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‘Meet Cute’ Review: A Jagged Rom-Com Starring Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson - Hollywood Reporter

‘Meet Cute’ Review: A Jagged Rom-Com Starring Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson - Hollywood Reporter

‘Meet Cute’ Review: A Jagged Rom-Com Starring Kaley Cuoco and Pete Davidson - Hollywood Reporter
Sep 21, 2022 1 min, 15 secs

The duo play a couple caught in a time loop of first dates in this Peacock film directed by Alex Lehmann.

In Meet Cute, Peacock’s bumpy romantic comedy, girl meets boy in a nondescript bar.

Meet Cute, directed by Alex Lehmann and written by Noga Pnueli, adopts the conceit of time-traveling films like Groundhog Day to concoct a love story reaching for the poignancy of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The first act of Meet Cute is entirely made up of Sheila and Gary’s first dates.

We meet her, staring longingly at Gary from across the room, at the start of what is technically Date Seven.

Cuoco (The Flight Attendant) is a near-perfect Sheila; the actress teases out the fear that undergirds Sheila’s obsessive enthusiasm for that night and her choices.

It’s the fear that her depression will return, the fear that Gary won’t love her as much as he does on the first date, the fear of feeling anything other than temporary elation.

This fear, coupled with her inability to relinquish control, leads Sheila to take even more drastic measures: To relieve her of Gary’s most frustrating traits, she decides to jump farther back into the past and resolve his trauma.

A lot could have been resolved if the screenplay spent more time with Sheila and clarified her mental health struggles

Meet Cute takes its own, inventive route to a familiar conclusion: Love, like the most intricate puzzles, takes time

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