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I was so excited to see this when it came out. Do you know how insanely rare it is nowadays, to see a series featuring a Black family, with a dark skinned wife AND dark skinned daughters?? I'm not exaggerating here, it just doesn't happen, not even in ads really anymore. Usually, the wife and the daughters in Black families are overwhelmingly depicted as light skinned or mixed race. However, the husbands and sons consistently get to be dark skinned. So, it was a breath of fresh air, as a Black woman, to FINALLY see dark skinned women and girls being represented in a family here. Little did I know, this series was going to feature horrific trauma and violence towards the Black family with no happy ending whatsoever. Of course, the one time I get to see a series with dark skinned women and girls as a family, they are brutalized. I'm normally a big fan of horror, but this was something else entirely. Please, just stop. Please stop the Black trauma p*rn. Please. Where are our fantastical stories? Where are our cheesy romances? Where are our princesses that aren't frogs for the entirety of a film? Where is our brilliant sci-fi? Where are our adventure stories? Where is our happy ending? Why does our entertainment constantly need to circle back to racism, suffering, sex, drugs, crime, police brutality and trauma? Do you get how demoralizing that is? I'm not saying these stories shoulda't ever be told, I'm just saying they shouldn't be told constantly. Nobody likes to see people who look like them suffering all of the time. Why must Black people endure this? Isn't entertainment supposed to be an escape? There are other stories to tell. Please, tell different stories guys. This is unbearable.

So I'll be honest, this is a suuuper cheesy romcom and you have to suspend a metric TON of disbelief, but it works! I'm a big fan of all of Emma Roberts romcoms and this one is no exception.

Emma Roberts and Thomas Mann have excellent chemistry and are honestly so adorable together. I loved how sweet and what an absolute gentleman Griffin was (swoon)!! Margot was so beautiful, awkward and lovable! Everyone on this cast was good looking honestly!

That one wedding scene was stupid, but funny!

I loved all of the shenanigans Griffin and Margot were getting into throughout the night. Griffin's proposal speech was amazing! Kip was hilarious. The ending was so cute. I wish the film was a bit longer! Also, I'm gonna have to agree with another reviewer in saying, I am SO glad there are no sex scenes in this movie! Such a breath of fresh air!!

The only thing I'd change about this movie is Margot's "friend" Dana. You know, the one doing the awful and cringe British accent??

Her obviously fake accent was terrible and sooo distracting throughout this film. I cannot believe they allowed this actress to continue with that, I felt secondhand embarrassment every moment she was on screen.

Also for someone who was supposed to be Margot's close friend, she sure did try humiliating her a lot. Anyways, this is definitely a cheesy romcom and I'll be watching again.

Happy New Year!