What exactly is Meet Cute trying to say? Relationships are hard? That even a perfect first day is no guarantee that a relationship will not have its difficulties? That the “mess” is what gives a relationship its character. When Sheila confesses again, at the end of the night, that she’s a time traveler and that she and Gary have been going on the same date for a year, Gary begs her to stop, begs her to move on with her life so that he, too, can stop reliving the same day. When Sheila approaches Gary at the bar for the 365th consecutive day, Gary feels a flutter of excitement, but also a weird sense of sadness.
Gary, meanwhile, doesn’t remember one day from the next, but does begin experiencing feelings of deja vu. Sometimes, she gets annoyed with Gary because he makes the same jokes every night. In her malaise, she and Gary sometimes fight. After 12 months, it feels as though she’s going through the motions, and it’s difficult to recapture the magic of those first few first dates. There are a few rubs, Sheila realizes, as she experiences the same night on repeat for the next year. Sheila entered into her first first date depressed, and given how wonderful that night is, she’s reluctant to move on to the next day, to resume her life, because she doesn’t see anything in her life worth resuming. It’s like Groundhog Day, only for Sheila, it’s voluntary. Using a tanning-bed time travel machine that only goes back 24 hours, which she found in a nail salon, Sheila returns to the same bar to go on the same date with the same Gary again. Sheila is unbothered because - no matter how badly the night ends - she knows she can start all over again the next day. They’ve been going on the same date every night for a week, she tells him, before admitting that they’ll go on the first date again tomorrow, at which point Gary - for obvious reasons - calls it a night. The “first” date covers about 40 minutes of the film before Sheila reveals to Gary that it’s not actually their first date. Sheila completes a few of Gary’s sentences and occasionally “jokes” that she’s a time traveler. They hit it off immediately, go out to dinner, and take a walk through the city.
In Meet Cute, Sheila (Kaley Cuoco) spots Gary (Pete Davidson) across the bar and awkwardly asks if she can buy him a drink.
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