Happily NEVER After: Northern Lights of Christmas, ep. 34

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 ranch, which Zoey is determined to sell in order to run back to Seattle and fulfill her dream of buying a charter plane. Alec makes it super obvious that he's upset about Zoey selling the ranch with a bunch of foot stomping and pouting until the two strike up a deal to at least agree on which buyers she will accept to ensure Gus's ranch is in good (small town) hands. But then brilliance strikes because how else do you more quickly sell your ranch other than creating an entire town Christmas festival in 9 days? Better staging just isn't going to do it and Alec is game to help. So off they go and along the way Zoey inserts every damn Christmas memory she's ever had into this flipping festival and drags the whole town into her personal problem, but they're all happy to help so it's fine. Do you think she sells the ranch in the end? Do you think Zoey and Alec end up together? Go listen and find out!