Kat Graham stars in “Love in the Villa. “Riccardo Ghilardi/Netflix Netflix’s “Love in the Villa,” starring Kat Graham, has plenty of awkward and cringey moments. Charlie and Julie’s feud gets out of hand, especially when she ends up getting Charlie arrested.
The couples in the movie don’t really resolve their issues or communicate with each other. Julie reads “Romeo and Juliet” to her third graders. Julie teaches third grade.
NetflixNot only does Julie read “Romeo and Juliet” to the 8-year-old students in her class, but she also complains to her coworker when the kids weren’t interested. Her justification for teaching the non-age-appropriate, perhaps PG-13, story was that she wanted to talk about her trip to Verona, which also seems like a personal topic her students wouldn’t care about. Brandon doesn’t seem to know anything about the trip Julie has been meticulously planning.
Brandon and Julie didn’t seem to communicate much. NetflixWhen Julie talks to Brandon about the trip during their restaurant date, Brandon seems surprised by the details she’s planned. Although he may not have expected her to schedule every moment of the trip, it’s odd that he’s surprised that she wants to see monuments related to her favorite play when that’s the reason they’re going to Verona in the first place.
Julie’s overly detailed planning scared Brandon away a little, but he also seemed to put all the work on her and showed little interest in figuring out their itinerary. Julie gets in a car with a random guy at the airport. Julie gets into a random person’s car.
NetflixDespite meticulously planning every minute of her trip, Julie didn’t arrange for a ride from the airport to the villa. Instead of taking the train she mentioned or hailing a taxi, she gets into a complete stranger’s car after asking if he’s an Uber driver — he responds that his name is Uberto. He drives dangerously during the ride, but Julie calls him for more trips later and never seems to have any other transportation planned.
Julie tries to throw Charlie out even after he proves he rented the same villa. Charlie and Julie get off to a rocky start. NetflixThe host of the villa Julie reserved accidentally booked another guest, Charlie, for the same week.
When Julie arrives and finds Charlie there, she immediately assumes he’s wrong about having booked the same place and demands that he leave. Even after he proves that he also paid to stay there, she insists that he be the one to find somewhere else to stay before they’ve tried to contact the host or find another solution. We later find out that Charlie rents this villa the same week every year, so Julie kind of is the one inconveniencing him.
The host asks them to share the villa because he decided it was destiny for Julie and Charlie to meet. The owner doesn’t do much to help them. NetflixOnce Julie and Charlie get in touch with the villa host, he doesn’t try to fix the situation at all.
Instead of offering a refund or making arrangements for them to stay elsewhere, he tells them to share the space for the week. He even insists it’s destiny for the two of them to meet and share the villa. Charlie tells Julie to block Brandon so he’ll want to get back together with her.
Charlie and Julie don’t have the best relationship advice. NetflixCharlie gives Julie relationship advice right after she says she doesn’t want any. He tells her “men want what they can’t have,” so she needs to block and ignore her ex until he comes back to her.
Despite this being immature advice, Julie does what Charlie suggests and Brandon ends up coming to her. Julie’s coworker doesn’t know the plot of “Romeo and Juliet. “Julie’s coworker really only makes things worse.
NetflixJulie references the tragic ending of “Romeo and Juliet” to her coworker while the two are on the phone. When she mentions the double death by suicide in the play, her coworker is surprised and asks if that actually happened. The idea that he’s never heard the plot of “Romeo and Juliet” is improbable, especially when Julie had already spoken to him about the play and her trip.
The same coworker also tells Julie to make Charlie miserable until he leaves the villa. Julie really leans into making Charlie’s trip terrible. NetflixJulie complains about sharing the villa, and her coworker suggests making Charlie miserable until he chooses to leave.
This is his first suggestion, rather than asking Julie if she’s looked for another place to stay. Julie decides to take his advice and spends a large portion of her dream vacation plotting ways to ruin Charlie’s trip instead of doing the things she’s been looking forward to for years. Julie arranges for cats to swarm Charlie even though she knows he’s allergic.
Endangering Charlie’s health crosses the line a bit. NetflixJulie finds out about Charlie’s serious cat allergy the first time she opens the window in the villa, accidentally letting all the plaza cats in. But when she starts scheming to get Charlie to leave, she purposefully sets Charlie up for an allergy attack.
