A new Festive Fridays episode is here with a 2025 Christmas rom-com streaming on Hulu.

A famous lifestyle writer must maintain her carefully crafted image when TV cameras arrive for Christmas dinner. Her plan to have her best friend pose as her spouse leads to unexpected feelings and revelations.

November 1, 2025 | Hulu

• Emmanuelle Chriqui as Joy
• Chad Michael Murray as Max Rocklin

Welcome to Another Cup with Liza Brown, the cooking show everyone absolutely loves. Today’s guest is Joy Edwards. Liza brings up Joy’s country home, Goose Lane, and shows photos of it to the audience—who completely lose their minds.

Joy plates a dish on the show, and during the commercial break her agent, Josh, comes over. Joy admits she’s over all of this fame. This is her last book—after this, she wants a real life.

After the show, she heads out to her car and is greeted by her chauffeur, Max. They’re super close—basically best friends. He’s even staying at her house, and she’s named her fake TV husband after him to keep the spotlight away from her real life. Joy wants absolutely nothing to do with fame anymore.

But then…bad news. Liza Brown announces that they’re taking the show to Goose Lane for a live Christmas Eve special. Joy panics. WHAT IS SHE GOING TO DO?!

Her solution? She asks Max to pretend to be her husband. He agrees, and she recruits a few other people to play the rest of her “family.” They start doing fake family stuff—decorating for Christmas, having snowball fights, the whole thing. Naturally, Joy and Max grow super close and almost kiss…until the kids interrupt. Get used to it.

When Liza and the crew arrive, everything goes perfectly—until it doesn’t. The ping-pong table they’re using as a dinner table collapses, the kids’ real parents show up totally confused, and the whole fake family is exposed.

Joy tries to save it by claiming it’s a blended family, but no one’s buying it. Everything is falling apart—and this is when Max finally confesses his feelings for her. Joy says it’s not the right time, which breaks his heart, and he leaves.

And yes…all of this happens on live TV.

Joy runs after him, but he’s already driven away. She goes back inside and tells the audience the truth—that the whole thing was a lie and she’s been pretending this whole time.

The next day is Christmas, and her publisher shows up with great news: online sales are through the roof. If Joy wants to write another book—this time telling the truth—they want to publish it.

Joy tracks down Max, tells him how she really feels, and they kiss big ones.

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