s01e14 — Episode 14

As a fan of both the book and the film, I will say that there was a desire only to review the classics 1001 times.
Ambika played Emma very badly, Leo even more so.
It didn't touch me, although this is my favorite story.
In an interview, Ambika said "that an hour and a half film is not enough to reveal the book better," but because she plays so poorly, you don't feel the thrill of the added moments…

I haven't read the book, I haven't watched the movie, the series is quite ambitious in place and whole in character, Leo is convincing, of course there are no discoveries, but it's not easy to expect them in such a format.

It so happened that I watched the movie just a week before the release of the series, so the memories are very fresh, and it was easy to compare. I expected a flurry of indignation about the choice of an actress for the role of Emma, and I can partly understand the discontent. It is difficult to compare her with Anne Hathaway in terms of acting, charisma and, let's say, appearance.
But despite this, the series left a pleasant impression. I really liked the actor who played Dexter; it seems to me that he fit into this role more organically. Additional scenes, which were not in the film, allowed the story to be revealed more deeply.
Sylvie was some kind of caricatured bitch in the movie, but here's a real person.
In short, the series has many advantages.

Something is sad now.

One of my favorite book stories and I'm happy that the series was filmed. It's not perfect, but I'm glad to see Emma and Dex again. I also love the film with all my heart, many moments from the book were shown in the series. It's a pity they didn't show one of the important ones, in my opinion, how Dex wrote a love letter to Emma in India and forgot it in a bar, and a girl found it and fantasized about the love story from the letter. It would have been a vivid cinematic moment. In short, I am grateful that the story was filmed again, it always breaks my heart, but it remains one of my favorites 💔

This episode broke my heart.

To be honest, I do not share the general dislike of Ambika. Yes, she didn't beat Anne Hathaway, but she played it well. But Dexter is probably even better than in the movie. Not worse for sure.
I was wary of turning on the series, but it turned out quite well. Maybe I'll reconsider it sometime.
And the series for me became more of a movie, a story more about Dexter, about his evolution, the main guiding star of which was Emma.

I spent the whole night watching the season to wake up in the morning with swollen eyes. a beautiful love story, a gorgeous movie, but also an equally wonderful re-shot series.
lightness, smile, tears and a warm aftertaste. Wonderful 14 episodes on Valentine's Day

I didn't get into Emma's character, because it would be difficult to beat Anne Hathaway. But that didn't stop me from enjoying the story. And cry at the end, of course

I didn't read the book or watch the movie, I didn't expect anything at the end, but not like that. There is no dry place left on my face. a good love story, a life story. fabulous. but I wouldn't wish that on anyone. already from the second episode I felt pain.

At first, it also seemed to me that the main characters did not have enough charisma, chemistry and anything else.
The truth is that they are different, and for 2024 they are what we need.
A movie with Ann and Jim would be ideal for me anyway, because it feels like a pleasant memory of how I watched it for the first time as a teenager.
But I will not say that the series is bad. The only thing I would like is more scenes that are not included in the film. However, the ones that were shown to us as a "bonus" were also good.
Dexter's monologues were heartfelt and helped to better understand the character.
Personally, after watching the movie in 2011, it was not entirely clear to me why they remained friends after kissing on the street near the hut and Dex's parents, when they managed to have sex in Paris, if Dex arrived three seconds ago and the like..
If I had seen the series before the movie, I would definitely have put 10/10, but for me it's just a good remake.

Roar. A lot of Roar

Well, that was pretty good. The series didn't interrupt the movie for me, but I don't agree that the actress for the role of Emma was so terrible. She was quite normal. She just has a different game and character presentation than Hathaway. Well, the actor for the role of Dexter is really very suitable, perfectly embodied the image of a frivolous popular handsome man who had to take a couple of slaps from real life in order to gain ground under his feet. In the last episode, he was especially good, tears flowed down my entire scene from the first anniversary of Emma's death. Would you like to take a book to reread…

And I liked how the series handled the original source. The film did not really come to me at the time, some of the events and emotions described in the book were not enough. As for the characters, I succeeded with the minor characters. Dexter is good, the actor is very suitable for this role. Emma - by type - yes, it is possible (according to the book, Emma was not a sophisticated graceful beauty), but the actress is not very good at romantic characters (I really liked her in the role of a tortured intern in "It will Hurt"). Overall, it's a good series, but since I've read the story-reread it 100 times, I won't review it

I haven't read the book, I haven't watched the movie, but the series is just 💔

Blaine, I liked Dexter in this film adaptation, and Emma from the movie read the reviews, thought everything was really bad. It's just that after the movie it's very hard to abstract, you start comparing automatically. But if I hadn't watched the movie, I would be crying my eyes out over this series right now.

