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Christmas Starts Early

Normally, Mainlining Christmas has kicked off with Thanksgiving, then deluged you with as many reviews as possible until Christmas. That's been the gimmick from the start; hell, it's implied by the name. But while that makes sense in the abstract, as this blog has evolved from essentially a tongue-in-cheek celebration/mockery of the quantity of holiday-themed media to a semi-serious analysis of that media, the length of our reviews has expanded considerably. Although a handful of you might have been willing to read three posts a day of us typing a few quick paragraphs making fun of some TV Christmas movie in 2012, I can say with relative certainty no one is actually interested in reading more than one full-length review of some movie you've never heard of from the 1940s that no one other than me is willing to die on a hill to get it labeled a "Christmas movie." So this year I want to try something a little different. I want to aim for one post a day, rather than t...