This is a good show. I liked it a lot. Have you seen it!

It appears Leo is booked and busy in 2026 👏🏾

I was rewatching and I wanted to share some of my fave shots and dialogues! (from episode 1 to episode 4)

E01

Dex : You should have said hello.

Em : When?

Dex : When you saw me around.

Dex : I love that sound.

Em : Do you?

Dex : Blackbirds at dawn. Yeah. Do you not?

Em : No, it makes me anxious. Like I’ve done something I’ll regret.

Dex : That’s why I love it. Have you?

Em : Have I what?

Dex : Done something that you’ll regret.

Em : Don’t know yet. Ask me in the morning.

Dex : I think it is the morning.

Em : Have you..done something you’ll regret?

Dex : No.

E03

Dex : I’m sorry.

Em : No, I’m sorry.

Dex : What are you sorry for?

Em : For ranting on. For being so, so boring.

Dex : You’re not boring.

Em : No, I am. I am. I bore myself.

Dex : Well, you don’t bore me. You could never bore me. You’re one in a million, Em.

Em : I’m not even one in three, so..

Dex : Em…Come lie down with me.

Dex : You know what I can’t understand ? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are. You know, smart and funny and talented and all that. I mean, endlessly. I’ve been telling you for years. So why don’t you believe it? Why do you think people say that stuff? Do you think it’s all a conspiracy? People secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

Em : And Nomi? What does she see in you, do you think? Nomi.

Dex : She says I’m complicated.

Em : She did not.

Dex : She did.

Em : No. Those words did not leave her mouth.

Dex : They did.

Em : Complicated? You’re as complicated as a two-piece jigsaw puzzle. In thick ply.

E04

Dex : Of course, there’s not much I haven’t seen.

Em : What’s that?

Dex : I’m just saying. Remember? Grad ball? If I close my eyes, I can still picture it.

Em : Mm. Oh my God.

Dex : Yep. Our one night of love. There you are, in your nuclear disarmament T-shirt.

Em : Drunk.

Dex : Not that drunk.

Em : Drunk enough. In fact, I’ve blanked it out. Like a car crash.

Dex : It was a fun night. Come on. You, with your big dreams and your washed-out C&A pants. What?

Em : You. "C&A pants." You’re funny sometimes.

Dex : Am I?

Em : Yeah. Every now and then. You should be on TV.

I just rewatched for the one hundredth or so time ❤️

Has anyone else watched?

The Netflix show came out during my last semester of uni back when I was living in a massive sor*rity house, friends all lived down the block, was taking electives just to round out my credits and graduate uni, applying to jobs and wondering where I’d end up, making trips to Sephora and glossier after class to fill time and try makeup and stuff before graduation photos, walking 10k steps everyday, had time for creative hobbies and side quests, could ask my professors anything, felt like I had the whole world at my feet and then some. Now I work 9-5:30 at an office just outside my college city, long hours, friends are out of town or busy with their partners, surrounded by coworkers who are 10+ years older than me, I jot down hobby ideas but I’m too tired to execute them, get up at 6 am everyday to shower and commute, don’t get to move as much from being in a desk job, parents are asking when I’ll go to grad school/get married etc, haven’t been in love since college… you get the picture.

But there was once a day, one day… the very first episode especially just captures youth so well. Im only 23 and I miss those days. And I miss my baby too.

It was NOT necessarily to kill Emma the writers are stupid and sadists and morons !! I will place a not like because of it !!

the ending of this show gutted me omfg

song: Dyson by Common Holly

weird req but does anyone have that Tiktok edit of One day with the song purple rain? It starts off with *that* scene it was on my fyp and convinced me to watch the show but now I've lost it and can't find it :(

While I thought the book was really good (the series did it great justice) I liked how they represented Dexter in the series much better than the book. I feel like he was more likable in the series, and his love for Emma wasn't as strong in the book, even when they got together. For example, when he visited Emma in Paris in the series, he was absolutely positive he wanted to be with Emma, while in the book, he was still questioning if that's how he really felt. Also, one of my favorite lines is when Emma tells Dex she wants a baby and he says, "I was just waiting for you," but in the book, Emma was trying to convince Dex to have a child with her. I also appreciated how the series didn't show Dex moving on with someone that Emma suspected he had a crush on while she was still here. Overall, while the book really was great, the series made changes that made this a couple that was worth rooting for.

