RELATED: ‘Starstruck’ Season 1 Recap: Everything You Need to Know Before Season 2 The two quickly and very sweetly make up with one another the next morning - while finally, officially declaring their relationship status - but it's one moment that effectively illustrates the areas in which the occupational and lifestyle divides between them could be trickier to surmount than they initially thought. At least one interaction with an unexpected arrival to the party sends her in search of a more recreational means of enjoying herself, but it also concludes in her butting heads with Tom for a night that ends in a very different way than the NYE where their paths first crossed. Jessie, whether she realizes it or not, still feels somewhat out-of-place in Tom's world, evidenced by the episode titled "Homecoming" when she arrives at a New Year's Eve party being thrown at his new flat dressed in a tux that has other guests frequently confusing her for a waiter. Therein lies the brilliance of what Starstruck is capable of pulling off - the continuing evolution of a love story between two imperfect people, even if neither of them is that capable of recognizing their own flaws quite yet. Dragging Tom around the city in pursuit of various activities, like caricature portraits at the park or a loud gaming arcade, seems like a fun idea on the surface, but what it's really doing is only prolonging the inevitable. But more immediately, the first episode starts off with Jessie and Tom - but maybe Jessie a little moreso - trying to preserve the good mood between them, at least before they have to go back to her apartment and answer to Jessie's very surprised bestie and roommate Kate ( Emma Sidi), or Tom's agent Cath ( Minnie Driver), or anyone who could serve to inject just enough of a dose of reality into their happy, romantic bubble. Jessie's experiencing a whole range of different feelings about making the impulsive choice not to go to New Zealand after all - and dreading the reaction she'll get from her mom, who has already gone to the trouble of changing the bedsheets in her room back home. In other words, Season 2 of Starstruck picks up right where the last left off, rejoining Jessie and Tom as they silently sit on the bus side-by-side - and the scenes that result afterward are as tumultuous, emotions-wise, as we've come to expect from this screwball comedy show.
STARSTRUCK SEASON 2 SERIES
The first season of the series (a BBC production that airs on HBO Max across the pond) culminated with Jessie deciding not to go back to New Zealand, instead making the daring leap to stay in London and choose the possibility of an actual relationship with Tom - and as Season 2 soon reveals, what comes after the seemingly perfect rom-com ending, after the credits roll, can often be just as complicated to navigate.
STARSTRUCK SEASON 2 MOVIE
Since the very first episode, the evolving romance between New Zealander Jessie (played by Matafeo herself) and A-lister movie star Tom Kapoor (a devastatingly charming Nikesh Patel) has never been without its ups and downs, and both halves of the prospective couple always seemed to be operating exactly left-of-center of one another, never existing in a perfectly aligned place that would finally allow them to try and make things work. With Season 1 of Starstruck, comedian and creator Rose Matafeo (along with co-writer Alice Snedden) effectively breathed new life into the rom-com, infusing it with the kind of modern-day sensibilities that allowed a fantastical trope (an ordinary person falling in love with a celebrity) to play out in the most realistic as well as utterly chaotic of circumstances.
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