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The Charming 'Dash & Lily' Is Sweet Holiday Goodness

The Netflix adaptation of a novel about a couple of teenagers who communicate by writing in a shared notebook is a well-made limited series with old-fashioned appeal.
Austin Abrams plays Dash, one of the book-loving leads in Netflix's <em>Dash & Lily. </em>

To say there are many new holiday romantic comedies made for television every year is the kind of understatement that borders on parody. One of the reasons they tend to be formulaic is that to tell a love story in roughly an hour and a half without challenging an audience's settled expectations, there are only so many ways to go with the rhythm. Perhaps that's why Netflix has better luck with , an eight-episode limited series that's got the

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