Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty
“Rick and Morty” co-creator Dan Harmon making a Hallmark movie go viral wasn’t on anyone’s list of 2022 predictions. But that’s exactly what he did last weekend, thanks to a series of Instagram posts about the 2021 Sister Swap films.
“There are two Hallmark movies called Sister Swap,” Harmon wrote in the first of three separate, increasingly frantic dispatches. “One is called Sister Swap: Christmas in the City, the other is Sister Swap: Hometown Holiday. So we thought oh cool it’s a franchise and there’s a sequel, which Sister Swap do we watch first? Well HERE’S THE THING.”
“The thing,” Harmon discovers, is that the two films take place concurrently, following a pair of sisters (played by Hallmark regulars and real-life sisters Kim Williams-Paisley and Ashley Williams) as they switch places for the holidays. It’s not a Parent Trap situation, mind you; older sister Jen (Williams-Paisley) and younger sister Meg (Williams) happily live separate lives and chart different paths.