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God bless Hoopla, as it keeps me from having to fork out money for yet another streaming service. I've often wondered why Hallmark, of all companies, doesn't lean into cutesy Halloween movies. The closest they really seem to have come was when they went all in on the Good Witch series (movies and show) which, at least movie wise, always felt like someone forgot to add in the conflict portion of the story. I'm not asking for scary Halloween from them because, well, duh, but like gimme the Halloween love stories, dammit. They skimp on those in their rush to slog out more Christmas movies and it's always annoyed and baffled me.

So, imagine my surprise when they advertised getting Kimberly J Brown (and her husband) of Halloweentown fame to be in a Halloween movie. Huzzah! I broke out Hoopla and used my bingepass for HallmarkPlus, ready to fire this sucker up only to have it not work. Literally, in 13 minutes of runtime, I had to restart it 25+ times to get that far, and I suspect I only made it that far because I fastforwarded a bit and then went back to try and loop it back. Mm, no. I eventually watched something else (oddly, it also starred the male lead from Haul Out the Halloween), and it was fine and had some Halloween. I let Hallmark know their movie they'd been advertising for awhile was unwatchable, literally, and went about my week. I checked back in yesterday and huzzah, the movie worked!


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I hope this did well enough that Hallmark decides to actually go in on doing Halloween movies more than just throwing Halloween in during an Autumn movie they use to fill airtime before they decide fuck it, it's Christmas. Maybe bring KJB back and let her do something. It was fun seeing her go all Shakespeare loving fiend, but I need moooooooooooore.

Oh, if you're someone who suffers serious secondhand embarrassment, there is a rap at the end because WHY THE FUCK NOT.


Now to crawl into a shower and see if the cramps go away.