The Christmas season continues on the In Reel Deep Podcast with Klaus, Netflix’s tentpole holiday film for 2019. After The Christmas Chronicles, it was fair to assume this streaming service would be pumping out cheap, easy holiday fare forever. But alas, a true miracle has occurred: Klaus might be the best Christmas film in recent memory.

How did first-time director Sergio Pablos convince algorithm-loving Netflix to back his grounded, alternative version of the Santa origin story? And what led Netflix to commit to Klaus as its first-ever original animated feature? We break all that down and more on our latest holiday episode.

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