Is Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Netflix’s New Rom-com Queen?

Don’t get her wrong — Jennifer Kaytin Robinson loves romantic comedies. She loves Nora Ephron, she loves Richard Curtis, and in part has always wanted to pay homage to her favorite genre. “I love them, and I wouldn’t want to change them in any way. The beautiful amazing kind of hopeful rom-com that we’ve seen time and time again, I love that,” Robinson says over the phone from Los Angeles. “It was just about making my own version — and what is my version of this genre that I love so deeply?” The 31-year-old is making her directorial debut with the movie “Someone Great,” out today on Netflix, starring Gina Rodriguez, LaKeith Stanfield, Brittany Snow and DeWanda Wise. Rodriguez lands her dream job as a music writer for Rolling Stone, but it requires the New York-based aspiring journalist to relocate to San Francisco, which leads to the break-up of her relationship with Stanfield. Her friends, played by Snow and Wise, rally around her for a big New York send-off. It’s a romantic comedy, yes, but deconstructed — one in which the woman’s happiness isn’t tied to her romantic outcome, but to one she chooses herself instead. “I wanted to take a lot of the

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