Dash & Lily (Season 1)

Dash & Lily (2020) is a Netflix holiday series you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Fred Savage and based on the YA novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Two New York teenagers who have never met fall for each other entirely through writing.

Dash hates Christmas. Lily loves it. She leaves a red notebook full of dares at The Strand bookstore; he picks it up and writes back. The notebook travels across Manhattan — from bookshops to Central Park, from subway cars to holiday markets — and with every exchange the two get closer to an actual meeting. Austin Abrams plays Dash as genuinely prickly, not just TV-grumpy, and Midori Francis makes Lily's optimism feel earned rather than exhausting.

Eight short episodes, easy to burn through in a weekend. The show works because it lets both characters be flawed: the cynic softens, the dreamer grows up slightly. Stream Dash & Lily (2020) online on iFILM.