![]() ![]() They don’t avoid talking about their fight, and both apologize for saying what they did. When Jessie tells Tom she’s moving, it only adds pressure to whatever Tom was planning to do with this visit. As hard as they are trying to make this seem normal, it’s super-awkward. ![]() It could’ve taken Tom hours to work up the courage to knock on Jessie’s door, but Kate gives him no choice.Īfter an awkward welcome interaction between Tom and the friends and an obviously made-up excuse about them all needing to go have a cigarette on the balcony, Tom and Jessie are left in the kitchen, alone together for the first time since that gutting fight. She sees the bouquet of flowers he stashed near where he is standing, and instantly Kate knows that Tom is contemplating coming by to see Jessie. Thank goodness for the missing custard, because Kate runs into none other than Tom Kapoor the Movie Star at the shop. There is no way in hell she is serving a Christmas pudding without custard - they aren’t animals, she reminds them - and so she hops off to the nearby shop to find some. Jessie surely realizes this.Īnd then Kate forgets the custard. After almost a full year (remember, episode one kicked off on New Year’s Eve) of randomly bumping into Tom or him popping over or being able to attend events where she knows Tom will be, Jessie leaving London for New Zealand puts a hard stop to whatever their relationship was or could be. And yet, leaving her friends and her life in London can’t be the only thing in that dark cloud over Jessie’s head. Some of that sadness is simply that everyone will miss Jessie so much. Her early-Christmas send-off the night before her flight with Kate and their friends is cheery enough - aside from the “love is fleeting loneliness is eternal”–type fortunes in their Christmas Crackers, obviously - but it is all tinged with sadness. Meanwhile, Jessie looked around at her life and saw something just wasn’t working, so she decided to leave London and move back home to New Zealand. Even a crushed-up macaron in his pocket is emotionally devastating. He’s participating in the age-old tradition of stalking the object of your affection on social media. ![]() Tom was feeling listless and dejected regarding his career and heartbroken after that disastrous fight in the hotel with Jessie. Last we left Tom and Jessie, they were separately off being the saddest people - nothing about that has changed. So, no, this final act in Jessie and Tom’s story isn’t the most surprising, but goddamn is it so, so satisfying. And any person who’s watched enough TV knows if someone notes that there are pot brownies just laying around, there is a 99.9 percent chance that someone else is going to eat those pot brownies unwittingly (just call it Chekhov’s Weed Stash). Any rom-com fan couldn’t have been surprised that there was one last hurdle for our couple to get over. From the first episode, we all knew this show would end with Jessie and Tom getting together. The funny thing is nothing that happens in “Christmas” is particularly surprising. Isn’t this show all about feeling anyway? I was just squealing with delight. Although I know that would not be the most informative of recaps, that is exactly how I felt watching this episode. I’ll be honest with you, my Starstruck people (because I know you’ll get it): Writing this recap of the season-one finale is difficult because my first inclination is to simply write one long SQUEAAAAAAAAAAAL for the entire thing. Rewatch along with us and check back next Thursday for season two recaps. Since the return of Starstruck is quickly approaching, Vulture is returning to where the romance began with weekly recaps of season one.
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