An Unnecessary Deep Dive Into the Magic of Netflix’s Holiday Movie Universe

Time traveling , sorceresses , curse , ghosts , humancloning . Netflix has officially establish a Holiday Movie Universe , connecting several of its Hallmark - style seasonal picture show through references and Easter egg . What this has done is make a fantasy realm whereChristmascan prolong a area ’s economy , red-hot chocolate is an aphrodisiac , and , oh yeah , magic exists .

Netflix recently released aseries of tweetsbreaking down what it ’s call off “ Netflix ’s Holiday Movie Universe , ” ( we ’ll utilize NHMU for short ) which consists of a series of vacation films on its streaming service . The first to emerge was 2017 ’s A Christmas Prince , which starrediZombie’sRose McIver as an investigatory reporter describe Amber who goes undercover with the purple kin of Aldovia to find out some dirt on the next king . What does she find ? Love .

Netflix has expanded its vacation movie imperium into eight films and weigh with movie like The Holiday Calendar , about a magical advent calendar , and The Princess Switch , which stars Vanessa Hudgens in the dual role of a duchess and baker who switch places and then , of course of study , find beloved . A Christmas Prince itself has spawned two sequels , The Royal Wedding and The Royal Baby — it ’s basically the Skywalker saga of the NHMU . You might think the only magic in these holiday moving picture is the magic of the time of year , but you would be ill-timed . These picture show are connected in a room that not only has make a cinematic macrocosm , but have also brought magic trick into each and every one of them .

From left: The Princess Switch, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby, and The Knight Before Christmas. All images: Netflix.

From left: The Princess Switch, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby, and The Knight Before Christmas. All images: Netflix.Image: Netflix

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So , we ’ve give that trick is actual in The Knight Before Christmas . Brooke witnesses Sir Cole travel back to his own clip , and it seems like everyone else has accepted that he ’s from the 14th C . The movie even has a post - credits scenery where the sorceress sets her time - traveling eye on Sir Cole ’s brother , think we ’re likely going to see even more magical shenanigans in a sequel . And here is where thing get … interesting .

The Knight Before Christmas include a scene where Brooke ’s baby tells her daughter about an acorn ornament that their family fetch back from a slip to Aldovia . That means Aldovia — and by extension , A Christmas Prince — exist in the world of The Knight Before Christmas . And therefore , so does magic .

That’s the sorceress in the background. And no, they never explain how she got there.

This is further cemented in A Christmas Prince : The Royal Baby . The third picture show in the franchise center around Queen Amber and her husband needing to signalise a peace treaty before midnight on Christmas Eve ( that deadline always exists in these motion picture for some reason ) , otherwise Aldovia and the neighboring country of Penglia will mechanically return to a state of matter of warfare . But that ’s not all : The Martin Luther King Jr. ’s sister find out that if they do n’t sign the treaty , the baby will be cursed .

patently , a sorceress placed a spell over the accord to ensure that it would never be broken . The Queen Mother tell her girl that there ’s nothing to worry about , because curse are dizzy superstitions that fall out of fashion “ hundred ago . ” But there is something to interest about . Have you been paying aid ? Magic is actual , lady ! ( There are also rumors of a trace in the donjon . This is technically neither confirmed nor denied , so I ’m run to usurp it ’s rightful . )

It does n’t terminate there . The Royal Baby confirms a canonical connectedness to The Princess Switch , as we see a map showing that Aldovia and Belgravia are neighboring country , and there ’s a mention that Belgravia ’s ruler married a non - regal ( which totally happened ) . This realization opens up the possible action that there could be another reason for two woman who await precisely like Vanessa Hudgens being in the same universe together . bread that , three Vanessa Hudgens : They ’re work on a sequel to The Princess Switch that introduces another lookalike . Oh waitress , there ’s also the Vanessa Hudgens of The Knight Before Christmas , which is indirectly tied to The Princess Switch by direction of A Christmas Prince . That makes four Vanessa Hudgens !

I’m pretty sure “beshrew” is a verb.

Seriously : Why are there at least four women who all look likewise and equally love the holiday time of year shlep around the globe , ostensibly unaware of each other until some holiday - based hijinks wreak them together ? Is this a magical Orphan Black situation where the sorceress from The Knight Before Christmas ( who might perhaps be the same one from The Royal Baby ) experiment with cloning to make multiple Vanessa Hudgens because the humans can never have too much of her ?

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But , that ’s not all . Oh no , no , no , we have n’t reached the bottom of this well yet .

The Vanessa Hudgens clones prepare to strike!

There ’s one more way the NHMU is connected , and that ’s through the movies themselves . Several of the films have scenes where other films in the NHMU are playing on tv set . For example , A Christmas Prince is blob in The Holiday Calendar and The Princess Switch , and Holiday in the Wild is part of a major picture in The Knight Before Christmas ( along with a unearthly embodied tie - in with Alexa , but that ’s another story ) . Of of course , if you try and recollect about that for a rent indorsement , your learning ability will explode . The Princess Switch and A Christmas Prince are yoke … but Vanessa Hudgens is also see A Christmas Prince on television ? Does that mean A Christmas Prince is a documentary ? Or , perhaps , is it sorcerous ?

Only time will tell whether we get the epic NHMU crossover we merit , like we have with Marvel ’s Avengers and theholiday grapheme of Rankin / Bass . But even if we do n’t get a two - part movie where Queen Amber and Sir Cole team up to hold open all the Vanessa Hudgens of the world from consume their sleeper cell initiation activated , which an malefic anti - sorceress had implanted in them to make them kill the spirit of Christmas once and for all , it ’ll be ok .

Because it ’s a magical time of year , and there ’s no elbow room better to celebrate it than by adding a little act of conjuring trick into our life history . In the case of the NHMU , it ’s probably a tidy sum more witching than they bargain for .