I had a whole post here but Blogger erased it. Content warning: cancerKathy (Lacey Chabert) is not ready to move on yet after the death of her husband, no matter how many gentle hints or how much well-meaning advice she gets from her small-town, nosy-ass neighbors. Then she wraps a scarf around a weirdly detailed himbo ice sculpture and suddenly she is responsible for a whole new living being. Jack (Dustin Milligan) has only been alive a couple of minutes but he already knows two things: he loves Kathy and television is the greatest invention. Things he doesn't understand include public nudity, the melting point of ice, and breaking and entering. That last one brings him into the crosshairs of the local sheriff (Craig T. Robinson), desperate to be taken seriously. Kathy has to keep her snowman on ice before the fuzz turns up the heat.
You see what you people have done to me? This is not my bag at all, and I needed a goddamn Sherpa to help me navigate all the references (hint: if it seems like a weird non-sequitur, it's a reference) to other Netflix holiday movies. I didn't even know they made that many!
Chabert has made a career of doing these and honestly, good for her. Milligan I did not recognize but he was in Schitt's Creek and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency so I have definitely seen him. It did seem a little like a Brooklyn Nine-Nine skit because of Robinson and Joe Lo Truglio as the cops, but I wasn't mad at it. It's pretty wholesome.
Anyway, this is a VERY SPECIFIC genre and chances are good, you already know if it's for you or not. If you're familiar with my rants about the Born Sexy Yesterday trope, this is another example. And no, it is not less creepy if Sexy Baby Brain is a dude. It's on Netflix.
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