Rating: 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Premiere Date: December 14, 2025
Description: When water lines break at Temple Beth Am, it leaves its members in need of a place to celebrate Hanukkah. Across the street, St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church is quick to open its doors and offer shared space for the holidays. With the last night of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve falling on the same day this year – something that rarely happens – the reverend and rabbi choose to offer a joint service for their congregations. But that means Nikki Roberts (D’Orsay), St. Joseph’s youth choir director, must team up with Jake Cohen (Epstein), the substitute youth choir director from Temple Beth Am, and put on a single music program. These two are old high school rivals and together, they’re ready to compete for the top prize. That’s not helping matters at a time when partnership matters most. To lead a successful fundraising effort for the temple, Nikki and Jake have to put aside their differences and learn how to work together. In doing so, they discover teamwork can move mountains and open hearts, including their own. On their big night, Nikki and Jake find a way to unite people through the power of song and prove that coming together is the best way for everyone to celebrate the holiday season. Starring Brooke D’Orsay and Jake Epstein.
Overall: This one was kitschy and odd, and I loved it. I was fully prepared to hate this one, but it got me in all the feels. The lines were genuinely funny, and I appreciated how they handled some Jewish stereotypes. It wasn’t over-the-top or offensive. The only thing that kept this from being five trees was the actual singing. I don’t mind singing in Christmas movies when the singers are known entities like Corey Cott or Ginna Claire Mason. I don’t know if D’Orsay or Epstein can sing, but it felt like the answer was no.
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