![]() ![]() More often than not he’s the straight man, and that’s wholly reasonable, but when he’s left in storylines by himself, they create the smallest of lags in a show that otherwise zips along with screwball comic zeal. ![]() The Driver scenes, still not nearly frequent enough, are exceptions to one of the show’s minor problems, namely that Tom simply isn’t all that funny. We get a little more time with Minnie Driver as Tom’s agent. We spend some time on the set of Tom’s new movie (with Russell Tovey as its director) and part of an episode with Tom’s parents and his brother Vinay (Parth Thakerar). I miss how tidy the first season’s will-they/won’t-they arc was, but not in a serious way. Instead of building storylines around long stretches of passing time, this season’s episodes - admirably resisting the lure of streaming bloat, presumably thanks to the BBC - still unfold around events, including a couple of holiday parties, a funeral (not for anybody viewers care about) and even a bachelor/bachelorette party. That isn’t a formula that the show could work forever, and the shift to the “So now what?” stage of their relationship is for the best. The first season played with the idea of romantic destiny and the suggestion that even if Jessie and Tom didn’t think they were supposed to be together, the universe disagreed. The new episodes don’t attempt to mimic the charming time-jumping structure of the first season, in which each episode represented a season or holiday. So where will Jessie live, where will she work and did she write anything she’s going to regret? Plus, before her intended departure, Jessie left her various part-time jobs, said farewell to longtime roommate Katie (Emma Sidi) and sent emotionally heightened good-bye letters to a number of her London acquaintances, including ex-boyfriend Ben (Edward Easton). Jessie and Tom may have both decided they’re ready to be together, but that doesn’t change the fact that their lives are very, very different. The second season picks up with the Graduate-style scene of Jessie and Tom sitting at the back of a bus wondering what comes next.īasically, that’s what the second season - again written by Matafeo and Alice Snedden with Nic Sampson as a new credited addition - is about. When we left things, Jessie had made the impromptu decision not to leave London and return permanently to New Zealand - mostly for Tom, but without any promises of what the future might hold. The premise, with its vague resemblance to a 21st-century Notting Hill, involves 20something Kiwi Jessie (creator/co-writer Rose Matafeo), who had a one-night stand with famous movie star Tom (Nikesh Patel) and then spent a season - stretched across a full calendar year - combating fate and the weight of Tom’s celebrity to see if an actual relationship was in the cards. Guess what? The world hasn’t suddenly become an amuse bouche of its own, every week sees the release of five or 10 new aspiring Emmy contenders and season two of Starstruck is, once again, exactly the sort of aggressively - but somehow not excessively aggressively - likable show that requires almost no logistical planning to fit into your life. Kamau Bell Interviews Multiracial Kids in HBO's '1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed' Trailer (Exclusive) ![]()
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