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Happiest Season is a 2020 romance comedy film, directed by Clea DuVall, starring Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis and Mary Steenburgen.
- 165 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
- posts span Nov 15, 2020 to Aug 18, 2026
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60 of 178 · most liked firstDECEMBER 16 I found HAPPIEST SEASON a depressing-ass entry in the lesbian Christmas movie canon, despite the amazing cast, and I think Kristen Stewart should have ended up with Aubrey Plaza, but my god it has some gems on its soundtrack. I’ve been listening to this one nonstop the past week
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie that inspired this prompt: The Matrix Resurrections, which I was watching for the first time. My answer to this prompt: The Happiest Season.
neutral · AI labelView post →Haven’t tried a lesbian Christmas movie since Happiest Season upset me so much. Let’s see how this goes.
negative · AI labelView post →I still believe the movie Happiest Season should have ended with Abby leaving Harper for Riley.
negative · AI labelView post →We got a trifecta tonight in Denver sports. Thinking Christmas for the movie game which needs 4 options. 3 wins - I watch Tokyo Godfathers 2 wins - I watch Happiest Season 1 win - I watch A Sudden Case of Christmas 0 wins - I watch Black Christmas #GoAvsGo #MileHighBasketball #BroncosCountry
neutral · AI labelView post →Some #promosky heading into the holidays. What holiday movie are you rewatching? Me? Happiest Season - hoping Kristen Stewart picks Aubrey Plaza this time 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ 🎮 Video games 🧱 Lego 🗯️ Comics 🎭 Musicals 📚 Reading 📝 Writing 🍝 Foodie 👩🏫 Linguistics / language acquisition 21+ pls and thank you
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: 'Happiest Season' was originally intended for theatrical release but with the pandemic affecting the movie exhibition business, Sony opted to sell the U.S. distribution rights to Hulu while retaining the international distribution rights. (IMDB) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 77th Birthday to the great Victor Garber, Emmy/Tony-nominated Canadian actor and singer, acclaimed for roles in film, television, and theater, such as GODSPELL, LIGHT SLEEPER, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, EXOTICA, JEFFREY, TITANIC, MILK, SICARIO, HAPPIEST SEASON, ALIAS, and DAMN YANKEES, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →Be with me... I'm about to watch "Happiest Season" with my very loving, very accepting parents but it's the first full queer film I've ever watched with them
neutral · AI labelView post →How do we Tuesday at the Pole the week before Christmas? Dinner theater at home. I’m cooking hibachi and the movie is Happiest Season - a new favorite of ours. Time to swap the Santa hat for a chef cap 🎅🏻👨🏼🍳
positive · AI labelView post →Loved Happiest Season, but she deserved her own movie. Or Kristen Stewart should have run away with her, like either one.
positive · AI labelView post →'Nightbitch' Poster - First Look at Amy Adams in This Fall's Darkly Comic Horror Movie. cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/11884167 > > From Searchlight Pictures, the Amy Adams horror movie Nightbitch is coming to theaters December 6, 2024, and the film’s official poster has been unleashed this week. > > > > ... > > > > Nightbitch is rated “R” for “language and some sexuality.” The “darkly comic horror film” was directed by Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood). > > > >…
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ll say it every year: If you’re looking for a great Christmas movie you maybe haven’t seen or heard of, Happiest Season on Hulu is so good. It’s become an annual staple in our house. I affectionately refer to it by its obvious elevator-pitch name: Lesbian Christmas.
positive · AI labelView post →Happiest Season truly is the gay Christmas horror movie from hell 🙃
negative · AI labelView post →With Christmas already being crammed down our throats for the past month+ I will send out this warning, do not watch Happiest Season on Netflix or you will likely be left annoyed by the final arc of the movie that ends in a thoroughly unsatisfying way
negative · AI labelView post →Cooked for @luxastarte.bsky.social and my mother-in-law, who, from our suggestions list, chose Happiest Season, the KStew lesbian holiday movie, as our festive viewing. Small but GAY celebration.
neutral · AI labelView post →ok it’s time for a Dan Levy holiday movie double feature, first up Good Grief then ending with Happiest Season #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Spending the evening watching 'The Happiest Season' because on awful days you've got to let yourself have a treat ... and my treat is a Christmas movie that has both KStew and Aubrey Plaza in blazers.
