Early in their acquaintanceship, Owen (Liam Hemsworth) confesses to Katherine (Laura Dern) that he doesn’t really care for travel. “People always say it’s going to be this transformative experience. Go to a new, exotic place, meet the new, exotic you,” he says. “But you get there and you’re not new or exotic. You’re just you.”
Lonely Planet being what it is, Owen will of course be proven wrong. This trip that they’re on in Morocco, really will change their lives, specifically by tossing them into a whirlwind courtship. But if the Netflix romance depicts a once-in-a-lifetime encounter, the experience of actually watching it is decidedly more mundane. Neither dull enough to be painful nor fun enough to be engaging, it’s simply too bland to make much of an impression at all.
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