Re: One Day - Real life examples of couples who are physically mismatched

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Anonymous wrote:Man who is not interested in the show but just googled their photos.

Have no idea about their personalities on the show, but I think she looks nice and that's the kind of looks match I see in public all the time.

Another man here and I agree. Never heard of the show, the characters or the actors, but I googled and was expecting a wildebeest. She's a regular looking woman that many men would happily date.

+1. The way some (I assume) women talk about other women's appearance on her is totally foreign to me as a man. She's cute.

She’s probably cute to you because you aren’t attractive either. People think people in their same looks class as being better looking than they are. If she’s cute to you, that does not bode well for your looks.

I’m guessing again that you are a woman. I’ve only met women who say stuff like “water meets its level.” It reads like weird jealousy. (I am a woman, by the way. The truly hottest men I’ve met find beauty everywhere.)

Agree with this. Women who consider themselves hot or beautiful simply can’t handle it that men, while they might agree these women are hot or beautiful, don’t think they’re THAT much better than “plain Jane” next door. Certainly not so much more appealing that their personalities wouldn’t be in play.

But those men you are talking about aren’t hot themselves. They are average looking guys who think that average looking, plain Janes, as you call them, are better for them than slightly hotter women. Gorgeous men do not end up with plain Janes. Look at who Paul Newman and Mathew McConaughey and Brad Pitt, etc. ended up with. Those women were not plain Janes. I have never seen a legitimately hot man with a plain wife.

I have tons of friends who were up in arms that plain Jennifer Aniston married Brad.

By the way, this isn’t convincing any of us you aren’t a plain Jane who was passed over.

I’m not trying to convince you about my looks. I will never see you and you will never see me. Who cares what wither one of us looks like? OP said the mismatched looks between these two actors made it too distracting to watch the show. I agree. I don’t think they match at all and I could never see them together in real life.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt match. She’s gorgeous and he’s gorgeous. (Your friends must be blind if they think that she is plain! Her breasts alone are to die for.) Their coloring is alike and they looked adorable together. It was real. They had chemistry. These two actors look ridiculous together. I think they’re both not great looking, but he’s better than she is and they really don’t look like a couple. She is below average.

No way. Aniston and Pitt were a true mismatch. That's why I was a Brangelina supporter.

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Anonymous wrote:My brother would probably fall into this category. He's always been told he's attractive, he's fit, and he makes good money. His wife is a size 24 (yes I know because we are close and go shopping together). She sort of reminds me of the Tess Holiday type of overweight person. She's tall, pretty, and stylish. I have never missed the looks they've gotten in public. But my brother has always dated plus sized women.

Yes, he’s slim, but what is his face like? It’s probably hard for you to judge because he’s your brother and looks like you, but I’ll bet his face isn’t as attractive as you think it is. He’s probably an average looking thin dude with a fat wife. Those are a dime a dozen and hardly surprising to anyone.

You really are buying the BS you are selling. No mismatched couple in the world where the man is better looking? Ok, this is really about you at this point.

No, it’s about you and your certainty that you don’t fit the mold.

I don’t fit what mold? There are tons of people posting. Very few people are talking about themselves. So odd that you are so sure that there cannot even be *one* mismatched couple.

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Anonymous wrote:Man who is not interested in the show but just googled their photos.

Have no idea about their personalities on the show, but I think she looks nice and that's the kind of looks match I see in public all the time.

Another man here and I agree. Never heard of the show, the characters or the actors, but I googled and was expecting a wildebeest. She's a regular looking woman that many men would happily date.

+1. The way some (I assume) women talk about other women's appearance on her is totally foreign to me as a man. She's cute.

She’s probably cute to you because you aren’t attractive either. People think people in their same looks class as being better looking than they are. If she’s cute to you, that does not bode well for your looks.

I’m guessing again that you are a woman. I’ve only met women who say stuff like “water meets its level.” It reads like weird jealousy. (I am a woman, by the way. The truly hottest men I’ve met find beauty everywhere.)

Agree with this. Women who consider themselves hot or beautiful simply can’t handle it that men, while they might agree these women are hot or beautiful, don’t think they’re THAT much better than “plain Jane” next door. Certainly not so much more appealing that their personalities wouldn’t be in play.

