Four Brits cram into a Mini Cooper for the 1,400-kilometre haul to Mallorca, a setup that sounds like a rom-com postcard yet quickly curdles into a study of unfinished business. Addie (Emma Appleton) still winces at every Spotify choice that soundtracked her break-up with Dylan (Laurie Davidson), who sits three inches behind her pretending not to notice. His wingman Marcus (David Jonsson) and Deb (Isabella Laughland) complete the claustrophobic quartet while the island’s wedding countdown ticks on someone’s cracked phone screen.
Beth O’Leary’s bestselling page-turner is stripped for parts by writers Matilda Wnek, Ryan O’Sullivan, Phoebe Eclair-Powell and Waleed Akhtar, who swap the book’s motorway monologues for snatched hostel corridors and service-station confessions shot across Bristol and Gran Canaria in late 2023. Directors China Moo-Young and Stella Corradi favour lingering dashboard POVs that turn the car into a rolling interrogation room, the heat outside mirroring the rising temperature of old arguments.
Paramount+ released all six episodes on Boxing Day 2024, a festive afterthought that let viewers binge the slow-motion car crash before New Year’s resolutions kicked in. Six weeks later the streamer quietly filed the series under “limited”, ending speculation about a second journey.
Production Details
Paramount+ / 1 Season / 6 Episodes / 2024
Created by: Beth O'Leary
Showrunner(s): Miriam Brent, Rory Aitken, Eleanor Moran
Writer(s): Ryan O’Sullivan, Waleed Akhtar, Phoebe Eclair-Powell
Producer(s): Nikki Wilson
Main Cast
Emma Appleton as Addie
Laurie Davidson as Dylan
David Jonsson as Marcus
Isabella Laughland as Deb
Angus Imrie as Rodney
Olaya Lopez as Agente Dolores Cabello
Adrià Escudero as Francisco
Carlos Martín as Waiter
César Martel as Timid Man
Nicholas Page Hayman as Party Guest
Isobel Akuwudike as Bria
Hannah Dodd as Grace
