Your Brain Tricks You Into Loving Cheesy Christmas Movies
For 11 months of the year, we are discerning movie-watchers. In December, we binge-watch ‘A Christmas Prince.’
I cannot find Eloise at Christmastime anywhere.
Or rather, I can’t find it streaming anywhere. I can buy a DVD for $6 on Amazon, but then I would have to buy a DVD player and also figure out how to hook that up to a television. I assumed it would stream on Disney+, but there’s some kind of darker conspiracy afoot and it is nowhere to be found.
I’m 27 years old, and there are plenty of actual good television shows and movies to watch. Movies that are critically acclaimed, obvious Oscar bait. But I want to watch Eloise bring Christmas joy to the entire Plaza Hotel, while a frazzled Nanny (Julie Andrews) tries to get the goddamn garland to hang in the archway—if only Eloise’s constant slamming of doors wouldn’t send it crashing every time!
Reader, trust me when I say she delivers a speech to the elder council of elves (and the entire North Pole) that had me crying in my bed, by myself, on a Saturday night.
