We’re dwelling in an age of reboots. Everywhere you flip, one other traditional present or film is getting a contemporary begin or a forged reunion. So it feels very a lot of the second to have a romance set throughout the manufacturing of a beloved TV sequence’ twentieth anniversary particular.
The Reunion, Kayla Olson’s grownup debut, opens as Liv Latimer, star of the groundbreaking, wildly widespread six-season smash-hit sequence “Girl on the Verge,” steps again into the footwear of her character, Honor St. Croix. Her return to enjoying Honor comes with a return to the highlight—which she principally shunned after the present ended, selecting to stay to smaller indie films as a substitute—and a return to Ransom Joel. Ransom was Liv’s co-star, finest buddy, on-screen love curiosity and longtime real-life secret crush. In the years since “Girl on the Verge,” he’s change into a global motion film star. Liv’s been out of contact with Ransom for years, however it solely takes minutes in his firm for all the previous emotions to come back again twice as robust. And in spite of everything this time, it looks like her emotions may be reciprocated . . . however falling in love is difficult sufficient when the entire world isn’t watching.
There’s loads of Hollywood glitz in The Reunion (with luxe descriptions of homes and occasions), however beneath all the glamour is the poignant aura of a highschool reunion. There’s nothing like being surrounded by individuals who knew you as a child that can assist you understand how a lot you’ve grown up and which alternatives you’ve let go you by. Olson’s characters are straightforward to root for all the approach by means of, to the level that I discovered myself caring deeply about the reboot of a present that by no means existed. In reality, “Girl on the Verge” sounds so nice that I’m unhappy I can’t watch it myself. And when love lastly occurs for Ransom and Liv, I felt all the thrill of a devoted fan, lastly seeing my OTP come to life.
If The Reunion has a weak spot, it’s how good Ransom and Liv are for one another. They appear so mutually smitten proper from the begin that I half anticipated this to be a kind of romances in which the heroine lastly will get an opportunity with the man of her desires however then discovers that it’s another person she’s meant to be with in spite of everything. But on the different hand, it’s good to assume that love could be that straightforward, that clear. Maybe that’s what we like about all these reboots: the concept that we will return to what we liked earlier than and discover it proper there ready for us—simply as candy as we keep in mind, with a payoff that’s simply as satisfying as we all the time hoped it might be.
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