Announcing the February *Monthly Midnight Watch* Pick!
We can knock this one out pretty quickly...
Within two days of each other, my cousin and my friend both recommended the same show to me. Usually, I’m like “Great, thanks, I’ll definitely check it out!” Before which, I usually do add it to my obnoxiously long watch list to eventually get around to it maybe one day in the future. This go round, the double mention prompted me to at least do a quick YouTube search, upon which I quickly discovered I’d actually watched the series’ trailer a few weeks back and wrote it off thinking “That looks cute, but I don’t have time for cute.”
Well, now I have time for cute.
For the February Monthly Midnight Watch episode, I’ll be joined by said friend who recommended this month’s series — one of my dear pals from high school, Eloise — for an easy breezy convo about a cute rom-com-dram that is sure to have us in tears by the end.*
*No spoilers, I just feel it in my bones that a good cry is imminent.
Our February pick: One Day.
So I’m currently eight episodes in; there’s 14 total and they’re each like 28 minutes long, so we can do this people! I rewatched the first five episodes with Nate because I wanted to gift myself the experience of rewatching them. It’s that good y’all…
Here’s a bit about One Day…
One Day is a British television series based on the 2009 novel of the same name by David Nicholas, as well as the 2011 film adaptation starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturges.
It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. As the years go by, Dex and Em begin to lead separate lives very different from the people they once dreamed they'd become. And yet, unable to let go of that special something that grabbed onto them that first night, an extraordinary relationship develops between the two.
One Day tells the story of the relationship between Emma and Dexter, through snapshots of their relationship on one single day — July 15 — over the course of 20 years. Each episode finds Dex and Em one year older, as their circumstances change wildly, and people enter and exit their lives. But as the years go on, Emma and Dexter keep mattering to each other.
The series stars that guy from White Lotus season 2 who looks like every British backpacker who tries to ruin your life while traveling abroad in your early 20s. If you’ve ever been young, wild and free or graduated, broke and confused AND you also happened to have fallen in love with one of your best friends in the midst of things, this one’s for you.
Find the series:
You can watch One Day on Netflix.
Watch the series:
Let’s plan to watch the series by March 8. I’ll be surprised if it takes anyone more than a weekend if I’m honest…
Discuss the series:
A Discussion Thread will open up on March 8 for us to discuss and chat! As always, I’ll kick off the thread with a few guiding questions.
Then, I’ll publish a special podcast episode with Eloise where we’ll dissect the series inside and out. I would love to gather any questions you have or suggestions for the discussion. As you watch, you can send in your questions by simply replying to any of these Nite Owl emails.
Yayyy!!
I can’t wait to hear your take
YAY!!! I've read the book several times and watched the movie several times so I'm excited about this latest adaption! Cannot wait!!!