Welcome to Predictably Unexpected, the holiday Hallmark romcom podcast you didn’t know you needed! Your hosts, Holly & Scottie, are obsessed with predictably heartwarming Christmas movies. Think big-city careers, small-town charm, last-minute snowstorms, and just maybe... a kiss under the mistletoe.
Using their official Predictability Scorecard — a totally serious, highly scientific game where they rate each holiday film on classic Hallmark-style tropes. From city vs. small-town settings to surprise character backstories, they’ll predict the plot before they even hit play. If they guess the movie right, they earn points and yes, there’s a prize (or at least bragging rights) on the line.
What to Expect This Season:
• Weekly episodes all through the holiday season (hopefully)
• Predictions, recaps, and hilarious real-time reactions
• A rotating lineup of festive films, friendly competition, and a lot of hot takes (and hot cocoa)
So grab your coziest blanket, pour yourself something peppermint-flavored, and get ready to celebrate the most predictably unexpected time of the year!
Joust Getting Started: Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas Calendar and A Knight to Remember
It's a mega episode, and yes, we're calling it that because the Countdown to Christmas calendar is enormous and our scheduling spreadsheet has filed a formal complaint. First, we break down the full release calendar and try to figure out how Hallmark expects anyone to finish dinner between now and December. Then it's the Season 2 tiebreaker, where the Predictability Scorecard faces its toughest test yet: A Knight to Remember. Will there be a castle? A charming stranger with suspiciously good ...
1 Sept 2026
Love Finds You, Right on Cue: Hallmark's Love Finds You and Much About Love
Season 2 is officially preseason, and love found us exactly where we expected it to. This episode is dropping a little later than planned, but in true Hallmark fashion, we knew it would find you eventually anyway. This week we break down Hallmark's Love Finds You, giving our full unfiltered opinions on whether the plot surprised us even once (spoiler: it did not). We're also taking a first look at what's coming next with Hallmark’s Much About Love, setting the stage for our Predictability Sco...
24 Aug 2026
Preseason, Prejudged: Falling Into Hallmark's 2026 Fall Movie Lineup
We're back! After a long winter's nap since the last Countdown to Christmas wrapped, Season 2 is finally here, and we're easing back in with a preseason special before the real competition begins. This week, there's no Predictability Scorecard on the line and no official predictions to defend. Instead, we're taking a first look at Hallmark's 2026 "Fall Into Love" lineup, sizing up the titles, and getting our punny muscles warmed back up after months off the mic. Think of it as our offseason t...
30 Dec 2025
There Can Be Only One (Predictor): Crowning the Predictability Champion!
After a full season of predictions, scorecards, and extremely scientific math, the moment has finally arrived. This week, we break down the final Predictability Scorecard results for Hallmark’s A Make or Break Holiday and The Christmas Baby, reviewing how our predictions actually stacked up once the movies aired. With those last scores locked in, we tally the season-long results and officially crown the Predictability Champion. Bragging rights are claimed, egos are bruised, and the host-vs-ho...
21 Dec 2025
Making, Breaking, and Baby-Making: Hallmark’s A Make or Break Holiday & The Christmas Baby!
This week, we’re holding ourselves accountable — briefly — before confidently predicting the future all over again. We kick things off by reviewing last week’s Hallmark offerings, A Suite Holiday Romance and Oy to the World!, and putting our Predictability Scorecard to the test. Which tropes showed up right on cue? Which emotional beats hit exactly when we said they would? And did Hallmark surprise us even a little… or absolutely not at all? After checking the receipts, we turn our attention ...
12 Dec 2025
A Very Suite Predictable Oy-fair: Hallmark’s A Suite Holiday Romance & Oy to the World!
In this week’s episode, we savor the festive flavors of Hallmark’s latest entries in the holiday movie canon. We start with a results recap from last week—She’s Making a List and Single on the 25th—where we compare what we predicted based solely on the titles to what actually unfolded on screen. Were we holiday-prophets? Were we misled by the promise of yuletide puns? Or did the movies deliver classic Hallmark charm exactly where we expected it? After crunching the numbers and awarding this...
6 Dec 2025
List Mode Activated, Relationship Status Deactivated: Hallmark’s She’s Making a List & Single on the 25th
Welcome back to another tinsel-covered episode of our Hallmark holiday deep dive, where we take festive movie titles far too seriously and use our Predictability Scorecard like it’s a scientifically validated diagnostic tool. (Maybe one day.) We kick things off by revisiting last week’s trifecta of holiday cheer: We Met in December, The Snow Must Go On, and An Alpine Holiday. Did our predictions melt under the pressure, or did we snowball a perfect score? We break down the meet-cutes, the mis...
29 Nov 2025
Fashionably Late for Festive Fate: Hallmark’s We Met in December, The Snow Must Go On & An Alpine Holiday
Hallmark has unleashed a blizzard of movies, and frankly, even we have limits — so in this episode, we’re changing things up to survive the holiday onslaught. And yes, we know this episode is dropping later than planned — consider it fashionably late, Hallmark-style. First, we review our Predictability Scorecard results for last week’s premieres: Hallmark’s Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story and Melt My Heart This Christmas. Did we accurately forecast the football-themed romance and heartw...
20 Nov 2025
Melting Hearts & Broken Tackles: Hallmark’s Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story & Melt My Heart This Christmas
Fluff up your favorite holiday blanket—it’s time for another cheerful romp through the Predictability Scorecard! We start by revisiting last week’s festive double feature, Hallmark’s: Three Wisest Men and Tidings for the Season. Did our predictions hold up like sturdy Christmas stockings, or did they sag a little under the weight of unexpected plot twists? We unwrap the tropes, celebrate the hits, and lovingly laugh at the misses, all in the spirit of good holiday fun. Then we suit up for thi...
