Julkalender—Sweden’s Serialized TV Christmas Countdown

There is just something about late November and December that makes pretty mediocre cinema suddenly magical because it has Christmas in the title. We can easily suspend disbelief for poorly-run small town businesses being saved, princes popping up by the dozen in the Midwest, and love at second sight at the very latest.

On the Tenth Day of Imported Christmas, we discovered that the Nordic countries are way ahead of us in the Christmas content arena, thanks to their annual televised julkalender.

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