'The Perfect Date': A Teen Romcom By Any Other Name Is Reasonably Sweet
Who would want to date someone named "Brooks Rattigan"?
It sounds like a jerk who makes furniture. It sounds like a corrupt law firm. It sounds like a preppy mobster. It sounds like an announcement of the two competitors who will face off in the final match of a wrestling tournament in a town whose population was built only by reproduction between and among people who rowed crew in college.
And yet this is the name of the hero of the new perfectly OK Netflix teenage romcom, . Based on the book by Steve Bloom, it's written by Bloom and Randall, one of the best young-person romantic comedies ever.) And the star, announced in March of 2018 months before he was an OH MY GOD level streaming romcom idol, is 's Noah Centineo, now Hashtag-Peter-Kavinsky to many of the tweens who follow you on Instagram. (And some of the people who are older than that.)
