I love a good Hallmark film around the holidays. It’s a guilty pleasure of mine. Which brought me to wonder what if there was one set in Lubbock that was actually realistic?
If Hallmark ever tried to set one of their perfectly predictable Christmas movies in Lubbock, Texas, the entire channel would malfunction. Their writers would be screaming. Their cameras would be covered in dust. Their actresses’ hair would be standing straight up from the wind like a weather experiment gone wrong. And honestly? The movie would probably be a masterpiece.
Because instead of a charming Vermont bakery or a small town with a suspiciously large snow budget, they’d get us: West Texans sliding around in a pickup on black ice while wearing a jacket that’s “not that cold.”…