A Family Affair Is Just Another Example Of The Sad State Of Rom-Coms

Nicole Kidman as Brooke Harwood and Zac Efron as Chris Cole in A Family Affair

“No great tryst ever started with someone being rational,” says the always-wise Kathy Bates as grandmother Leila Ford in Netflix’s newest rom-com, A Family Affair. One could argue that the same truism also applies to romantic comedies, especially the great ones. 

Like all movies, rom-coms ask us to suspend our disbelief, to settle into our couch and let ourselves believe in anonymously heartfelt email exchanges...