that make me dread the Christmas romcom movie season. The premise sounds like it could be a ton of fun. Morgan saying things like “I’m sorry but what is your name again?” or Liam ‘accidentally’ getting facts about her wrong. They could have had this sort of passive-aggressive flirtation going on. But no. The movie did not do that. Instead of something fun, the movie gave us the usual boring fare, complete with Juliet (Sarah Armstrong), the retreat’s organizer, kicking out any couples that dared to begin a relationship. This retreat is for singles and those singles are forbidden from falling in love with each other.

I wanted to end the 2022 season on a positive note but that isn’t happening. Don’t bother with A Merry Single Christmas. All it will do is make you wish it was a better movie.