12 Nov 2025
Wisecracks and Predictable Tidings: Hallmark’s Three Wisest Men & Tidings for the Season
The tinsel is twinkling, the snow is suspiciously foam-like, and our Predictability Scorecard is ready for another test. This week, we’re checking in on Hallmark's Christmas Above the Clouds and A Keller Christmas Vacation to see if our predictions soared or totally crash-landed in a snowbank. Then we turn our merry gaze toward Hallmark's Three Wisest Men (yes, they made a third one!) and Tidings for the Season, which sounds like it’ll deliver exactly what it promises: tidings...
6 Nov 2025
Flight Risk & Family Drama: Hallmark’s Christmas Above the Clouds and A Keller Christmas Vacation
The Hallmark machine keeps cranking out Christmas cheer — and we’re here to decode it one predictable plot at a time. This week, we revisit our predictions for Christmas on Duty to see if we nailed the tropes, misread the mistletoe, or underestimated Hallmark’s ability to recycle its own storylines. In true holiday fashion, we forgot something on our list — Hallmark’s A Newport Christmas! This Hallmark title won’t get the full Predictability Scorecard treatment, but we did watch it and we’ll ...
29 Oct 2025
Reporting for Romance: Hallmark’s Christmas on Duty
The countdown continues, and we’re back on the front lines of Hallmark's Countdown to Christmas movie predictions! This week, we’re reviewing our battlefield results from A Christmas Angel Match and Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper! —two festive missions full of angels, a weatherman, and more small-town charm than a snow globe factory. How accurate were our guesses? Let’s just say our Predictability Scorecard is seeing both victories and tactical errors. Then, it’s time to salute our next challeng...
22 Oct 2025
Royal Results, Angelic Guesses & Ted Cooper?: Hallmark’s A Christmas Angel Match & Merry Christmas Ted Cooper!
Buckle your sleigh belts and grab your glitter glue — we’re back with another tinsel-covered episode of holiday hot takes! First, we saddle up and spill the eggnog on our Predictability Scorecard for Hallmark’s A Royal Montana Christmas, where tiaras meet tractors and we answer one of life’s most important questions: How many royal secrets can one ranch handle? Next we flap our metaphorical angel wings and float into the clouds of speculation as we preview Hallmark’s A Christmas Angel Match —...
15 Oct 2025
Tricks, Treats & Tropes: Hallmark’s Haul Out the Halloween Movie Review (S1:E4)
In this special Halloween episode, we temporarily ghost our traditional Predictability Scorecard (don't worry, it'll haunt us again soon) to simply discuss Hallmark's spooky-season offering: Haul Out the Halloween. Join us as we unwrap this cinematic candy corn of a film — complete with autumn clichés, supernatural small-town charm, and romantic misunderstandings. We’re not here to judge. Okay, we are — but only in the most festive, flannel-wrapped way. Is it scary? No. Is it logical? Also no...
9 Oct 2025
Giddy Up, Your Majesty: Hallmark’s A Royal Montana Christmas (S1:E3)
Mount up and curtsy, cowpokes — this week we’re blindly predicting A Royal Montana Christmas, the latest Hallmark holiday export straight from the wild blue yonder. We don’t know the plot, but we’re pretty sure it involves royalty, horses, a flannel-loving local, and at least three montages involving hay, cocoa, and unresolved emotional baggage. PLUS: We saddle back up to see how our wildly confident predictions panned out for Home Turf. Who took the lead after week one of our seasonal showdo...
6 Oct 2025
BONUS! Tinsel, Tropes, and Total Guesswork - Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas 2025 Calendar Preview
Surprise! It’s a bonus episode—because our hearts (and DVRs) just couldn’t wait. The Hallmark Christmas Movie Season has arrived like a surprise snowstorm on Christmas Eve, and we’re here with your essential preview of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas holiday movie calendar. In this festive frolic, we sleigh through Hallmark’s upcoming lineup of snow-glazed love stories, magical misunderstandings, and aggressively cozy small towns that only exist in Canada and our dreams. We’ll sprinkle a li...
1 Oct 2025
Professors, Playbooks and Predictions - Hallmark’s Fall Release: Home Turf (S1:E2)
In this week’s episode, we’re revealing the final results of our Predictability Scorecard for Adventures in Love and Birding — where romance meets the great outdoors. We’ll recap the film, share our honest review, and break down how we scored to reveal who owns the tiebreaker! (**potential spoilers**) What’s awaiting us this week? Fall leaves, football season, and maybe… a campus romance? We’re raking the leaves as well as the clues as we preview the upcoming Hallmark fall movie Home Turf! We...
27 Sept 2025
Adventures in Love and Birding: A Hallmark Fall Face-Off! (S1:E1)
Grab your pumpkin spice latte and settle in for a cozy, leaf-crunching episode as we dive into our latest Hallmark fall movie obsession: Adventures in Love and Birding. Love and birds, what else do you need? Tune in as we break down our predictions that will serve as the tiebreaker that could determine who wins our Hallmark movie face-off at the end of the season. Does birdwatching lead to true love? Let’s find out! Send us a text Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/predictabl...
27 Sept 2025
Seasons Greetings: An Introduction to the Predictably Unexpected Podcast (S1:E0)
Welcome to Predictably Unexpected — the holiday romcom podcast you didn’t know you needed! In our very first episode, meet your hosts Holly and Scottie, a married couple who love the holiday season almost as much as they love each other. (Almost.) We’re kicking things off with a look at who we are, how this merry little podcast came to be, and why we’re obsessed with predictably heartwarming Christmas movies. Think big-city careers, small-town charm, last-minute snowstorms, and just maybe.....
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