Does your life feel more like a true crime drama than a Hallmark romance? Us too. And with all of this quarantining, mark our words... Snapped is going to have A LOT of content to pull from. With that in mind, Happily NEVER After is taking a sharp left into the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries films! We have had such a blast reviewing this genre, we've decided to go all in. They manage to mix some flirtation into these murders, so it's really the best of both, you know? Anyway, our first ep back...

Y'all...we are back with another episode after a long break! This one is a special request before we kick off our holiday season... So my good friend asked us to recap In the Key of Love starring Laura Osnes and Scott Michael Foster. Never heard of them? Not surprised. Maggie (Osnes) abandons her promising singing career to run her grandmother's wedding photography biz and, of course, her ex-singing partner-boyfriend, Jake, walks back into the picture when his sister is getting married. This...

We're back with episode 40! Bethany Joy Lenz and my main man, Andrew Walker, return to the Hallmark silver screen for Bottled With Love! Abbey is the totally non-Hallmark-typical type A control freak with a high powered marketing job who's got to deal with her boss's prodigal son, Nick, who leaves a salmon boat fishing expedition to return for a quick stint at the family biz. You know, as one does. Before all that, though, Abbey gets stood up at a wedding and puts a message in a bottle - also...

NEW EP! It's Spring Fever, y'all and HNA is bringing you Flip That Romance with Julie Gonzalo and Tyler Hynes. Jules Briggs and Lance Waddell used to be a thing...two years ago...until their flip project went flop and Lance ran for the Portland, OR hills in search of solo fame and fortune as a... contractor. But when the paparazzi didn't flock, Lance came crawling back to daddy's business in Bedford where he ends up, once again, faced with a still-salty Jules. Not so coincidentally, the two...

Welcome to Bruges where the players play, and they ride on them gondolas everydayyy... OK, perhaps not. This is a Lacey Chabert joint, after all. Join your fave hosts and our super special guest, the super lovable Drew Current (@drewbutwithpants), producer of Lifetime Uncorked, as we try our best to explain our take on Hallmark's Love, Romance and Chocolate. This wannabe piece of foreign-style cinema follows accomplished baker Emma (Chabert) as she gets brutally dumped, sheds not one tear and...

We're baaaaaack!  And as promised, our first ep back from the break is a three movie mystery series starring Life Goes On stars, Kellie Martin and Chad Lowe. We know...you can barely contain your excitement either!!Hailey Dean is an ex-DA turned therapist who sees no patients, but still moonlights hard core at the local police station in the very small town of ATLANTA. Her fiancé Will was tragically murdered in an alley 20 years ago and she was the target, a fact that has haunted her for all...

So, y'all, we couldn't say we got through Christmas 2018 without bringing you our very special recap of the Netflix sequel, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding. Amber (ugh yes, that's still her name) and Richard are back to not only get married but save the Aldovian kingdom from financial ruin. Of course, we had to bring back our favorite guest, Ashley Proctor, to judge and snark along with us through this ridiculous second act. Richard is now King, remember? No, we know you forgot. We kept...

On the 8th day of HNA Christmas, Hallmark gives us a movie where the townspeople of struggling Christmas, CO (yep, Christmas is the name of the town) basically work day in and day out over the course of several days to keep a female ski resort exec from Denver trapped in their town so they can BRING, not stop from bringing, but BRING a fancy ski resort to their town, which will undoubtedly bring hardship and eventual failure to any of the existing small business currently operating in their...

HNA's 7th day of Christmas brings you Ashley Williams as airline pilot turned Alaska ranch owner Zoey Hathaway in the Northern Lights of Christmas! Y'all, Ashley has done A LOT of TV Christmas movies by now, but she takes cooky optimism to a whole other level in this one. Whatever happy dust she's under the influence of is only amplified by Corey Sevier who plays her polar opposite as the grouchy ranch groundskeeper, Alec.  Zoey's hometown mentor, Gus, has died - naturally - and left her his...

The 6th day of HNA Christmas brings you Mingle All the Way! Get your techy hats on y'all because Hallmark takes us into the very complicated - and super hard for your accountant mom to understand - world of (gasp) dating apps. The perky and delightful Jen Lilley plays Molly Hoffman, creator of a professional "dating" app called Mingle All the Way. It's designed for "platonic plus ones" to find that special someone that they can fake date for the holidays. Remember that old Hallmark classic,...

On the 5th day of Christmas, HNA gave to me some flashbacks and CCB...! OK, here we go with A Shoe Addict's Christmas, people. This was a highly anticipated 2018 holiday movie as it features one of the Hallmark queens herself, Candace Cameron-Bure as Noelle (yep, in a Christmas movie), a personally and professionally stuck department store HR manager who finds herself planning the annual firefighter's Christmas gala. She meets Luke Macfarlane, firefighter hottie and new neighbor, who is...

On the 4th day of HNA Christmas, Regan and Robyn bring to thee an ice skating royal movieeeee! Bring it on down to Sansanova, y'all where the king is smokin' hot and the ice skating is luke warm, at best. Christmas at the Palace stars Merritt Patterson as Katie, a long since retired figure skater who is on the cusp of owning her very own ice rink in beautiful, crime-free Trenton, NJ with her gal pal Jessica. The only thing standing in their way is Jess's last skating hurrah in the kingdom of...

