Happiest Season (2020) is a romantic-comedy Christmas film from writer-director Clea DuVall. It stars Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis as a young couple visiting the latter’s family for the holidays – despite the fact that she hasn’t yet come out to her parents as gay. Dan Levy, Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Mary Steenburgen co-star. Is this a successful “Holi-gay”, or does it fall into the same trappings as other Hallmark-esque holiday flicks?
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