One Day

Devin Bosley

As an avid reader as well as a TV watcher, I have always found it fascinating how, when adapting novels, so few go the route of a limited series instead of a film. Especially when the marketing campaigns of these projects love to emphasize how much they strove to remain truthful to the text. While, in this case, I have not read the source material, I am familiar with how each chapter of the novel takes place a year later, on the same day. This structure lends itself perfectly to becoming a television show, and I am so surprised it was first chosen to become a film. As a TV show, each episode feels appropriately sectioned off and detailed. I love how, as the viewer, you get to grow older with Emma and Dexter. Their love story's emotional highs and lows have a much more intense payoff. From the performances alone, I would recommend this series—just make sure to have tissues on hand! It also shows Edinburgh in such a beautiful light; it is a city I would love to see included in film and TV more often.