For our 3rd day of HNA Christmas, we’re bringing you It’s Christmas, Eve! LeAnn Rimes (yep, same one you’re thinking of) plays the title character, Eve, a no-nonsense temporary school superintendent who’s used to breezing into town, cutting budgets and taking names. Until this latest assignment brings her back to her hometown of Franklin (no state provided) where she meets smokin hot single dad, Liam played by Tyler Hines. Y’all, he is still stunning in these cable knits and henleys, FYI....

Our 2nd day of HNA Christmas brings us to Hallmark's Christmas at Pemberley Manor! Jessica Lowndes plays Elizabeth Bennett and Mark Rady is Mr. William Darcy, himself. Don't be fooled, though, people... The actual congruence to anything Jane Austin-related here is completely non-existent. If you were hoping for a nice period piece, prepare for disappointment as you drive up to Pemberley "Manor" which is really just a big house in Lambden, CT. Darcy is a rich NYC business guy who has divorced...

Welcome to Memphis, y'all, where it's Christmas and the CGI snow is brimming! Episode 28 is LIVE and our first Hallmark Christmas episode of our 12 Days of Christmas! Our first pick is Christmas at Graceland with Kellie Pickler and Wes Brown. You guys remember Kellie from American Idol, right? From the super sad season that Taylor Hicks won?? No? Anyway, Kellie is Chicago financial shark and single mom, Laurel who heads back to her home town of Memphis to close a bank deal with a bank owner...

Why do we do what we do? How did this thing get started? What is important to us about watching these crazy movies and sharing our views? How are we the same and what makes us different than other podcasts that deliver similar content? All of these questions and more will be answered when you listen to this super fun (and, of course, hilarious) bonus episode of HNA! We also shout out some other really fun and generous folks at other pods - what up to Lifetime Uncorked and The Bubbly Sesh -...

Have you ever lived in a small town that had it's own radio station? Did you ever need to save that radio station by having a bachelor bake-off? Did you then happen upon a new-in-town bachelor that couldn't bake but who was also willing to enter that bake-off with an excitingly delicious vanilla cake? If you have, then you had better watch Falling For You with Taylor Cole and Tyler Hines! And if you don't feel like watching the movie, in this bonus ep, @happilyneverafterpod gives you all the...

Episode 25 is out! Y’all... the doc and I are so tired right now in our lives for so many reasons, and one of them most certainly has to do with getting behind 3 of these movies to spit out one (albeit fab) pod episode. The All of My Heart series is most def a #Hallmarkie fave and so we could not let Fall Harvest pass without giving our unforgiving take on these crazy lovers, Jenny and Brian, and their goat-infested inn. AOMH features Hallmark queen Lacey Chabert and the effervescent Brennan...

Every now and then when the cosmos align perfectly, your dearly departed cupcake truck customer leaves you a garage...err, carriage house... behind a used-to-be bakery in the heart of a major metropolitan city. The other part of this super realistic fantasy is that she left the attached bakery to her distinguished-hot nephew who only kind of remembers he had an aunt. These two star-crossed bakery owners, Nikki Deloach - Natalie - and single dad Eric, Dylan Neal, go back and forth a bunch of...

We’re back with episode 23! We took a left turn into Hallmark Murders & Mysteries on this one, but don’t worry – they found a way to weave plenty of romance with these robberies and aggravated assaults into Along Came a Nanny. The effervescent Cameron Mathison plays Mike Logan, a fun-loving detective who goes under deep cover as a, you guessed it, nanny in order to crack a local robbery case. Mike effortlessly infiltrates the local nanny group, including Jessie (expertly played by Sarah...

Yes, yes, ya'll... It's ep 22 of Happily NEVER After! It's still the #summerofbadtitles and we're bringing you Bridal Wave with none other than the delicious pairing of Andrew Walker and Arielle Kebbel. Georgie is a rhinoplasty nurse who is about to marry her super vanilla, rhinoplasty surgeon fiancé, Phillip Hamilton. This lukewarm relationship is rudely interrupted when during their wedding weekend, Luke (Walker, yum) busts onto the scene in his crew cut and sandals. He used to be a...

There’s no time like the present to kick off our #summerofbadtitles with a recap of Accidentally Engaged! This very 90s feeling 2016 release stars Lexi Giovagnoli and Brant Daugherty as two “actors” who embark upon the most unrealistically happenstance romance any of us has ever seen. Clarissa is a waitress/aspiring actress who gets fired from a bit part in one of Chaz (yes, Chaz) Hunter’s latest hit movies. Chaz is caught up in his own complex relationship with a married, party girl creeping...

Alright HNA fans, episode 20 caps off our take on Hallmark June weddings because, frankly, two of these was all we could take. The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells is the sequel/finale to what we can only guess was it's riveting prequel, The Perfect Bride - not sure, we didn't bother to watch it. Anyhoo...Molly, played by Pascale Hutton, has effectively moved on from her heartbreaking altar fiasco with Steven and is primed and ready for happily ever after with Nick, Kavan Smith. If you're also...