Snow Queen: The Hallmark version. Firstly, this didn't need to be 3 hours long. Second, I'm amazed at how disjointed its halves are. The first half is well-written and well-acted, but incredibly boring, while the second half is interestingly fantastical, but the writing and acting are utter shit. When I hear lines that I'd expect to overhear from my 8-year-old cousin as he makes his action figures talk to each other, you've sunk beneath all redemption, and so I stopped watching around 2:15 mark, and stopped caring well before that. I'm wondering whether the first half was written by one person and the second half written by another, or whether it was just one writer in a comfort zone for the first half, who then had no idea how to write anything outside of boring small town drama and fucked up the fantasy part.
This is based on the Hans Christian Anderson story (loosely), but making the Snow Queen desire the mirror, having been kidnapping more boys than only Kai, and also makes the two main characters into adults, and there's supposedly some dark seduction subplot here, except it's really just enchantment over people's feelings, so it comes off as forced.
There's a 1 hour BBC version of the story that, while cheating in more regards plotwise, is much more enjoyable to watch.
