Twelve weddings. Twelve months.
Welcome to the Year of I Do!
There comes a point in every millennial’s life when all of their friends start getting married at once. Jenna Stein is at this point. And the year gets started with a bang as Dev, Jenna’s boyfriend of five years, chooses the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve to break up with her. Now, she has to attend a wedding every month while nursing her broken dreams and broken heart (in order of importance). All of the love and celebration might just kill her.
I’ve found that weddings, in theory joyous occasions, dredge up a lot of shit for everyone. It’s hard not to feel insecure faced with what seems to be the truest love that has ever been. It’s hard not to compare other weddings or your own hypothetical one to what you see before you. And it’s especially hard to do all of this when you’ve just watched that hypothetical wedding crumble before your eyes. While smiling.
This is a show about self-love. Jenna is highly prone to fantasy and tends to get carried away with her visions of the future. Settling in to married life with Dev before he even popped the question is par for the course. As she is shaken awake by the great tragedy that befalls her New Year’s Eve (her words), she struggles to define herself outside of her Dev fantasies and find what will truly make her happy in reality instead. At some weddings, she can completely reinvent herself because she knows no one else there. At others, the memories of Dev are completely unavoidable. At one, Dev himself is unavoidable.