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Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews
Girls Gone Hallmark is the female friendship podcast for anyone who unironically loves a Hallmark movie. Join Gen X best friends Megan and Wendy for weekly Hallmark movie reviews packed with lighthearted commentary, romantic comedy breakdowns, and the kind of girl talk only true Hallmark fans will appreciate. Whether you're a lifelong devotee or just Hallmark-curious, this women's comedy podcast is your cozy corner of the internet. New episodes every week. Girls Gone Hallmark is not affiliated with Hallmark Media.
- TV Reviews chart
- #43
- Episodes
- 737
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 30 min
- On air since
- 2020
- Latest episode
- 18 hours ago
Episodes
737 episodes, newest first
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33 min
Who's Coming for Christmas (Hallmark Channel 2026)
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Megan and Wendy review Who's Coming for Christmas from Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas 2026 lineup. Jake Foy and Rhiannon Fish star along with Mila Morgan from Hope Valley: 1874. Perhaps our biggest takeaway is "be the Julie you want to see in the world!" This movie surprised us on more levels and we would love to hear what you thought.
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32 min
Mistletoe Murders Season 1, Episodes 3&4 (Encore)
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Mistletoe Murders is Now Streaming on Netflix! Christmas cheer meets murder mystery! Girls Gone Hallmark dives into Mistletoe Murders Season 1, Episodes 3 and 4, "Peril of the Belles," starring Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney. In this original Hallmark mystery series, Christmas shop owner Emily Lane finds herself investigating another suspicious death in the festive town of Fletcher's Grove. As Emily searches for answers, her mysterious past continues to raise questions, and Detective Sam Wilner grows increasingly curious about the woman behind the Christmas shop.
In this episode, we're reviewing Episodes 3 and 4 of Mistletoe Murders, discussing the latest mystery, the growing chemistry between Emily and Sam, the show's intriguing characters, and the secrets that keep us guessing. Is Mistletoe Murders becoming a must-watch cozy Christmas mystery series? Tune in for our honest review, favorite moments, and plenty of opinions!
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26 min
Mistletoe Murders Season 1, Episodes 1&2 (Encore)
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Mistletoe Murders is Now streaming on Netflix! Christmas cheer meets murder mystery! Girls Gone Hallmark dives into Mistletoe Murders Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2, "Poison in a Pear Tree," starring Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney. In this original Hallmark mystery series, Christmas shop owner Emily Lane finds herself investigating a murder involving a poisoned cookie, a Christmas tree farm, and a friend accused of the crime. But Emily has secrets of her own, and Detective Sam Wilner is starting to ask questions.
In this episode, we're reviewing the first two episodes of Mistletoe Murders, discussing the cast, the mystery, the chemistry between Emily and Sam, and whether this cozy Christmas crime series delivers. Is Mistletoe Murders worth watching? Tune in for our honest Hallmark review, favorite moments, and plenty of opinions!
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33 min
What If Christmas (Hallmark Channel 2026)
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Megan and Wendy review What if Christmas from Hallmark Channel's 2026 Countdown to Christmas Lineup. What If Christmas stars Tom Cavanagh and Lori Loughln in a reimagining of It's A Wonderful LIfe. Our review had us alternately raging at someone who dared to put Erin in a coat check and wondering if women really can have it all. We would love to hear your thoughts on What If Christmas. Email us at hello@girlsgonehallmark.com
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31 min
Forgotten Holiday
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Listen to Girls Gone Hallmark's review of Forgotten Holiday from Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas 2026 Lineup!
Starring Daniel Lissing and Janel Parrish, we compared this movie to the Hallmark Hall of Fame movies of yore! We would love to hear from you. Do you like this dramatic style of Hallmark movie or do you prefer snappy banter and comedy?
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27 min
Winter Wonderlanes (Hallmark Channel 2026)
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A Christmas movie set in a bowling alley. We have been waiting for Hallmark to try this! Hallmark's Winter Wonderlanes brings a little nostalgia, second-chance romance, and family tradition to the 2026 Countdown to Christmas lineup. Starring Ashley Newbrough and Franco Lo Presti, this holiday movie follows a businesswoman who returns home to discover her late grandfather's beloved bowling alley is being sold. As she works to revive a cherished Christmas bowling tournament alongside her high school sweetheart, she's faced with questions about family legacy, preserving traditions, and what it really means to come home.
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36 min
Mr. and Mrs. Christmas (Hallmark Channel 2026)
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Mr. Fix It spent the entire movie being Mr. Mess It Up. We review Mr. & Mrs. Christmas: why Sophie is the best character of opening weekend, why a Christmas movie about a budget is a choice, and why Megan is thrilled about the mistletoe. Ratings: 2.75 and 3.5.
