![]() ![]() Her renewed longing for Dash isn’t about possessiveness but familiarity. In addition to being drawn into Lily’s involved family politics, we soon meet Dash’s ex Sofia (Keana Marie), who, refreshingly, isn’t a vengeful or desperate virago like you’d expect. Thanks to energetic cinematography from Eric Treml and candid direction from the likes of Fred Savage and Pamela Romanowsky, the show’s saccharine candy shell soon melts to reveal a richer emotional core. Luckily, Dash & Lily is neither clumsy nor cheap-looking. ![]() I was amused that the show is quick to condemn Dash with a lot of adjectives, other characters calling him, “snarky,” “finicky,” “persnickety” and “annoyingly pedantic.” (Admittedly, his pea coat does kind of groan, “I’m sooo dark and no one understands meee.”) Yet, he remains much more palatable than squeakily diffident Lily, whose idea of trauma amounts to being made fun of once in middle school. (You have no idea how many times I wrote “Get a real tragedy, Lily!” in my notes.) Tinsel-bedecked Lily, lover of all things Christmas, is horrified to learn her parents are vacationing in Fiji alone this year instead of reveling in their typical holiday traditions. Black-clad Dash, nursing a broken heart, tricks each of his divorced parents into thinking he’s spending Christmas break with the other and decamps at his father’s penthouse to watch black-and-white French films all by himself. In late December, two posho Manhattanite teens wallow in their own holiday misery. Like a medium-quality donut, Dash & Lily goes down sweet and easy, but still ends up leaving a slick of unctuous film on the roof of your mouth. Over time, Dash’s hilariously unearned misanthropy relaxes into low-level sociability and Lily’s gratingly cheerful immaturity coarsens into age-appropriate rebelliousness. Adapted from Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, the series purposefully cranks up its protagonist’s most irritating qualities head-on, then slowly releases the pressure valve on each to showcase their personal growth due to the other’s influence. ![]()
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