overdecorated

Dear readers, it’s the season of joy and goodwill and new Netflix Christmas movies, in which people in wildly overdecorated houses navigate the holidays to find love, family harmony, and, quite possibly, one whopper of an electric bill.

“My home is overdone, overdecorated and overjeweled, just like Darcelle, but it reflects me,” Mr. Cole told the news website Oregon Live.

Bakers such as Julie Saha and Aimee France eschewed acetate collars and neatly piped rosettes for teetering, overdecorated cakes in a tangle of clashing colors at the recent Brooklyn event “Chaotic Cakes, a Pop Up.”

The décor: Some nicely festive shots of a holiday-bedecked Manhattan open the film, but mostly we have to get our Christmas kicks from Miguel and Cristina’s house, which is wildly and wonderfully overdecorated right down to matching red plaid shirts and jeans on the entire extended family on Christmas Day.

The bombastic Mayor Shinn of Jefferson Mays and overdecorated Mrs. Shinn of Jayne Houdyshell are turned into veritable sight gags; Shuler Hensley’s Marcellus, Hill’s confederate, is made to appear a witless errand boy.