{"id":58487,"date":"2018-08-18T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/?p=58487"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:51:16","slug":"set-it-up-2018-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/set-it-up-2018-review\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Set It Up’ (2018) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Set It Up<\/em>\u00a0was one of my favorite movies to watch in 2018. The premise might not be overly original, but the writing and chemistry between the two leads make the rom-com feel like it\u2019s reignited the genre. There are genuine laughs in\u00a0Set It Up<\/em>\u00a0and some naughty humor that toes the line quite perfectly between hilariously raunchy and just plain over-the-top raunchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoey Deutch<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Glen Powell<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0have some incredible chemistry, and you see it almost from the very first scene they share together. There is no insta-romance or quick attraction between Harper and Charlie. Their \u2018meet cute\u2019 is them fighting over who gets the lone takeout meal during a late night at work, only to return to their demanding, hungry bosses. From there, the relationship shifts to the two of them plotting to set up their bosses, and in the process, they become friends, and from there\u2026 well, the pizza scene comes. Oh, the pizza scene. If I created a list of my top ten rom-com moments, you would most definitely read about the pizza scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another plus is the development of the secondary characters. Lucy Liu<\/strong> is a badass woman, strong and unapologetic, but plays that yearning to be a bit softer with emotional nuance. Taye Diggs<\/strong> is gorgeous and charming with just the right amount of smarminess that you\u2019re almost willing to forgive\u2026 almost\u2026okay, not really, since he\u2019s a bit of a jerk!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re both demanding and stubborn, caught up in their own personal and professional worlds that one might think they\u2019re completely oblivious to the plights of their overworked assistants. Thankfully, Set It Up<\/em> doesn\u2019t stick to the one-dimensional stereotype of a \u2018workaholic boss,\u2019 and they give Kirsten and Rick plenty of moments where their personalities and chemistry can shine through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set It Up<\/em> plays the rom-com tropes to a T, but it works<\/em>. It works so well. Those of us who watch these movies know how most of them will end, but the really special ones will have us feeling the happy endings right to our core. Set It Up<\/em> is one of those movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watched<\/strong>: 08\/18\/2018
Notable Song:<\/strong> Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Set It Up: Harper and Charlie are two overworked and underpaid assistants who decide that the best way to get their ambitious, workaholic bosses off their backs is to set them up with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[526,1],"tags":[425,523,524,525,3653,527,528,529],"class_list":["post-58487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews-s","category-reviews","tag-425","tag-glen-powell","tag-lucy-liu","tag-pete-davidson","tag-4-5-stars","tag-set-it-up","tag-taye-diggs","tag-zoey-deutch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82804,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58487\/revisions\/82804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}