Signed by Scarlett

July 15, St Swithin’s day. If it rains on St Swithin’s day, it will rain for 40 days.

It turns out it also rains on January 8 when the new Netflix series, One Day, arrived to our screens.

Because I can’t stop crying.

David Nicholls book follows Emma and Dexter from meeting at their Grad Ball on July 15, 1988 to where their lives are every year after. A truly beautiful and irrevocably life changing series depicting friendships over decades, changed through time and the situations around them.

For fans of ‘Love, Rosie’ and ‘Normal People’, this combines a mix of the two with the depictions of mental health, miscommunication and the troubles of falling in love with your friend.

One day to change a life for Emma and Dexter, but also for my Mum and me watching this series.

My Mum isn’t a romance person but after sitting and joining half way through the series, she did the typical parent thing of pretending they aren’t watching but when I was sobbing at episode 14, so was she.

Ever since watching ‘This is Going to Hurt’ on BBC, Ambika Mod was immediately added to my ‘must watch list’ and once I saw her advertised for this series, I knew this was going to be absolutely phenomenal. Playing Emma, a powerful and intelligent woman who is passionate about what she believes in as well as the people she believes in. Ambika manages to portray a character so sarcastically funny but deep down feels so much for everything around her that pulls on the heart strings.

But also absolutely hilarious that draw so many laugh out loud moments like comparing her “uncomplicated” friend Dexter to a two-piece jigsaw puzzle.

Dexter as it turns out is a very complicated character, played perfectly by Leo Woodall. Leo plays a character that at times you almost dislike him but deep down you can’t help but love him or more importantly, relate to him.

Whilst this is the second adaption of the series, the first a movie adaption from 2011 starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, director Molly Manners has managed to do so much more with this powerful story through 14, 30 minute episodes.

I wish we got even more of Ambika and Leo together because their chemistry was easy to see throughout the series, but the individual episodes gave us the chance to become more personal with each character and what they are going through themselves.

Whilst to some this may be irritating, to miss certain months of dialogue and scenes, I believe that hasn’t changed the impact of Emma and Dexter’s story and is definitely one to watch.

It isn’t just a love story, but a story of growth, family, joy, sadness and overall life.

One Day is available to watch on Netflix now.