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49 min
Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story (Hallmark Channel 2026)
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Marsha Mason, Malört shots, and the best hair we’ve ever seen in a Hallmark movie. We review Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story and land in different places on whether the story underneath holds up.
Hallmark’s third NFL Christmas movie came out swinging on opening weekend, and we have a lot to say about it. Lyndsy Fonseca and Robert Buckley are a terrific pairing with comedy built in rather than bolted on. Marsha Mason is the heart of the whole thing. And Megan would like someone to tell her where to buy those green glasses.
But we both wanted more comedy than this script was willing to give Robert Buckley, and Wendy makes the case that if you strip away the Bears, the Chicago of it all and the football traditions, what’s left is a very familiar Hallmark shape. Megan doesn’t mind the formula when the extra layers earn their keep. We do not resolve this.
Plus: an Italian beef that was far too dry, a thermostat reading 75 degrees in a Chicago winter, the Always product placement that refused to be discreet, and the movie marquee Easter egg that Mackie has now caught twice in three films.
We also hear from Tamera Mowry-Housley about how her cameo happened, from Shannon in Australia about the jumbotron tribute, and from Kea, a Chicagoan who settles the Malört question, confirms cornhole is real, and has strong feelings about a boat tour on a frozen river.
Ratings, the franchise scoreboard, and which NFL team we want next.
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42 min
'Tis the Season for Setups
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Listen to our review. We kick off Countdown to Christmas 2026 with ’Tis the Season for Setups and end up talking about parenting regrets, the forehead kiss that almost happened, and the most pointless secret relationship of the season. Plus, one of us wants a “Queen of No Fun” t-shirt, and we argue about whether a Christmas escape room even counts.
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28 min
Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story (Encore)
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Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story brought Hallmark Channel and the NFL back together for a second football-themed Christmas romance in 2025. Following the success of 2024’s Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, the second movie in the Hallmark and NFL partnership headed to Buffalo Bills country, starring Holland Roden and Matthew Daddario as longtime neighbors Morgan and Gabe. Set against the traditions and passionate fandom of Bills Mafia, the story follows the pair as they search for the mysterious Christmas benefactor who once helped Morgan’s family - and discover that their own relationship may be turning into something more.
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33 min
Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story (Encore)
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Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story kicked off a new era of football-themed Christmas movies for Hallmark Channel when it premiered in 2024. Starring Hunter King and Tyler Hynes, the movie was the first collaboration between Hallmark and the NFL and brought together holiday romance, Kansas City Chiefs fandom, and plenty of familiar faces from Chiefs Kingdom. Set in Kansas City and centered around one family’s bid to become the team’s “Fan of the Year,” Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story launched what has since become an annual Hallmark football tradition, with the Buffalo Bills getting their turn in 2025 and the Chicago Bears joining the lineup in 2026.
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31 min
Our Top Five Movies of the Year
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We have never done this episode before, which is a little hard to believe after all these years. So here it is: our five favorite Hallmark movies of 2026, picked separately, compared on the podcast, and argued about a bit. Every Hallmark movie that aired in 2026 was eligible except the Countdown to Christmas lineup, which has its own conversation coming in January. There's overlap on our lists, there's one shared honorable mention, and at the bottom there's a surprise about which episode you all actually listened to most this year.
View full episode show notes here: https://www.girlsgonehallmark.com/best-hallmark-movies-2026/
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33 min
The Spirit of Halloween
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The Spirit of Halloween closes out Fall into Love and we both gave it 4.75 stars, which almost never happens. Megan hates costumes and loved it anyway. Wendy's fall fatigue is cured. Everly Stone gets three ghosts; we get a real Halloween movie.
We talk Jeff Beesley's gift for ensembles, Nicole Baxter's writing, and Lachlan Quormby stealing the whole movie as a six-foot-four Ghost of Halloween Future. Plus: visible cold breath in a Halloween movie, empty prop coffee cups, the third sexy measuring scene of the year, and whether Everly is actually a Scrooge at all.
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30 min
Fall Favorite: Haul out the Halloween
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Haul Out the Halloween (Encore)
Five stars. No notes. Not a single wish between us, which almost never happens around here.
Halloween-obsessed new neighbors move onto Evergreen Lane and inspire the whole street to become EverSCREAM Lane. Lacey Chabert and Wes Brown are back as Emily and Jared, Maclain Nelson writes and directs again, and Kimberly J. Brown and Daniel Kountz turn up as the new arrivals.
