Wedding Season

In the spaces between its excellently-executed mystery plot, Wedding Season finds time to create real, believable love between two people whose lives have been thrown completely out of whack, and despite a rocky start, you find yourself drawn to their relationship, in no small part because of the leads’ stellar performances. ... A rollicking, globetrotting, must-see adventure that’ll keep you laughing on the edge of your seat.

There are multiple reasons why Wedding Season works so well. The first are the two leads. ... It feels like an adventure that’ll be fun to watch. Lyttelton has also done a good job sketching out the supporting characters.

The “wedding season” structure of the past and constant motion of the present (as directed by George Kane) generally makes for a smart combination for this series, even when the turns are more predictable than truly twisty. ... Even as Katie can be an undeniably frustrating character (usually on purpose, but not always), Salazar always makes her as compelling as Stefan finds her, keeping “Wedding Season” afloat whenever it threatens to sink under its own weight.

While Salazar and Drea are very good, “Wedding Season” is really an exercise in storytelling, jumping back and forth between two incredibly densely plotted timelines without losing its grip on its tone. ... It’s like that wedding everyone has been to between two people that maybe weren’t obviously meant for each other—the uncertainty is what makes it fun.

The Hulu comedy doesn’t take storytelling risks like its genre counterparts, offering predictable plot twists instead. But Wedding Season succeeds as an escapist binge-watch (all eight episodes drop on the same day) and a breezy rom-com.

It’s just the imbalance between that sweetness and the mayhem that throws “Wedding Season” into more chaos than it can control. The season’s last few episodes draw out the last few remaining reveals before an ending that almost feels like it’s from another third, disconnected show.

The show never really figures out what it’s supposed to be, or who it’s for. When compared with Disney+’s other genre-melding murder-mystery comedy-drama, the brilliant Only Murders in the Building, which has a supply of genuine laughs for every ounce of suspense, it falls especially flat.