{"id":24050,"date":"2022-06-14T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T23:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=216060"},"modified":"2022-06-14T09:12:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T23:12:49","slug":"everything-i-know-about-love-ending-dolly-alderton","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/everything-i-know-about-love-ending-dolly-alderton\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ending Of \u2018Everything I Know About Love\u2019 Has Stuck With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The adaptation of Dolly Alderton\u2019s best-selling memoir, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything I Know About Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, was always going to be good. With Alderton behind-the-scenes writing the script, and the producers of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love Actually<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bridget Jones<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on deck, it\u2019s no surprise to see the tv series capture hearts within a week of release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone is talking about the glorious, pitch-perfect way <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything I Know About Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (currently streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stan<\/a>) captures messy 20-something life for Millennials, and the beauty of female friendships that endure well beyond the inevitable hook ups and break ups. Emma Appleton and Bel Powley are in many ways to thank for this \u2013 they shine as the best friends Maggie and Birdy, taking on the roles of Dolly and her best friend Farley from the book and bringing their chemistry to life on screen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But for me, the moment that has stayed with me after bingeing the series is a small scene in the finale. Maggie\u2019s mum turns to her daughter after collecting her from a wild week in New York City, to tell her that while she\u2019s an extraordinary person always seeking big, dramatic experiences, what she\u2019s really searching for is someone who will \u201clove her quietly\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_216064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216064\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-216064 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/everything-2.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maggie (Emma Appleton) is constantly chasing the highs of life. Image: Stan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like so many viewers and fans of Dolly Alderton, I see a lot of myself in her. I too chase highs, both in life and in relationships, but fail to recognise that it\u2019s those who support me and quietly love me that really endure beyond the loud moments in life. Maggie\u2019s mum tells her daughter that as you age, life becomes so wrought with chaos and devastation that you really want someone who brings you peace by your side. I felt this so deeply \u2013 at 36, I am becoming more and more aware of the fact that all those intense experiences just become stories you tell at dinner parties. The real heart of life is in the moments I (and Maggie, in the series) perceive as mundane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a refreshing look at love and one we just don\u2019t see championed that often. Instead of romanticising \u2018big love\u2019 like <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sex and the City<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and even the more down-to-earth <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it\u2019s valuing the love that is constant, even if it\u2019s not as exciting or screen-worthy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Millennials more than any other generation were fed a diet of romanticised, movie-star love growing up, influencing our dating life through our 20s and into our 30s. We searched for a tv soap love in an age where you really can meet anyone and everyone thanks to the internet, dating apps and global travel \u2013 meaning we always felt like that all-consuming romance was out there, it was just found in the next person, or the next, or the next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything I Know About Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is predominantly about the way platonic love colours our lives, it\u2019s also about this \u2013 how our ideas of romantic love tend to be, well, over-romanticised. Maggie judges her best friend Birdy\u2019s relationship with Nathan because it\u2019s stable, \u2018normal\u2019 compared to her wild love affair with Nathan\u2019s housemate, Street. But where Nathan is consistent, loving and supportive, Street is distant, critical and dismissive \u2013 an intoxicating drug of a relationship that ultimately burns out.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_216063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216063\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-216063 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/everything.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maggie&#8217;s relationship with Street is a toxic love affair. Image: Stan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even Maggie\u2019s whirlwind New York relationship, while far healthier than her hook up with Street, reflects Maggie\u2019s addiction to highs \u2013 and while it\u2019s a fairytale complete with meet-cute in one of the most romantic cities in the world, we also get to look at the part beyond \u2018happily ever after\u2019, where Maggie realises she needs to go home and sort her life out, because while Patrick is seemingly a good guy, he\u2019s got baggage from a recent relationship. He\u2019s also more of the same \u2013 a story, not real life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now well into my 30s, I\u2019ve got a pretty good handle on what is and isn\u2019t real love. But god do I wish this series existed when I was in my angsty 20-something years. In a saturated media where unrealistic love is fed to us constantly, to the point where we blur the lines between fiction and reality, it would have been so beneficial to see not only a series that champions platonic love, something I had in abundance back then, but a grounded take on romance. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything I Know About Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seems like a series that is going to define the next wave of tv comedy-dramas centred on women, and I\u2019m definitely here for this fresh direction.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31333,"featured_media":24051,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[36],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Everything I Know About Love&#039; Ending: A Fresh Look At Romance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ending of Dolly 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