Starstruck (HBO Max/BBC Original)

We all say that miscommunication in fiction, whether it be in fic or in romantic comedies, never seems to hit quite right, but Starstruck gets it. Jessie hooks up with a guy on New Year's Eve that ends up being a famous film actor, and things...well, they get messy. For a lot of reasons. 

Each episode is only 22 minutes long and there are only 6 episodes, so it's easily digestible, and the final episode of s1 is this perfect snapshot of life in your late 20s when nothing seems to go the way you planned it. The glimpses that we get of Tom, Jessie's love interest, are kind of mournful and yearning, and like. Pitch perfect to the messy thing between them that they've only defined in brief moments together. 

"It's like fanfiction," someone says to Jessie in one episode. Yes, but no one seems to be able to say the right thing quite yet, a clear sign we've got a ways to go. The end of s1 ends on an open note as Jessie considers leaving London to move home.