By: Simone (they/them)

I really appreciate all your viewpoints!!

Personally I think the fundamental problem of the film is that it tries to fit itself into a heteronormative genre, instead of redefining it. Assimilation is not the answer. There’s a “Christmas movie” formula that the film awkwardly tries to fit into, as you all so eloquently said already, and the movie could have been so much more...

It would have been better if the creators of this film reimagined the genre and made the movie a safe space for queer people. It would have been nice to have a queer film that celebrated queerness instead of regurgitated internalized and externalized homophobia. Like, a queer film that made queer people feel warm and fuzzy inside, you know?

We really need more queer stories out there that doesn’t try to fit into the cis heteronormative patriarchal white world. While the film does seem to commentate on this, it doesn’t truly succeed in breaking free from it.

And yes, more Aubrey Plaza please. Every scene that had Aubrey Plaza in it was my favorite, she really saved this film.