What to Watch the Week of April 28: Anne Hathaway's The Idea of You is the Rom-Com You've Been Waiting For
glamour.comThe Idea of You arrives on Prime Video this Thursday, and it's the Anne Hathaway rom-com . Thanks to undeniable chemistry with and a great adapted script from director Michael Showalter with co-writer Jennifer Westfeldt, it's definitely worth the hype. (FWIW, right before it premiered at SXSW last month to , The Idea of You became the most-watched trailer of any original Amazon streaming feature film, with more than 125 million views.
Insane.)The story is a bit of wish fulfillment—a single woman has a meet cute with a hot pop star and then embarks on a fairytale romance—but also grounded in enough reality to keep you invested without saying, “Yeah, right.”“The message is that women shouldn’t be put in boxes,” producer Cathy Schulman says. “For women, it’s easy to hit a certain age and say, ‘I’ve done it.
I’ve been a mom, I’ve been a wife, I’ve had a job…’ To be able to say, ‘It’s not done. There’s so much more…’ That was the message.”Yes, please.Speaking of women who aren't done—and far from it—Jean Smart is back as Deborah Vance in the .
You don't need to watch the first two seasons (though it helps) to immediately jump into the show, which is so fun and whip smart.
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