It should not come as a shock to be taught that the highest rated film on Netflix for the time being is a vacation flick, however you may be pleasantly stunned to be taught that the festive rom-com drawing essentially the most eyeballs on the streamer proper now, “Our Little Secret,” options Lindsay Lohan. The “Imply Women” star has been making a little bit of a comeback of late through Netflix motion pictures like “Falling for Christmas” and “Irish Want,” however she’s incomes notably enthusiastic notices from critics for her portrayal of Avery, whose go to to her potential in-laws for Christmas will get sophisticated when she discovers her vital different’s sister is relationship her ex-boyfriend Logan (Ian Harding).
It is a recipe for yuletide catastrophe, and director Stephen Herek (the youngsters hockey basic “The Mighty Geese”) serves it up with all of the hackneyed trimmings individuals appear to crave from vacation motion pictures right now of yr. There’s nothing unsuitable with that, particularly when it is giving the resurgent Lohan (who additionally government produced) the chance to remind us why we fell in love together with her 26 years in the past in “The Father or mother Lure.” (A few of us have been unwitting followers through her Halloween look on “Late Night time with David Letterman” over 30 years in the past.)
There are a great deal of acquainted faces in “Our Little Secret” (e.g. Tim Meadows, Chris Parnell, Henry Czerny, and Broadway legend Kristin Chenoweth), however you may end up reaching for the place you have seen that likable Logan earlier than. For those who occurred to be watching quite a lot of Freeform throughout the 2010s, there is a purpose he is memorable.
Ian Harding was Ezra Fitz on Fairly Little Liars
For those who watched “Fairly Little Liars” at any level throughout its seven-season run on Freeform (or have grow to be a fan of the “Fairly Little Liars” franchise since then), you completely know Ian Harding as Ezra Fitz, the highschool instructor who falls in love together with his pupil Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale). That more-than-a-little problematic romance performed out in unpredictable methods between 2010 and 2017, ending in a wedding between Ezra and the now-adult Aria. This being a cleaning soap opera of types, Ezra was portrayed as each an honest man and a little bit of a screw-up at occasions, difficult the viewers’s sympathy for him. However Harding is such an in the end successful presence that folks might forgive him his quite a few transgressions.
As such, he is good casting as a clown who broke up together with his real love when she acquired a too-good-to-pass-up job provide in London (how very John McClane of you, Ian). For those who’re saying to your self, “Hey, I did not watch ‘Fairly Little Liars,’ however I do acknowledge this man,” maybe you keep in mind him from his transient flip in James Mangold’s “Ford v Ferrari” or his 11-episode run on “Chicago Med” in 2019. Or possibly he lives in your neighborhood. If none of those apply, I simply do not know what to let you know!
“Our Little Secret” is now streaming on Netflix.