The reason Susan Johnson’s Netflix adaptation of Jenny Han’s
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before worked so well is because it had such a distinct hook: hopeless-romantic high-school student Lara Jean (Lana Condor) panics when five deliberately unsent love letters she wrote over the years wind up getting mailed to their recipients. In order to save face with her current crush (who happens to be her older sister’s boyfriend!), she strikes up a fake-dating deal with one of those old crushes, kind-hearted jock Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo), and after some rom-com-level misunderstandings, they end up dating for real.