Julie surrounds Charlie with olives while he’s sleeping, which causes the cats to flock to him and gives Charlie a horrendous allergic reaction. At no point does Julie seem concerned or show much remorse about messing with Charlie’s health. Charlie has all of Julie’s belongings donated.
Charlie donates all of Julie’s clothes. NetflixTo get back at her for the cat attack, when Julie’s lost luggage arrives at the villa, Charlie has everything donated. He tells the deliveryman that Julie is in an asylum and wants her clothes donated to an orphanage.
This leaves Julie without any of the clothes and personal items she packed for her trip. Julie has Charlie arrested while he’s dangling from a ledge. Julie calls the cops on Charlie.
NetflixJulie gets the locks changed on the villa, which leads Charlie to try to enter through the balcony. When he misses the jump to the balcony ledge, he ends up dangling by his arms and trying not to fall. Instead of helping him at all, Julie calls the police to report Charlie for breaking in.
This could’ve been extremely dangerous for Charlie, who has police aiming guns at him while he dangles from a second-story ledge. It also affects his job when a potential client no longer wants to work with him because of his arrest. Charlie posts Julie’s journal pages in the plaza with her name and photo.
Charlie defaces Julie’s property and hangs it up in public. NetflixIn retaliation, Charlie posts Julie’s journal pages in the plaza. He includes her name and a picture, which leads to various strangers approaching Julie about her relationship with Brandon.
This is a cruel violation of privacy to put someone through instead of simply staying at a different place for a week-long trip. The two get into a food fight that breaks a window and summons the police. Julie and Charlie get in a lot of trouble with Italian law enforcement.
NetflixAfter calling a truce, Charlie and Julie get into yet another fight. Charlie lies to Julie and says that she’s just eaten horse, and she throws a plate of food at him in response. The two get into such a destructive food fight and screaming match that a window is broken and the police arrive.
Neither of them even seems that concerned about the amount of damage they’ve done to the villa. Charlie assumes that Julie dislikes her job because she’s a grade-school teacher. Charlie kind of disses Julie’s job.
NetflixWhen discussing their jobs, Charlie talks about how much he dislikes his office job and says he’d rather be doing something else. When learning that Julie is a third-grade teacher, he asks what she actually wants to be doing. He’s surprised that she genuinely enjoys her job, which seems to imply that he doesn’t respect early-childhood education as a fulfilling career.
Julie ruins a work deal for Charlie after already almost getting him fired. Julie gets in the way of Charlie’s business deal. NetflixAfter Julie had Charlie arrested for breaking into the villa, he lost the chance to do business with a potential client and his office was unhappy with him.
Then on top of that damage, Julie talks another one of Charlie’s clients out of working with him and completely ruins the deal he was in Verona to work on. Charlie never mentions his fiancée, who shows up without any warning. Cassie, Charlie’s fiancée, wasn’t really brought up before.
NetflixCharlie’s fiancée, Cassie, shows up at the villa to surprise him. He never mentioned her before, but once she’s there, he says Cassie decided they were on a break two weeks before his trip. With Charlie and Julie growing as close as they have, it’s a little off-putting that he never mentioned Cassie — especially since Charlie knows all about Brandon.
But it’s equally bizarre that Cassie decided to break into the villa to surprise Charlie instead of texting him or waiting for him to get back. The two couples have an uncomfortable dinner that Julie gets extremely drunk at. Julie kind of sabotages the adult conversation.
NetflixBrandon and Julie join Charlie and Cassie for dinner after running into them at a restaurant. The dinner is very awkward, with Charlie and Julie making snide remarks while Brandon and Cassie fawn over each other. The entire situation is made worse by Julie getting extremely drunk.
Brandon proposes to Julie when she’s so drunk that she can’t walk by herself. Brandon tries to smooth everything over by proposing. NetflixWhen Julie and Brandon leave dinner, she’s so intoxicated that she struggles to stand up and needs Brandon to help her walk back to the villa.
When they get to the plaza, Brandon decides it’s the perfect moment to propose to Julie, even though she’s still drunk and clearly just had an awful night. On top of that, Brandon and Julie hadn’t exactly talked through all the issues that lead to their break, so they’re probably not ready for an engagement. Read the original article on Insider.
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