Too Young To Love Me

starring: ANNA MARIE DOBBINS & BLAKE LEWIS

Jennifer is trying to move on from ex husband Chuck, when she meets mega star actor Eddie, who is instantly smitten. Can a relationship between the two survive the age gap, and Eddie’s ex, starlet Monica Winters?

REVIEW

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Jens / Jennys / Jennifers get a bad press in verticals. We are usually the villain.

So hallelujah for this one. Jennifer is the lead, our heroine and kick ass one too. I identified - she went to Stanford (I went to Cambridge), she has a coffee shop (I like coffee) and teen daughter Bella really reminds my of my eldest teen. That is the sort of conversations we have, and it is amazing seeing that mum daughter in screen.

This really feels like a celebration of women

With Anna Marie Dobbins as the eminently likeable Jennifer who is a cypher for us all "I'm just a mom with money issues". Um that is us all. So it is brilliant that she stands up to awful ex husband Chuck played by Benjamin Stender and finds love with the very lovely Eddie played by Blake Lewis.

I want to applaud how Chuck is written. My learning from TDAS is that alcohol is not the cause of domestic abuse. So it is good that they show the 'sober' Chuck is still unstable, manipulative and an abuser. And Jennifer gets some powerful moments dealing with him.

Blake Lewis does everything he needs to as smitten Eddie, and the chemistry between the leads is easy and charming.

And I love how well written Maeve and Bella (Emily Bennett) are, fully rounded, strong female characters. It can be done.

And props have to go to Sydney Culbertson who we know can do a good villain, but gives perhaps her best performance here as Monica, destroying artwork, a mug and throwing a mobile phone in the pool. She sells it so well, you can feel her utter disbelief and outrage that someone could dump her.

And the final star of this has to be the setting of Istanbul. We know lots of DramaPops projects are filmed there, so I loved that the script found a way to show off the city, and let us travel with Jennifer.

It is a great show, highly recommended and from the rather brilliant director Can Ozen.

💖 Top swoonworthy moment:

We do rather rush the falling in love stage to focus on the lovers against the world part of the story. And actually my favourite bit is how well Eddie fits into the family with Bella, and that Jennifer admits that she loves him when also telling Bella she loves her.

🦹🏼‍♂️ Top villain award:

Chuck is a truly nasty piece of work and well written - see above.

But the scene stealing turn is Sydney Culbertson as Monica Winters - who sells some epic lines “Nobody dumps Monica Winters” and “I’m America’s sweetheart”.

😂 Comedy gold:

“Is anyone going to take me seriously as an actor if they only see me as a dumbass cartoon werewolf?” Says Actor and Book Model Eddie Blazer

I WILL LET YOU FILL IN THE GAPS...

🎺 Unsung hero:

Teen daughter Bella (Emily Bennett) who is brilliantly written, a great support for her mum, and is a much more accurate portrayal of a mum - daughter relationship on screen. And Eddie’s bodyguard Maeve who KICKS ASS.

✍🏼 DETAILS

Director Can Ozen | 2025

Available on DramaPops