Thanks to a string of new dramas and top-tier page-to-screen adaptations, romance tropes have become front and centre in all of our favourite TV shows and movies. From obsessing over the biggest love triangle since Twilight in The Summer I Turned Pretty, to all the yearning that went down between Hannah and Garrett’s fake dating in Off Campus, we love that we can unabashedly dive into the tropes that get us feeling all loved up.
And as the summer continues, there’s a bunch of new dramas heading our way that allow us to indulge in the steamiest and most heartfelt tropes. Ready for a new obsession? These are the ones we can’t get enough of and the Prime Video dramas you can expect to see them in later this year.
The Love Hypothesis
The fake relationship
Faking feelings often leads to real ones, which is the very specific joy of the fake relationship, as you’re simply waiting for the pair to realise they’re meant for each other. A fake relationship also usually involves one of the couple having pretty strong feelings to begin with, which is why they agree to the arrangement in the first place, as is the case with The Love Hypothesis, the upcoming film adapted from Ali Hazelwood's novel of the same name. Grad student Olive Smith (Lili Reinhart) and professor Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman) enter into a fake relationship because, why not – as for whether it stays fake for long, well, you'll have to watch and see.
Available 23 September
Drawn Together
Forced proximity
OK, there is no trope steamier than forced proximity. Two people spending all that time together in the same location is sure to drive up the tension – sexual or otherwise – but also stir up questions of whether the attraction is real or just convenient? Later this summer we’ll get to see this undeniably hot trope play out in the screen adaptation of Mercedes Ron’s novel Drawn Together. Bodyguard Sebastian Moore (Hugo Diego García) is hired to look after the daughter of a business tycoon, Marfil Cortés (Ester Expósito), after an attempted kidnapping. New drama Drawn Together has got all the makings of a good forced proximity story and then some. We are sat.
Available 9 September
The Last Sunrise
The holiday romance
A good holiday should allow you to relax and take a break from your everyday. A great holiday should do all of that plus let you dive into a fantasy, alternative life for a brief period of time. This is exactly what college student Ry (Maia Reficco) is seeking when she and her mother travel to Mallorca in The Last Sunrise – a screen adaptation of Anna Todd's novel of the same name. And then Ry falls for Julián (Fernando Lindez). Their relationship evolves and allows Ry to live in the moment, but a holiday can’t last forever, and that tension about knowing a trip will end, but the feelings won’t, is exactly what we love about this trope.
Available 26 August
Sterling Point
The unexpected romance
Sometimes the best thing in life (and TV) happens when both the characters and the audience don’t see the romance coming around the corner, and yet when it happens it somehow makes the most sense of all. In just a few weeks Sterling Point will drop on Prime Video and follow the story of Annie (Ella Rubin), who discovers at 17 she’s been left her grandad’s mysterious island in Canada, and that’s not likely to be the only surprise either…
Available 5 August
Every Year After
The childhood sweetheart
You never forget your first love, but can you find your way back to them? That’s the big question sitting at the heart of nostalgia-driven series Every Year After – an adaptation of Carley Fortune's novel Every Summer After. When writer Percy (Sadie Soverall) is reunited with her childhood sweetheart Sam (Matt Cornett) for a summer at their old stomping ground, tantalising tension abounds. This trope honestly hits the hardest sometimes: it’s full of history, emotion, forgiveness and deep love. OK, that’s it, we need to rewatch it again.
Available now
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