admin A fizzy workplace rom-com with a quartet of delightful performances, Claire Scanlon’s charmer sees Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell take the parts of Harper and Charlie, two exhausted personal assistants who hatch a plan to make their demanding bosses (Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs) fall in love, if only to get them to leave the office a little bit earlier and stop yelling at them quite as much. Their engineered meet cutes pay off and offer them a brief reprieve, but, naturally, the course of constructed love doesn’t run smooth, bringing with it jaw-dropping set pieces, big laughs, and heartbreak, just as our two leads begin growing closer, too. Watch it for the witty one-liners, the winning final act, and Pete Davidson’s extended cameo as Charlie’s deadpan flatmate.
Dash & Lily
If you love Christmas and/or New York, prepare to fall hard for Joe Tracz’s magical miniseries centered on the eternally optimistic Lily (Midori Francis) and the charming but persnickety Dash (Austin Abrams) who meet in the downtown institution that is Strand bookstore—well, sort of. Eager to spend the festive period with a like-minded bookworm, the former leaves a notebook on a shelf, offering clues to her identity, and the latter happens to come across it. A correspondence ensues, in which they dare each other to get out of their comfort zones—Dash must do an embarrassing dramatic reading, sit on Santa’s lap at Macy’s and perfect the art of mochi making, while Lily dances at a Hanukkah punk show and attends a crafting class which ends with everyone destroying their creations—while both wandering through the snowy city alone, in a dreamy-eyed haze. When they finally meet in person, sparks fly almost instantly. It’ll have you buying mince pies and belting Mariah Carey before you know it.
