It doesn’t necessarily pack the punch of, let’s say, meeting in a foreign country—you’re only wearing a towel when you’re startled by an angry Scot in your cabin rental. Nor does it have the same sort of tension that we’d see from two characters who meet on a DIY wedding-competition show when one assumes the other is a coffee-fetching production assistant, which instantly sparks an enemies-to-lovers trope that sets up the entire story line.