But those men you are talking about aren’t hot themselves. They are average looking guys who think that average looking, plain Janes, as you call them, are better for them than slightly hotter women. Gorgeous men do not end up with plain Janes. Look at who Paul Newman and Mathew McConaughey and Brad Pitt, etc. ended up with. Those women were not plain Janes. I have never seen a legitimately hot man with a plain wife.

I have tons of friends who were up in arms that plain Jennifer Aniston married Brad.

By the way, this isn’t convincing any of us you aren’t a plain Jane who was passed over.

I’m not trying to convince you about my looks. I will never see you and you will never see me. Who cares what wither one of us looks like? OP said the mismatched looks between these two actors made it too distracting to watch the show. I agree. I don’t think they match at all and I could never see them together in real life.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt match. She’s gorgeous and he’s gorgeous. (Your friends must be blind if they think that she is plain! Her breasts alone are to die for.) Their coloring is alike and they looked adorable together. It was real. They had chemistry. These two actors look ridiculous together. I think they’re both not great looking, but he’s better than she is and they really don’t look like a couple. She is below average.

No way. Aniston and Pitt were a true mismatch. That's why I was a Brangelina supporter.

+1. A Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Jennifer and Brad would have been a flat failure, while with Angelina and Brad the movie is fantastic even if it's on mute the entire time.

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Anonymous wrote:Man who is not interested in the show but just googled their photos.

Have no idea about their personalities on the show, but I think she looks nice and that's the kind of looks match I see in public all the time.

Another man here and I agree. Never heard of the show, the characters or the actors, but I googled and was expecting a wildebeest. She's a regular looking woman that many men would happily date.

+1. The way some (I assume) women talk about other women's appearance on her is totally foreign to me as a man. She's cute.

She’s probably cute to you because you aren’t attractive either. People think people in their same looks class as being better looking than they are. If she’s cute to you, that does not bode well for your looks.

I’m guessing again that you are a woman. I’ve only met women who say stuff like “water meets its level.” It reads like weird jealousy. (I am a woman, by the way. The truly hottest men I’ve met find beauty everywhere.)

Agree with this. Women who consider themselves hot or beautiful simply can’t handle it that men, while they might agree these women are hot or beautiful, don’t think they’re THAT much better than “plain Jane” next door. Certainly not so much more appealing that their personalities wouldn’t be in play.

But those men you are talking about aren’t hot themselves. They are average looking guys who think that average looking, plain Janes, as you call them, are better for them than slightly hotter women. Gorgeous men do not end up with plain Janes. Look at who Paul Newman and Mathew McConaughey and Brad Pitt, etc. ended up with. Those women were not plain Janes. I have never seen a legitimately hot man with a plain wife.

I have tons of friends who were up in arms that plain Jennifer Aniston married Brad.

By the way, this isn’t convincing any of us you aren’t a plain Jane who was passed over.

I’m not trying to convince you about my looks. I will never see you and you will never see me. Who cares what wither one of us looks like? OP said the mismatched looks between these two actors made it too distracting to watch the show. I agree. I don’t think they match at all and I could never see them together in real life.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt match. She’s gorgeous and he’s gorgeous. (Your friends must be blind if they think that she is plain! Her breasts alone are to die for.) Their coloring is alike and they looked adorable together. It was real. They had chemistry. These two actors look ridiculous together. I think they’re both not great looking, but he’s better than she is and they really don’t look like a couple. She is below average.

No way. Aniston and Pitt were a true mismatch. That's why I was a Brangelina supporter.

+1. A Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Jennifer and Brad would have been a flat failure, while with Angelina and Brad the movie is fantastic even if it's on mute the entire time.

+2. I was on an airplane ride without headphones once and I watched this movie because I knew it would still be worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:Man who is not interested in the show but just googled their photos.

Have no idea about their personalities on the show, but I think she looks nice and that's the kind of looks match I see in public all the time.

Another man here and I agree. Never heard of the show, the characters or the actors, but I googled and was expecting a wildebeest. She's a regular looking woman that many men would happily date.

+1. The way some (I assume) women talk about other women's appearance on her is totally foreign to me as a man. She's cute.

