7 Romance Shows Where Every Episode Is a Masterpiece

Based on the Julia Quinn book series of the same name, ***Bridgerton ***is a Regency-era romance series that centers on the wealthy Bridgerton family. Each season sees a different Bridgerton sibling falling in love and encountering obstacles in their new romance. In Season 1, Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) has a fake-courting agreement with Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page), but both of them start to realize they might want something more. In Season 2, Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) prepares to marry Edwina Sharma (Charithra Chandran) out of practicality, but he can’t stop thinking about her sister, Kate (Simone Ashley).

Season 3 follows the slow-burn romance between longtime friends Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) after he hurt her feelings the season before with a careless comment. Most recently, Season 4 told the Cinderella-style love story of Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) and Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha), who fell for each other despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacle of their very different class backgrounds. Season 5, set to be released in 2027, will focus on the romance of Francesca Bridgerton (Hannah Dodd) and Michaela Stirling (Masali Baduza) after two seasons of buildup. **Bridgerton is a beautiful and swoonworthy series that has an excellent main romance every season, while also taking the time to develop the storylines of the rest of its vast ensemble of characters each episode.

Based on the novel of the same name by David Nicholls, ***One Day ***is a romantic drama that follows the close friendship and occasional romance of Dexter Mayhew (Leo Woodall) and Emma Morley (Ambika Mod) over the course of 14 years. Each episode checks in with Dexter and Emma on July 15, the anniversary of the day they first met at a party celebrating their graduation from the University of Edinburgh.

After a failed hookup, Emma and Dexter decide to become friends, and they both actually stay true to their word. They become fast best friends, burying their brief romantic history for the sake of their friendship. Over the course of the limited series, they both date other people, move for work, and deal with difficult personal struggles, all while trying not to let complicated feelings get in the way of their deep care for each other. *One Day *is a beautiful and gut-wrenching series, and each episode perfectly tells the story of a specific year in Emma and Dexter’s lives.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a brilliant deconstruction of the romantic comedy, but it also has its fair share of swoonworthy romance. The series follows Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), a successful New York City lawyer who’s just made partner at her firm. Panicked and deeply unhappy, Rebecca runs outside to catch her breath. There, she bumps into Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III), her ex-boyfriend from a summer camp she attended as a teenager. **Realizing that she hasn’t been happy since then, Rebecca decides to follow him to his hometown of West Covina, California **– all the while pretending that she’s actually moving there for work.

*Crazy Ex-Girlfriend *tackles the notion that all young women have been taught since childhood: that finding the perfect romance will make them truly happy. Rebecca pours everything into her pursuit of Josh, believing that this will cure her of her longtime unhappiness and mental health problems. Along the way, though, Rebecca comes to really love her life in West Covina. She makes great friends, finds romance in other unexpected places, and finally starts to unpack the real reasons behind her unhappiness. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is such a fun and entertaining series, with each episode full of unexpected plot twists and fantastic musical numbers.

Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.

You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.

You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.

You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.

You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.

You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.

Based on the book of the same name by **Rachel Cohn **and David Levithan, Dash & Lily is an absolutely delightful romantic comedy series set at Christmastime. The series is split between its focus on the two main characters, teenagers Dash Malloy (A****ustin Abrams) and Lily Mori-Novak (Midori Francis). While hiding out alone in New York City during the holidays, the cynical Dash finds a red notebook in the shelves of The Strand. The notebook urges a stranger to participate in a series of dares, and Dash does, starting up a correspondence with the anonymous person who left it.

All the while, the optimistic Lily is disappointed when her parents leave for a vacation for the holiday. Feeling alone and out of place, Lily agrees to her brother’s (Troy Iwata) suggestion of using the notebook to try to meet someone.** Lily and Dash keep writing to each other in the notebook, pushing each other to perform dares that pull both of them out of their comfort zones**. All the while, they start to fall in love, even though they’ve never met. Dash & Lily is the perfect holiday romance, with each episode being framed around different dares as Dash and Lily’s connection continues to grow through the notebook.

Based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Joni Meadows, My Lady Jane is a historical fantasy retelling of the story of Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader). Here, Jane lives in a fictionalized version of 16th-century England that’s divided between two groups of people: the Ethians, who are discriminated against because they can turn into animals, and the Verity, who believe that their normalcy makes them superior. At the start of the series, Jane is reluctantly being pushed into an arranged marriage, so she goes out to a pub one night to get some air. There, she immediately falls for and then quickly grows to detest a stranger whom she meets.

At her wedding, Jane learns that this stranger is none other than her husband-to-be, Lord Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel). Neither Jane nor Guildford is thrilled about this arrangement, but both of their families stand to gain from it. Soon after, Jane is thrust into power when her cousin, King Edward (Jordan Peters), falls ill. Despite now dealing with multiple unwanted changes, Jane risks everything to fight to change things for Ethians.** All the while, she and Guildford start to get to know each other, developing a beautiful and unexpected connection in the process**. *My Lady Jane *is an absolutely amazing romance series that utilizes classic tropes like marriage of convenience and forbidden romance in new and creative ways, and even though it was prematurely cancelled, its single season tells a complete love story.

Heated Rivalry only has six episodes so far, but each one is absolutely perfect. Based on the second novel in Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series, the show follows the secret romance between rival NHL players Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) over the course of about a decade. Shane and Ilya meet in their rookie year and then start up a secret fling, with both of them pretending for a long time that it means less to them than it actually does. Shane and Ilya know that they can never really be together anyways, though, because there has never been an out athlete in the NHL — and even if there were, they are still very public rivals.

**Heated Rivalry is an absolutely beautiful and breathtaking series with six truly flawless episodes. **The first two are focused on setting up Shane and Ilya’s fling, telling the story of the early years when they both believe it’s casual. Episode 3 takes a detour to tell the love story of NHL player Scott Hunter (François Arnaud) and barista Kip Grady (Robbie Graham-Kuntz), the lead couple of the first Game Changers book. The second half of Heated Rivalry’s first season deepens Shane and Ilya’s romance with three of the best episodes in romance television history, as the two start to reassess what they mean to one another and question what they’re willing to risk for each other.

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