Talkie Tuesday: It Was Always You

 

"You don't regret the things you do - you regret the things you don't do."

 

Hello everyone!

 

I'm taking a mini break from what our two favourite Scotsmen were doing this weekend (hint: it has to do with sheep) because I kind of haven't had the time to catch up on the show yet.

 

Sorry Men in Kilts!

 

BUT.

 

I did actually watch a movie not too long ago, another Hallmark production as a matter of fact, which I thought could be an interesting topic for discussion.

 

To be fair, however, Hallmark hasn't exactly vowed me this calendar year yet, which is kind of funny and sad at the same time since I usually find at least one or two movies up until this point which I genuinely enjoy and giggle over.

 

Alas, not in 2021, it seems.

 

It Was Always You promised a heck of a lot, but to me personally didn't deliver.

 

Talkie Tuesday: WCTH Home for Christmas

"Home is truly where the heart is."

Hello everyone!

And so with my final Christmas-themed movie review, we say farewell not only to December, but to 2019.

Hopefully the year has treated you well, and you've made all the plans you need for 2020. Fingers crossed they all work out for you!

In the meantime, it's time to make a Christmas pit-stop one last time with our movies.

Come January it's back to Hogwarts (or not Hogwarts, as may be the case with the final stages of Mr. Potter's journey), so let's try and soak up all that's left of this Christmas spirit, shall we? After all, it'll be a full year before we can get into it again.

What better way to say goodbye than with When Calls the Heart?

The show that captured hearts around the globe with its message and persevering spirit, and which keeps going despite every obstacle and hurdle thrown its way.

Because even and especially in When Calls the heart, it's time to come Home for Christmas.

Talkie Tuesday: A Summer Romance

"Live each day with courage, take pride in your work;

Talk less, say more, and always finish what you start."

Hello everyone!

I may have to apologise in advance, but I think there's going to be an influx of Hallmark movie channel reviews on this blog for a little bit. I've sort of made a mini list of all the stuff I want to see from their lineup this summer, and I started yesterday so I figure I might as well put my viewing to good use.

Of course, not everyone is going to enjoy this, just like not everyone is going to enjoy the fact that Hallmark is pushing out a new movie pretty much every week.

The thing is, when you have such a massive amount of media, there's bound to be some repetition along the way.

It might have happened in my choice for yesterday's movie night as well, though at the very list I picked a new production seeing as it only aired this weekend, but I didn't get the chance to watch it until yesterday, sadly.

And since it's still summer, why not settle for A Summer Romance?

Talkie Tuesday: WCTH The Greatest Christmas Blessing

"Love is the greatest gift of all."

Hello everyone!

New year, new blog posts, and I'm back with the very first after taking a little bit of a break just to clear my head and reassess everything.  

I'll admit, I was debating giving up blogging, at least for a while, but somehow or other this has gotten under my skin and I can't just let it go without some sort of a really good reason, of which I have none at the moment.

Besides, it kind of feels weird to think I wouldn't be typing this up twice a week, I'll admit.

I've gotten used to it!

But anyway, I digress.

On New Year's Eve, because I'd been kind of busy over Christmas, I finally sat down and watched the movie I knew would bring me to tears. How could it not, when viewers around the globe are still hissing at Hallmark for what happened with Jack Thornton?

When Calls the Heart: The Greatest Christmas Blessing was only a small consolation.

Talkie Tuesday: When Calls the Heart

"Captures your heart - and never lets go."

Hello everyone!

So I was debating whether or not to write about this tonight, but then decided that this is probably one of the hottest topics on the internet at the moment next to the new Royal Baby (congratulations to the Duke and Duchess!).  

Of course you'll know, if you follow my blog, that I will occasionally wrap up a season I'd been watching by reviewing it in one blog post and then moving along afterwards, so this should be no surprise.

I'm talking, of course, about When Calls the Heart.

Now if you have no idea what this is, I might enlighten you through the blog post, or I might not if you're not interested. In any event, it is a Hallmark Channel series which just wrapped up its fifth season, and BOY, was it an EXPLOSIVE wrap-up.

I suppose I better stop blabbering and get to it, right?

Talkie Tuesday: When Calls the Heart Christmas Wishing Tree

"Maybe miracles do happen."

Hello everyone!

Hope you've all had a very merry Christmas, and that there's an even better New Year on the way!

Last year around this time, I watched and then blogged about the When Calls the Heart Christmas special. So when news broke that this year would ALSO mark another two-hour episode (or one hour and a half sans commercials) for the Hallmark Channel's hit series, well, I couldn't just ignore it now, could I?

The answer to that would be no, especially since I absolutely LOVE the Canadian West saga by Janette Oke which this show is based off on. Of course there are quite a few changes (and even the Return to Canadian West books aren't exactly the same) but that doesn't mean I haven't fallen in love with the show, because I have. There's something about stories from the frontier, from a different time, when life seemed to be simpler in a lot of ways, that always gets me going.

So here we go, another year almost done, another Christmas episode to review, which means that without further ado we are moving directly into When Calls the Heart: The Christmas Wishing Tree!

Talkie Tuesday: When Calls the Heart Christmas

"Christmas comes but once a year."

Hello everyone!

So it took more than just one day which it usually does for me to finally find a good working link where I could watch the Christmas special When Calls the Heart put up for this holiday season. 

Now I've already written about the show and the books, I think, but in any event I shall check and link all my older posts down below as is my custom when I'm trying to make sense of everything that's come before (and at this point, trust me, it looks as though the only way for me to keep track is by using keywords all around).

In any event, however, I managed to watch the hour and a half special which I had honestly thought would be shorter, but luckily for me it wasn't!

I've missed these characters and their everyday problems, because the thing that initially drew me to the show wasn't the drama or anything of the sort, but what a person would have to get through in an average day on the Canadian frontier.

Plus, I will admit that I have a bit of a crush on Constable Thornton.

Talkie Tuesday: When Calls the Heart

Hello everyone!

Back to series this week, and I think I'm going to be doing a lot of those as the show seasons race towards their final episodes; I may actually dedicate a whole week-blog session to the finales to the series I watch, but I'm still debating on that. What do you think? In any event, this show season has seen some others come and go with being shorter in production sense (only eight or ten episodes, which is definitely a far cry from the usual twenty-two or twenty-three episode orders the shows normally get), but the one that premiered this Sunday on Hallmark channel has come close to my heart during its first season last year when I accidentally stumbled upon it: When Call the Heart. 

Now, you may remember a blog post I did way back when I first started this, and I talked about a book series of the same name, written by author Janette Oke. I liked the books and was quite happy to hear they were developing a TV series, especially since Hallmark had already produced the movies of Love Comes Softly and other titles of the same sequence, which they did beautifully (I do admire Hallmark for the family-oriented productions). I was confused with the season one premiere episode, however, since it was heavily based on the first novel, but didn't give us much of a conclusion (or Stephen Amell in a Mountie uniform, dang it!). The continuation, however, was worth the watch.