Yet they still FaceTime.

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby is the third installment in the Netflix series, in which all the storylines take place during the month of December in the fictional kingdom of Aldovia. I enjoy a good fictional story as much as anyone, so I have no problem with the creation of a mythical country. If Tolkien can do it, why not anyone? I’m easygoing about these things.

This tale is charming for the most part, and involves *SPOILER ALERT* a royal pregnancy and important treaty that is being sabotaged. So far it’s brilliant. But here’s the thing no other critics have noticed:

There’s a winter storm that takes out all the airports and travel in and out of Aldovia…yet all cellular service is somehow intact. When you see the size of the snowfall, it is impossible to believe that it wouldn’t have taken out at least part of the power grid, and therefore connected communication networks. But the story just plays out as if all high speed interfacing is fine, including video conferencing.

We’re supposed to believe that a giant storm took out all travel, yet didn’t affect the communications infrastructure at all? It’s not completely outside the realm of reality, but it’s unlikely a storm of that magnitude, if disrupting travel, would not disrupt communications as well. Perhaps things were disrupted, but the filmmakers (Christopher Nolan?) chose to not address it, in which case there would be some political overtones of proletariat versus bourgeoisie that would be appropriate to address, given the backdrop of an imperial family. There is no hint of this either, so it stands as a disappointing oversight.

It’s troubling. Not an impossible point to get past, but again, a disappointing oversight in an otherwise flawless film. You can do better, Mr. Nolan.