All The Feels: An Unauthorized Hallmark Movie Podcast

The 2023 Hallmark Holiday Movie bracket kicks off with a black & white Christmas-less universe vs. a lot of angst and party planning involving the actual universe. Where Are You, Christmas? goes up against Under the Christmas Sky in a not-so-heated premiere weekend match up - plus, Cher has a new Christmas album! And it's not even Halloween yet! Enjoy your trick-or-treating, and we'll see you back...

It's Christmas-time in Hallmark Land which means bring on the bracket! Erika, Dory, and Mel reconvene to examine (scrutinize) this season's crop of Countdown to Christmas offerings, carefully selecting the contenders that will face off in the 2023 All The Feels Holiday Movie Bracket. We've got astronauts and fish friends and trolls and royals and so, so, sooo many road trips. Let the merry shenani...

The All The Feels 2023 Holiday Bracket is coming soon! Until then, please enjoy this Christmas in July episode, where Dory, Mel, and Erika chat about A Royal Christmas Crush and Take Me Back for Christmas. This eclectic episode also includes discussions about high school reunions, Barbie, the Hallmark cruise, Taylor Swift, and our favorite comfort show, Sweet Magnolias.

It's a special Summertime Session of All The Feels where Erika, Dory, and Mel gather to touch on their off-season Hallmark viewing, (mainly Mahogany and Mysteries) and how the writer's strike may affect our beloved holiday hallmark season. They also discuss what else they've been enjoying - including a long and passionate deliberation on their latest and greatest off-network obsession - Bravo's Va...

Erika is back just in time for the final match-up of the season - and is teeming with stories of mishaps and maladies from her very special Disney Family Vacation. Then, after a whirlwind of Kwanzaa and latkas and Lisa Loeb, a 2022 Hallmark bracket winner is crowned! In a holiday season full of big swings and surprisingly great movies - the eliminations are a struggle to the bitter end. Whatta yea...

Dory and Mel are joined by their friend Lisa to chat about The Most Colorful Time of the Year and The Holiday Sitter, our second to last matchup of the season. Topics discussed in this eclectic episode include Twitter drama, color blindness, chimney mishaps, Jonathan Bennett’s mustache, diversity and inclusion on Hallmark, online dating profiles, Bigfoot, Hallmark’s 2007 Pandemic miniseries, and m...

Week 6 is in the books! This episode’s matchup is A Big Fat Family Christmas vs. Undercover Holiday, and Dory and Mel hold down the fort while Erika is away on her own Big Fat Family Christmas vacation. We also discuss the hair bows in A Fabled Holiday, Reese Witherspoon’s 2014 movie The Good Lie, Harry & Meghan’s Netflix docuseries, and more.

Erika is back and ready to take on our fifth Hallmark movie bracket match-up, A Royal Corgi Christmas versus A Holiday Spectacular! We've got stubby corgi legs going up against Rockette high kicks, family drama, deli dreamboats and the most evil dog handler in all the land. Sit back and join the ladies as they spiral over 1950s historical inaccuracies and then plan an elaborate Dollywood vacation....

While Erika is off celebrating an Ohio Thanksgiving, fellow Hallmark-enthusiast Lisa from the Y'all, This Book podcast joins Dory and Mel to break down the MOST! DIFFICULT! MATCH-UP! OF THE SEASON! (So far). Inventing the Christmas Prince takes on Three Wise Men & a Baby, pitting Tamera Mowry-Housley and a horse-drawn carriage against a trifecta of charming Hallmark all-stars with jokes and ballet...

It’s official—Lindsay Lohan is back, baby! In this episode, Dory, Mel, and Erika discuss Lindsay’s new holiday movie, Falling for Christmas, our first-ever bracket entry from Netflix! But can LL’s star power help Falling for Christmas knock off Hallmark’s Christmas at the Golden Dragon? The answer might surprise you.

Battling in week two on the holiday movie bracket is Lights, Camera, Christmas! and All Saints Christmas.  While getting into the holiday spirit, the ladies talk New Orleans vibes, Hollywood movie star winks and butt deodorant?! Whaaa?!  Plus, a glowing recommendation on a non bracket flick will have you running to your TV to tune in.

The first bracket match-up of the season is here, where an unexpected Full House alum goes head to head with an American (??) Will Kemp and the magic of London at Christmas. Join us as we discuss the pros and cons (and cons and cons) of a sequel without the Original Recipe romance, and the glory that is Reshma Shetty's green jumpsuit. Plus a short dive into the other premieres of the weekend and a...

