Dash and lily9/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s sort of a “You’ve Got Mail” for Generation Z. One of the leads even cites “You’ve Got Mail” (which itself was inspired by the 1940 film “The Shop Around the Corner”) by name. Nora Ephron’s classic 1998 romantic comedy starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks may not be the the film everyone thinks of when they think of Ephron’s filmography (see “When Harry Met Sally” or “Sleepless in Seattle”), but it is the clearest influence on “Dash & Lily.” Quite a few elements from “You’ve Got Mail” make their way into this show: the magical New York setting, star-crossed lovers who do not know what the other looks like. That “You’ve Got Mail” comparison is an appropriate one. Through most of the show, the pair do not meet in person, instead using the red notebook to trade dares, in exchange for which they begin to learn more and more about each other. When cheerful, optimistic Lily slips a mysterious red notebook onto a bookshelf in the Strand, the brooding loner Dash finds it and gets swept up into an adventure as Lily teaches him to fall in love with Christmas. “Dash & Lily” is close to the perfect balm for a world in which the holidays just don’t feel like the holidays. ![]() The Strand, perhaps New York City’s most iconic bookstore, even serves as a central location in the show, and is where this story starts. Sallinger and characters like Cyrano de Bergerac. Indeed, the show is obsessed with literature, with references to writers like J. The names of the two title characters, Dash and Lily, allude to Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman, a pair of mid-20th century novelists who fell deeply in love. It may be a cliché to call it “the show that we need right now” but Netflix’s “Dash & Lily” is close to the perfect balm for a world in which the holidays just don’t feel like the holidays. It is a rare thing when a piece of new holiday media comes out and it actually manages to make you feel like you’re snuggled under a warm blanket, sipping a mug of hot cocoa and hanging out with friends you have known your whole life. ![]()
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