There has been no happy ever after for the romcom, which has spent the past 20 years in a purgatorial funk. A mainstay of 1990s cinema, in our new streaming dystopia, the genre has lived a ghastly half-death as Netflix binge fodder, such as The Kissing Booth, and outright offences against good art and basic human decency, with Emily in Paris being the most conspicuous example.
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