She’s probably cute to you because you aren’t attractive either. People think people in their same looks class as being better looking than they are. If she’s cute to you, that does not bode well for your looks.

I’m guessing again that you are a woman. I’ve only met women who say stuff like “water meets its level.” It reads like weird jealousy. (I am a woman, by the way. The truly hottest men I’ve met find beauty everywhere.)

Agree with this. Women who consider themselves hot or beautiful simply can’t handle it that men, while they might agree these women are hot or beautiful, don’t think they’re THAT much better than “plain Jane” next door. Certainly not so much more appealing that their personalities wouldn’t be in play.

But those men you are talking about aren’t hot themselves. They are average looking guys who think that average looking, plain Janes, as you call them, are better for them than slightly hotter women. Gorgeous men do not end up with plain Janes. Look at who Paul Newman and Mathew McConaughey and Brad Pitt, etc. ended up with. Those women were not plain Janes. I have never seen a legitimately hot man with a plain wife.

I have tons of friends who were up in arms that plain Jennifer Aniston married Brad.

By the way, this isn’t convincing any of us you aren’t a plain Jane who was passed over.

I’m not trying to convince you about my looks. I will never see you and you will never see me. Who cares what wither one of us looks like? OP said the mismatched looks between these two actors made it too distracting to watch the show. I agree. I don’t think they match at all and I could never see them together in real life.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt match. She’s gorgeous and he’s gorgeous. (Your friends must be blind if they think that she is plain! Her breasts alone are to die for.) Their coloring is alike and they looked adorable together. It was real. They had chemistry. These two actors look ridiculous together. I think they’re both not great looking, but he’s better than she is and they really don’t look like a couple. She is below average.

No way. Aniston and Pitt were a true mismatch. That's why I was a Brangelina supporter.

+1. A Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Jennifer and Brad would have been a flat failure, while with Angelina and Brad the movie is fantastic even if it's on mute the entire time.

I was team Jennifer! I think Angelina is bizarre looking. I know she’s gorgeous, but I don’t like her look if that makes sense. She looks like someone who kisses her brother and wears vials of blood around her neck. Jennifer looks fun and wholesome.

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Anonymous wrote:My brother would probably fall into this category. He's always been told he's attractive, he's fit, and he makes good money. His wife is a size 24 (yes I know because we are close and go shopping together). She sort of reminds me of the Tess Holiday type of overweight person. She's tall, pretty, and stylish. I have never missed the looks they've gotten in public. But my brother has always dated plus sized women.

Yes, he’s slim, but what is his face like? It’s probably hard for you to judge because he’s your brother and looks like you, but I’ll bet his face isn’t as attractive as you think it is. He’s probably an average looking thin dude with a fat wife. Those are a dime a dozen and hardly surprising to anyone.

You really are buying the BS you are selling. No mismatched couple in the world where the man is better looking? Ok, this is really about you at this point.

No, it’s about you and your certainty that you don’t fit the mold.

I don’t fit what mold? There are tons of people posting. Very few people are talking about themselves. So odd that you are so sure that there cannot even be *one* mismatched couple.

Look, I’m 50 years old. I’ve lived in London, Rome, NYC and have traveled around the world. Never in my life have I been shocked by a man being so much better looking than his wife. I’ve seen many women who were better looking than their husbands, but I personally haven’t seen one many who was significantly hotter. Is there one couple somewhere out there where the guy is so much hotter, perhaps. It’s not the norm and I haven’t seen it. But I have seen a lot of thin men with fat women, especially on the islands. I have also seen a lot of people who have a striking combination of low self esteem and arrogance and who think that they managed to nab a hottie when in actuality their partner looks very similar to how they look.

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Anonymous wrote:My brother would probably fall into this category. He's always been told he's attractive, he's fit, and he makes good money. His wife is a size 24 (yes I know because we are close and go shopping together). She sort of reminds me of the Tess Holiday type of overweight person. She's tall, pretty, and stylish. I have never missed the looks they've gotten in public. But my brother has always dated plus sized women.

