‘HEARTS AROUND THE TABLE: JENNA’S FIRST LOVE’ IS MOVIE ONE OF COLLECTION
The first film in a new quartet of films as well as the start of the 2025 Spring into Love lineup, Hearts Around the Table: Jenna’s Frist Love is a title I underestimated.
Hearts Around the Table: Jenna’s First Love (2025) TV Film Review
Loving her work is only one part of life. The more important part of life is her three (and Rory, too!) siblings and the woman whose big heart made them a family. No one is more important than this family, which is where home for Jenna (Ashely Newbrough) remains, even as they all stay busy in their own lives. Working as an event planner, her latest client is wealthy and has big plans for a charity event.
Things start out fine with her latest job, but then she meets the point man her client assigns for her to work with. It turns out to be Andrew (Steve Lund). Ordinarily Jenna would handle this fine, but the truth is, the pair have a history that makes this professional task unusually difficult.
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Every now and then I underestimate how well I’m going to like a Hallmark or a similar TV peer film. This is one of those. The first in a grouping of four films, Heart’s Around the Table: Jenna’s First Love is sweet and lovely and its connective story makes for some emotionally sweet, but not sad scenes. It also starts nicely with lots of cheer, which sets up the tone of the films.
For those of us who enjoy the second chance romance, that is (obviously) where this one lands. We see two people brought together again by fate and the present choices they make to realize past choices they made were wrong. Familiar faces fill up these roles from the leads in this to the siblings, three of whom will be getting their own stories over the next three Saturday nights.
If you like, same as is true of nearly any sign off I have for these Hallmark reviews, the network or films that connect, then Jenna’s First Love is a good start to this quartet of familial dramas. The family bonds perhaps do overshadow the romance, but since rom-coms are often prevalent on this network, I suspect, even ardent romantic-comedy lovers can forgive this.
Photos: Hallmark Media
Content: the TV-G rating means the same in this as it does on any of these. There is a kiss or two, but nothing to abuse the rating. It’s all wholesome and sweet.
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