FAIR!Įven removing the travel porn aspect of the movie, though, "Christmas in Vienna" is a pretty nice way to spent two hours. I don't know what the budget was for this movie, but you see it all on screen – and whatever they didn't spend on lavish decor and sets, they spent on delicious Austrian pastries and desserts. Even the hotel room Sarah Drew's character stays in is the nicest, most warmly decorated hotel room I've ever seen in my life. So bright! So shiny! So festive! I don't how much money the Austrian Tourism Department put into this film, but they got their money's worth, luxuriating in lavish Christmas displays across the city and gorgeously golden sets. From just the opening shots of the movie, I was warmed with Viennese wonder. ![]() Let's be honest: No offense to Sarah Drew and Brennan Elliott, but the true star of "Christmas in Vienna" is its titular locale: Vienna. First of all, how many crimes require extensive crossword knowledge? But second, and most important: Wait, they allow MURDERS on that channel!? This is very exciting for my "The Crochet Killings" spec script. He also stars alongside Your Hallmark Highness Lacey Chabert in a series of Hallmark Movies & Mysteries flicks called "Crossword Mysteries," about a crossword expert who helps solve murders and crimes. She's falling in love with Brennan Elliott, a Hallmark regular and former Chucky murder victim. She didn't even come close to filling out her entire "Grey's Anatomy" death punch card and earning herself a free coffee! So, in other words, she was a character on "Grey's Anatomy." And most impressively, she got to leave the show alive! Sure, she almost died about four times on the show between a hospital shooting, a stint in the army, a car crash and hypothermia, but honestly that's actually below average for a character on that show. April Kepner on "Grey's Anatomy," where she started off as one of the cast's more annoying characters before developing into a very intriguing, nuanced and relatably human member of the Seattle Grace Hospital staff. If you recognize the actress, by the way, it's probably from Drew's nine-year run as Dr. Well, congratulations on having a great agent, Sarah Drew. Lacey Chabert just got to Rome last holiday season after working her way to practically president of the Hallmark Channel status, but Sarah Drew got to Vienna on her first go-around? She should've had to make 47 movies in a Vancouver backlot before she started earning those Hallmark frequent flyer miles. wait, she gets to go to Vienna on her first Hallmark movie? That seems unfair you gotta earn those travel rights. TIME TO STEP UP YOUR GAME, RICK STEVES!Įveryone welcome Sarah Drew to the world of Hallmark movies. ![]() ![]() hold on a second, I LIKE THIS HALLMARK MOVIE TOO?! What's going on here?! This series is called Matt's Hallmark Holiday Hell, not Matt's Hallmark Holiday Haven! You're ruining my brand, Hallmark, with these increasingly above-competent and charming Christmas movies – like "Christmas in Vienna," which happens to succeed as both a Hallmark movie and as some of the best travel porn I've seen in a long time. "Christmas in Vienna"Īlright, so the first Hallmark movie of the year went surprisingly well, but now let's get back into the snark and sassiness that I'm . These are the never-ending chronicles of Matt's Hallmark Holiday Hell. Three years later, having learned absolutely nothing, he made the mistake all over again. It was a decision he would come to immediately regret, as he was quickly punished assigned to watch a new Hallmark movie a week during the holiday season and write about his discoveries and loss of dignity. 9, 2017, during an OnMilwaukee editorial meeting, culture editor Matt Mueller brought up the craze of Hallmark Christmas movies.
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