New year, more Tis the Podcast. We’re kicking off 2021 with a Christmas classic – 1942’s Holiday Inn, starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby. The elves don’t agree, which means it’s a fun episode. Hear all about our Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.

Happy Monday, Christmas Fanatics! Can you believe that next week is Christmas? Where did the time go?

This week, Julia, Thom, and Anthony cover Hulu’s brand-new, 2020, Holiday original movie, Happiest Season! Join them as they take a deep dive into this beautiful, hilarious, heartwarming, and heart-wrenching love story focusing on a lesbian couple going home to spend the holidays with one of their conservative families. Listen as they celebrate the long overdo representation this movie provides for the LGBTQ+ community – something that should absolutely be normalized and happen far more often, both in and out of holiday movies – in addition to discussing the amazing cast that makes up this wonderfully dysfunctional family, talk about their favorite scenes and quotes, and defend Kristen Stewart as an actress while talking about a film they all really enjoyed which more than earns the place it ends up falling on their Christmas canon list.

This a jam-packed episode that covers a lot of ground outside of our movie of the week as well, including:

• Julia and her family landing themselves into quarantine just before Christmas
• Warner Bros.’ announcement that they will be releasing their entire slate of 2021 films simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters – and what this means for the future of the film industry
• All of the recent casting confirmations and rumors about Marvel’s Spider-Man 3 (Home Dimension?) and what it says about the possible plot and the MCU overall.
• Whether Julia and Anthony were Team Edward or Team Jacob fans during the heyday of the Twilight Saga
• Keanu Reeves and Schitt’s Creek 
• GaryBlauman’s/Matt Eurich’s Question of the Week: “What is a non-Christmas song that you now associate with Christmas?”
• Anthony’s Question of the Week posed to discuss Next Week: “What classic Christmas movies do you think are most poised to have a remake happen in our lifetimes?”
• And much, much, much more.

So settle in beside your Christmas tree with your favorite holiday beverage, sit back, and enjoy this fun episode which is one of Anthony’s personal favorites of the show so far! Also, if you want to hear the elves of Tis the Podcast elsewhere this week, check out the following places:

• Today, Monday December 14th, you can hear Julia cover the Disney + Original Movie, Godmothered on NetfliXmas, with Holli and Scarlett!
• Tomorrow, Tuesday December 15th, you can hear Anthony cover the Season 3 Christmas episode of Step by Step, “Christmas Story”, with Matt Eurich over on TGI Podcast! In addition, you can also hear Julia, Thom, and Anthony on tomorrow’s edition of Todd Killian’s Christmas Clatter Podcast where Julia, along with Gerry Davila of Totally Rad Christmas and friend of the pod, Michael Christelman, serve as judges as Thom, Anthony, and frequent guest and friend of the pod, April Ryley, duke it out in the second installment of the Merry Melee series! And speaking of April…
• …Friday, December 18th, check your feeds of Tis the Podcast for a very special bonus episode of the show featuring April, who joins the host to discuss A Rugrats Chanukah in celebration of the final night of the Jewish Celebration!

Enjoy, everyone!

*Note: This episode was recorded before Disney’s Investor call on December 12th, in which they revealed tons of amazing Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars news that would have definitely been touched on in this episode had we recorded after this call. Keep your eyes on your Patreon feeds, however, because we have an episode centered on all of this news dropping sometime this week as well!*

Happy Monday, Christmas fanatics! Can you believe we’ve already reached our last episode of November 2020? Where has the time gone? To celebrate the occasion, join Julia, Thom, and Anthony as they discuss the brand new, 2020, Netflix Original Holiday film, The Christmas Chronicles 2! As you’ll remember, when the elves covered the original Christmas Chronicles back in 2018, Julia and Thom loved the film, the world it created, and the characters it introduced us to, while Anthony thought it was overrated. How does the follow-up stack up? Will the elves be just as divided, or has Belsnickel made these three True Believers cynical? Find out in an episode that, while sure to be somewhat controversial, is full of lots of laughs and a very lively discussion as the hosts break down this movie beat-by-beat! So settle in with your favorite holiday drink beside your lit Christmas tree, relax, enjoy, and get excited! Because, as of tomorrow, we are in the official home stretch of Christmas 2020 and will be breaking open those Advent Calendars!

We have a jam-packed, fun-filled episode for y’all this week! Kicking off the episode, the elves interview Columbia Jones and Mark Ricks from Burro Burracho Records who join this week’s show to promote the Burro Burracho Records’ Christmas EP “Is There Even Christmas This Year?” featuring Columbia Jones and Sean Ramos.

From there, Anthony talks a bit about his latest television show binges (FX on Hulu’s A Teacher and Netflix’s cute holiday rom-com series, Dash & Lily), Julia and Anthony compare notes on the Hallmark movies they’ve been watching every night (and realize they have very different tastes when it comes to the plots and actresses that star in them), and Thom talks about the slate of original, Hallmark-esque Netflix Christmas films that he and Christine have been indulging in.

Only then do the hosts get to the meat and potatoes of this episode – a long, in-depth discussion on Netflix’s absolutely fantastic, brand-new, 2020 Holiday film, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey. While Julia, Thom, and Anthony are all in agreement regarding how phenomenal the movie is on every level, how much joy it’s filled with, and how nice it is to see such representation in a mainstream Hollywood production, there is some dissent and debate when it comes to the question of whether or not this film is actually a Christmas movie or just a movie set at Christmas. Regardless of where the elves fall on this question, after walking through the plot beat-by-beat, will they upend their own ranking system in order to give Jingle Jangle the score that they believe something so perfect and entertaining deserves?

This is one extra-festive episode that you want to be sure not to miss! So settle in with your favorite holiday-flavored beverage, bask in the lights of your Christmas tree, and enjoy! And also – from all of us to all of you, have a Happy Thanksgiving! As we are every day of the year, we are thankful for each and every one of you.