by Eden
It does sound like a setup for any of your Hallmark movies, but the Norwegian series Home For Christmas (Hjem til jul) season 1 is weirder and more sexually frank than the plot description would indicate.
Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is a food writer who writes about her life as a farm wife and mother in Connecticut. Except that’s all lies. When returning war hero Jefferson Jones (Dennis Morgan), expresses his affection for her recipes and the stories of her life, it’s decided that Elizabeth and her family host Jefferson at her farm for Christmas. You can already see how this will not work out.
There is nothing more Christmas than comics! All of these shows were created by indie comics creators and/or had indie comics creators work on them or are close enough to being indie comics creators that we’re going to count them.
“Christmas” and “Rod Serling” seem like an odd combination, or at least one that will end up being unsettling. Mostly, though, both of his Christmas-themed tales are about kindness and hope for humanity, even in the face of the darkness.
The only thing you’ll remember about this movie is the baby. I am (mostly) joking, but as many times as I’ve seen Happy Christmas (and I quite like it), I never really remember, specifically, what happens. But that’s because “what happens” isn’t the point.