Love Hard is a holiday romcom about a LA based modern dating columnist Natalie(Nina Dobrev) who starts a digital relationship with upstate New York man Josh(Jimmy O. Yang). When she flies across the country to surprise him for Christmas she discovers he wasn't using his actual photos and is not who he pretended to be.
Dobrev and Yang don't have much chemistry but to be fair the script doesn't allow them much in the way of space in which to develop it. Dobrev is a bit stiff but passable, Yang is more comfortable and has more facility particularly with the comedy but he too can't get much going. The two have a couple really fun moments that send-up/riff on Christmas movie classics that really work which just brings into stark contrast how much of the movie doesn't. The supporting cast is uneven, Josh's parents and grandma and Heather McMahan as Natalie's friend are all great, but most everyone else is forgettable.
Netflix seems to be attempting to give the Hallmark channel a run for it's money in churning out holiday pictures with a focus on quantity over quality. And although there is a lot of promise and potential in Love Hard it falls victim to this churn.
Numbing, predictable, with a dash of pleasantness.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
Don't See It.
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