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From young love to twisted romance, these binge-worthy shows best depict the wide spectrum of love
What better way to spend the month of love than to bury yourself in the comfort of your home and binge-watch some of the newest shows available on Netflix? Whether you are alone, with your partner, or even with your friends, these 11 shows will be worth the watch.
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Gather your wits and embody your film aficionado persona. These romance-genre shows will make you want to both immerse yourselves in the characters and give you time to relax from reality, hitting two birds with one stone.
1. Your Place or Mine
Tick back the clock.
Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, one of the biggest onscreen romantic pairs of the 2000s, came back this year with a hit in their sleeves. Your Place or Mine is about best friends and total opposites Debbie and Peter swapping homes for a week. They get a peek into each other's lives, which could eventually open the door to love.
Also starring in the show are Wesley Kimmel, Jesse Williams, Tig Notaro, Zoë Chao, and Steve Zahn.
Watch it here.
2. Love to Hate You
For avid fans of Korean culture, here's another show to add to your bucket list.
Love to Hate You is about rookie attorney Yeo Mi-Ran (played by Kim Ok-Vin) and top actor Nam Gang-Ho (played by Yoo Teo). For them, love means nothing—until they’re forced to date each other. It becomes a love battle of some sort.
Watch it here.
3. In Love All Over Again
Spaniards are generally known to be the most passionate of people, and this is one of the many shows that can attest to that.
Starring Georgina Amorós and Franco Masini, In Love All Over Again is about a couple named Irene and Julio who, ever since they met, have been falling in love, splitting up, and then trying again.
Coming soon to Netflix on February 14.
4. A Sunday Affair
If you want a little spice in your shows, then this is for you.
A Sunday Affair is about best friends Uche and Toyin who fall for the same complicated man. This tests their loyalty to each other as they face a heartbreaking revelation.
The show features Dakore Akande, Hilda Dokubo, Eku Edewor, and many more.
Coming soon to Netflix on February 14.
5. OMG! Oh My Girl
A list isn't ever complete without any Thai in it.
Over the years, awkward Guy (played by Wongravee Nateetorn) keeps falling for confident June (played by Plearnpichaya Komalarajun) in the wrong place at the wrong time, leading him to believe fate is playing tricks on them. Watch them push through life and overcome the hurdles that come their way.
Coming soon to Netflix on February 16.
6. An Inconvenient Love
In a country that adores love teams, the pairing of Donny Pangilinan and Belle Mariano is certainly making waves.
An Inconvenient Love is about two young lovers agreeing to a casual relationship. This convenient arrangement however grows complicated as their romance reaches an expiration date.
Coming soon to Netflix on February 23.
7. Freeridge
If you love both comedy and drama, then you will enjoy Freeridge.
From the creators of On My Block, this film is a coming-of-age comedy following sibling rivals Gloria and Ines (played by Keyla Monterroso Mejia and Bryana Salaz) and their friends Demi and Cameron (played by Ciara Riley Wilson and Tenzing Norgay Trainor) who have unleashed a curse bringing dark misfortune into their lives.
Watch it on Netflix here.
8. Dear David
Dear David revolves around a straight-A high schooler's life turned upside down when her risqué fantasy blog about her crush is leaked to everyone at school.
Watch it on Netflix here.
9. Eva Lasting
A little different from the shows already mentioned, Eva Lasting is set in the 1970s.
It's about a love story between Eva and Camilo. Eva, played by Isa Garcia, enrols as the only woman in a school of 600 men and turns it upside down by teaching her classmates all about sex, love, pleasures and real life.
Coming soon to Netflix on February 15.
10. Class
Class is the Indian adaptation of the original Spanish web series Elite.
Like the original, Dheeraj, Saba and Balli, three students from a poor neighbourhood, join an exclusive high school for the Delhi upper class. Dark secrets and rumours ultimately lead to the vilest of things: murder.
Watch it on Netflix here.
11. Perfect Match
Another romantic comedy addition to the list is Perfect Match.
All is fair in lust and love. This show is about couples who prove their compatibility and afterwards gain the power to make or break other matches. In short, a strategic and seductive dating competition.
New episodes coming to Netflix on February 14.
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Angela Nicole Regis Guiral is a digital editor at Tatler Philippines. She studied journalism and has since written features that look closely at how culture, lifestyle and social impact converge, while occasionally wandering into the worlds of style and travel.
