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The 75-minute show – an attempt to explore “how we can find a path to resolution” – covers limited dramatic territory and slips in and out of focus as devised dramas are wont to do. Her task is to stop the damage done to them as children defining them as adults. It takes Alexia McIntosh as big sister Naomi to play peacemaker, gently manoeuvring her brothers into a place they can accommodate the domestic trauma that ripped them apart. He has been conditioned to believe he can do nothing right – and there is plenty of evidence to support that opinion. Sensitive and insecure, Shaun is inescapably the family fall guy.

You can see why Keiren Hamilton-Amos as Shaun, the youngest, should be intimidated by him. Only the import of the burial can shake them out of their old ways.Ĭampbell himself plays Marcus, the taciturn big brother, his physical dominance a shield to keep repressed memories at bay. In Corey Campbell’s sweet-natured and impressionistic production, the grownup siblings repeatedly fall into their childhood roles.

But perhaps Khan, who helmed Netflix's Always Be My Maybe and was praised for bringing the first Asian American-led sitcom to life with Fresh Off the Boat, is passionate about the project.It is her death, far away from Coventry in her native Jamaica, that is the catalyst for some kind of reconciliation. But it is a little crazy that the book, which was picked up by Berkley Books earlier this spring but won't be released until around April 2021, has garnered so much buzz just based on its pitch that Netflix was ready to give the green light.

With the title's tongue-in-cheek play on Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder and the promise of another rom-com starring Asian leads, the film does seem right up Netflix's alley, which has become the hub for mid-budget rom-coms and have found success with Asian-led romances like Always Be My Maybe and To All the Boys I've Loved Before.

"With the singular talent of Nahnatchka Khan at the helm, we found the perfect pairing for this incredible and vibrant story." " Dial A for Aunties is a brilliant and fun page-turning ride full of unbelievable plot twists a date gone tragically wrong, well-intended but meddling aunties, an entirely fresh type of a heroine and a big romance," Lisa Nishimura, Netflix's vice president of original documentary and independent features, told THR.