‘Starstruck’ Season 3 Moves on From Romance to Celebrate Friendship and Life’s Transitions: TV Review
variety.comAramide Tinubu Engaging in a love affair with a movie star might fulfill your wildest fantasies if you happen to indulge in romantic daydreams about a glamorous life, but in the hilarious and heartfelt comedy “Starstruck,” Jessie (series writer/creator Rose Matafeo) has already been down that road.
In the show’s first season, she finds herself in a string of meet-cutes with A-list actor Tom Kapoor (Nikesh Patel). Though the pair decided to give their relationship a real chance at the end of the first season, the second season, which is much more tonally subdued and melancholy, showcased the fractures in their bond, eventually leading to a breakup.
In the third season, Tom and Jessie find themselves in different spaces, but are circling the perimeter of each other’s lives just the same.
That third season of the London-set “Starstruck” picks up where Season 2 ended, after Jessie and Tom’s dramatic kiss as they stood in the center of a filthy pond.
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