

Saints Row IV's next DLC episode, How The Saints Save Christmas, will almost certainly bash the very concept of Christmas specials' head against the fourth wall until both are naught but jagged shards. But OK, in fairness, some Christmas specials aren't entirely terrible, and if anyone can elbow drop the cliche in the groin until it slithers back into the bowels of its holly, jolly dungeon of soulless commercialism, it's Saints Row. I mean, who doesn't love seeing their favorite characters shoehorned into an emotionally hollow, often obligatory plot that ends with a Very Valuable Lesson about family or selflessness or time travel ghosts or something? It's a tradition nearly as old as Walmart itself. Every great pop culture entity needs a Christmas special.
