No, One Day on Netflix is not based on a true story. Instead, it is adapted from David Nicholls' 2009 bestselling book of the same name, which was previously made into a movie starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess.
Is One Day on Netflix based on a true story? No, One Day on Netflix is based on David Nicholls's popular novel of the same name, which is a work of fiction.
One Day is a novel by David Nicholls, published in 2009. A couple spend the night together on 15 July 1988, knowing they must go their separate ways the next day. The novel then visits their lives on 15 July every year for the next 20 years.
While it is only a small difference, and likely not the change readers are hoping for most, it is something. But ultimately the Netflix series adapts Nicholls' book with impressive accuracy, and it will likely be a delight for fans both old and new. One Day is available to stream now on Netflix.
Emma and Dex get married and start to plan their future, with Emma telling Dex she wants to have a baby. Then, in the penultimate episode set in 2000, tragedy strikes. While riding her bike to meet Dex at a viewing for a house they are hoping to buy together, Emma is hit by a car and dies.
A regretful Emma eventually comes back to the flat where the two have sex again. Dexter then promises Emma that he's never going to hurt her and tells her that he knows she could not get him out of her head. In 2000, Emma and Dexter are finally a couple.
Yes, David Nicholls's novel One Day ends in a similarly tragic fashion. Emma Morley does die in a road collision while riding her bike and Dexter is left broken by her passing.
One of the most devastating moments in One Day occurs at the end of episode 13 when a car hits Emma while she's riding her bike in the rain, killing her almost immediately. Based on the show's timeline, Emma is only 36 years old at the time of her death.
Dexter seems to realize that July 15 now represents both days for him — the birth of an unbreakable bond and Emma's death. He turns his life around after this low point, and while the show omits the Maddy storyline, the final scenes ring true to the novel.
The structure of the book and the series around one day every year came from studying Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy in the 1980s when he was studying for his A-Levels.
One Day is one of the many books that remind us the importance of paying more attention to things, because just like what is printed on the back of the book, “You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
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Their differences lead to an unlikely friendship and the actor's performances hint at the promise of something more. The series is called One Day because it explores the relationship between these two characters through snapshots of their lives set on the same day, every year from 1988 to 2007.
The limited series, starring Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall, is set for a sequel as Netflix circles the rights to David Nicholls' upcoming novel, 'You Are Here'.
In the Netflix series Emma sadly dies in episode 13 which is set in 2002. At the beginning of 15 July 2002, Emma and Dexter wake up and discover she isn't pregnant.
After the release of the movie adaptation in 2011, Nicholls told Vulture that the film's creators did not suggest changing the ending. "You need to do something shocking, or else it's just a 'will they or won't they' story of best friends who could be something more, and that's the oldest story there is," he said.
So what is it that happens to make this story such a tragic one that has moved fans to tears? Well, Emma and Dexter do enjoy a beautiful romance for three years, even moving in together, getting married and trying for a baby in that time — but, in 2002 fate intervenes in their love story because Emma is killed.
Although Emma and Dexter manage to share a few years of love and marriage — all of that comes to a devastating halt in Episode 13. On one July 15, Emma is hit by a car and killed while riding her bike. Emma's death also occurs in the book and the 2011 film.
One of One Day's saddest moments sees Dex's wife, Sylvie, and his former best friend Callum engaging in an extramarital affair. What's worse about the transgression is the fact that it occurred while Dex was doing the best he could to support Sylvie and their infant daughter.
Dexter receives a job offer from Callum, his old roommate who has become very wealthy. Emma tells Dexter she has received a book deal, and he reveals that he and Sylvie are to be married, as he will soon be a father. Dexter and Emma rekindle their friendship. By 2001, Dexter is a devoted father to his daughter Jasmine.
Emma Morley is supposed to be white. She's white in the book. She's white in the movie. But in Netflix's serialized remake of “One Day,” Emma Morley is South Asian, the product of a Hindu mother and a Catholic father, as she explains.
From everything down to the set, certain parts of dialogue and costumes, it's an incredibly faithful adaptation. That being said, in the Netflix adaptation there were a few things that happened differently in the series versus the original book.
One Day's penultimate episode followed Emma and Dexter in 2000, 2001, and 2002 as their love for each other strengthened and they planned their wedding and a family, but Episode 13 tragically ended with Emma being fatally struck by a car while she was riding her bike.
