Delving Ever Deeper
After the first year of Mainlining Christmas, we knew we could keep this up for a while. We didn’t even manage to hit everything on my initial brainstorming list that year, and new Christmas movies, episodes and specials come out every year. What we didn’t expect was that even now, in year six, we would still be discovering untapped veins of pure jingle. This year we’ve patched some holes in our repertoire of classic movies, and are catching up on some of the most recent releases. A lot of the other things, we found through serendipitous chains, following the pine-needle trails from one place to the next. An example: I was looking for a reminder of some of the media we’ve seen that features an ‘alternate’ Christmas. In a fit of brilliance, I decided to see whether the trope had a tvtropes page, which of course it does. On this page I found a reference to the holiday episodes of the Disney Channel show Sofia the First. In adding Sofia the First to the to-watch list, I w