If you own one of Google’s Chromecast devices — plugged into an HDMI port on your TV, it allows you to stream content via Wi-Fi from mobile devices and laptops — then the good folks in Mountain View have a St. Valentine’s Day present for you.
As noted by Android Authority, Google is giving out $6 in Google Play credits to Chromecast owners. One catch: it seems to be U.S.-only as far as I can tell.
The idea is that you’ll use the $6 to rent some ooey-gooey romance movie over Valentine’s weekend… but you’re also free to use it to beef up your Clash Of Clans village, if that’s more your thing.
Click here to redeem the offer (you’ll have to agree to share your device’s ID with Google), and then you’ll have money to spend in the Google Play store. While many folks might rent something steamy to celebrate with their Valentine, Catholics know there’s more to real love that just what happens between the sheets.
A few examples of what else is available at Google Play …
* Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 version of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” starring actual 
teens Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting as Verona’s star-crossed lovers (who tie the knot before consummating their tragic relationship — warning: the love scene is still a bit racy). Stay away, however, from Zeffirelli’s “Brother Sun, Sister Moon,” a very silly, very ’70s, biography of sorts of Saint Francis of Assisi, most famous for the treacly theme song of the same name.
* Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster — and the ultimate love story — “The Passion of the Christ” (the number-two opening weekend box office for an R-rated movie, after “American Sniper”).
* Or, for something more contemporary, the same story told a different way, in 2014’s “Son of God,” the movie version of the New Testament section of the TV miniseries “The Bible,” from celebrity producers and spouses Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.
* “The Song of Bernadette,” a 1943 biography of Saint Bernadette Soubirous, who had visions of the Virgin Mary, starring Jennifer Jones (in the movie, not the visions).
* If you missed Lifetime’s (surprisingly good) recent reality series “The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns,” it recounts the experiences of five young women visiting communities of religious sisters while debating whether to become Brides of Christ.
* And, it’s not the much-acclaimed miniseries version that aired on PBS’ “Great Performances,” but there’s a 2008 movie edition of Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited,” about an aristocratic but haunted British Catholic family.
* Last but far from least, you could settle in for hours of doe-eyed longing (and that’s just Mr. Darcy) with, in my humble opinion, the only worthwhile version of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice,” the 1995 BBC miniseries. Aired on America on A&E, it stars Jennifer Ehle as Lizzie and Colin Firth as the aforementioned Darcy. Not everybody’s an angel, but it’s still a little tea party in romance heaven.
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