Thanks to the series (and the story) for reminding you that you need to love your loved ones here and now and not let go!

I didn't watch the movie, I liked all the actors and the series incredibly.

the episode lasted 36 minutes and 35 of them I cried and looked through tears.
Leo is a great actor, I liked him in the White Lotus, but here he is shining

And I'm in scraps after watching this episode

Of course, I didn't really like the actress either compared to Hathaway, but I cried like a bitch over the last episode. And in general, the series is not bad

You know, sometimes you watch something for the first time and at the end some kind of tragedy happens, and then all the subsequent times you watch with hope, they say, well, maybe this time it won't happen and in the end everything will be fine... So, this is the case.
I watched the movie a dozen times and loved it very much, although there was always only sadness throughout the entire viewing. It was incredibly curious to see this story in the format of the series and performed by other actors, who, by the way, in my opinion coped with their roles perfectly. I believed in their love, no less tears were shed than when watching the movie, that's for sure.
A tragic love story... Hiding their true feelings from each other for years, afraid of spoiling and losing something, and then when they finally found happiness, everything ends so abruptly...

This story breaks my heart every time

A good story of two dissimilar people growing up together. If the actress were conventionally beautiful, the story would look strange - here, on the contrary, the balance is. The shallow handsome Dexter and the pretty but more intelligent Emma. The actors coped. Those who scold the main character for not being emotional, but here the character is like this - more closed in everyday life, but in every relationship and with friends you can see how it opens. Or she closes even more in situations that are not comfortable for her. There is chemistry between them. Well, we kept the balance - we didn't stretch the story and didn't crumple it up.

В Эмме Морли кайфово то какая она мрачно комичная. Она всегда смеется над проблемами. Переживает с трудом, но эта ее комичность - база ее характера.
Я читала книгу в 17 лет и ее взгляд на жизнь буквально стал для меня школой отношения к проблемам.

Мне кажется если бы я не читала книгу, я бы не поняла эту ее черту в сериале.

As I understand it, the girls bumped grades because of the actor. The boys were less fortunate, especially with regard to acting abilities. If we consider the series in isolation, then this is a rather bland work, there is no chemistry between the actors, it is absolutely not interesting to follow. If you try to pull off a series at least with a movie, then this is just a dull tedium that does not fit into any comparison...

I liked the series. The atmosphere, the presentation, a new reading, more events are shown. I really liked Dexter's more detailed story and Leo's game. And how he really still won't stop drinking, how he suffers after the divorce from the distance from his daughter. Although I didn't have enough maturity in him when he and Emma finally get together. That's what "she made you human" (which Ian didn't say here, by the way). Yes, he is becoming more calm, but Sturges somehow felt more growth.
Emma is more difficult. I'll probably have to read the book to figure out who's closer. After all, Anne was more catchy, she had charm, but here Emma was eternally embittered and offended at the world at first. Although it fits into the plot, it prevents you from getting into it.
And I also don't see any special chemistry between them, I don't fully believe in this love. It's kind of ambivalent, both yes and no. They seem to be playing love, they even seem to be playing well, but something seems to be wrong.
I was amused by how the actor playing Ian practically repeated Rafe Spall's facial expressions, especially in the conversation scene with Dex.
In short, I have reviewed the film and I will review it, the series is unlikely. Although I can't say that I watched it in vain.
I also liked that we were shown a couple of days off on July 15th.

I started watching the series with some doubts, not even the first time I went, I think like many who watched the film. But it turned out quite well.such stories are always very touching and you hope that you will not do this yourself in your life. Of course, one day is hard to beat, but with Love, Rosie is also worthy of attention. I really love the original movie with Ann and Jim, but Dex in the series was perfect for me. I decided that I would still like to watch something with him and was very surprised that I had already seen him in a White Lotus 🤪

I didn't read the book, I watched the movie once about 5 years ago and for some reason I wasn't impressed at all, but I really liked the series, I cried the whole last episode, the creators got into me.

