Leighton Meester's Netflix Thriller The Weekend Away Misses The Mark

gamerant.com:

Leighton Meester wowed TV fans with her portrayal of damaged rich girl Blair Waldorf for six seasons of Gossip Girl. Since then, the actor has starred in some interesting projects, from quirky sitcom Single Parents to the movies The Oranges (2011) and Life Partners (2014). Meester currently plays Meredith on How I Met Your Father.

Recently, Meester also starred in the Netflix thriller The Weekend Away as Beth, a woman who goes from London to Croatia to spend a few days with her wild best friend Kate (Christina Wolf). While the movie's premise is interesting, as Kate disappears and Beth has to learn the truth, The Weekend Away misses the mark in many ways.

Macaulay Culkin Became The Villain In This 90s Thriller

Leighton Meester starred in the bad horror movie The Roommate and The Weekend Away has some moments that are as cheesy as that film is. Sarah Alderson wrote the movie's script, which is based on her novel that was published in 2020, and the movie starts out fairly strong. Beth's character is established, with audiences learning that she is a new mom and hasn't gone anywhere since having her baby girl. Beth is married to Rob (Luke Norris) and it doesn't seem like they are very happy together and maybe they never were. Beth's best friend Kate convinced her to go away for the weekend and rented an incredible, beautiful and glam apartment where they can look out over the city and drink a lot.

But while there is some character development and fans can tell that Beth and Kate are total opposites, which often works well in telling these types of friendship stories, the movie veers off course when they go drinking in a club. Kate wants to hang out with some sketchy men and Beth wakes up totally hungover the next day with no