Romantic Dramas Always Have These Tropes Now

If our screens and our bookshop displays are united on one thing, it’s that this is the year of the romantic drama. February gave us Netflix’s fizzling and teary One Day, which gave way to Prime Video’s rom-com turned rom-dram The Idea of You (think of a One Direction fanfic come to life with a surprising number of tears). This summer’s It Ends With Us is the first Colleen Hoover adaptation to hit theaters, and if you know anything about Hoover, it’s to expect maximum melodramatic seriousness.