A Sports Reporter’s Christmas
Since I enjoyed Nathan Owens when he was guest starring on Batwoman, I decided to give his Christmas movie from 2024 a chance. A Season to Remember takes a few risks with the Christmas movie formula, but I enjoyed it overall.
Symone Gibson (Michele Weaver) is a sports reporter for a local TV station in Detroit. Since the local basketball team has a home game on Christmas day this year, it’s a big deal, and her boss is looking for any good lead in story to draw in viewers and ratings. Symone views this as her chance to move up in the department, if she can only come up with a unique story to pitch.
Her first complication is that she winds up having to work with freelance videographer Iggy Love (Nathan Owens). At first, the two don’t get along, but as they begin to build a relationship, Symone starts hitting other roadblocks. Will she be able to land the story? Where will her relationship with Iggy lead?
This was an OWN Christmas movie, but even so, it followed many of the familiar romance/Christmas movie tropes. Not that I’m complaining since it is what I expected. I was actually surprised at how subtle some of those moments were, however. Notice, I said some; the meet cute was very in your face.
My biggest complaint with the film was one of the storylines involving Symone’s family. I suspect they were attempting to infuse the movie with some real seriousness, but it was just too depressing for a Christmas movie, at least for my liking.
On the other hand, there were many heartwarming moments. I bought the relationship building between Symone and Iggy, and I was rooting for them. I did like Iggy’s backstory and how he was getting involved in the community. And the story with Symone’s brother was great as well.
My other complaint was some of Symone’s issues at work. At times, it felt like it was just an excuse to lecture, again not what I was looking for. The resolution to that, while nice in some ways, also felt like it just ignored some truly bad behavior. They could have done better with that part of things, too.
Overall, the acting and writing were good. There weren’t any real moments that threw me out of the movie.
While sports does play a bit into the movie, you can still follow the story without really knowing anything about basketball. I did, after all.
A Season to Remember is another enjoyable Christmas movie. If you are a fan of the genre, give this one a shot.
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