Films and TV shows that feel like 'tis the damn season by Taylor Swift
The heavy, bittersweet ache of returning to a small hometown and slipping back into an old, unfinished romance.
- Normal People (2020): It captures the inescapable gravity of a hometown first love and the pain of drifting apart and coming back together.
- Lady Bird (2017): It embodies the complex, suffocating affection one feels for their unremarkable hometown and the urge to escape it.
- Manchester by the Sea (2016): It shares the heavy, grey atmosphere of returning to a place where every street corner holds the ghost of who you used to be.
- The End of the F***ing World (2017): It mirrors the moody, nostalgic isolation of two young people trying to find solace in each other against a bleak backdrop.
- Blue Valentine (2010): It reflects the quiet tragedy of looking at someone you once loved deeply and wondering where the fire went.
- Past Lives (2023): It resonates with the profound ache of wondering what might have happened if life had taken a different turn in your hometown.
- The Last Picture Show (1971): It captures the dust, cold air, and trapped restlessness of youth navigating dead-end romances in a fading town.
- Cardiff, I Love You (2021): It evokes the specific intimacy of slipping back into old patterns with an old flame during a holiday break.
