Many of us swooned as Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams finally locked lips in The Notebook and laughed until we cried at the orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally. Yet in recent years the romantic comedy has fallen from grace, victim of too many stale scenarios, a glut of will-they-won’t-they-of-course-they-will plotlines that left audiences more nauseous than overjoyed. That’s all starting to change, however, with the genre enjoying a welcome revival thanks to a slew of films, TV shows and novels that, crucially, play with established tropes, give voice to new kinds of stories and look set to remind millions why they first fell in love with the romcom.
“What we’re seeing is a real shift towards funny, smart, sexy, even edgy romcoms,” says author Sarra Manning, whose newest novel, The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp, gives fresh voice to literature’s most notorious anti-heroine. “There’s an argument that audiences stopped watching them but that’s because studios were churning out bilge like Bride Wars. Two women hating on each other for the most shallow of reasons is hardly feelgood.”
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