Rosa Salazar and Gavin Drea are Hollywood's best rom-com couple in years in this hilarious take on the murder mystery.
Weddings, by nature, are inherently chaotic. The number of moving parts that go into making such a massive day of celebration work are hard to control, and everyone has at least one wedding horror story in their mind. to have. the moment they are thirty. But can anyone say that he attended the wedding where the entire bridal party except the bride ended up dead at the reception?
That's the premise of Hulu's Wedding Season, a new romantic-comedy thriller series that puts a spin on the "till death do us part" idea. Starring Rosa Salazar as a bride who becomes the prime suspect when her new husband and all members of his family are killed on their wedding day, the new series reinvents tropes across genres by questioning how far we are willing to go. for love, and what love means at all, leaning into every bit of camp and chaos possible during one hell of a time.
Stars: Gavin Drea, Mohammed Amil Shafi, Rosa Salazar
Initially, starting on a slightly irritating note: do you really expect us to support a man who opposes someone else's wedding? – It is not long before the series convinces its audience to fall in love with its protagonists, two star-crossed lovers who are believed to be murderers when in fact they are just ordinary people. Katie and Stefan are the charismatic heart of the series, spiraling down a rollercoaster ride into chaos when they decide the best course of action is to escape police custody and attempt to solve the murder themselves. The results are... well, as expected.
Salazar is certainly the standout as Katie, taking the traditional frantic energy of a rom-com heroine and cranking it up to eleven. She never sits still, never lets her guard down (why would you, when you're a mass murder suspect?), and what initially seems annoying in the show's pilot episode turns into a captivating performance at the end of episode one. . , leaving fans yearning for answers as to who the hell she is and why her life has intersected with Stefan's.
The energy of the entire series coincides with Katie's frantic struggle to prove her innocence, cramming ten times as much into thirty minutes of television as some shows struggle to fit into an hour. Katie and Stefan never stay in one place for long, jetting around the world from Edinburgh to Las Vegas to somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Texas, all with Edith Head's lavish flair and charm and humor. from a Nora Ephron movie. Series creator Oliver Lyttelton almost gives you a whiplash with the speed at which the show oscillates between Katie's past, present, and the run-up to the weddings that get Katie and Stefan in trouble, without revealing too much. about the mystery of the program. weather.
While the show leans much more toward murder mystery than rom-com, Stefan and Katie are perhaps the best rom-com couple I've seen in recent years, when Hollywood has focused so much on the key aspect. of the genre that forget that the attraction comes from seeing two people fall in love with a contagious chemistry. In the gaps between its excellently executed mystery plot, Wedding Season finds time to create real, believable love between two people whose lives have completely fallen apart, and despite a rocky start, you find yourself drawn to their relationship, instead. no time. small part due to the stellar performances of the leads.
Drea has all the awkwardness I love in a romantic hero, the kind that seems grounded and down to earth, without interrupting his charm or chemistry with his co-star. Even through the chaos of following Katie around the world, he's madly devoted to her, and you're supporting her love as much as you're invested in solving the mystery of the whole thing. The insanity of the script plays well to Drea's comedic strengths, and combined with the show's quieter, more intimate moments, I can easily make a similar argument for Drea that I've been for Powell for the past four years: Hollywood, if you're still looking. to the next generation of leading men to headline a series of successful Hugh Grant-esque rom-coms, he's there.