Yes, he’s slim, but what is his face like? It’s probably hard for you to judge because he’s your brother and looks like you, but I’ll bet his face isn’t as attractive as you think it is. He’s probably an average looking thin dude with a fat wife. Those are a dime a dozen and hardly surprising to anyone.

You really are buying the BS you are selling. No mismatched couple in the world where the man is better looking? Ok, this is really about you at this point.

No, it’s about you and your certainty that you don’t fit the mold.

I don’t fit what mold? There are tons of people posting. Very few people are talking about themselves. So odd that you are so sure that there cannot even be *one* mismatched couple.

Look, I’m 50 years old. I’ve lived in London, Rome, NYC and have traveled around the world. Never in my life have I been shocked by a man being so much better looking than his wife. I’ve seen many women who were better looking than their husbands, but I personally haven’t seen one many who was significantly hotter. Is there one couple somewhere out there where the guy is so much hotter, perhaps. It’s not the norm and I haven’t seen it. But I have seen a lot of thin men with fat women, especially on the islands. I have also seen a lot of people who have a striking combination of low self esteem and arrogance and who think that they managed to nab a hottie when in actuality their partner looks very similar to how they look.

People are posting about examples that they know in real life. Your response is to assume that the man is not as good looking as the poster reports. I, too, am 50 and have lived in numerous places, but I don't need all that experience to see your insistence to believe these posters is all about you and what's in your head.

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Anonymous wrote:My brother would probably fall into this category. He's always been told he's attractive, he's fit, and he makes good money. His wife is a size 24 (yes I know because we are close and go shopping together). She sort of reminds me of the Tess Holiday type of overweight person. She's tall, pretty, and stylish. I have never missed the looks they've gotten in public. But my brother has always dated plus sized women.

Yes, he’s slim, but what is his face like? It’s probably hard for you to judge because he’s your brother and looks like you, but I’ll bet his face isn’t as attractive as you think it is. He’s probably an average looking thin dude with a fat wife. Those are a dime a dozen and hardly surprising to anyone.

You really are buying the BS you are selling. No mismatched couple in the world where the man is better looking? Ok, this is really about you at this point.

No, it’s about you and your certainty that you don’t fit the mold.

I don’t fit what mold? There are tons of people posting. Very few people are talking about themselves. So odd that you are so sure that there cannot even be *one* mismatched couple.

Look, I’m 50 years old. I’ve lived in London, Rome, NYC and have traveled around the world. Never in my life have I been shocked by a man being so much better looking than his wife. I’ve seen many women who were better looking than their husbands, but I personally haven’t seen one many who was significantly hotter. Is there one couple somewhere out there where the guy is so much hotter, perhaps. It’s not the norm and I haven’t seen it. But I have seen a lot of thin men with fat women, especially on the islands. I have also seen a lot of people who have a striking combination of low self esteem and arrogance and who think that they managed to nab a hottie when in actuality their partner looks very similar to how they look.

People are posting about examples that they know in real life. Your response is to assume that the man is not as good looking as the poster reports. I, too, am 50 and have lived in numerous places, but I don't need all that experience to see your insistence to believe these posters is all about you and what's in your head.

Should be "insistence on disbelieving . ."

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Anonymous wrote:Emma is not unattractive. Maybe she does not correspondend to the beauty ideals spread through social medias and th US mass media (supported by cosmetic surgery).

Dex has a hot body but I can’t unsee his previous role in White Lotus where he was such damaged goods. So Emma and Dex make total sense as two inhabitants of the island of broken toys being right for each other. I am in a real life relationship with very similar appearance differences and totally in love with each other. We’re bent but not broken.

But are you also caustic and humorless? Charm goes a long way but Emma had none

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Anonymous wrote:Man who is not interested in the show but just googled their photos.

Have no idea about their personalities on the show, but I think she looks nice and that's the kind of looks match I see in public all the time.

Another man here and I agree. Never heard of the show, the characters or the actors, but I googled and was expecting a wildebeest. She's a regular looking woman that many men would happily date.

+1. The way some (I assume) women talk about other women's appearance on her is totally foreign to me as a man. She's cute.

She’s probably cute to you because you aren’t attractive either. People think people in their same looks class as being better looking than they are. If she’s cute to you, that does not bode well for your looks.

