"In 12 Dates of Christmas, the
protagonist has to go on a date with Zack Morris every day for 12 days
because she is sprayed by a magical perfume, which I’m assuming is how Ayuhuasca works. She repeats every day, Groundhog Day-style,
thinking that if she just finds out what she is doing wrong, the time
loop will stop. It takes her about ten days to realize the only reason
she became obsessed with marrying her ex-boyfriend is because her mom
died. At this point, yes, I cried. I, a 29-year-old man, watching a
holiday movie with magical perfume, cried. Because this happened to me,
and because it caused me paralyzing anxiety in real life, because grief
makes you do things you normally wouldn’t, because grief makes you
weird."
How Made-for-TV Movies Help Me Survive the Holidays by Daniel Zomparelli is funny and good and made me feel better today. I greatly dislike Christmas and Christmas media which is why the descriptions of those movies added a particular tension to the reading. My thing is watching British police procedurals, granting the characters/actors nicknames and getting real weird about it.
I miss my dad.
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