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Home for Christmas (2019)

Home for Christmas poster
Original title
Hjem til jul
Genre
drama television series, romantic comedy, comedy television series
Country
Norway
Length
3 seasons, 20 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 263 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman feels pressure to bring a partner to family Christmas celebrations. She frantically searches for anyone to fill that role before the holiday arrives.

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What happens

Home for Christmas (Norwegian: Hjem til jul) is a Norwegian television series that premiered on Netflix in December 2019. It stars Ida Elise Broch as Johanne, who scrambles to get a boyfriend to bring home for Christmas Eve. The romantic drama comedy consists of six or eight 30-minute episodes in each season and was Netflix's first Norwegian original series. The series received mostly positive reviews. In 2022, the series was remade in Italy under the title "I Hate Christmas" (Italian: Odio il natale), running for a second series in 2023. It was also remade in South Africa in 2023, under the title "Yoh! Christmas". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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