Cosy season is upon us which means I’ll be watching Nora Ephron movies on repeat. It’s the perfect time of year to watch ‘When Harry Met Sally’, ‘You’ve Got Mail’, and ‘Sleepless in Seattle’, but there’s another genre I can’t get enough of.Once the temperatures drop and the evenings get darker, all I want to do is watch Hallmark movies.
You don’t need to focus on the plot, you know exactly what is going to happen from the first scene and they’re short. We need more 90-minute films in our lives and if they’re all on the Hallmark channel then so be it. Netflix has also helped this new obsession with its back catalog of slightly cringey romantic comedies. I’m not talking about films like ‘Set It Up’ or ‘How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days’, but ones like ‘Falling Inn Love’, ‘The Princess Switch’, and ‘Falling for Christmas’.Hallmark movies are reportedly good for your health, “The human brain loves patterns and the predictability is cognitively rewarding.
“The movies provide simplistic solutions to all those stressors that the holidays can bring: family conflict, isolation, or financial pressures.” “While few of us are going to switch places with a doppelgänger, save Christmas for ourselves or someone else, marry a prince/princess, fall for a person who turns out to be a billionaire, or find true love in the span of an hour, still allow us to experience the emotions associated with social validation, the yearning for connection, compassion, and empathy.