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ONE DAY ↳book > screen

“Maybe we should just stay here,” he said. “Instead of island-hopping, hang out here for a week, then back to Rhodes, then home.” She smiled. “Okay. Maybe.” “Don’t you think you’d get bored?” “I don’t think so.” 

“Happy then?” “Well, my face feels like like a grilled tomato but apart from that-“ “Let me see.” Closing her eyes she turned toward him and lifted her chin, her hair still wet and combed back off her face, which was shiny and scrubbed clean. It was Emma, but all new. She glowed, and he thought of the words sun-kissed, then thought kiss her, take hold of her face and kiss her.

#top 3 favourite scenes actually #couldn’t tell you why #maybe the vibes the looks the yearning the romcom of it all idk #it’s giving ‘we’re the only people left in this world and it’s enough because we have each other’ #emma morley #dexter mayhew #emmadex

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ONE DAY (2024) Episode 4꘡Episode 12

#cackled so hard when ian was like you never wanted to rest your face on my back #and emma clapped back with “your back doesn't have a fucking hollow” #i'm sorry she's a COMEDIAN #emma morley #dexter mayhew #one day

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Book to Screen + the golden trio of iconic quotes come to life

Kate Sharma & Anthony Bridgerton | Bridgerton Inej Ghafa & Kaz Brekker | Shadow and Bone Emma Morley & Dexter Mayhew | One Day

#yeah!

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One Day (2024) | 1x01

#fingers interlocked on the first day of meeting each other is crazy behaviour #emma morley #dexter mayhew #one day #one day ep 1

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AND ANOTHER THING: to everyone making excuses for why they didn't like Ambika Mod as Emma (hint: racism), and saying it's because Leo was so much better in the emotional scenes - Dexter's grief is only devastating because we got to know Emma. If the story was only from the perspective of Dex, sure the ending would be sad, but it's heart wrenching because we knew about Emma, her personality her hopes and dreams and her flaws. This show is amazing because BOTH actors are amazing and play off eachother so well. Even in their individual scenes: yes Dex's scene at the train station and post 2003 are heartbreaking because they deal with grief, but Em's scenes where she's arguing with Dex in the alleyway or the episode where she's working in the restaurant are so visceral because of the pain and vulnerability Ambika portrays. Both Leo and Ambika knocked it out of the park!!

**I think as a female audience we tend to focus on the male character because we picture ourselves in the female lead's place, and for the longest time the default standard was a white woman. I think a lot of people are having a hard time imagining themselves as Emma because for once the female lead doesn't look like them (meanwhile it's always been that way for woc)

#this #ambika was brilliant and consistent in her perfosnce #but episode 7 and 8 where she ripping dexter and ian to shreds were incredible #her best performances and it’s so overlookedx

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One Day Episode 13-14 Colour Theory

Knowing episode 13 was written by David Nicholls made me pay extra attention to the details. One thing I've noticed is that even throughout all the happy domestic Emmadex moments, and even if you didn't know the ending, there was still a sense of gloom. A bad feeling looming over you and the directors did that through colours.

Hear me out...

Both Emma and Dexter are constantly wearing either black, blue or gray. Mostly blue and gray. Sylvie wears dark blue. Dexter's dad wears blue. Adding to the fact that both Dex's loft and café have blue walls.

At first, I really thought I was reading too much into it but it kept happening in every scene. I'm serious. Every scene. The costume department had their work cut out.

What's interesting is that the only time Emma wears a bright colour, it's red or red-adjacent.

The red jumper when she tells Dex she's ready to have a baby (and they were never able to conceive)

The red swimsuit the day she dies. Her previous swimsuit was black.

The orange parka when she gets hit by a car on her RED bike.

Red and Blue's symbolisms are pretty obvious. Red symbolizes death, which only Emma wears. Blue symbolizes melancholy, a colour which Dexter also wears in the last episode, most notably in the heart-wrenching box room scene. We also know now the walls in that room are painted green and they added a filter in post to turn it blue.

Before vs. After

I seriously think this show was crafted so well besides the writing and actor's performance. The symbolism thru visuals, parallels, colours... chef's kiss.

#one day #one day netflix #dexter mayhew #emmadex #emma morley #one day 2024 #maybe i'm crazy idk #also jasmine is the one who wears white and pink in episode 13 and 14 #could be because she's a little girl #could be because she's dexter's single hope and lifeline after emma's death #i should stop

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ONE DAY ↳book > screen 

He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. 

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

#this kiss was exceptional #no notes #one day #emma morley #dexter mayhew #emmadex #one day ep 14?

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ONE DAY ↳book > screen

He examined the foot he held in his hand. The toenails were painted red, but chipped, the smallest nail gnarled and barely there. “Your feet are disgusting.” “I know they are. Stop playing with it then.”

