Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.Of the surprising deluge of LGBTQ-themed holiday films this year, one title managed to met our icy hearts and warm us with a fantasy romance: Lifetime’s The Christmas Setup.
The film stars real-life husbands Blake Lee and Ben Lewis as Patrick and Hugo, a pair of small-town former high school classmates whose paths cross years later during the holidays.
Hugo, now a successful New York lawyer, comes back to suburban Milwaukee to spend Christmas with his mom Kate (Fran Drescher, irrepressible as ever) and best friend Madelyn (Ellen Wong).