After viewers of Netflix’s Christmas movie, The Noel Diary, speculated about the future of Jake’s and Rachel’s relationship, the ending of The Noel Diary has received mixed reviews. If you’re like us, then you’ve seen all the Christmas movies on Netflix. Now you want to catch up with your next holiday movie. The Internet’s streaming […]
After viewers of Netflix’s Christmas movie, The Noel Diary, speculated about the future of Jake’s and Rachel’s relationship, the ending of The Noel Diary has received mixed reviews.
If you’re like us, then you’ve seen all the Christmas movies on Netflix. Now you want to catch up with your next holiday movie.
The Internet’s streaming service providers are churning out Yuletide content as December approaches. This comes after a fall of seemingly endless true crime shows.
There are plenty of holiday entertainment options, from classic romantic comedies like Love Actually to heartwarming Christmas films like Home Alone.
Netflix’s latest Christmas addition is The Noel Diary. It offers viewers one hour and 39 minutes worth of chemistry and mystery set against idyliic snowy scenes.
The Parent Trap’s Charles Shyer directs this romantic drama about Jake Turner (Justin Hartley), a successful writer who seeks out answers to his past after the death of his mother. He visits his mom’s house to settle her estate and finds a diary which seems to have the answers to all his questions. He meets Rachel (Barrett Doss), who is a young woman looking for her birth mother.
Although The Noel Diary takes place during Christmastime, technically it could have been set at any other time of the year.
The Noel Diary’s ending received mixed reactions, with some viewers surprised by the twists and turns in the final scenes.
Rachel tells Jake that she is looking for her biological mother. She believed she lived at his mom’s house. The pair embark on a road trip together.
Rachel informs Jake she is engaged to Alan. However, it soon becomes apparent that she is not as in love as she thinks with her fiance. The new friends develop a mutual attraction as they drive together.
The two of them first appear on Scott Turner’s doorstep. The reunion is surprisingly smooth, despite the fact that they are estranged from their father. They reconciled over the course of the afternoon.
Rachel later joins them, and Scott tells Rachel about The Noel Diary Jake found in the house. Noel was a teenager girl hired by the Turners to be their nanny after she had become pregnant out of wedlock. Scott told Rachel that Noel was a great help when Ben died. He then shared details about how to reach her.
Rachel vanished on the second day of their adventure. Jacob receives a note from Rachel stating that she enjoyed Jacob’s company and she needed to be his fiance for safety.
Jacob meets Rachel, even though she doesn’t get to meet her biological mother. Noel is informed by Jacob how positive she has been to the Turner family and offered the chance for Noel to meet her biological daughter. Although the reunion is not shown on screen, it’s clear that Rachel and her mother were only a matter time.
Rachel wrestles with an important decision at the end of the movie: to either stay with Alan or continue her relationship with Jake. When Jake shows up uninvited, she tells her to leave her home and confesses her love for her. Rachel turns up at Jake’s house and tells him she has changed her mind. Many viewers took to the internet to express their disapproval at Rachel’s infidelity after the ‘Happily EverAfter’ finale.
«Why romanticize cheating?» Reddit user «Hate it» wrote that he did not like the idea.
Another viewer said, «Ending certainly left something to be desired.»
Bookworms will delight to learn that The Noel Diary was inspired from the novel of the exact same name by Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box author.