Funny You Should Ask creator Elissa Sussman returns with one other second-chance superstar romance, Once More With Feeling. It’s an angsty enemies-to-lovers story about former teen pop idols who blame one another for the implosion of their careers.
Told in twin timelines, similar to Funny You Should Ask, the story rotates between the pop star heyday and later, extra dignified Broadway durations of Kathleen Rosenberg and Cal Kirby. Cal was as soon as a member of America’s hottest boy band, CrushZone, and Kathleen was Katee Rose, a blinding pop celebrity. They have been glittery gods on the high of their area, till that they had a one-night stand that modified the trajectory of their lives. More than a decade later, Kathleen has discovered consolation within the relative obscurity of New York City, however she will be able to’t flip down the chance to star in a present directed by Cal, who traded stadium excursions for a life backstage.
Most individuals face first loves, dishonest and breakups in some unspecified time in the future, however solely a small cadre of individuals need to cope with them as publicly as Cal and Kathleen did, and Sussman cleverly exhibits how information cycles and the glare of the highlight amplified their experiences. Kathleen wears her anger about her fall from grace like a shroud, and the story and romance resolve earlier than she will be able to actually get out of her personal approach. Her willingness to mire in self-pity might take a look at the endurance of some readers. However, Kathleen and Cal’s evolution as a pair is refreshingly advanced. The chemistry that has at all times bubbled below the floor throughout their interactions is extra current than ever once they’re reunited, however they’re older and have much more at stake now. This is a narrative of reckoning, of revisiting the errors and knee-jerk reactions of youth and going through them with the assistance of time and maturity.
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