“Starstruck”, the series of the month

The day after a curiously watered New Year’s Eve, a young New Zealand woman with a strong character wakes up after spending the night with a charming boy who turns out to be… a movie star. Here is the pitch of Starstruck, British series by Rose Matafeo, also the main actress, available in France on Canal +.

There follows, over six episodes, a delicious game of cat and mouse punctuated by the cycle of the seasons in London, misunderstandings and twists of fate, all fed by a sense of the comic as much as human paradoxes.

Between classic and modern

If we follow her with so much pleasure, it’s because Starstruck orchestrates a sort of ideal transplant between the classic English “rom com” – of Four weddings and a funeral at Love Actually – and modernity, via its atypical heroine endowed with an energy to break everything.

Rose Matafeo wrote the series for herself and lives there with the friend who is her “roommate” in life. The lived side by side with a knowledge of the genre in which it fits and one will recognize, in the supporting roles for example, this talent to paint characters in two lines.

Starstruck is therefore located at the ideal meeting point between Love at first sight in Notting Hill (with this common starting pitch of the thwarted loves of a quidam and a star) and the diary of a young woman of today.

By and with Rose Matafeo, Nikesh Patel, Emma Sidi, on Canal+.

This paper was originally published in issue 833 of Marie Claire, dated January 2022.