And I like Ambika, both as an actress (I adore her in It Will hurt), and externally. Beauty is a relative concept, pure taste, of course, but damn, she's a beautiful girl, which is the problem of some commentators. There are incredibly beautiful women like Gal Gadot or Margot Robbie, but they are not even interesting to admire, they are just blandly beautiful. For me, beauty is always in the features, in the highlights, it's hard to look away from such an appearance.

it is strange that in 18-20 years the changes in appearance are scanty

God, was it only me who was hurt so much in this episode?

I liked the series more than the film, it reveals the story of the characters better and the actors do an excellent job with the role, I do not understand the haight to the main actress

I also did not read the book, I watched the movie once and did not remember, I started watching the series without even realizing that I had seen such a movie, but I had already reviewed it. As for me, it was correctly said that the time of the film is simply not enough. I still did not understand from him what is so good about Dexter that you need to love him for 15 years, and clearly this is a timing problem. From the very beginning, it was clear in the series that his mother, who considered him a decent but stupid young man, and Emma, who also managed to catch it, saw him. Emma herself has become more modern. Heroines like Emma Anne Hetway are great for films of the two thousandth: light, positive, bright. Nowadays, it would already seem outdated in movies and a little infantile in life (a purely personal opinion), probably, so everything has its time: the heroine of Ann's time in 2011, the heroine of Ambika - in 2024. Both options have a right to exist, but for revealing Dexter's story, the series is definitely in the first place for me

How I love both the book and the movie, and, apparently, now the TV series. The story is revealed to us much more fully and vividly than in the film.
Yes, I agree, at times it seemed that the actors might have underplayed something a little somewhere. But this does not interfere with the narrative at all.
And Dexter, played by Leo, as for me, is 100% better here than Jim Sturgess in the movie (with his constantly... with an unhappy look or something 😑).
The finale, as always, did not leave anyone indifferent. It may be especially sad when you already know how it will end, but nothing can be changed. A wonderful worthy film adaptation

I'm crying

I haven't read the book or watched the movie. I sincerely thought that I was watching a slowburn where the characters are stupid or, for certain circumstances, cannot be together.
after this episode, my heart is broken.

A touching story, thanks for the nostalgia. The film adaptation turned out to be quite good and the actors played beautifully.

And I'm one of those who didn't like the movie at all, and I was just watching it in rewind, well, everything was very caricatured and burdensome at the same time.
I liked the series much more, and the story is more detailed, and the actors, in my opinion, are more successful.
Amika turned out to be a more daring Emma, and Ann just seems to be playing herself.

DeX 💔 💔 💔

There are two big advantages in the series - Leo Woodall and the game of Leo Woodall. In general, I'm one of those who don't want to cry and be moved, but in the series, maybe I didn't feel the actress at all, I didn't want to empathize with her, I didn't believe her. And it turns out that most of those who viewed it agree with me

And yet, I postponed watching the movie thousands of times, but watching the series was a completely spontaneous decision. Now, of course, I want to admire Anne Hathaway in contrast. <3

At the time, I didn't really appreciate the film because of Dexter. And it also seemed to me that the film did not have enough time for many important details.
As a result, a lot of details in the series are thrown overboard, a lot of moments are shown to us it is unclear what and why.
The only plus is Dexter. And then it seems to me that he didn't really pull the last episodes, or I'm already completely finding fault.
Probably for most who have not read the book, then maybe the series is normal. Well, I don't believe that Ambika is Emma. She doesn't convey the character of the character at all. And I'm not comparing her to Ann. I'm just comparing the written character in the book and what I see on the screen during this series. Maybe Ambika is not a bad actress, well, Emma is not one of her.

I'm not crying, it's just raining.

What a wonderful actor played Dextar) I really liked his game)) I sympathized with him throughout the series)) well, Emma is somehow not very))

🥺🥰🥹🥰🥺🥰🥹🥰🥺🥰🥹

I didn't like the game of the main character (the story itself is very touching. It is a pity that people understand all the full love for a person only when they lose it forever.