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Adam Townsend
@pecnut.bsky.social
Mathematician by day, generally asleep by night. Chocolate fountains, sperm cells and bridge signs. @VisualPDE.com and @chalkdustmag.bsky.social. Probably listening to Radio 2.
Came to Bedford. Was not disappointed. #heighthunt
April 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #13: Our Little Secret.

A disappointing end to #NetflixChristmas season. Lindsay Lohan’s bf’s sister’s bf is her ex-bf. They hide this to impress Kristin Chenoweth (wasted). LL gets stoned; everyone swaps partners. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Not silly enough. #BringBackHudgens2025.

🤫💍🤫🍬🍪/5
December 25, 2024 at 5:58 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #12: A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter.

Sabrina sings some OK new Christmas songs and takes part in some OK sketches with guests. But it’s charming and she’s obviously a great singer, even if it made me feel very old.

🎶🎥🎄👩🏻‍🎤🪟/5
December 25, 2024 at 5:47 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #11: Carry-On.

A cross between Die Hards 2 and 3. A TSA agent resembling Terminator 2 is blackmailed into getting a case on a plane. Starts well, but plot gets silly quickly. Worst is the belief you could have a car chase round LAX 😂. Watch Die Hard instead.

🇺🇸✈️🚨🎒🦠/5
December 25, 2024 at 5:25 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #10: Christmas as Usual.

Uncomfortable: a Norwegian woman brings her fiancé home for Christmas but somehow her family don’t know he’s Indian and they are really weird about it. Supposedly a real story, but if I were the real woman’s family, I’d be mortified.

🇳🇴🌶️🕳️⛪️🥛/5
December 25, 2024 at 5:18 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #9: That Christmas.

An animated adventure with a stellar cast that is less than the sum of its parts. Tired jokes. Strangely features lots of current Xmas songs. But agreed that Santa’s a Scotsman. Bill Nighy wears Reddit’s favourite watch.

🎅🏼🚌⛸️🔎🦃/5
December 25, 2024 at 5:07 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #8: Merry Christmas (Hindi/Tamil).

An unexpected gem. Set in Bombay, a man back in town meets a woman at a restaurant and they hit it off. Then it turns into a completely different mystery movie. Great fun, if a little long (mostly the intro credits).

🍿👩🏽‍🍳🪑🦜💍/5
December 21, 2024 at 9:31 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #7: Hot Frosty.

OK this one is genuinely good. You know the plot: woman falls for a snowman come to life. He fixes everything. Played for laughs by a great cast. One to watch.

⛄️🧣🪚🧊👮🏾‍♂️/5
December 21, 2024 at 8:59 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #6: ’Twas the Text Before Christmas.

A woman with a fundamental misunderstanding of Australian seasons picks up a wrong call and gets a new boyfriend over many years. Cheap sets. Big decs. Watch her hair dye roots change dramatically during scenes.

📱👵🏼🥔🐶🇦🇺/5
December 21, 2024 at 8:43 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #5: Meet Me Next Christmas.

A woman who flies in a beret goes on a Jingle All The Way-style mission to get show tickets to famous band The Pentatonix. Turns out her true love is Sinbad. Unbelievably long. Would watch the version that just contains the band.

✈️👩🏻‍🎤👜🎫🚕/5
December 14, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Cometh Christmas, cometh the chocolate
December 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #4: The Snow Sister.

A sweet Norwegian mystery story you can take part in. A boy named after a month named after a general—or maybe Christmas—makes a new friend who cheers him up. Production values far higher than usual. Def worth watching at normal speed.

☃️👻⛸️🇳🇴😭/5
December 11, 2024 at 7:30 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #3: The Merry Gentlemen.

If #NetflixChristmas did the Full Monty. An out-of-time dancer (first scene) goes home and saves her parents’ bar by getting local men to strip. Why are they doing this? Don’t they have jobs? 🤷🏻‍♀️ . But it’s fun, and knowingly silly.

💃🏻👯‍♂️👷🏼‍♂️💸💪/5
December 7, 2024 at 7:24 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #2: Fall into Winter

Punny title wasted. Small town chocolate maker needs an investor. He arrives from NY, improves sales, is kind; they fall in love before Winterfest, an important January holiday. No jeopardy, no B plot, no real hair colours. Pleasant.

🍫🫘💵❄️👩🏼‍🍳/5
December 6, 2024 at 8:12 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #1:

Best. Christmas. Ever. A couple visit old friends whose round-robin suggests they have a perfect life. Turns out they do. Level of self-awareness varies wildly. Tonally all over the place. Polystyrene snowmen. Some good jokes. "Santa believes in us". 🎈💌🏠🚙⛄️/5.
December 4, 2024 at 6:22 PM