Someone Great
Someone Great puts a new spin on the rom-com genre with an entertaining romp through NYC as three friends reach turning points in their love lives.
Last year , Netflix found a with child deal of success with their romantic comedy fare , and the streaming service responded to that success by up the output of their original fixed storage - coms . The latest to attain the streaming service , Someone Great , is a refreshing breather of atmosphere in the quixotic comedy writing style , focalize on three friends at a time of major turbulence in their life . At the center is music diary keeper Jenny ( Gina Rodriguez ) , who is broken up with by her young man of nine long time , Nate ( Lakeith Stanfield ) , just before moving to San Francisco for a new job . She ’s comforted by her friends Erin ( DeWanda Wise ) and Blair ( Brittany Snow ) throughout one particular day and night in New York City , but Erin and Blair are dealing with their own relationship dramas . Someone Greatwas write and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson ( Sweet / Vicious ) , and is her directorial debut . Someone Greatputs a new twist on the rom - com genre with an entertaining romp through NYC as three friends strive turning points in their passion lives .
Someone Greatlargely focuses on the story of Jenny and her heartbreak in the wake of her dissolution with Nate . Through flashback , the motion-picture show explores various point of their kinship , from the night they met through to the dissolution . In present day , Jenny is reeling from the end of their nine - class human relationship and trying to distract herself by disbursement time with her friend in one last hurrah before she moves across country . Instead of focusing on the starting signal of a relationship , though , Someone Greatgoes a different rom - com route by detail the ending of a long - term relationship and depicting a cleaning woman trying - and sometimes give way - to move forth . The goal of a relationship can be much messier than the starting line of one , andSomeone Greatportrays that facet of love and quixotic relationship in an incredibly good , realistic way .
But while Jenny is perhaps the master protagonist ofSomeone Great , Erin and Blair are also look with their own of import decision with regard to their love lives . Erin has been casually dating Leah ( Rebecca Naomi Jones ) for months and must decide whether to commit or continue flake out on someone she has real feelings for . Meanwhile , Blair is in an unfulfilling long - term family relationship when her eye strays to a bozo Jenny had a crush on in college , Matt ( Peter Vack ) , who get along back into their lives . In these story , which have almost as much focus in the picture show as Jenny’s , Someone Greatplays out two typical read-only storage - com storyline - the wild-eyed interest afraid to trust and the protagonist looking for someone more fulfilling . These arcs solve to equilibrize Jenny ’s dissolution with other tales of romanticistic love and depict different form of amorous relationship , in similarly good and realistic fashion , keepingSomeone Greatwell within the read-only memory - com genre .
But whileSomeone Greatdelivers the romantic plot line viewers would expect from a romantic comedy , the true strength of the flick is the friendship - platonic love - of the three main graphic symbol . And that ’s doubtlessly thanks to the execution of Rodriguez , Wise and Snow , who portray these three friend ' kinship as complicated , but ultimately eff . Someone Greatdepicts a diverseness of love - self - love , platonic love , romantic beloved - in a way that feels much more straight to aliveness and revolutionary because of it , specially in a musical genre like romantic drollery that tend to elevate wild-eyed love above all else . It helps to setSomeone Greatapart from other rom - coms , and the film ultimately delivers a much more reliable picture of the lives of these modern woman . A great quite a little of that is due to the public presentation of the three leads , but it also add up down to the moving-picture show ’s playscript .
Prior toSomeone Great , Robinson ’s main citation was the short - endure MTV dramaSweet / Viciousabout a duet of girls who become vigilantes on their college campus taking down those who get away with abusive deportment . Like the TV show before it , Robinson’sSomeone Greatscript features lot of snappy negotiation and focalize on the bond of the film ’s distaff characters , with their other relationships often take a backseat to the core friendly relationship . Robinson ’s writing and directing onSomeone Greatelevates the picture . And see the well have it away hand - off advance Netflix film to its originals , the quality ofSomeone Greatis a will to Robinson ’s gift , as she once again showcases a unique and wholly necessary phonation in Hollywood at the mo . Someone Greatis further proof that we demand more and different voice in a storied genre like that of read-only storage - coms in ordination to keep it fresh and forward-looking .
Ultimately , Someone Greatis a wonderful accession to the romantic clowning musical genre , assign a new spin on the classical trope and taking a look at a side to romantic relationships very seldom search within films of this type . It ’s a fun and gratifying picket for rom - com fans , and/or those looking for strong female person - fronted and female person - created cinema . With the low barrier of entree that comes along with all Netflix archetype , Someone Greathas the electric potential for major success on the cyclosis platform . In the rom - com resurgence that we ’ve seen over the last year or so - with Netflix as a major contributor -Someone Greatfits well into the wave of newfangled films that elevate the genre beyond ( most of ) the threadbare tropes of decennary retiring , while still providing an entertaining amorous comedy experience .
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Someone Greatis now available for streaming through Netflix . It is 92 minutes long and is rated universal gas constant for drug content , imbibing , intimate material and language throughout .
Someone Great is a amorous drollery directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson . The film stars Gina Rodriguez as Jenny Young , an aspiring music journalist who navigates a fresh breakup with the backup of her two best supporter , played by Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise . As they enter on one last adventure in New York City , the trio rediscovers their bond , bosom the motif of personal growth and friendship .
Gina Rodriguez and Lakeith Stanfield in Someone Great
