The paint-by-numbers romcom has largely faded from view in the last fifteen years - but it seems no one has told ITVX. ★★ 🖋️ _e_watkins
? You know the ones: boy meets girl and falls in love, only for a twist of fate to make it seem like they can never be together – that is, until a second twist resolves every problem they’ve ever had and sends them hurtling into each other’s arms.
Since the romcom’s heyday around 15 years ago, such paint-by-numbers fare has largely faded from view. Luckily for those who wish it was still 2008, it seems no one has toldis beautifully acted, weirdly written and comically dated. Starring Harry Lawtey as single father and journalist Ben, along with Jessica Barden as actor Emma,The first episode flits between timelines: in one, jovial past-Ben meets Jess at a bus stop where they fall madly in love; in the other, present-Ben broods on a bench. “Have you considered writing about it?” asks his editor. Uh oh.
Before long, Jess is pregnant with twins – but no sooner have the babies arrived than they are whisked away to the ICU. Could this be the looming tragedy we’ve been waiting for? Nope! The healthy babies are soon reunited with a beaming Jess and Ben, who ready themselves to go home. Having loaded his new family into an Uber, Ben turns to get Jess’s hospital bag – only for another car to smash into theirs, killing Jess.
Emma’s backstory is similarly contrived. After interviewing her for his column about rising stars, Ben asks blithely about Emma’s name necklace: “Who’s Joey?” Her reaction makes it clear he’s touched a nerve. It emerges that Joey was Emma’s sister – like Jess, she too had narrowly avoided dying, only to die almost immediately. In Joey’s case, an MRI scan after falling from a rooftop revealed no injury on the one hand, but an inoperable brain tumour on the other.
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