Long have we bemoaned the fall of the Romantic Comedy genre, and we aren’t the only ones.

Chrissy Teigen feels our pain. Netflix felt that pain and seems to be willing the entire genre back into our hearts. Thank god, I know I need a bit of wacky hijinks and perhaps more screwball in my life right now.

Set It Up is a Netflix original starring Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell as Harper and Charlie, beleaguered assistants to Kristen and Rick, played by Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs. They’re both Miranda Priestly-type, Devil-Wears-Prada style bosses. They work impossible hours and expect their assistants to work even longer hours, be their brains and hands, and generally wait upon them hand and foot.

After a chance meeting in the lobby of their office building, fighting over a dinner order, Harper and Charlie decide that in order to get themselves a break, they will “full on Parent Trap” their bosses. If Kristen and Rick are banging each other, that’s time they won’t spend torturing their assistants.  It’s a reasonable plan when viewed through the lens of sleep deprivation and low pay for way too much work.  Of course, it’s also a really thick, vaseline-smeared lens that doesn’t actually make much sense, but that’s where the comedy part comes in.  Naturally, this involves Charlie and Harper spending a lot of time together, and sparks fly.

Also there’s a hilarious compare/contrast between Parent Trapping and Cyrano de Bergerac-ing, which makes my literature loving little heart go pitter pat.

The fun thing about this movie is that Kristen is the editor of a sports journalism website, and Harper is suffering through the position of Kristen’s assistant in order to get her foot in the door and become a sports journalist herself. We know that there’s a severe deficit in the number of female sports writers and commentators and I loved that Set It Up showed women making a place for themselves in sports media. (I’m gonna throw in a plug for the podcast Leveling the Playing Field, which is done by a law school classmate of mine, Bobbi-Sue Doyle-Hazard. The purpose of LTPF is to highlight women in the sports industry, and to give young women exposure to the various careers available. Bobbi-Sue is awesome.)

Ha, Set It Up. I just got the sports pun. Sweet.

Rick is Finance Dude, and Charlie is putting up with his abuse because he’s hoping for a promotion. It’s a textbook abusive relationship: Rick will give Charlie just enough proof of humanity to keep Charlie hanging on, even though Charlie knows this shit ain’t never gonna change. But he’s got a hot model girlfriend and is kind of hoping that once he gets his promotion, he’ll be worthy of her. (Spoiler: she’s not worthy of him, which is kind of an easy way out.)

Anyway, given that this is a ROMANTIC comedy, how are the romances? It’s fun to see Lucy Liu (who is great at both ball busting and comedy) and Taye Diggs go head to head. It’s also interesting to see how a relationship that’s based on someone else’s lies gets to its logical conclusion. I’m going to leave that there, because they’re not the A couple.

The A couple is Harper and Charlie, of course. They’re both sort of dating other people, but  they find that they have equally devious minds and complement each other really well. They’re both terrifyingly competent- good assistants have to be, and they’ve survived as long as they have in their jobs because of this trait. Charlie especially just appreciates Harper’s mind and drive. I like them together. Zoey Deutch has an excellent frenetic energy for Harper, and Glen Powell is the kinda snarky dude that I really go for.

There’s a bunch of fun secondary characters, including a HILARIOUS cameo by Kimmy Schmidt’s Titus Burgess and Charlie’s roommate Duncan, played by SNL’s Pete Davidson (who gets the greatest moment of anyone. You’ll know it when you see it).

In other fun trivia: Set It Up was directed by Claire Scanlon, who was SUPER PREGNANT during the shoot.

Fun fact: Claire Scanlon directed "Set It Up" when she was 7 to 9 months pregnant, and often with her two-year-old daughter on set. She had her second baby a week after wrapping.

…Females are strong as hell. pic.twitter.com/DmprasJLhl

— Netflix Film (@NetflixFilm) June 15, 2018

and you know what? that is also ok, and you are also strong. Strong as hell = taking the appropriate time to achieve what you want to achieve in the best way possible for you and your family.

— Netflix US (@netflix) June 15, 2018

If Netflix is going to reverse the RomCom drought, I’m good with that. After the stress of last week and all the terrible news, this movie felt like a cool washcloth over a sunburn.

This isn’t a deep movie. It’s got moments, and it’s got a charming cast who have a lot of fun. This is a “it’s Friday night and I got wine” movie. I would be perfectly happy if Netflix released a new RomCom every Friday from here on out: I think we need it. Do you need it? I bet you do.

I know a bunch of you watched it, and we have a guest review, so, are you here for the RomComissance?