I’m guessing again that you are a woman. I’ve only met women who say stuff like “water meets its level.” It reads like weird jealousy. (I am a woman, by the way. The truly hottest men I’ve met find beauty everywhere.)

Agree with this. Women who consider themselves hot or beautiful simply can’t handle it that men, while they might agree these women are hot or beautiful, don’t think they’re THAT much better than “plain Jane” next door. Certainly not so much more appealing that their personalities wouldn’t be in play.

But those men you are talking about aren’t hot themselves. They are average looking guys who think that average looking, plain Janes, as you call them, are better for them than slightly hotter women. Gorgeous men do not end up with plain Janes. Look at who Paul Newman and Mathew McConaughey and Brad Pitt, etc. ended up with. Those women were not plain Janes. I have never seen a legitimately hot man with a plain wife.

I have tons of friends who were up in arms that plain Jennifer Aniston married Brad.

By the way, this isn’t convincing any of us you aren’t a plain Jane who was passed over.

I’m not trying to convince you about my looks. I will never see you and you will never see me. Who cares what wither one of us looks like? OP said the mismatched looks between these two actors made it too distracting to watch the show. I agree. I don’t think they match at all and I could never see them together in real life.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt match. She’s gorgeous and he’s gorgeous. (Your friends must be blind if they think that she is plain! Her breasts alone are to die for.) Their coloring is alike and they looked adorable together. It was real. They had chemistry. These two actors look ridiculous together. I think they’re both not great looking, but he’s better than she is and they really don’t look like a couple. She is below average.

No way. Aniston and Pitt were a true mismatch. That's why I was a Brangelina supporter.

+1. A Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Jennifer and Brad would have been a flat failure, while with Angelina and Brad the movie is fantastic even if it's on mute the entire time.

I was team Jennifer! I think Angelina is bizarre looking. I know she’s gorgeous, but I don’t like her look if that makes sense. She looks like someone who kisses her brother and wears vials of blood around her neck. Jennifer looks fun and wholesome.

And dumb..

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Anonymous wrote:Man who is not interested in the show but just googled their photos.

Have no idea about their personalities on the show, but I think she looks nice and that's the kind of looks match I see in public all the time.

Another man here and I agree. Never heard of the show, the characters or the actors, but I googled and was expecting a wildebeest. She's a regular looking woman that many men would happily date.

People are forgetting that this was coupled with a really bad personality

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Anonymous wrote:Man who is not interested in the show but just googled their photos.

Have no idea about their personalities on the show, but I think she looks nice and that's the kind of looks match I see in public all the time.

Another man here and I agree. Never heard of the show, the characters or the actors, but I googled and was expecting a wildebeest. She's a regular looking woman that many men would happily date.

+1. The way some (I assume) women talk about other women's appearance on her is totally foreign to me as a man. She's cute.

She’s probably cute to you because you aren’t attractive either. People think people in their same looks class as being better looking than they are. If she’s cute to you, that does not bode well for your looks.

I’m guessing again that you are a woman. I’ve only met women who say stuff like “water meets its level.” It reads like weird jealousy. (I am a woman, by the way. The truly hottest men I’ve met find beauty everywhere.)

Agree with this. Women who consider themselves hot or beautiful simply can’t handle it that men, while they might agree these women are hot or beautiful, don’t think they’re THAT much better than “plain Jane” next door. Certainly not so much more appealing that their personalities wouldn’t be in play.

But those men you are talking about aren’t hot themselves. They are average looking guys who think that average looking, plain Janes, as you call them, are better for them than slightly hotter women. Gorgeous men do not end up with plain Janes. Look at who Paul Newman and Mathew McConaughey and Brad Pitt, etc. ended up with. Those women were not plain Janes. I have never seen a legitimately hot man with a plain wife.

I have tons of friends who were up in arms that plain Jennifer Aniston married Brad.

By the way, this isn’t convincing any of us you aren’t a plain Jane who was passed over.

I’m not trying to convince you about my looks. I will never see you and you will never see me. Who cares what wither one of us looks like? OP said the mismatched looks between these two actors made it too distracting to watch the show. I agree. I don’t think they match at all and I could never see them together in real life.

