If you’re lining up the top TV picks over the post-Christmas period, add The Road Trip to the top of your list.
Remember TV show The Flatshare, the adorable rom-com series about a young woman who finds herself sharing a room with night shift worker Leo – he uses the room in the day, her in the night – and the connection they find? If not, watch immediately. Anyway, The Road Trip and The Flatshare are both adapted from novels by bestselling chick-lit author Beth O’Leary.
While the novel is set on a miserable UK motorway, the TV series is set in Spain (a wonderful sunshine bonus for all of us who want to escape the winter weather for a while), as two exes, one sister, one friend and one tagalong make their way to a destination wedding.
From The Road Trip, we can expect “a beguiling, modern story about love in your late twenties”, exploring love through a variety of prisms, including “a class-divided romance, a codependent bromance and a knotty but affectionate sisterly bond”.
In a recent interview with GLAMOUR, Emma opened up about why 2024 has been such a big year for rom-coms like The Road Trip. “I think we love rom-coms because it I think it gives us something to believe in,” she said. “It’s a very universal subject, the love and relationships and how joyous, amazing, ecstatic that can be, but also a lot of the pain that comes with it, and also sometimes the mundane aspects of relationships.
“We have to be reminded that it’s not all fireworks all the time. There is a beauty in familiarity and feeling comfortable and safe with someone. And I think you get to see that in rom-coms. You get to see your own circumstances reflected back to you.”
Lucia Faraig
