Your Essential Guide To Christmas Television Specials On Netflix Instant

<p>Everyone has a go-to comfort <em>thing</em>, right? Maybe when you are stressed you go running, and that is great for you and a really healthy decision, but I watch those Lifetime/ABC Family/Hallmark movies, as well as their off-brand counterparts which may have never even aired on television. In order to make this feel like a more productive "pastime," I will now share with you my vast knowledge of these films and guide you towards the best ones so that you may join me in a yuletide shame spiral... for <em>the best ones</em> are the Christmas ones.</p><p>The small screen holiday movie always, and without exception, includes the following characters: a young woman unlucky in love (if she is not a workaholic, she is a single mom and/or struggling with her career); a young man (literally any generically attractive one will do, sometimes they don't even get their own backstory); a best friend (usually it seems like the main character doesn't even like her); and a wise old man who will teach us all a lesson. The setting is either The Big City or Main Street, U.S.A. And even with this steadfast formula, they are somehow still all unique, like snowflakes.</p><p>Click through for some of the best and worst of these cinematic stocking stuffers, which are all available on Netflix Instant. Honorable mentions go to <a href="http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Desperately_Seeking_Santa/70199165?trkid=2361637"><em>Desperately Seeking Santa</em></a> (which centers around a woman who seeks out a sexy Santa in order to save the mall she works for in Boston. I'd give it a solid B!); and <a href="http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Crazy_for_Christmas/70245263?trkid=2361637"><em>Crazy For Christmas</em></a> (which is really just kind of C-level heartwarming flick). There are, of course, also new ones I haven't even seen yet because I don't have television, but if you do, please let me know <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150277561529980&amp;set=a.291533034979.40184.10542514979&amp;type=1">how this one</a> starring Winnie Cooper from <em>The Wonder Years</em> is? It's called <em><a href="http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/love-at-the-christmas-table">Love at the Christmas Table</a></em>, and it looks like it has <em>a lot of potential</em>.</p>