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Starstruckis a series full of fantastic, seemingly counterintuitive choices.
Jessie and Toms relationship has been fun but casual; no one has made any real declarations.
That is notStarstrucks MO.
Season two begins right there in that moment when Jessie decides to stay.
She and Tom are overjoyed!
This is going to be great!
Then the bus keeps driving, and Jessie begins to spin out a little.
How is this going to work?
She cant bring herself to go back to her apartment now that shes done this big, dramatic farewell.
She quit her job.
Shes spent all her money on the plane ticket home.
The uncomfortable, semi-surreal gulf between her life and Toms has not gone away.
Tom isnt quite sure what to say to her, and she isnt sure what she wants from him.
Every element ofStarstruckworks from this general idea.
The series is a romantic comedy but with the narrative focus just slightly off-center from where its usually fixed.
Two things come out ofStarstrucks fundamentally just-off-center rom-com structure.
Jessies room is a cluttered mess, and her bed is tiny and perpetually rumpled.
At no point do you wonder if the couple will work out.
They really are an unlikely match.
So when they do choose one another, its that much more lovely and improbable.
(Yes, this is a comment onBridgerton.)
Its world is full.
Its protagonists are people who somehow keep ending up together even though they could so easily fall apart.
