Review of An Unexpected Christmas

Lenz is such a pleasure to watch, and she was the reason I tuned in. Here, she seems to be acting double time to try and create some energy in a very dull production. The story is weak, but we all know how that works with Hallmark movies - as long as they stay on track with the basic storyline they don't have to give us much plot. However, they need to give us something more than one actress with sparkling personality. I cannot for the life of me figure out why her love interest Haynes plays his part more like he's watching (bored) with me at home than that he's playing opposite Lenz. Perhaps he got Christmas Ho-Ho mixed up with Christmas Ho-Hum. The team try's valiantly to make up for the dullness by giving us the at-one-time-off-limits LBGTQ relationship, but by the time that second couple comes together I had given up on this one.