TV & Movies
The madcap enthusiasm forNobody Wants Thispoints to a romantic trope thats back in full force.
Its fall, and while the season is all about reinvention, its also a time for moodiness.
For watching theAll Too Wellmusic video and crying into a bowl of soup.
Despite the upbeat ending of the 10-episode first season, they are, it should be understood, doomed.
And Im fully prepared to ugly cry whenAndrew Garfield and Florence PughsWe Live in Timehits theaters on October 11.
So say goodbye to the fun, bubbly love of summer.
Fall is here, and its time to hurt our own feelings.
Cue up Certified Fall ClassicNormal Peopleor hit play on Stick Season.
As Noah Kahan has taught us, its time for plaintive yearning.
Or as Shakespeare put it, such sweet sorrow.
For four years, the Los Angeles-based writer has been a professional book club facilitator.
Recently one of her groups readLeavingby Roxanna Robinson, a book with a very doomed romance.
The ones who did, she says, inherently understood tragic structure, even if theyd never studied it.
It is both cathartic to cryandcathartic to see a storyline that you know will get fulfilled.
They want to be assured that a love across countries, cultures, or classes will somehow work.
Or that a vacation flingwas worth having, even if it ended.
The experience is universal: To live is to lose love.
Perhaps we like watching lost, doomed love because we have all lost love before.
The conceit of these storiesthat a relationship that ends is still worth somethingis comforting.
Sometimes, it seems, we all just want to pick at our own wounds.
To scream-sing to Lewis Capaldi.
