![]() They both have things going on in their lives besides romance - she, in particular, is quite an affecting version of the very shy teenager who's just about frozen herself in place when it comes to her social life. Dash eventually must deal with the deception he's pulling on his parents, and then must decide what he wants to do about those damaged relationships. Lily's brother has a story of his own, as he meets a guy he likes and tries to figure out how serious, exactly, he wants to be. While much of this story is relatively predictable in its shape - they will be nervous about meeting in person, feelings will get hurt, obstacles will appear, those feelings will heal - the fact that it's a series rather than a film makes it possible to build out the worlds they both live in, which is always one of the best ways to make a romantic comedy work. Now, you do not want to think too carefully about this - the idea that Lily's original clue would be found by an age-appropriate straight boy who likes mysteries and looks like he was born to be in YA adaptations almost as much as she does is the height of Christmas magic, so just inhale some gingerbread fumes and go with it. ![]() Thus begins a correspondence in which they each write in the book and then leave it somewhere for the other, so that they never meet in person, but they get to send each other to their favorite places, sometimes to complete dares before the book can be retrieved. Dash finds it and reads it, and he accepts its challenge. Our story begins when a lonely Lily leaves an intriguing note in a book on the shelf at The Strand (which gets perhaps the best publicity in the whole movie), hoping a stranger will embark on an adventure with her. They're both (mostly) alone at Christmas - Dash because he didn't want to be with either of his traveling divorced parents, so he told each he'd be with the other and stayed at home in New York by himself (apparently his parents do not communicate at all) Lily because her parents jetted off to Fiji, leaving her with her older brother. He's a self-described loner who likes to correct bookstore clerks about having incorrectly shelved Gabriel Garcia Marquez under "M" instead of "G" she's a shy romantic who's never gotten over the middle-school slights that convinced her she was weird. They're both in their mid-twenties, but they're playing high-schoolers here. Lily is played by Midori Francis, who's been on Younger and in Ocean's 8. Pop Culture Happy Hour The Cider-Sipping, Mitten-Wearing Guide To 2020 Holiday MoviesÄash is played by Austin Abrams, a flopsy-haired Chalamet-ish charmer who's previously popped up on Euphoria and The Walking Dead.
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