It Looks Like All's Fair In Love and Work In Netflix's Steamy Thriller 'Fair Play'
Love --- and the corporate boardroom --- is a battlefield. Such is the premise at the heart of the buzzy Netflix thriller Fair Play, a dark exploration of romance and corporate gender politics that also seems to make a pretty compelling argument that you should probably never date your coworkers.
The film stars Bridgerton alum Phoebe Dynevor alongside Alden Ehrenreich (Oppenheimer) as a pair of lovers who work together as analysts at a cutthroat financial firm. Emily and Luke's romantic relationship is a secret because it's forbidden by their employer, so they have to keep their recent engagement under wraps from their colleagues. At least until one of them gets an unexpected promotion and the fallout threatens to tear apart more than their relationship.
As the power dynamics between the two shift, the couple must face questions of ambition and greed, as well as the uncomfortable misogyny that still runs rampant in the upper echelons of corporate America. (There's a line in the trailer where Luke basically tells his girlfriend no one will respect her if she dresses like a "cupcake", and reader, I gasped. It is 2023!!)