positive · AI labelView post →Happiest Season is such a great Christmas movie. I love it more every year. There should be a sequel, but for a MLM couple.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching 'Happiest Season' and it still annoys me that Kristen Stewart ends up with Mackenzie Davis and not Aubrey Plaza in this movie.
negative · AI labelView post →Decided to rewatch Happiest Season (my first Christmas film of the year, then back to my 2024 catch-up) and I still think Kristen Stewart’s Abbie should’ve end up with Aubrey Plaza’s Riley. Other than that, I love it. I need a gay best friend like Dan Levy’s John.
positive · AI labelView post →I just realized I forgot to talk about how, and I do NOT recall how this came up, but in therapy last week I started screaming about the movie Happiest Season and my therapist was screaming with me and it was great
neutral · AI labelView post →Happiest Season. Homophobic ass movie
negative · AI labelView post →My Christmas tradition is yelling at Kristen Stewart for choosing her walking red flag manipulative gaslighting republican girlfriend over Dr. Aubrey Plaza while I wrap presents, and as fun as it is it's been five years since Happiest Season came out - can we get another lesbian Christmas movie?
negative · AI labelView post →About to start my yearly rewatch of Happiest Season🎄 I really need more lesbian Christmas movie recommendations though bc I get upset every year that she doesn’t end up with Aubrey Plaza 🫠
negative · AI labelView post →My 51st film of #52FilmsByWomen for 2024 was a rewatch of “Happiest Season”, the 2020 film directed by Clea DuVall and starring Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis. Don’t let your holiday season go by without streaming it on Hulu.
positive · AI labelView post →To no one's surprise, the Patreon movie night is going to be a watch of Happiest Season!!!! Wednesday, December 18th at 8pm ET on our Discord. You can join any paid tier of the Patreon to watch with us!
neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched family Christmas film shoe-in Happiest Season. The Pretty in Pink of Christmas movies cos Abby defo should have hooked up with Riley not Harper #firstpost
negative · AI labelView post →So far this weekend I’ve watched: • Krampus 🎄👻 • Happiest Season 🎄♥️ • Single All the Way 🎄♥️ • Our Little Secret 🎄♥️ Great start to my favorite movie season. More queer Christmas Romance movies needed though.
positive · AI labelView post →Happiest Season is the sapphic hallmark movie, also starring Kristen Stewart, basically Kristen Stewart is carrying the entire Sapphic canon on her back like Atlas if Atlas only had to carry 2 or 3 rocks
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey, it's this month's schedule for Friday Flicks! This month, my co-conspirator and I have programmed Fassbinder's most gorgeous and lurid melodrama Lola, Errol Morris's first film Gates of Heaven, the diverting romcom Happiest Season from Clea DuVall, and Robert Altman's masterful Gosford Park.
neutral · AI labelView post →When i see a Happiest Season reaction i dont get why the rage is still there at the end. i get why people want riley, maybe the film just needed to show a bit more of the happy side of abby & harper at the start 4them. also i enjoy angst in fanfic too, the rage passes when the happy ending comes
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy holidays friends! What better way to celebrate than with some fun Christmas movies? We are kicking things off this week with a totally normal conversation about Happiest Season! Let us know the things you love (and hate) about this movie!
neutral · AI labelView post →Happiest Season is our go to Christmas film but holy fuck it makes me cry every time because I fucking get it. It so easily could have been me. Also, Alison Brie 😍
positive · AI labelView post →Went to look at my letterboxd and apparently Happiest Season, the most homophobic movie about lesbians possible, was intended to be a comedy
negative · AI labelView post →HAPPIEST SEASON (2020, Hulu, #film) Oh I loved this. A shriekingly hot Kirsten Stewart and her girlfriend head home for Christmas to meet the parents; complications ensue. It's funny, it's mordant, it's stuffed with wonderful performances, and the script can be quite sharp. This was made for me.
positive · AI labelView post →We'll have the show at 6PM CST, then immediately afterwards I host a Christmas Movie afterparty in my discord. We watch "The Happiest Season". A queer Christmas movie about relationships, family, & acceptance. It's one of my favorites, and I hope you'll join us after! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h58H...
positive · AI labelView post →We cozied in for the Happiest Season, an LGBTQ film cloaked in the candied coating of a cishet christmas RomCom. There is emotional pain around acceptance and trying to escape from the prison of the closet. Beth and Michelle have a lot of feelings and don’t hold back on the good and the bad.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also 🔔Holiday Movie Klaxon🔔- have you watched ‘The Happiest Season’ yet this year ? youtu.be/XndRee7Q8ok
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching Happiest Season, the one Christmas romance movie I like. Its got everything! Kristen Stewart! Aubrey Plaza! Thats everything!
