How are the most recent romcoms different from When Harry Met Sally? Why do most genres have remakes, except for the romcom genre? In this episode, we chat through some of our own hypotheses about why most romcom storylines aren’t timeless, and how, against all odds, some romcoms disrupt the genre and become classics.
Reference material:
The Guardian: Love is (still) in the air: how the romcom came back from the dead
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/08/love-is-still-in-the-air-why-the-romcom-has-come-back-from-the-dead
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