I'm waiting for the moment when Hallmark realizes that their viewing audience is overwhelmingly female and they decide that since it has become a "girls club" they need to inject masculine themes and more blood, guts, and violence into their movies to appeal to this untapped male audience. Who knows, maybe they will hire some men to screech on social media about the lack of representation.
I do think that would be a good satire with the proper writing, but to be fair for as sappy as it is I remember talking to some people before Sunday school a few weeks back about how refreshing Hallmark is because it is nice to see movies where two heterosexuals meet and fall in love and there is no lecturing about whatever current woke trend is going on. Although they are getting pressure from LGBT groups, they would be wise to understand who their audience is.
I enjoy reading all kinds of books and occasionally will read a romance novel. Never bothered me that it is a genre fill with female fans. It takes a special kind of arrogance to enter a space and then demand everything revolve around you.
She was a plain farm girl, tending her horses in the harsh badlands, dreaming of love.
He was a svelte masked bandit, mysterious, with a sachel of diamonds, on the run from the law.
He was a buff but rich private investigator, looking into a diamond heist, the trail leads past the farm.
Both men, despite having much more important things to do, immediately fall in love with the plain farm girl for no good reason, and seek to give her their wealth and attention. But they see each other, and each grabs one of her horses, and rides off into the badlands for a horseback gunfight that leaves the horses both completely unharmed (because the farm girl tended them, you see).
She comes to a realization that she loves the attention and wealth both men bring, but she can only have one of them, what a horrible problem to have, too many rich men trying to empower you! So she rides out as well, after them, calling out a name...
I mean, Hallmark movies more or less write themselves. Every single one is the exact same plot with different costumes: Hollywood-Ugly Woman has zero luck with men. Suddenly TWO men who are both highly desirable randomly lavish attention on her. She picks one. The end.
True. But they are popular. I have joked that every movie picks from 4 or 5 basic plots. Lately not being woke makes me like something a lot more.