Sigh

Watching a Hallmark movie last night. Female character says "I broke up with Vanessa six months ago." Later, she tries to pick up some random woman at a restaurant. I changed the show. Wokeness has hit Hallmark.  

Okay, before anybody thinks I'm rejecting or being unkind to a certain segment of the population, I'm really making fun of Hallmark. If you haven't seen the Holderness family videos on YouTube where they parody Hallmark, you are missing some laughs (don't go down the rabbit hole too much on those, but a couple will do). 

In this particular Hallmark movie, I think they were trying to check all the boxes anyway: the three daughters were adopted, so one was Asian (this helped with casting, so they didn't have to find lookalike actresses); she was married to a black fellow; the newfound love was black, too, and this was set in Natchez, MS, for the Southern demographic, which meant a lot of references to things to make sure we knew they were in the South (jambalaya, which I'm not sure is a Natchez thing) and cornbread (yes, a Southern thing).

Hallmark was checking the boxes because they have gotten dissed for being too white. I would diss them for being too unrealistic and formulaic and for bad writing. However, sometimes they surprise you: The Color of Rain is worth watching. Also Five Minutes is kind of nice. Anything where the heroine falls in love unknowingly with a prince is not.  Sometimes they are good until the end, where the heroine has to fall in love and get together with the male lead even if it makes no sense.