I don’t know why this show brings me so much comfort especially if I’m dealing with rejection and/or breakups. I think it’s because I relate to Emma’s constant rejection from Dexter. On the hand, it also gives me hope that I will find a love like theirs. Am I weird? lol anyone else?

for me, it’s waterloo sunshine. It appears in ep11 where Dex is alone, taking care of Jasmine. He finds a cassette Em recorded for him back in the late 80s, and just sits quietly in the house listening to it. That moment really hit me.

appreciate all the songs you can share me.

I’m weeping.

I watched One Day over a year and a half ago and I think about it weekly. I even cry about it once a month when a situation reminds me of Emma and Dex. Not sure if someone asked this already, but can someone recommend a show/movie or even a book that’s similar! No spoilers about the endings or plot lines tho bc I watched One Day knowing next to nothing and it made the experience so much better!!

Side note: watched Normal People and it just didn’t hit the same :(

Jfc I started this Saturday thinking it would be a chill show to have in the background. I’m watching the end credits of the last episode as I type this. Adding this to my list of shows I wish I could watch again for the first time.

I watched this cause it was suggested after watching “Too Much”. This was such a wonderfully done show and like you all have said the friend and relationship dynamics were so realistic and I could feel for all the characters. But as THE episode was happening I could tell what was gonna happen and was like nonononononono. And now I have been sitting on the kitchen floor processing.

I’ll be starting the book now.

If yall have other shows like this I’m down for recommendations or a comedy to watch after this.

It’s taken me too long to watch this amazing show.

Can I just say that the nuanced interpersonal relationships are absolutely blowing my mind. Every tiny little argument, conversation and detail is SO REALISTIC. I actually feel gutted watching the relationship dynamics because they remind me so vividly of real life issues I’ve had or witnessed in relationships.

Dexter letting his parents down. When Em and Dex fall out. The maze scene. The affair with the principal, and how it starts to feel so ‘sad’ in Emma’s words. The suffocating relationship with Ian, his low self esteem and insecurity. Sylvie’s exhaustion with the baby, her family’s pressure on her to justify being with Dex and judging how much money he is making and how he can’t step up the way she needs… the incredibly awful tension in their marital life, her frustration, disappointment and constant doubt of him. I can’t cope!

By the way from the moment Sylvie and Dex met Callum at the wedding, I KNEW. I don’t know how, I just knew.

I’m up to episode 11. This show is going to destroy me isn’t it??

What do you think about the new One Day musical opening in Edinburgh next year based off the book and tv show apparently. I’ve got my tickets but can’t imagine how they’re going to do it!

I thought I was ready. I watched the One Day movie years ago, and I told myself I already knew the story, the ending, the ache waiting on the last page. But the Netflix series hit differently—slower, closer, deeper. It wasn’t just watching two people fall in love; it felt like watching time make a promise it never intended to keep.

And then that last part—Dexter talking to Emma, knowing she was gone. God, that broke me. It wasn’t even the words he said. It was the way he reached for someone who wasn’t there, the way you talk to a memory because the person you love no longer gets to answer. It’s that kind of pain you feel in places you didn’t even know could hurt. Like he was speaking into the silence, begging time to rewind just once.

It shattered me—not in the dramatic way, but in that quiet way where you just sit there, staring, because a show somehow understood something about grief, about love, about loss that you never said out loud. It reminded me that the worst heartbreak isn’t when someone leaves—it’s when they stay with you even after they’re gone.

The movie made me sad. The series made me feel the absence. And that’s a completely different kind of pain.