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“I think a sense of humor is overrated,” said Emma. “No, much better to have somebody you really fancy, someone who’ll rub your feet.”

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LEO WOODALL and AMBIKA MOD (x)

#she's so- #ambika mod #leo woodall

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All my friends have left, so…

DEX and EM

One Day - S01E01

#i would've folded IMMEDIATELY #dexter mayhew #emma morley #emmadex #one day ep 1

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ONE DAY ↳book > screen

“Its just, well, you know the expression. “Those who can…” Emma’s mouth fell open. Stay calm- “No, I’m not familiar with it, Dexter. Tell me. What expression?”

“You know…” “No, seriously, Dexter, tell me.” “It’s not important.” He was starting to look sheepish. “I’d like to know. Finish the sentence. “Those who can…”

He sighed, a glass of wine in his hand, then spoke flatly. “Those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach…”

She spat the words. “And those who teach say go fuck yourself.” And now his glass of wine was in his lap as Emma shoved the table away and jumped to her feet, grabbing her bag, knocking over bottles, clattering plates as she clambered out of the booth, storming through that hateful, hateful place.

#the contrast with ep 3 is kind of everything #sad and maddening and all that #but amazing #this was the lowest of low blows becuase it was coming from him #the one who encouraged her to be a teacher because she'd be great at it #one day #emma morley #dexter mayhew #emmadex #one day ep 7 #ambika and leo deserve their flowers for this ep

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ONE DAY ↳book > screen

Through another door, Dexter could glimpse the bedroom. One bedroom, one bed. He could feel the blood pumping in his chest.

She had begun to drink, taking big gulps, when suddenly Dexter’s hand was on her shoulder, then he was in front of her somehow, and kissing her. Her mouth still full of the effervescing water, she purse her lips tight to prevent it squirting in his face like a soda siphon. Leaning away, she pointed at her cheeks, absurdly ballooned like a puffer fish, flapped her hands, and made a noise that approximated to ‘hold on a moment’.

Chivalrously, Dexter stepped back to allow her to swallow. “Sorry about that.” “S’okay. You took me by surprise, that’s all.” She wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. “Okay now?” “Fine, but Dexter, I have to tell you…” And he was kissing her again. "The thing is, Dex-" "Sorry about that, I just...bit self-conscious-" 

#GONE is the smooth criminal from ep1 #a bumbling mess in love and desperate to be loved back #one day #dexter mayhew #emma morley #emmadex #one day ep 12

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ONE DAY ↳book > screen

There was something about the gesture, the tilt of her head and the pulling back of her hair as she applied the lotion to her neck, and he felt the pleasant nausea that accompanied desire. Oh God, he thought, eight more days of this. “Want me to do your back?” he said. Offering to apply sun cream was a corny old routine, beneath him really, and he thought it best to pass it off as medical concern. “You don’t want to burn.”

“Go on then.” Emma shuffled over and sat between his legs. He began to apply the lotion, his face so close that she could feel his breath on her neck, while he could feel the heat reflecting off her skin, both of them working hard on the impression that this was everyday behavior and in no way a clear violation of Rules Two and Four, those prohibiting Flirtation and Physical Modesty.

“Scooped quite low, isn’t it?” he said, aware of his fingers on the base of her spine. “Good job I didn’t put it on backwards!” she said and a silence followed while both of them thought oh god, oh god, oh god. 

#unhinged behavior #shameless whores both of them #i love them and this episode so much #one day #emma morley #dexter mayhew #emmadex #one day ep 4

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Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall as Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew ONE DAY (2024)

#in the book this quote is just at the beginning of the last chapters #having her read it to him is so fucking grimm yet brilliant #i wanted to rip out my own skin #one day #emma morley #dexter mayhew #emmadex #one day ep 14

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1994 vs 1997 ONE DAY (2024)

#he was fr about to start cryin #one day #emma morley #dexter mayhew #emmadex #one day ep 10

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ONE DAY ↳book > screen

Imagine one selected day struck out of your life and think how different its course would have been. Think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day. - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

#best ship dynamic is smooth criminal disarmed by the awkward no filter girl and they sure delivered #one day #emma morley #dexter mayhew #emmadex #one day ep 1

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ONE DAY ↳book > screen

“I’m engaged.” Emma blinked once, very slowly. “Engaged to what?” “To be married. To Sylvie.” A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck. “Oh, Dexter! That’s amazing! Congratulations!” and she went to kiss his cheek just as he turned his head, their mouths glancing for a moment so that they tasted the champagne on each other’s lips. 

“You’re pleased?” “Pleased? I’m destroyed! But really, seriously, that’s fantastic news.”

#you can see her expression falter for just a second in the last gif before pulling herself together #ambika mod you're so good #one day #emma morley #dexter mayhew #emmadex #one day ep 10