Netflix fans refuse to re-watch ‘heartbreaking’ series one year after its release
It received high praise when first hitting screens!
Netflix viewers have said they ‘absolutely refuse’ to rewatch a drama series a year after it left many devastated.
Based on David Nicholl’s 2009 novel of the same name, the 14-part series One Day was released on February 8 last year.
Starring Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod, it told the decades-long love story of Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley as they reunite on the same day every year.
At the time many who tuned in said they’d become ‘emotional wrecks’ and had now had ‘irreparable emotional damage’, especially with the heartbreaking twist at the end.
A year on many have now declared they can’t re-watch the series over concerns it might spark the same extreme reactions.
This week there have been several posts on social media with people sharing their desire to avoid the show for the foreseeable.
One Day was based on the best-selling novel of the same name and starred Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall (Picture: Netflix)‘I’m not gonna lie I watched One Day last year and I still can’t even handle seeing TikTok edits about it. Rewatching it? ABSOLUTELY not. That show wrecked me in ways I can’t even explain and I have ZERO desire to feel that again. I’m pretty sure my heart genuinely broke. I was emotionally out of it for like a week after,’ henry_grey_earls posted on TikTok.
‘Now that it is February, it has been a year since a sixteen year slow-burn romance left me ruined and empty for weeks,’ ethanneville05 shared.
‘One year since Netflix unleashed the most heartbreaking trauma on the world and I’m still not over it,’ ieucooke added.
Meanwhile Caroline wrote: ‘Gonna be so honest with you guys. Watched One Day LASY YEAR and to this day, cannot even watch edits on TikTok about the show. Much less even consider rewatching it. It wrecked me in ways I can’t even describe or want to begin to even feel again. I think my heart genuinely broke.’
The rollercoaster of emotions and shock twist caught many off guard (Picture: Ludovic Robert/ Netflix)In 2011, the novel was adapted into a blockbuster film starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess in the leading roles.
Last year David shared his theory on why both the book and the movie grabbed the public’s attention.
‘People made a connection with their own lives, relationships and regrets. People saw themselves and their friends in the characters Emma and Dexter,’ he said.
‘It was quite an emotional book, and it was written with the intention of making people laugh and cry. It seems to have worked.’
One Day is streaming on Netflix.
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