Slut shaming and the right to say no. | Holiday 2021 // Christmas Cupid

A high powered PR agent is forced to look at her past, present and future.

The holiday reunion tour of the pandemy watch party continued today with Christmas Cupid. A 2010 film, embodying the worst trends of the time, Christmas Cupid stars Christina Milian, Chad Michael Murray, Jackée, A throwback, from when Freeform was ABC Family (ah, the memories), the film takes a dark turn when Milian's PR protagonist, Sloane, is haunted by the ghost of her newly dead starlet client, Caitlin (Ashley Benson) in a romantic rendition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Caitlin serving as both Marley turns into Caitlin serving a matchmaker, because if pairing up with the suitable partner isn't the barometer of kindness, what is? 

There's a lot to say for this movie, but most of the dialogue choices can be chalked up to it being a 2010 movie. The asymmetric dresses among a sea of other questionable fashion choices, the bedazzled flip phone. There's a lot that wouldn't, or at least shouldn't, fly today that was said, but the general tone was weird. The message, whatever it was meant to be, was very strange. In one flashback, Sloane is chastized for ignoring one suitor and his advances for the suitor she was waiting for all along. In another she's called shallow because she's grown up understanding that a financially stable and/or prosperous partner is ideal. It was weird. But it was still cute. What did you expect, this is me. Christmas Cupid is available for watching on TubiTV.