With a solid cast of great British and Irish actors (not the same thing), a sweet premise that adds things that are a little different, like a female lead aging out of her preferred profession and male lead who is an academic, and writing that is engaging, relatabe and funny without the contrivance so common in American projects, I am frankly baffled by the low ratings. They even capitulated to the American audience, despite being a Canadian-made film, by having the lead be from Boston (despite the performer being Irish). I guess the isolationist Americans just couldn't get their heads around the accents of the rest of the cast.
Review of The Christmas Ball
