The series premiered on Syfy on December 6, 2017, receiving mostly positive reviews. On January 29, 2018, it was announced that Syfy had renewed the happy valentines day 2020 for a second season, which premiered on March 27, 2019.
On June 4, 2019, the series was cancelled by Syfy after two seasons. Christopher Fitzgerald as Louis Sheinberg, a children’s entertainer also known as “Sonny Shine”, and to Blue as “Mr. Former cop turned hitman Nick Sax stumbles across the Scaramucci family secret during a hit, which puts his life in danger. Hailey is kidnapped by Very Bad Santa, bringing to life her imaginary friend “Happy”, who then seeks out Sax for his help saving Hailey. After a bloody escape from Smoothie and his men at the hospital, Sax learns from Happy that Hailey is his daughter.
Sax is drawn into a game of cards by an ex-associate, Le Dic, after asking him for some guns and money. Sax and Happy begin their search for Hailey, which takes them to a strip club in search of a disheveled-looking Santa. After Very Bad Santa tries to eat Happy, he vomits up the fortune to a fortune cookie. Sax traces the fortune first to the company that produced it and then to the restaurant in Chinatown that sells it, tracking down who delivers to Very Bad Santa while avoiding Triad assassins.
Hailey and the other children arrive at a new prison made up like a classroom, with Smoothie as the “teacher”. Urged by Happy, Sax meets Amanda for the first time in ten years, but the house is attacked by masked men, whom Sax brutally kills. Happy meets a three-headed dog named Raspberry, who introduces him to his friend — Blue’s son Gerry, who tortures and kills imaginary friends. Sax leaves Mikey at a church while he confronts Blue, demanding Hailey’s release in exchange for Mikey. However, Mikey terrifies the priest in the confessional after speaking Latin in a demonic voice, which allows him to escape to his mother’s house. Amanda questions children’s entertainer Sonny Shine about the kidnappings of Hailey and the other children at his “Wish-tacular” events and soon realizes that Sonny, who is revealed to be “Mr.
Smoothie has the children packaged like dolls and loaded in a truck. Amanda being thrown out of Shine Tower. Sax and Happy make their way to Very Bad Santa’s hideout, finding all the children he has kidnapped over the years, physically grown up but lobotomized with a power drill to remain “children” forever. Several explosive clad nuns run terrified through the city after being tasked by a man in a bunny costume to find a detonation device hidden inside an egg. Nick Sax now works as a cab driver and vows to reform himself but is reminded when he falters by Happy.
Scooter Sterling, a snobby celebrity meant to host a charity Easter hunt, is kidnapped by the man in the bunny costume. Sax and Hailey spend the day together and decide to place imaginary bets at the horse races. 40 from Hailey to bet on a horse she had chosen. Nick is hired via Le Dic for a breaking and entering job to steal video tapes from Sonny Shine’s house, where he encounters Shine’s sloshed ex-star trophy wife.
While Nick and Merry break Dayglo Doug out of a retirement home of elderly nazis, Smoothie approaches Hailey and apologizes for what he did in the past, beginning to form a bond with her and manipulating her by pointing out the failures of her parents, as Amanda got fired and is in an extramarital relationship with a man named Simon and they have sex in a bathroom stall. Nick is severely intoxicated from eating the Wishee’s blood and has self-reflective hallucinations, forgetting about Hailey’s birthday. Amanda generally neglects Hailey, including forgetting her birthday, and develops a strange addiction for spray whipped cream, which she later links to the orgy Sonny subjected her to with the Wishees. Bug’s orgy, Amanda discloses to Nick that she’s pregnant, and does not know who the father is. Nick escapes the party by holding Amanda at gunpoint, and takes her home, where he encounters Happy, the morning after his romantic night with Bo Peep, who has dashed his hopes for an on-going relationship.