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Netflix’s One Day (Spoiler Alert!) The Female Protagonist We’ve Been Waiting for
Would I still have a crush on an unemployed divorced man with a small child? Not sure. But I loved watching it unfold in Netflix’s phenom,
One Day is based on the book by David Nicholls.
I’m a sucker for a good love story — especially one that spans over decades. One Day, directed by Molly Manners,
had so many truths and connections to my own life, I was delighted to binge-watch the 14 episodes.
Have I become a Netflix junkie? I wonder. What used to captivate me in cinema has been exchanged for binge-able miniseries?
Now I can watch and form deeper connections with the characters of a story and still have time for text breaks. This was a necessary medium in a story truly based on deep connections, as evident in the not-so-successful version in 2011 with Anne Hathaway and a not-so-convincing accent. Audiences demand more of our love stories.
For me, this story while a Rom-Com, related to me on a more personal level, as the strange paradigm I felt with the feminist, independent-minded character portrayed by Ambika Mod. A Gen Xer, the music and references from the movie drew me in immediately. And while it was in Scotland and not the States, the essence of my sojourn was there.
