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How to Ruin Christmas (2020)
Beautiful, fun, rich & effortless
The show effectively reaches the depths of real family pain points and true individual fxck-ups, while maintaining its foundation of humor and beauty, which is also how the main character moves. She's at the center of all of those struggles personally and at some point in the show's timeline, and there is no "gotta love her," moment to balance when she's flat out wrong. It took no work to embrace each character as human, as they weren't presented as oversimplified for good, bad, or ugly (and it gets ugly!). The acting was impeccable and everything is gorgeous. The culturally relevant imagery and audio was rich, from the mixed-language script to the music, hair, and daily clothes to ceremonial garb. I loved it all and look forward to the next episodes/seasons!