![]() ![]() Black-clad Dash, nursing a broken heart, tricks each of his divorced parents into thinking he’s spending Christmas break with the other and decamps at his father’s penthouse to watch black-and-white French films all by himself. In late December, two posho Manhattanite teens wallow in their own holiday misery. Like a medium-quality donut, Dash & Lily goes down sweet and easy, but still ends up leaving a slick of unctuous film on the roof of your mouth. ![]() Over time, Dash’s hilariously unearned misanthropy relaxes into low-level sociability and Lily’s gratingly cheerful immaturity coarsens into age-appropriate rebelliousness. “She’s sarcastic, sophisticated …sadistic,” he fawns later to a friend, never once considering the notebook’s author may not be the dream girl he’s envisioning.Īdapted from Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, the series purposefully cranks up its protagonist’s most irritating qualities head-on, then slowly releases the pressure valve on each to showcase their personal growth due to the other’s influence. Lily (Midori Francis) flirtatiously narrates the quest as Dash plows through the game with heightening fervor. Just days before Christmas Eve, in the hallowed stacks of NYC bookstore The Strand, contrarian Dash (Austin Abrams) finds a notebook containing riddles and puzzles about clues hidden around the cavernous building. ![]() holiday rom-com, you may immediately come to despise its protagonists - a sneering, disaffected, floppy-haired rich kid and a peppy, idealistic, kiss-starved mousling - due to the cloying contrivances of their meet-cute alone. Within the first few minutes of Netflix’s whimsical eight-episode Y.A. ![]()
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