This is our final fall favorite encore as we head into the last weekend of Fall Into Love on Hallmark Channel. The review was originally published in October 2025. We get into the five-minute wedding that opens the movie and the one throwaway line in it that wrecked us, why Melissa Peterman and Stephen Tobolowsky together are comedy gold, the Nickelback runner, and the pop culture references that are going to land for a very specific audience. Wendy also spotted a Howard Stern Show alum in the cast, which took some explaining.
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25 min
Fall Favorite: 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1 Ghost
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3 Bed 2 Bath 1 Ghost (Encore)
A 1920s ghost refuses to leave the house real estate agent Anna has just listed, and she’s convinced she can’t pass over until she gets Anna back together with her ex. We both came in expecting ghostly hijinks. What we got was one of the best Hallmark movies of the year.
This encore review was originally recorded in 2023, back when our format was a little different and our ratings were, in Megan’s words, pure vibes. We’re re-airing our favorite fall movies as we count down to Halloween.
Julie Gonzalo stars as Anna opposite her real-life partner Chris McNally as Elliot, and Madeline Arthur turns up as Ruby and walks away with the entire movie. We get into why the friendship between Anna and Ruby is the real love story here, the ghost rules this ghost cheerfully ignores, the two male characters we’d cut entirely, and the backstory questions we still want answered three years later.
Megan gave it 4.25 stars. Wendy gave it 4. Neither of us can explain the math. Got thoughts on this one?
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31 min
A Knight to Remember
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A medieval knight, a museum conservator, and one very unprofessional kiss. A Knight to Remember premiered Saturday, October 3 on Hallmark Channel and is now streaming on Hallmark+. It's adapted from Her Knight at the Museum by Bryn Donovan, our latest Book Club pick, but the book and the movie are worlds apart, and Megan and Wendy definitely didn't agree on which one worked better. Here's our review, the cast, and what changed from page to screen.
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27 min
Countdown to Christmas First Impressions - Part 3
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It’s happening! Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas 2026 is almost here, which means Girls Gone Hallmark is officially ready to trade fall for twinkle lights, fake snow, and an unreasonable number of Christmas festivals. Across this three-part First Impressions series, get ready for a rundown of the Hallmark Christmas movies coming in 2026, including the stars, storylines, returning favorites, and more than a few premises that already have some explaining to do. Find out which movies are earning an early spot on the holiday watchlist, which ones might be headed for the naughty list, and what’s worth getting excited about as Hallmark Countdown to Christmas 2026 gets ready to bring the merry.
Click here for full episode shownotes: https://www.girlsgonehallmark.com/hallmark-countdown-to-christmas-2026-preview/
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26 min
The Love Hypothesis (Prime)
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Prime Video’s The Love Hypothesis brings Ali Hazelwood’s bestselling romance novel to the screen, starring Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman as Olive Smith and Dr. Adam Carlsen. The 2026 romantic comedy has plenty of ingredients that caught our attention at Girls Gone Hallmark: fake dating, a grumpy professor, a woman in STEM, quick banter, and a whole lot of chemistry - including one hotel scene people are definitely talking about. So, yes, we’re stepping outside the Hallmark universe for this one! Wendy and Megan are reviewing The Love Hypothesis, breaking down what worked, what didn’t, and whether this buzzy book-to-movie adaptation lives up to the hype.
Find full details here! https://www.girlsgonehallmark.com/the-love-hypothesis-review/
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29 min
Countdown to Christmas First Impressions - Part 2
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It’s happening! Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas 2026 is almost here, which means Girls Gone Hallmark is officially ready to trade fall for twinkle lights, fake snow, and an unreasonable number of Christmas festivals. Across this three-part First Impressions series, get ready for a rundown of the Hallmark Christmas movies coming in 2026, including the stars, storylines, returning favorites, and more than a few premises that already have some explaining to do. Find out which movies are earning an early spot on the holiday watchlist, which ones might be headed for the naughty list, and what’s worth getting excited about as Hallmark Countdown to Christmas 2026 gets ready to bring the merry.
Find full episode show notes here: https://www.girlsgonehallmark.com/hallmark-countdown-to-christmas-2026-preview/
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31 min
Countdown to Christmas First Impressions Part 1
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It’s happening! Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas 2026 is almost here, which means Girls Gone Hallmark is officially ready to trade fall for twinkle lights, fake snow, and an unreasonable number of Christmas festivals. Across this three-part First Impressions series, get ready for a rundown of the Hallmark Christmas movies coming in 2026, including the stars, storylines, returning favorites, and more than a few premises that already have some explaining to do. Find out which movies are earning an early spot on the holiday watchlist, which ones might be headed for the naughty list, and what’s worth getting excited about as Hallmark Countdown to Christmas 2026 gets ready to bring the merry.
Find full episode show notes here: https://www.girlsgonehallmark.com/hallmark-countdown-to-christmas-2026-preview/
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