![]() ![]() ![]() “Our show is a romantic fantasy where beautiful, wonderful things happen, and it’s also a show about two people who are very different and challenge each other through this notebook to each see the world through someone else's point of view,” Tracz said. They write back and forth to each other, leaving the notebook in different places to find, and despite a few roadblocks, fall in love. During the holiday season, Christmas-loving Lily leaves a red notebook for someone to find at her favorite bookstore, the Strand, asking them to answer questions about themself and embark on a journey of clues that will eventually reveal her identity.Įnter Dash, a cynic who doesn’t find much joy in the holidays, who comes across Lily’s notebook and decides to participate in her subsequent scavenger hunt around New York. “I took a lot of comfort in the fact that New York is a city that has been through so much and it's always survived, and just seeing New York and New Yorkers onscreen was a way of reminding myself that we're going to get through this.”ĭash & Lily, which started streaming on Netflix in November, follows high schoolers Dash (Abrams) and Lily (Francis) on a hopeful adventure around New York City through Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve. “Those first few weeks for me were just so full of fear and terror as life changed without us even realizing that was a possibility, and for me working on the show and seeing the scenes of New York when it was bustling and all these places I loved and wanted to be at again was actually how I coped during those first few weeks,” Tracz said. Tracz told BuzzFeed News that working on the show while grappling with the beginning of the pandemic was a coping mechanism. It wasn’t until it was in postproduction that Dash & Lily shut down in March and crew members had to work remotely. The coronavirus pandemic hadn’t yet hit, so he was able to film the charming, holiday romantic comedy in New York City during a time before masks, social distancing, and fears of getting sick on set. When Joe Tracz set out to adapt the YA novel Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares as a Netflix series starring Midori Francis and Austin Abrams, the world was a different place. ![]()
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