One Day Review: The White Lotus’s Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod Star in a New Romantic Classic

If you don’t pick up Netflix’s new romantic epic One day like your Valentine’s Day binge, you probably don’t deserve to feel happy fffwap! Cupid’s bow in your heart. For that matter, whatever box of chocolates you get should be filled with ashes.

If that sounds harsh, so is love. That’s just one of the lessons of this emotionally overwhelming, utterly addictive British series in which he stars White lotusLeo Woodall and Ambika Mod.

The series is based on the 2009 bestseller by David Nicholls covers the nearly 20-year relationship between Dexter (Woodall) and Emma (Mod). We follow the couple’s progress—and setbacks—through 14 episodes, most of which span a year, all starting on the same date: July 15. Then the two first linked up in 1988, spending the night together after a day of giddy excitement as newly minted Edinburgh University graduates.

One day: Watch Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod pop the ‘Cosmic Mystery’ question as they go from friends to lovers

At times this narrative set-up can feel gimmicky and uncomfortably arbitrary—slicing two lives into neat segments, as if they were vegetables being sliced ​​with a mandolin. But Day it goes beyond all that. When Emma quotes a line from Big expectations, something clicks: Consider any life, Dickens wrote: “Imagine if one chosen day had been cut out of it, and consider how different its course would have been . . . a long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, which would never have bound you had it not been for the formation of the first link on an unforgettable day.”

The series captures that strange magic and makes it somehow real. Romantic destiny may not really exist, but that’s no reason not to believe in it.

It’s best not to give away too much of the plot, other than to say that Dexter is crass and privileged, a few rungs below Saltburn, and not always heeding his mother’s strong, helpful advice that he should acquire moral character, a backbone, or at least a few inches of psychological depth. Emma, ​​on the other hand, is smart, artistic, ambitious, aware of world problems and uncomfortably middle class. She also has a deft, clever sense of humor.

Day is basically What we were for generation Z.

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Woodall has the trickier part and he certainly makes the most of it. In a sense, Dexter’s mother sees her wish come true, but not in a particularly happy way: battered by experience, he becomes more openly vulnerable year by year. By the end, he’s so touchingly wounded that you wish someone would escort him to a hospital for lovers, where doctors perform only the gentlest triage.

Mod’s role is more in the Emma Thompson tradition of witty, highly capable women who, because life and love are perverse and unfair, have to fight to get what’s theirs, but never lose their sense of fairness. That Emma was a social riser in Saltburn, no one would die and a new generation would be born to flourish in the palace, with toys scattered around the children’s room. Mode is funny, touching and – only to the extent that the role requires it – gentle,

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You wouldn’t say she and Woodall have much erotic charm together. But One day – which was previously adapted into a 2011 film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess — might not have worked as well if they had. If anything, a haunting sense of distracted sadness often creeps into their intimate scenes, like a cat that has something on its mind but can’t say what it wants.

This story is more about longing than fulfillment, more about absence than union.

Towards the end, the ever literate Emma switches from quoting Dickens to Thomas Hardy. Let that be your advice.

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One day debuts Thursday on Netflix.

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