TV Review: Hulu’s ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’

Zoe Boyle, Nathalie Emmanuel, Guz Khan, Sophia La Porta, Harish Patel, Nikesh Patel, John Reynolds, Rebecca Rittenhouse and Brandon Mychal Smith.

After many were ready to proclaim their untimely death, romantic comedies have resurrected with a vengeance. “Crazy Rich Asians” was a cultural and box office sensation, and Netflix has struck gold with a series of low-stakes movies that subsequently created an entire cottage industry that runs on earnest charm and flirty banter.

They’re all, in other words, deliberate rom-com stock characters that the show hopes to flesh out over the course of ten episodes, a downright luxurious amount of time versus the movie’s two-hour runtime. The show doesn’t radically flip the script so much as tweak it in slightly more three-dimensional directions; even the typical conceited rival role, embodied this time in Ainsley’s competitive British friend Gemma , gets to stretch beyond the confines of her stereotype.

So while this “Four Weddings and a Funeral” is purposefully distinct from its source material, the inevitable comparisons both work for and against it. On the plus side, Hulu’s “Four Weddings and a Funeral” establishes itself as different from the original by the sheer fact of its casting not being entirely white.

The trouble comes as the show tries to sell the camaraderie and fiercely loyal bond between the characters, which should be the glue that keeps the show together. Instead, the sporadic times they all share the screen rarely spark in the way that the joyfully chaotic group scenes of the first “Four Weddings and a Funeral” did. We hear an awful lot about what good friends they are without the series doing much to sell it.

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