Anonymous wrote:Emma's character is so quirky, intelligent and funny, so unique in so many ways.

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Anonymous wrote:FT doesnt get it right this time.

Dex says in the show that he pretty much fancies everyone.

Its also established that he has worked his way through most of the girls at uni. It makes sense that she caught his eye at the graduation as she was not a conquest yet.

However the fact that she didnt sleep with him and they talked instead turned it from a potential forgettable one night stand into something longer lasting. He ells Emma in Greece that he would love to shag her but not looking for anything else. The hurt on her face was brilliantly done.

If you look at the female figures in Dex's life - he seems to need a strong female - his mum, Emma, even Sylvie to some extent.

He also plays Emma to some extent -kissing her after hes told her about his engagement and baby etc.

The whole series is a slow courtship of each other.

Are you serious? I mean I know this is a hymn to the unattractive girls everywhere but that’s not plausible.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think they needed to cast a supermodel, but her personality lacks interest or charm (at least early on), so it's hard to see why they would have had such a deep connection early on and continuing over the years. I'm still early in the series, so maybe this changes.

Anonymous wrote:FT doesnt get it right this time.

Dex says in the show that he pretty much fancies everyone.

Its also established that he has worked his way through most of the girls at uni. It makes sense that she caught his eye at the graduation as she was not a conquest yet.

However the fact that she didnt sleep with him and they talked instead turned it from a potential forgettable one night stand into something longer lasting. He ells Emma in Greece that he would love to shag her but not looking for anything else. The hurt on her face was brilliantly done.

If you look at the female figures in Dex's life - he seems to need a strong female - his mum, Emma, even Sylvie to some extent.

He also plays Emma to some extent -kissing her after hes told her about his engagement and baby etc.

The whole series is a slow courtship of each other.

Anonymous wrote:He carried the series

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Anonymous wrote:They should have cast Emma better. It was very hard to suspend disbelief that he would actually fall for her, particularly in the sappy way depicted in the later episodes. They are just physically a huge mismatch plus she’s not that smart - she’s bookish, sarcastic and just massively annoying because she’s so defensive. Had they cast a pretty Indian girl with an ounce of charm it would have been far more enjoyable

I think she is a brilliant Emma.

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Anonymous wrote:There are mismatched couples by looks yes. But there something: money, charm, selflessness. Emma is a humorless pain. I can see him with Tilly before Emma

This. Emma in the series didn't show anything that would make his attraction to her make sense. She was unattractive, whiny, humorless, and aimless. Anne Hathaway did a much better job in this role. I will say that the series did get better after the first couple episodes. The actor who played Dex knocked it out of the park.

The actress who played Tilly did a great job. She was bubbly, fun, sensual. It was easy to see how a guy could be really attracted to Tilly. Looks don't have to be even, but generally there's something else like personality, money, accomplishments, responsibility, or *something* that makes the hot, wealthy person fall for the much less attractive one.

I think some of this may be a British vs. an American sensibility. Emma is sharp and witty, and that seems to count for more in British circles than American circles. She's not conventionally attractive, but she's not ugly, either, and an attraction to someone who's not conventionally attractive is what makes Dex more interesting as well. If he's just falling for a beauty, he seems more vapid (and he first hooks up with Sylvie, who is quite gorgeous, when he's still clubbing and living a posher, more debauched, life).