Adapted from a novel, this popular Netflix rom-com finds twenty-year-old American Hadley missing her flight to London and consequently crossing paths in the airport and then on the next plane with British Yale student Oliver, and so the 'love at first sight' theory is tested over the next twenty-four hours. Although she is the slightly chaotic and quirky American and he is the data-driven and slightly uptight Brit, the stereotypes and underplayed in favour of following two pleasant and emotionally-battered young people, played engagingly by Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy. Separated on arrival in London, the second and third acts are about finding out if fate and serendipity can bring them together (alongside Jamella Jamil playing various roles as Narrator/Muse), with Oliver's story evidently sensibly boosted up from the novel and some good supporting work on show, especially Sally Phillips as Oliver's mother. Pitched somewhere between the Bridget Jones films and When Harry Met Sally but much younger and more innocently, Love At First Sight is simple, really sweet, and generically on the nose (very middle class, utterly improbable, annoying wispy acoustic cover of an 80s banger), leaving little impression but doing what it does well.
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