From Scratch (Season 1)

From Scratch (2022) is a Netflix limited series you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Zinga Stewart and based on Tembi Locke's memoir of the same name. Zoe Saldana plays Amy, an American art student who falls for Lino — a Sicilian chef played by Eugenio Mastrandrea — while studying in Florence.

What starts as a sun-drenched romance across cultures turns into something harder: illness, distance, and the weight of two families who don't share a language. Danielle Deadwyler and Keith David play Amy's stateside family, who hold things together when they start to fall apart.

The show works because it skips the grand gestures and stays close to the texture of daily life — the markets, the meals, the slow accumulation of a shared world between two people who shouldn't logistically work. It's the kind of drama that earns its emotional payoff honestly. Stream From Scratch (2022) online on iFILM.