I’ve been overdosing on Heartwarming Holiday Movies from the Hallmark Channel. In past years I’ve soaked in a few Lifetime movies, but I’ve decided that when it comes to Christmas Movies, Hallmark is Wendy’s and Lifetime is McDonald’s. Sure, they’re both the film equivalent of fast food, but one is a little bit more square and a little bit more made to order. Lifetime movies usually involve getting screwed over by one man and loved by another, whereas Hallmark films seem to be slightly less misandrous.
All that being said, I still have a few bones to pick with the latest Hallmark Movie “The Note“. While I realise it’s meant as a bit of Christmas Candy fluff, I nonetheless feel the need to let the writer know a few things:
- Do your research. Baptists don’t have bishops who reassign pastors to different churches. Neither do they “christen” babies. Baptist churches stand alone, and ministers are offered new pulpits when search committees visit them. Babies are “dedicated” in the Baptist church. (Note to Friday Night Lights: This applies to you, too. Baptists do NOT sprinkle-baptise their babies.)
- I realise you may be an older person out of touch with the lingo, but when talking about emails, people say “inbox”. I’m a dirty-minded gal, so I laughed out loud when Genie Francis said she had over 200 emails in her box. Must be mighty uncomfortable.
- Big TV & Movie Pet Peeve Alert. I absolutely cannot stand it when one character calls another on the phone and says “turn on the tv” only to have the person in question flip on their television to see the pertinent program. IN REAL LIFE THERE ARE AT MINIMUM 7 CHANNELS. That’s if you don’t have cable or satellite. Some people have 500 channels. How hard is it to have three extra words, ie. “turn on the tv to channel six”??? See how easy that was?
I know none of these are probably that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, but those touches are important to me as both a viewer and writer. When you don’t take the time to make your story realistic in those small details it makes me feel as though you don’t truly value the process.
Oh, and this is beside the point but man, Ted McGinley is not aging well.
Just Another Pretty Farce 
Re: FNL — are the Taylors supposed to be Baptists? I just figured they must be Methodists or even Episcopalians. Have we ever been told that they’re Baptists?
I may be remembering incorrectly but it sticks in my mind that there was a scene in Season 1 where they were in church with the Garritys and some other folks in the town.
They showed the front of the church and the sign said it was a Baptist church.
I may be remembering incorrectly, though.
I do remember an ep in which lots of characters went to lots of churches, but I can’t recall which the Taylors went to. Oh, and thinking back over the christening episode, I vaguely remember now that a couple of folks in the church were crossing themselves, so I’m gonna go with Episcopalian and not Methodist at all. Unless they just might be Catholic, but I gotta say that most Catholics I know have some sort of religious art up on the walls, and the Taylors don’t, that we’ve been shown.
Friday Night Lights is a wonderful show! This is yet another in a long list of shows that my sister has recommended and that I have loved. Never, never question my sister’s taste in t.v.!
P.S. I thought that the sign said Baptist outside the Taylor’s church, too.