We’re back, baby! In this episode, Dory, Mel, and Erika unveil the 2022 All The Feels Holiday Movie Bracket. Which Hallmark movies will be competing for the top spot? Will Lifetime be back on the bracket after a disappointing showing last year? Is a new network coming for Hallmark’s crown? We have so much to discuss, so pour yourself a cup of hot cocoa, sit back, relax, and join us as we start the...

The final bracket match-up of the season is here and a true Hallmark expert is in the house! Joining the ladies is Bubbly Sesh host Shawl and we have a Dickens! of a time choosing between the sizzling Polaha-D'Orsay chemistry in "A Dickens of a Holiday!" and the charismatic party planning/Queen of Dory's heart Ashley Williams in "Sister Swap: Christmas in the City". Then, in a rapid fire eliminati...

After swapping out Lifetime movies for Hallmark in the last two bracket battles, Dory, Mel and Erika match up Our Christmas Journey vs Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday.  Come for the reviews and stay for a hodgepodge of other topics including indoor Christmas tree lots, tap dancing, expired vision boards and a mispronunciation that brings the ladies to tears!

Dory, Mel and Erika assemble once again to discuss their week six bracket matchup, featuring Merry Liddle Christmas Baby vs. Miracle in Motor City. Expect lots of rants and lots of laughs as the ladies are joined by their friend Ryan, who shares his experience as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune and his hopes for one day competing on Survivor.

The first Lifetime match-up of the bracket brings the ladies a ballet dancing widow, fruitcake rebranding woes, and tons of befuddlement, annoyance, and concern about the many Lifetime movies that lay before them. Dancing Through the Snow takes on Baking Spirits Bright, one barely eking out a win to the next round of the All The Feels Christmas Movie Bracket. Other topics include Hallmark's A Kiss...

The ladies welcome back friend of the pod, Kevin and together, they battle One December Night vs. A Holiday in Harlem in this week's bracket. Plus there's talks of a cross-country RV trip, applauding representation and an epic Christmas fashion show!

This week’s matchup is Next Stop, Christmas vs. A Christmas Treasure, which both aired on the Hallmark Channel. In this episode, Mel gives us a rant for the ages while Dory and Erika fight about time travel. This is one you don’t want to miss!

It's Round 2 of the All the Feels Holiday movie bracket match up, where Hallmark's Christmas in Harmony and Christmas Sail battle to win our hearts. In a Halloween weekend full of gospel choirs, magical boat parades, lovers to enemies, friends to lovers, Terry O'Quinn, buckets of grief, and 1/3rd of Destiny's Child...the choice proves to be a difficult one. Plus, Dory and Erika discuss their all t...

We're skipping right past the witches, skeletons, jack o'lanterns and breaking out the reindeer, snowmen and Santas because it's week one of the All The Feels Holiday bracket! We got ex-boyfriends in the form of ghosts battling undercover detectives but only one movie will move ahead. Aaaaaaand, thanks to changing air dates, we already have some revisions to the bracket (ugh!) but we think it actu...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! In this episode, Dory, Mel and Erika reunite to hash out their 2021 All The Feels Holiday Movie Bracket. Will a Hallmark or Lifetime movie will come out on top? Watch along with us to find out!

Something wicked this way comes as the ladies gather pre-Halloween and pre-Christmas kick-off to address all of the drama swirling through the Hallmark-verse. Topics include the Curious Case of the Good Witch finale, the Christmas TV Movie Wars, cheerful anti-vaxxers, and which Hallmark pups are most favored by Dory's dog, Zero. Warning: Two F-bombs are dropped within the first 2-minutes so mark t...

Our friend Antonio Cayonne is back! In this episode, he joins Dory and Mel to discuss his new movie for Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, The Vows We Keep. The ladies also talk to Antonio about his experience on The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, diversity and inclusion efforts in the entertainment industry, his growing restaurant businesses, and of course, the burgeoning Christmas TV Movie Wars.

Spring is springing ahead, hope is (hopefully) blooming, and it's the perfect time to return for a warm-weather check in! In this episode, Erika, Dory, and Mel set Hallmark aside to discuss two recent cultural milestones: Oprah's interview with Meghan & Harry, and the Hulu documentary "Framing Britney Spears". Family drama, spirals, and sadness abound...and a bit of Hallmark talk at the end becaus...