21/11/2025
✨🎄Welcome to the Rom-Com Rescue Holiday Extravaganza! Six holiday rom-coms over the next six weeks!🎄✨
Conscious uncoupling, gingerbread throwdowns, one last “totally normal” family Christmas, inconvenient new crushes… and Pierson Fode in candy-cane underwear. That’s right. We went there.
This week on RomCom Rescue, Kira and Dr. Izzy break down Netflix’s brand-new 2025 holiday rom-com Merry Little Ex-Mas starring Alicia Silverstone, Oliver Hudson— and let’s just say:
It is was rough for us.
Not magical. Not cozy. Not even Hot Frosty-level cute.
But it is full of relationship red flags, questionable choices, unmatched chaos, and enough emotional immaturity to keep two therapists busy until 2028.
We cover:
🎄 Conscious Uncoupling… or Conscious Unraveling?
Why this movie is basically a PSA for “please don’t date people who aren’t actually divorced yet.”
🍪 The Gingerbread House Incident Heard ‘Round the World
Unregulated emotions, public meltdowns, and one truly tragic cookie crime scene.
❤️ New Crushes, Old Wounds & Pierson Fode
Why he was here. Why he should’ve been an elf. And why none of it made sense.
👨👩👧👦 The Kids Who Deserved Better
Divorce logistics, blurred boundaries, holiday blending gone wrong, and the parenting decisions that had us yelling at our TVs.
🌱 Kate’s Villain Era (and Environmental Rage)
Control issues, projection, victim mindset, and why being “right” doesn’t make you good at relationships.
🏡 Why the Ending Doesn’t Actually Fix Anything
Indoor grills are not couples therapy.
Perfume ≠ emotional maturity.
And “let’s just go back to how things were” is not a plot arc.
💡 Love Lessons (If We Squint)
– Don’t date someone mid-divorce.
– Don’t bring new partners home for the holidays when your marriage isn’t actually over.
– Take responsibility for your choices.
– Stop projecting your fears onto your kids.
– And for the love of Santa: get a therapist before you get a rebound.
📉 The Final Verdict:
Tacos: 1/5
Love Lessons: 1/5
Butterflies: 0
Plot Holes: Infinity
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