Wuthering Heights Has Made Us Feral For Yearning. The Reality Isn't As Hot.

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Wuthering Heights

From hit series such as Heated Rivalry and Bridgerton to the most talked about movie of the moment, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, yearning is everywhere right now. Falling in love and living happily ever after? BORING – we want storylines with long, drawn out power dynamics, tortuous emotional restraint and hopefully, a moment of release.

Yearning, as the Cambridge Dictionary defines it, is “a strong feeling of wishing for something...