Starstruck: Aldo Grasso’s review of the TV series on RaiPlay

Jessie (Rose Matafeo) spends a night of sex with a stranger, only to later discover that it is Tom Kapoor, a famous Hollywood movie star

StTARSTRUCK
Type: comedy
Director: Rose Matafeo. With Rose Matafeo, Nikesh Patel, Emma Sidi, Al Roberts, Minnie Driver, Joe Barns, Nic Sampson, Lola Rose-Maxwell, Ambreen Raza. On RaiPlay

RaiPlay aims at the Millennials, their anxieties and expectations. Beyond Conversation with friendsthe public service streaming platform hosts a new BBC series; Starstruckspecifically, it is a comedy that tells the inadequacies of a world (ex juvenile) with the typical humor that surrounds the most grotesque situations

Jessie (Rose Matafeo, also creator of the series) is a young New Zealander who lives in London; during a New Year’s Eve spends a night of sex with a stranger, only to discover that it is Tom Kapoor, famous Hollywood movie star

In six brilliant episodes, with the typical short size of comedies, Starstruck deals with the theme of feelings and love affairs of thirty-year-olds, in that middle age between youth and the desire and need to become adults

The bond with a famous character generates inevitable problems in Jessie that transform a one-night stand into a much more complicated tangle of feelings.

Against the backdrop of a multi-ethnic London, the series aims to nail all those who at least once in their life have hoped for “impossible love”; a generational choice that paves the way for the streaming offer of the public service

For those who love sentimental comedies tinged with irony and with a British setting.

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