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In a scene that’s no doubt playing out in living rooms around the country, a family puts up its holiday decorations, trying to end the long and tumultuous year with some familiar rituals and splashes of brightness.

But there’s a grinch, in the form of a sulky teenager, in their midst. Along with heavy sighs and eye rolls, she complains it “doesn’t even feel like Christmas” and criticizes her little sister’s tree-decorating skills. “You’re doing it wrong.

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