A Perfect Pairing Review: Unexpectedly Delightful Rom-Com Is Slightly Hollow

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Netflix has seen what Lifetime and Hallmark have been cooking up in the romance genre and the instant value from making safe, stake-less, and humorless romantic comedies. This sort of rom-com is not the type people revisit when looking for something warm and comforting for a night in, background noise, or to pass the time. They are not those kinds of movies because a similar rom-com with the same stock characters, tropes, jokes, and dynamics will be released next week. There is a steady stream of feel-good fare that have no lasting impact. A Perfect Pairing – not to be confused with Hallmark’s The Perfect Pairing, about a wine-food critic who suffers from temporary amnesia and falls in love with the owner of a winery she panned – fits perfectly in that mould of rom-com. A Perfect Pairing carries on the tradition of quaint romantic comedies that are light on comedy and even flimsier on romance. However, against the odds, A Perfect Pairing, directed by Stuart McDonald, is an amusing, delightful detour from the usual fare.

Victoria Justice, the latest former teen starlet to have a career revival at Netflix, stars as Lola Alveraz. Lola is a hardworking wine executive who is highly efficient at her job and a massive wine fan. After several years of working for a useless boss (Legend of the Seeker's Craig Horner) and having a significant client stolen from her by a coworker, Lola strikes out on her own by starting her own wine distribution company. To get a leg up in the business, she sets her sights on Vaughn Family Wines, the client stolen from her. She packs up and leaves for Australia to fight her case, which leads her to volunteer to fill a work position on the Vaughn sheep farm to prove herself to business tycoon Hazel