One Day

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2024

Romance
Comedy

Summary

In 2011, author David Nicholls adapted his worldwide bestseller One Day as a film script for director Lome Scherfig, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess as doomed lovers who are destined to meet on the same day over a period of 20 years. A daring 14-part TV version promises to translate more of the heartache from page to screen, casting Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod as Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley, who speak for the first time on July 15, 1988, the night of their graduation. The following morning, they go separate ways as friends but fate binds the couple and conspires to bring them back together on the same summer day each year as they become older and - hopefully - wiser. Death, drug addiction and work commitments prevent Dexter and Emma from declaring their true feelings for each other across the decades

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Review

Frances Taylor

More than 15 million people have streamed this beguiling adaptation of David Nicholls’s modern classic, which introduces star-crossed Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew to a new generation. Tender and charming, the miniseries remains faithful to the novel, as studious Em (Ambika Mod) and roguish Dex (Leo Woodall) meet at their graduation ball on 15 July 1988 and embark on a friendship that spans the next two decades. A wistful indie soundtrack plays out as they’re drawn together, driven apart and back together again.

Just as the book was unputdownable, it’s easy to power through their story in a single stretch.

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8.0/10