In the last days of November, a debate raged over Twitter about a movie hardly anyone was talking about just days before, and whether one of its characters deserved the happy ending she got. In
Happiest Season, Harper (Mackenzie Davis) asks her girlfriend Abby (Kristen Stewart) to hide the nature of their relationship while visiting Harper’s old-fashioned, politically ambitious family for Christmas.
Harper then spends much of the film leaning into the lie, frequently sidelining Abby while spending time with her ex-boyfriend Connor (Jake McDormand), leaving Abby to strike up a friendship with another of Harper’s exes, Riley (Aubrey Plaza). The film divided viewers into factions of #TeamHarper and #TeamRiley. While the discussion never became as heated as, say, arguments over what was up with the spinning top at the end of Christopher Nolan’s