A glamorous romance author tries to buy a Scottish castle from a grumpy duke. Not one, but two L.A. writers travel to the frosty East to spend Christmas with a prospective lover’s family, only to encounter a himbo who throws a spanner in the works. A foxy noblewoman joins forces with her childhood sweetheart, now a private security expert, to recover a stolen Vatican relic — and her relationship with the identical cousin whose throne she tried to steal.
This is what Christmas in the Netflix holiday-romcom-verse looks like: Everyone is beautiful, everyone is ready to finally have someone to love at the holidays, and the plots range from classic (boring) to utterly unhinged. We watched four of Netflix’s new romances — “Love Hard,” “Single All the Way,” “A Castle for Christmas,” and “The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star” — for a quadruple-feature podcast in which we break down our favorite parts of each movie, ruthlessly mock our least favorite parts, and…
