Video 1
In Love All Over Again | Official Teaser | Netflix, Netflix, 16 January 2023. Last Access: 02/01/2026.
Figure 1
Netflix’s ‘scriptwriting’ branding, with its monospaced letters ‘typed out’ in real time by romcom filmmaker Irene, foregrounds the series’ dissection of the mechanics, constraints, and history of the genre. Screenshot from the library of Netflix.
Figure 2
Da recreates the infamous ‘Hose’ scene from Almodóvar’s Law of Desire (1986) (‘I Forgot That I Had Forgotten You’, 1: 4). Screenshot from the library of Netflix.
Figure 3
The series’ pre-screening at its primary filming location, the Complutense Faculty of Information Sciences.20
Video 2
La ley del deseo - ¡Riégueme! [sequence from Pedro Almodóvar’s Law of Desire (1987)], El Deseo [eldeseopc], 17 December 2012. Last access: 02/01/2026.
Figure 4
Adri (Roser Vilajosana) uses toy figurines to explain the 180-Degree Rule to Irene (‘I Forgot I Had Forgotten About You’). Screenshot from the library of Netflix.
Figure 5
Irene falls in love with Julio through the camera, while he acts in her romcom short (‘I Forgot I Had Forgotten About You’). Screenshot from the library of Netflix.
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Irene refuses even to acknowledge – let alone watch – Julio’s latest blockbuster, Jamás, siempre, nunca [Never, Always, Not Ever], whose posters are plastered across Madrid (‘The Intern’, 1: 7). Screenshot from the library of Netflix.
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Netflix’s marketing for Nobody Wants This winkingly inverts its own self-negating title, engaging with its own critique of repetitive storytelling.59
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Ashley Ray’s Viral ‘X’ post epitomises audience fatigue with Netflix’s endlessly looping, serialised romcom conflicts.60
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Elena’s disillusioned question – directed at a wily extradiegetic narrator who teases a future season – remains unanswered, as the series itself was cancelled before its ending could be told (The Lady’s Companion, 1: 8, ‘Make Your Lady Happy’). Screenshot from the library of Netflix.