It’s the most wonderful time of the year—the holiday season! And what’s a better way to celebrate it than bingeing original holiday movies, both old and new? Whether you love them or watch them only occasionally but want more, we’ve got you covered. Every day for the first 25 days of December, Jodi Walker will feature one of this season’s 169 original holiday movies, answering a curated series of questions in order to showcase the genre’s masterful formula, the dedication to chaos, and the commitment to consistently widowing lumberjacks that launched an entire genre of TV movie. It’s The Ringer’s 25 Days of Bingemas! Follow along below:
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Welcome to The Ringer’s 25 Days of Bingemas!
To celebrate the holiday season, The Ringer is breaking down a different original holiday movie every day until Christmas!
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December 25, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 25: ‘The Most Colorful Time of the Year’
Uhh, pretty sure Cerie from ‘30 Rock’ is committing some HIPAA violations
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December 24, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 24: ‘Reindeer Games Homecoming’
And before you ask, no. This is not the long-awaited sequel to the 2000 Ben Affleck movie.
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December 23, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 23: ‘The Holiday Sitter’
Hallmark’s first gay rom-com features two opposite personalities drawn together by their mutual hotness
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December 22, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 22: ‘Something From Tiffany’s’
While they nailed the leads (Zoey Deutch and Kendrick Sampson) of their holiday rom-com, they forgot to add more, um, "holiday"
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December 21, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 21: ‘A Cozy Christmas Inn’
Jodie Sweetin is back to steal her TV sibling’s boyfriend and Brian Doyle-Murray is (probably) playing Santa Claus!!!
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December 19, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 19: ‘Haul Out the Holly’
Lacey Chabert (the true queen of Hallmark Christmas movies) is being tricked and forced and gaslit in a plot that is wildly reminiscent of ‘Midsommar’
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December 18, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 18: ‘My Christmas Fiancé’
Through 17 days, this has been a mostly judgment-free zone—BUT NO LONGER!
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December 17, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 17: ‘A Hollywood Christmas’
It’s about time we got a movie that stages holiday ‘Inception’
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December 15, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 15: ‘Three Wise Men and a Baby’
Taking an ’80s comedy classic and Christmasifying it? Hallmark’s genius knows no bounds.
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December 14, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 14: ‘Merry Kiss Cam’
The University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs desperately need a win—thankfully, there’s about to be a romantic and public display of affection to power them to victory. Is this movie about Christmas in any way? Eh, not really.
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December 13, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 13: ‘A Royal Corgi Christmas’
While there’s technically a rom-com going on here, nothing else matters when a corgi named Mistletoe is stealing the show
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December 12, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 12: ‘A Gingerbread Christmas’
It’s starring Duff Goldman from ‘Ace of Cakes’—you gotta respect Discovery’s commitment to shoehorning its nonactor talent into its holiday movies
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December 11, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 11: ‘Christmas With You’
Freddie Prinze Jr.—and the power of music—is back, baby!
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December 10, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 10: ‘#Xmas’
In which Hallmark attempts to update its formula for the social media era
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December 9, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 9: ‘Merry Swissmas’
Being completely honest? This movie nearly killed our holiday spirit.
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December 8, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 8: ‘Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas’
Were you not aware of the Blake Shelton Extended Hallmark Universe? Well then, boy, do we have a holiday treat for you …
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December 7, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 7: ‘The 12 Days of Christmas Eve’
You’ve heard of Scrooge, but what if we told you that a Scrooge-like character was being played by Frasier in a plot that was very reminiscent of ‘Groundhog Day’?
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December 6, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 6: ‘Menorah in the Middle’
It’s a Hanukkah yarn featuring Danny DeVito’s daughter, blogging, and a terrible fiancé named—what else?—Chad
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December 5, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 5: ‘The Royal Nanny’
It’s a Hallmark Christmas in England, and you know what that means: undercover MI5 agents protecting the Crown and holiday flirting with princes
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December 4, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 4: ‘Holiday Harmony’
In a film obviously sponsored by iHeartRadio (and maybe Coldplay?), a singer finds herself—and love—in a small Oklahoma town
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December 3, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 3: ‘Steppin’ Into the Holiday’
In which Mario Lopez plays a dancer named Billy Holiday (and NO ONE talks about it)
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December 2, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 2: ‘The Noel Diary’
On the second day of streaming delightfully absurd holiday movies, we’re gifted a Netflix joint about a mystery novelist, an estranged daughter, and some light adultery
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December 1, 2022
25 Days of Bingemas, Day 1: ‘Ghosts of Christmas Always’
To kick off the month of watching the best (and most ridiculous) holiday movies on streaming TV, let’s dig into a Hallmark tale about an heir to a grocery store empire who … falls in love with a ghost