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie: Happiest Season Quickly becoming one of my favorite go-to Christmas movies.
positive · AI labelView post →11. (Almost) Any movie set during the holidays* should be considered a Christmas movie. *Let's go with 1/3rd or more of the runtime or 40+ min, whichever is less. 12. Happiest Season is brilliantly structured and deserves to be considered a holiday classic.
neutral · AI labelView post →🏳️🌈Choose 30 of your favorite LGBTQ films of all time. One film per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters or covers. Day 18: Happiest Season #FilmSky #Moviesky #Pridesky
neutral · AI labelView post →😉 tomorrows movie should be Happiest Season!
neutral · AI labelView post →Happiest Season is a terrible movie solely for the ending but I can’t help but watch it
neutral · AI labelView post →The two latest films I've watched! Flow is a must see animated feature about a cat surviving. It's such a beautiful and brilliant movie. The Happiest Season is a gay Christmas movie starring Kristen Stewart. Written by the butch lesbian in "But I'm a Cheerleader".
neutral · AI labelView post →Happiest Season (2020) Directed by Clea DuVall, who co-wrote it with Mary Holland. This is a very lesbian Christmas film that delves into toxic family dynamics and the ways in which we hurt ourselves and others to hide from family. It’s funny! 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →Damn... Imagine coming to Bluesky to see what's going on and finding the typical bashing of a movie (Happiest Season) that's already 4 years old that features one of your faves, Dan Levy. Didn't we leave the hate talk back there over on TwitterX?
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for our annual Thanksgiving treat, which is to watch The Happiest Season, a film that joins Master and Commander as the right answer to the question "Which film that doesn't have a sequel for some reason needs one right this minute?" 🎥
positive · AI labelView post →The Happiest Season may have issues but nonetheless it is one of my favs. Must be Kristin Stewart and Aubrey Plaza in the same film. :-)
positive · AI labelView post →I forget who recommended I watch the movie “Happiest Season” but I will find you. And I will deliver a delightfully miserable trolling movie recommendation, just as you did to me. That was so bad.
negative · AI labelView post →This movie makes no sense and I actively hate it! This is Australian straight summer Happiest Season.
neutral · AI labelView post →We got The Happiest Season a couple of years back for a lesbian holiday movie, but I’m waiting for Santa’s Beard, the gay holiday movie we need.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happiest Season felt surprisingly new as a family, love tragedy christmas movie and I really like it. It isn't an older movie but since it came out, it is a must watch every christmas season. Before this, it definitely was The Long Kiss Goodnight (and funny thing, the german title translates to "deadly christmas")
positive · AI labelView post →Today at work at our end of week meeting: "WhAt'S yOuR fAvOriTe cHriStMaS mOviE?" Me: I'm pagan but fine: Happiest Season because it's the first queer holiday movie I've seen and we need more Everyone else: LETS IGNORE THAT
positive · AI labelView post →Spell a CHRISTMAS film you love with the first letters of other CHRISTMAS films you love… Tokyo Godfathers Happiest Season Elf Lady on a Train In Bruges On Her Majesty's Secret Service Nightmare Before Christmas (Continued)
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes, seriously. We have to go to bat so hard for these shows, and still often have them taken away. I have to rewatch Happiest Season every holiday season to get my wlw movie fix, even though I dont love the ending. Gotta do what I gotta do!
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Happiest Season because it’s Christmas and even though this movie has some problems I have come to really love it. You can’t go wrong with a premise where someone wants to ask Victor Garber for his daughter’s hand in marriage. (This goes better than Alias, yay)
positive · AI labelView post →seriously. what I would give for an actual good lesbian xmas film beyond Carol. Happiest Season I wanted Kristen Stewart to dump Mackenzie Davis's passive aggressive toxic arse. and get together with Aubrey Plaza. Suranne Jones' Christmas Carole w/ her asst Bobby was more convincing.
negative · AI labelView post →Saving Face (2004) - Still one of the best movies about being queer & Asian. But I'm A Cheerleader (1999) - Cult Classic Imagine Me & You (2005) - British cult classic Happiest Season (2020) - Because queers deserve their own Hallmark-esque Christmas movie.
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