We’re dwelling in an age of reboots. In every single place 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 in the course of the manufacturing of a beloved TV collection’ twentieth anniversary particular.
The Reunion, Kayla Olson’s grownup debut, opens as Liv Latimer, star of the groundbreaking, wildly in style six-season smash-hit collection “Woman on the Verge,” steps again into the sneakers of her character, Honor St. Croix. Her return to taking part in Honor comes with a return to the highlight—which she largely shunned after the present ended, selecting to stay to smaller indie films as an alternative—and a return to Ransom Joel. Ransom was Liv’s co-star, greatest good friend, on-screen love curiosity and longtime real-life secret crush. Within the years since “Woman on the Verge,” he’s change into a world motion film star. Liv’s been out of contact with Ransom for years, but it surely solely takes minutes in his firm for all of the outdated emotions to return again twice as sturdy. And in any case 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 of 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 will help 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 during, to the purpose that I discovered myself caring deeply in regards to the reboot of a present that by no means existed. In actual fact, “Woman 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 fun of a devoted fan, lastly seeing my OTP come to life.
If The Reunion has a weak spot, it’s how excellent Ransom and Liv are for one another. They appear so mutually smitten proper from the beginning that I half anticipated this to be a type of romances by which the heroine lastly will get an opportunity with the person of her desires however then discovers that it’s another person she’s meant to be with in any case. However alternatively, it’s good to suppose that love may be that straightforward, that clear. Possibly that’s what we like about all these reboots: the concept we are able to return to what we cherished earlier than and discover it proper there ready for us—simply as candy as we bear in mind, with a payoff that’s simply as satisfying as we at all times hoped it could be.