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt match. She’s gorgeous and he’s gorgeous. (Your friends must be blind if they think that she is plain! Her breasts alone are to die for.) Their coloring is alike and they looked adorable together. It was real. They had chemistry. These two actors look ridiculous together. I think they’re both not great looking, but he’s better than she is and they really don’t look like a couple. She is below average.

OMG it’s not just the looks! It’s the looks and personality combined. She was not a looker nor charming. That’s the real issue. The Financial Times wrote about it, even the actress commented on it not being believable and worrying about that. IRL she’s funny and upbeat and that adds to her attractiveness even though she says she can’t actually close her eyelids over her eyes so yes is a bit wonky and sleeps with her eyes open and the whites of the eyes visible

FT: Sorry, love, One Day your prince will probably not come

https://www.ft.com/content/72ba2bdd-4e92-4d42-8ddc-82cbd358a52b

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Maybe I'm biased as someone who loved the book, but I thought the casting was pitch perfect and loved both actors. Sure, Emma in the book was not biracial but I liked that update. I thought the show captured that Dexter knew he could get prettier women, thought he should have a more conventionally pretty mate, and burned a lot of time attached to that thinking. But ultimately he was attracted to her and found her beautiful, and that's the way chemistry and attraction works sometimes.

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No, he was doing a penance.

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POC, left leaning paper:
“Which brings me to a confession. My initial reaction to seeing Mod play Emma was complicated. I was thrilled: I’ve never seen someone who looks like me, living the life I lived around the time I lived it, on screen before. But this is also why it didn’t ring true. Because race (and class, for that matter) didn’t work like that back then. By which I mean – I’ll just say it – white boys like Dex didn’t fancy brown girls like Em. I know because I was one, although I went to Glasgow. In the first few episodes, the unmentionability of Emma’s race got to me. The truth is, Dex (and his parents) would have made unintentionally racist blunders. And Em would have forgiven him.

But then I kept watching. I started to fall for them, hard. And I began to appreciate the lovely Shakespearean bones of this story, which is about two wildly different people connecting through humour, shared cultural references and, above all, time. And, God, it passes so fast. Suddenly it is 15 July 1991, Dex and Em are skinny-dipping in Greece and I am all in. By the time it is 2007 and Dex is back in Edinburgh, where I ended up and from where I am writing these words, I am crying my eyes out and longing to do it all over again.” The Guardian

White person, centrist paper:
“I hate to be the one to disappoint, especially in Valentine’s week and in the fugue of romance that tends to befall us at the time of year. But we must disabuse ourselves of the cultural preoccupation that hot, dumb posh boys with crowds of buddies fall for smart, caustic, socially awkward girls.

Most critics have adored the show’s slow-burning romantic arc: boy with zero plans or ambitions has one-night encounter with star academic on their last day at Edinburgh university; boy stumbles through life buffered by his good looks and private wealth, while girl stumbles through bad relationships and career disappointment buffered by the idealistic notion that she will one day do the world some good. Boy hits rock bottom. Girl starts to achieve goals. Boy is saved by girl who has forever cherished a largely unrequited, almost creepy, crush.

One Day is all part of the much fancied cultural weakness for the notion that true love must follow a painful path. Lysander first spat out the argument in A Midsummer Night’s Dream — largely to justify his decision to ditch his current girlfriend and go chase someone else instead. It’s become a collective passion that true love can cut through class, attitude and looks. Everyone, from Jane Austen to Sally Rooney, has made a fortune on the premise that, if you are pure and patient, you will transcend socio-economic barriers (and physical disadvantage) and your prince will come to you.

Spoiler alert. Even when these people find love, fate tends to dash it on the head. As Love Story taught us, the outcome of these mawkish romantic dramas tends to be a denouement in which one of the couple must be martyred so that the other can appreciate the ecstasy of how it was to feel the “perfect love”. Invariably this must be the woman, because she is, after all, the more fragile sex. The hot boy is left to struggle forward, lonely, sad and irresistible with his still floppy hair and sparkly eyes.

And people love a posh boy, especially this year. It’s an odd kink that in this moment of social awareness, the super-wealthy are being so deified on screen.” FT