# christmas countdown #46: dashing in december (2020) and a home that cannot stay frozen

- Link: https://tacobout.online/2026/11/09/christmas-countdown-2026-46-dashing-in-december/
- Published: 2026-11-09T11:00:00-06:00
- Author: schwegler

going home for christmas can feel like being asked to endorse a version of your 
life that you have spent years revising. the furniture recognises you. the people
may be working from an older file.

[_dashing in december_ (2020)](https://play.google.com/store/tv/show?cdid=tvseason-hMqrHqCNKxE.P&id=91pnP-F69YE.P)
sends new york financier wyatt back to the family ranch, hoping to persuade his 
mother to sell it. an attraction to ranch hand heath complicates a visit that was
supposed to have a fairly clear business objective.

![](https://i0.wp.com/tacobout.online/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/telly-facet-christmas-
movie-night-2026.png?resize=1536%2C1024&ssl=1)

the setup is familiar holiday-romance territory, which is part of its usefulness.
two men get to inhabit the soft lighting, rural scenery and conspicuously inconvenient
feelings that the genre has been providing for other couples for years. their relationship
does not need to apologise for wanting that space.

the more interesting tension sits inside the property question. keeping a place 
can preserve a family’s history; it can also demand that somebody else keep doing
the work. selling can be practical and still feel like an erasure. the romance gives
that argument faces, even when the machinery is visibly steering toward reassurance.

![Dashing in December promotional artwork shows Juan Pablo Di Pace, Peter Porte 
and Andie MacDowell against snowy mountains and horses.](https://i0.wp.com/tacobout.
online/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/dashing-in-december-2020-countdown-body.jpg?resize
=1200%2C630&ssl=1)

## why christmas matters

christmas makes the ranch both a working place and a container for memory. wyatt
cannot discuss its future as though he has walked into an empty asset. the holiday
supplies the pressure to look again, and the danger of confusing familiarity with
an obligation to stay.

## the right evening

a gentle queer-romance evening when familiar genre comforts sound more helpful than
surprising. number 46 earns its place by making room for desire inside the homecoming
story, while allowing that home itself may need a little renegotiation.

 [From my media collectionDashing in December (2020)Director: Jake Helgren • Genre: Drama, TV Movie • Year: 2020Save this countdown pick or add your take on Trove.View on Trove ](https://trove.schweg.xyz/movies/262-dashing-in-december-2020)

featured image: Mitch Meyer / Paramount Network [source](https://www.metroweekly.com/2020/11/watch-trailer-released-for-gay-cowboy-holiday-film-dashing-in-december/)

body image: Paramount Network [source](https://www.distractify.com/p/where-was-dashing-in-december-filmed)