Netflix's People We Meet on Vacation tops charts despite fan criticism

Movieweb reports that Netflix's adaptation of People We Meet on Vacation has climbed to the top of the Netflix chart despite backlash from the novel's fans. The film holds a 79% score on Rotten Tomatoes from both critics and audiences and stars Emily Bader as Poppy and Tom Blyth as Alex, two friends who spend every summer together while wondering if their relationship could be more.

While many viewers have given middling 3/5 reviews, fans on Reddit have been vocal about casting and the changes made to the source material; one user wrote, "It was seriously terrible. I thought the book was decent, but even while reading it, I questioned how they were going to make a movie out of it.

I thought the characters lacked chemistry in the book, but at least with the inner monologue, there was some level of character development. Absolutely no chemistry or development in the movie, and they changed so many details for no reason at all, which really irked me. Super disappointed overall." Other commenters said "anything that made the book worth being turned into a movie was lost when they started combining trips/changing locations." The article notes the book features many trips and that some events were "smushed together" to avoid a four-hour runtime.

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