I watched That’s Amor on Netflix so you don't have to.

A lovely evening of Netflix was on my agenda. Really looking forward to it. Legs stretched out, bag of chips in hand, cat on lap with a blanket; that's all I need, you know. Well, except for a bit of nice entertainment on Netflix. And I had a bit of trouble with that today, because I felt like I had already played everything out. The week before I watched Look Both Ways, and that's seriously a decent recommendation, and less predictable than you might think.

My eye fell on That’s Amor, which was in the top 10 of movies and apparently that was enough to make me give it a chance. I should have known better. After watching this film, I am firmly convinced that only one thing could have happened here: a team of screenwriters crammed all the clichés they could think of into one film. And I mean really all of them. Shall we list them? Yes, here come the spoilers, but if you've seen the first ten minutes of the film, you could probably guess this already.

1. Woman in an undervalued job with a boss who seems to be crazy

2. Gets fired for a non-existent reason and didn't see it coming

3. Returns home (because fired) and finds her boyfriend in bed with someone else

4. Tries to get over her break-up and is forced to do something she doesn't like (a cooking course)

5. Falls in love with someone who helps her during that which she doesn't like in the first lesson

6. OH NO: that person turns out to have a girlfriend

7. It's not quite what she thinks and now she wants her new love back

8. But OH NO, he's just on his way to the airport

9. Woman races after him and finds him just in time

10. They live happily ever after

Seriously, that's the movie. This happened so often that it was also the storyline of Not Another Teen Movie — right: a parody of all clichés. Among all those clichés, there are also so many things that I just can't understand and that frustrates me immensely. That you just know that the person who wrote the script didn't take the most logical explanations because this works better for the drama.

Like the ex of main character Sofia, who wants to win her back after he cheated. Why does she just send him away? She's in love with someone else and doesn't want him back. I can't imagine that there would be anyone who not only tolerates their ex around them but also lets it go so awkwardly that the respective ex meets the new love.

Additionally, Matias, the cooking course guy, suddenly has a girlfriend too. A woman he apparently intensely hates, but why are you in a relationship then? And on top of that, he wants to leave the country without even sending a text while the two lovebirds with a smartphone aren't even fighting? Make it make sense.

Maybe the worst part for me was that it's a Spanish cooking course and Sofia's limited knowledge is really cringeworthy. Sure, Spain is a bit easier to reach from the Netherlands than from the United States, but it seems like they googled ‘stereotypes of Spain’ and not only copied and pasted the characters from that but also their eating habits.

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