All of the Particulars on Peacock’s Every little thing I Know About Love

Put together to fall for head over heels for Everything I Know About Love. 

Do not get it twisted, although—the upcoming Peacock series, a semi-fictionalized model of Dolly Alderton‘s memoir of the identical identify, is just not the stuff of rom-coms. As an alternative, the central love story is definitely the friendship between two 20-somethings, Maggie (Emma Appleton) and Birdy (Bel Powley).

Residing in London with two of their college friends, the childhood besties are driving the rollercoaster that’s younger maturity and experiencing all of the twists and turns that include it. The premise would possibly sound acquainted, however what makes the sequence stand out amongst its predecessors is, as Powley told Cosmopolitan UK in June, that it is grounded in actuality however finally actually “joyful.” 

“They’re having the perfect time,” she added. “I believe that is the place there will likely be a stark distinction with our present, in contrast to different reveals which have been about ladies.”

And whereas Every little thing I Know About Love is certainly a deeper look into the ability of friendships fairly than relationships, the latter nonetheless performs an vital function. As Peacock put it in a press launch, “The sequence is an unflinching deep dive into dangerous dates, heartaches and humiliations and begs the query: can platonic love survive romantic love as we develop up?”