Is a romcom even a romcom without a series of infuriating misunderstandings threatening to split up Girl and Boy? With a wink and a nudge, comedian Rose Matafeo stirred a few glugs of the Third Act Misunderstanding trope into Starstruck season one. She’s thrown in the whole bottle for series two.
The last time we saw Matafeo’s endearingly garrulous cinema usher Jessie, she had decided it wasn’t going to work out with Tom Kapoor (Nikesh Patel), the movie star with whom she’d accidentally had a one-night stand. “He’s a famous actor and you’re a little rat nobody,” as her housemate subtly put it. Jessie boarded a bus to Heathrow, with the intention of flying home to New Zealand and leaving her life in London behind. The new series opens with Jessie and Tom on that same bus. She doesn’t get off at Heathrow.
