I am going to say what we’re all thinking… scheduling sex? Some of us will respond and say it couldn’t be us, but I will tell you it could be you. Life gets busy. We all get older and before we know it – we’re that person. We’re scheduling things to add to our lives. Sometimes though, it’s just a metaphor and that’s the way you need to look at Sundays in Every Sunday Run To You.
Now, I admit i’d heard nothing about the vertical, Every Sunday Run to You, when I turned it on. I spend entirely too much money on vertical drama apps and Dramawave is definitely an under rated one. Organizing my iPhone I saw the app and decided to open it. Noah Fearnley‘s face was right there and so I pressed play.
We need to talk firstly about the black hair. Before you all come for me, it’s my opinion and so, here I am expressing it. I am all for self expression, but this hair – I can’t get with. It washes him out and I think that does him a disservice. That being said though – men don’t always have their hair for long periods of time (some go bald) so if he likes it – go with it.
In Every Sunday Run to You, Fearnley plays William. William is an uptight billionaire who really needs to learn to relax and delegate. He works way too much and everything is a contractual agreement with him. But, maybe that is why he’s worth billions.
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Not sure why it is that all these billionaires need to enter into arranged marriages, and not sure why all these women are like sign me up. Money is nice – sure. But also earning your own money is a feeling of empowerment.
William is contracted to marry Hayley Stewart, who disappears on the day of her engagement party/wedding. When her sister Pauline, hears her father say that he’s going to blame her mother, she chases after William and says that she will marry him. I clenched my shirt and was like NO GIRL. Don’t do it.
William accepts and the two get married.
Pauline is a doctor and just wants to do right by her Mom. She doesn’t want anything from William – but does want to make sure that the marriage works. The two are compatible, but also do not know each other. It makes for awkwardness.
A lot of awkwardness.
It drives me insane in most verticals that the awkwardness is something that we just have to accept. I do like in this one that you can see that Pauline is trying for it to not be that way and William is too (in his own way). William can’t throw money at this – he’s gotta give of himself. That means making time away from work for your wife.
And getting your family to accept her.
His little sister hates Pauline. The family grew up with a girl named Chloe living with them. She’s convinced William’s sister Sarah that Pauline took him away and if she hadn’t – the two would be married by now. Sarah – being a girls girl – is wanting to stick up for her friend. TBH, this is what makes me not like her because she’s pure chaos and evil.
William does his best to respect Paulines parents. He is a gentleman – brings gifts and makes sure that Pauline knows that she never has to go back to the family if she doesn’t want to. His words are always short and concise, but even then he’s trying to show his feelings that way. He’s changing through out the series – learning to open up more and make sure that his wife knows that she is loved.
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Because she is.
You can’t help but root for these two. Paulines work colleagues don’t believe she’s married – making her life hell. But she puts up with it. Why? Because putting up with other people doesn’t matter. What matters to her is her relationship with her husband. She wants it to work and for this relationship to be real.
And over time it does become that way.
Part of what makes Every Sunday Run to You so good and special is that William and Pauline are both in this for the love. They want to learn about each other. They want to support each other. William suggests that they start with a kiss. When they do – they both open their mouths so wide that I thought that they were going to suck in each others faces. But that changed because you could clearly see tongues sliding.
As the two grow closer – they start to genuinely fall in love. He is consumed by being with her and she’s trying to give him space. The space isn’t because she doesn’t want to be with him, it’s because she’s always felt like a burden to everyone around her.
And William is changing that for her. He’s giving her the wedding she deserves and catering to her every whim. He’s realizing that love and family connection is all she needs. Pauline is happy. She loves seeing him pick her up from work, show his jealousy, and tell her how important she is to him.
She loves that he wants to make her happy and that she’s coming first. There are no doubts about her love for him – until her sister returns. Hayley shows up right before William and Pauline are due to get married. She’s putting a stop to the wedding and is trying to convince Pauline that William doesn’t care.
And that’s not fair.
There’s a lot examples of different types of personalities and relationships in this series, but what makes it successful is that it’s not asking you – it’s just telling you why you need to care for each one of these characters. You are rooting for everyone – except Paulines Dad and Chloe.
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As we get closer to the end, Hayley and Pauline are helping their Mom escape her abusive marriage. Pauline keeps giving up things for others, making herself late to her wedding. William is sitting there, waiting, giving her all the time in the world. He had told her that he would understand if she wanted to be with someone else (basically).
At this point I have to admit I stood up and cheered when she showed up at the wedding, right when he was going to tell people that the wedding was off.
Every Sunday Run to You was unlike other vertical series. Sure there was a lot of the far fetched things, but there were mostly moments grounded in the building of relationships. I love a story with character development that works.
This one definitely did.
