The first time we watch Charlie ( Nick Robinson ) meet Harper ( Emilia Jones ) in Charlie Harper is not, as it soon becomes apparent, the first time Charlie has actually met Harper. It’s not even the second, or the third.

The pair have years of history already at this point. What exactly transpired between them, the rest of Charlie Harper fills out. By the time we circle back again to that meeting in the final minutes, it’ll play differently with the weight of everything we know now that we didn’t then — less confusing and more bittersweet, lighter and heavier somehow at the same time. But it also feels like too little, too late — a nice but underwhelming payoff to an otherwise frustrating romance.

The first time we watch Charlie ( Nick Robinson ) meet Harper ( Emilia Jones )

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