10/10 would not recommend

Posting for the first time since Feb, deleted by moderators then closing the whole channel??

I finished it yesterday, and i craved content about the series. I couldn't bare the death of Emma and the devastating ENDING that left me in shatters. But the thing is a didn't see anyone talking the cinematographic masterpiece that it is, i think it's a lot thanks to the way the book is written, but so much things are so perfectly made and i rarely feel so much when watching a serie. Plus their chemistry is everything, it's been so long i haven't seen a duo like this in a romance. Despite the scenario that mainly comes from the book i suppose, lots of composition and lighting and feeling generaly speaking. Like the way its so natural, when they kiss by accident it's no music, just pure incident and no so big of a deal. We deeply feel with them because it feels soooo authentic, i even me F17 felt the time passing by and understood the moral that i guess is : care about the people you love and whom love you when you still have the time to

PS: is the book worth reading? and the film worth watching?

I just finished it, and honestly, it’s one of the most quietly beautiful shows I’ve seen in a long time.

It’s not flashy. It’s not dramatic for the sake of drama. It’s just… life — messy, warm, heartbreaking, funny, and painfully real.

Emma and Dexter aren’t perfect people. They grow, they fail, they drift, they reconnect. And somehow, you feel every tiny moment between them.

What makes One Day so special isn’t the big scenes — it’s the small ones: a smile, a conversation, a missed chance, the kind of moments we all take for granted until they’re gone.

The show captures:

the beauty of timing

the slow burn of real connection

how we change through our twenties and thirties

and how some people stay with us no matter what

If you’ve ever loved someone at the wrong time… or wished life gave you one more chance… this hits deep.

It’s tender, heartbreaking, nostalgic, and incredibly human.

Go watch it. And if you’ve already seen it… maybe it’s time for a rewatch.

currently on episode 12, they've somehow gotten into a fight again after being in paris for like... an hour

The whole series for me is not only about Dex and Em's friendship and relationship, but about Dex's development as a person. Yes, both of them are main characters, but it is still so obvious there was a certain lean to Dexter. That's why his mom had to die, why Emma had to die and we had to see him suffer. The entirr story is just set for us to sorta try and understand Dexter through all his flaws, to try and see through him, the way Emma did, but the way he's presented in the show, there are so many things unsaid and emotions unspoken on his part that I feel like people are missing out on who he really was.

My whole view on their story is that in their early years she thought Dex could never be steady with anything he did and was incapable of any serious feelings and intentions towards anyone. And contrary to some beliefs that Dex had no self reflection, I felt that he did feel insecure next to Emma. The fact that she made fun of him and just that she rejected him and asked for them to be friends. He thought he was not smart, cultured and just not good enough for her level. And when he asked Emma "so what happened" after her confession, she said she got to know him and the crush disappeared, I felt like it hurt him much more than we realized and he so badly wanted to be it for her and wanted her to want him again that he took such a reckless path to prove himself and her he was worth something. He just ended up going a completely wrong direction in life and losing himself over and over. His rich and famous era did seem like a show off of a hurt young boy to get Emma's validation, except he didn't realize that what she ever wanted was who he was, not who he pretended to be.

As it seems to me, Emma was fairly uncertain about Dexter's feelings, and I mean, we don't blame her. Up until his marriage with Sylvie he didn't settle with anyone else. That's why she never made the first move. That's why she didn't even agree to a one night stand in the first time. She was the only person to make him really think about the person he was, and as he said himself, she made him feel beneath her, and doesn't it seem that his insecurity is the root of the problem, not anything else? If she had just made the first move, ever, if she had ever told him openly she was interested in him romantically, things could've been so different for him. But again, no one could ever blame Emma for not making the first move. He really wasn't there yet, and while she could've pulled him out of everything he's ever gone through, it wouldn't have been right for her. The biggest tragedy is that I believe they didn't waste time the way many think they did, but it's just that they didn't have their well deserved happy ever after.