‘Everything I Know About Love’ Cast on How Female Friendships Don’t Take a ‘Backseat in the Storyline’

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Four female friends share the experience of navigating post-college life in London in Peacock’s new series “Everything I Know About Love.” Set in 2012, the show, which is based on the book of the same name by Dolly Alderton, combines humor and drama as it follows 20 somethings Maggie (Emma Appleton), Birdy (Bel Powley), Nell (Marli Siu) and Amara (Aliyah Odoffin) as they work on adulting, seek out romance, and even learn a choreographed dance or two in their shared living room.“I think it’s just so nice to see female friendships not taking a backseat in the storyline,” Appleton told TheWrap. “It’s very much front and center.

And that is the romance. And that is most important in this story.”As things begin in the new series, Maggie is just arrived in London and still trying to figure her life out.

As her housemates and friends do the same, changes in their lives take Maggie by surprise.“I think the thing is, with Maggie, she’s always wanting to be an adult,” Appleton said. “I think she didn’t like being young and having to follow a set of rules.

And moving to London with her friends, being an adult, having all this freedom is like, ‘I’ve arrived.’ But I think in the same way, it’s also quite overwhelming, and things start changing that she didn’t really expect.