WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Maya (Nathalie Emmanuel, "Game of Thrones") is a communications director for _ and also lover of _ a senator from New York who turns out to be a two-timing creep. Badly disillusioned, she heads to London, where some college friends, like Duffy (John Reynolds), Craig (Brandon Mychal Smith) and Ainsley (Rebecca Rittenhouse, currently starring as Michelle Phillips in "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood"), are living. But en route, she meets Kash (Nikesh Patel), a handsome investment banker, and she is smitten all over again. Some weddings and a funeral ensue.
Mindy Kaling and veteran producer Jonathan Prince ("American Soul") created this adaptation of the 1994 big-screen hit, with an assist from Richard Curtis, who also wrote the original.
MY SAY: How do you take something that was light as a balloon in the first place, then stretch it out over 12 episodes? You make a stretchy balloon (that's how) and hope it doesn't pop in the process. Not as easy as it sounds, either. The original movie doesn't offer much of a road map because the entire plot was given away in the title, albeit slightly out of order (three weddings, then a funeral and finally that last wedding). The rest of the thing was a master class in effective screen chemistry (Andie MacDowell's and Hugh Grant's).
