Content warning: This recap contains descriptions of domestic violence.
Its bafflingly protracted press-tour drama now safely in the rearview, It Ends With Us, the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni-led adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel, hit streaming services this week. How, you ask, does the film hold up a few months later? That’s just what I wanted to find out. Below, find 48 thoughts I had while rewatching It Ends With Us.
- Ooh, foliage!
- Is Plethora, Maine, a real place? I could google this, but I won’t.
- Why is Blake Lively’s Lily Bloom so sad when her hair is so nice?
- I’m sorry…is Owen from Grey’s Anatomy Lily’s dead dad? Does that age difference track? Or is this just a different chiseled, vaguely red-haired man?
- “You’re making me nervous sitting so close to the edge.” Could that be…a metaphor for something?
- Is this brooding, smoking man Justin Baldoni?
- Well, he’s a brain surgeon, so we know that, at least.
- “It’s so embarrassing, I’m obsessed with flowers”—something a human woman has definitely said out loud before.
- I want to say that a man simply saying “I want to have sex with you” wouldn’t work on me, but…it is refreshingly direct, I guess?
- Is it normal that I would never talk to a stranger on a rooftop this long for fear of getting pushed off?
- I wish this scene were better-lit, I’m going to admit.
- Wow, they found a really accurate young Blake Lively.
- I just realized this is a flashback to the weird story Lily told Justin Baldoni about the “homeless boy” from her past.
- I don’t hate these overalls.
- In fact, I might have, at one point, owned these overalls?
- Flower-shop-obtaining sequence time! I hope we get an energetically scored clean-up montage.
- Jenny Slate is already slaying this role, and I barely know what the role is yet.
- Birkin bag!
- Oh, no, Jenny Slate hates flowers! How will these two carve out an unlikely friendship?
- OMG, it’s an energetically scored clean-up montage and an unlikely-friendship-buillding montage! I’ve struck gold.
- His name is not Ryle.
- Like Kyle, with an R?
- Why is he wearing rainbow fuzzy sweats?
- Karaoke time!
- I’m actually picking up helpful gardening tips here.
- Jenny Slate is really rocking these intense accessories, I have to say.
- Lily’s curl pattern is equally intense.
- This “Date me” moment is making me think of Maeby Funke saying “Marry me!”
- Ooh, falling-in-love sequence.
- Hey, it’s Atlas, the “homeless boy” from high school! He’s hot!
- Please don’t call your partner “my ladylove.”
- Ah, Ryle and Jenny Slate have an older brother Lily’s never heard of who died when they were younger. Taking note of that.
- Oy vey, Lily is having trouble hiding her black eye 🙁
- Eek, Atlas/Ryle fight.
- Can’t say I love Atlas being described as “the guy you wasted your virginity on.”
- Ugh, back in high school Atlas was beaten up by Lily’s creepy dad after he walked in on them.
- It’s the overalls again!
- “Overall deal,” if you will.
- “I’m a ripped neurosurgeon” is not the turn-on that Ryle seems to think it is (for me, personally).
- Is this a proposal during a viewing of their friends’ new babies? Come on! Can they just have one day?
- Oof, this is scary.
- More deeply upsetting stuff is going on.
- Not to play medical expert, but I feel like…the room should be cleared during a SANE exam, no?
- Eek again, a recently abused Lily finds out in the hospital that she’s pregnant.
- Oh God, Ryle…accidentally shot and killed their older brother? That’s how he died?
- Baby! Her name is Emerson, after Ryle’s brother.
- Wow, I’m extremely glad to report that Lily leaves.
- Aw, and has a sweet farmer’s-market reconnect with Atlas. Phew!