TW: alcoholism; fatphobia

City girl runs away to country life and meets grumpy, complicated dude. Sounds good right? I’m realizing more and more that as much as I want to love this dynamic, I haven’t seen it done right often.

I started not liking where this was headed when they were both essentially each other’s red flags from the beginning but it was never addressed. She’s drinking a bit too much and he has a complicated history with alcoholics. He’s in a weird dynamic with his ex that makes him emotionally unavailable and she’s just been cheated on by her ex. So why the attraction?

Then it really went downhill for me when their first sex scene was outside... in upstate New York winter. No, nothing is hot about that. The conflict at the end also felt forced and the factors keeping them apart (according to them) really were flimsy.

Throw in some fat phobic language that’s never corrected in narrative and a weird one off transphobic line that may (hopefully) not be in the final draft, and this flopped for me.