By the time Abby considers getting out of the family house (again, like in Get Out), I wasn't fully invested in whether she came back. An early scene with the two sitting on a roof is asked to do too much work establishing Harper as a loving partner and explaining why they're happy together. It was because Harper isn't nearly as well-rounded as Abby as a character. maybe they should break up? I never reached that point with Happiest Season, but I wobbled a few times.Īnd it wasn't because the characters were complex and flawed (though they are). Nobody wants to follow a romance that you sense will end with a couple together while increasingly thinking that. But the particular ways Harper treats Abby, and the situations she puts Abby in, strain the necessary part of this story in which you root for this couple. That's emphatically not because she's not out to her parents - the film, directed by Clea Duvall, is sensitive about explaining explicitly that people not being out to their families doesn't reflect poorly on them, and it doesn't mean they don't love their partners. Her motives are a little hard to understand some of the time. The biggest challenge is that the character of Harper is. There are some comedic set pieces, there's some warm family business, and there's Aubrey Plaza playing Harper's ex, Riley, who plays a significant role in revealing how Harper got into this situation in the first place.
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Once Abby gets there and understands the situation, she starts explaining it on the phone to her friend John (played by Schitt's Creek's Dan Levy), who coaches her about how to handle it, much like Lil Rel coached Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out. Everybody is different, after all, and a little bit of going with the flow is very much expected in holiday movies and romcoms and especially in holiday romcoms. why would you bring your girlfriend home if you weren't out, and why would she go?), and they're not terribly convincing, but that's okay. Now, the film goes to some lengths to try to create circumstances under which this could happen (because. It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders Dan Levy 'Leans Into Joy' On 'Schitt's Creek' The complication is this: Not only has Harper's family not met Abby, but they don't know that Harper is gay, so when she brings Abby home, it's on the pretext that Abby is just her roommate and pal. The family will have to find some way to welcome Abby and ring in the holidays, right? And the sisters will all have to figure out a way to love each other? And we'll learn that all these people have their own sadnesses? Sure. Harper (Mackenzie Davis) is bringing her girlfriend Abby (Kristen Stewart) home to meet the family: father (Victor Garber), mother (Mary Steenburgen), nasty striver sister (Alison Brie), and needy middle sister (Mary Holland). Happiest Season on Hulu is a variation on this oft-used theme, not that there's anything wrong with that. The kids come home for the holidays, and they have their own things going on: they're not ready to reveal a breakup, or they're not happy about running into an ex, or they're looking to introduce a new partner for the first time.
The loving parents are having some kind of troubles (medical? financial? marital?) that they haven't fully shared. The holiday family romcom tends to go a certain way. The big family in The Happiest Season includes Burl Moseley, Alison Brie, Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Mary Holland, Victor Garber and Mary Steenburgen.
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