One Day on Netflix: How does it end? What ending for Emma and Dexter?

Warning, spoilers. The following paragraphs reveal major elements about the end of the One Day series.

It’s THE romance of the moment on Netflix! In the top views since it was put online, the series Un jour is the adaptation of the world bestseller by David Nicholls. This British fiction tells the story of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew who meet on their college graduation day, July 15, 1988.

David Nicholls’ novel was already adapted 13 years ago by Lon Scherfig with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess for the cinema and it is brought up to date in series format by Nicole Taylor with two new faces, Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall. And we tell you here why it’s a great success.

For fourteen episodes and two decades, viewers follow the story of love and friendship between Emma and Dex, for better and for worse, against the backdrop of profound British societal changes and the disillusionment of a generation. caught in a vice.

What ending for Emma and Dex?

After fifteen years of loving each other, tearing each other apart and experiencing crazy adventures, the end for Emma and Dex is tragic to say the least. When Dex joined Emma in Paris in 1999, they finally declared their love for each other and became a couple.

Their life together is evolving in the right direction: Emma continues to write successful children’s books and Dex becomes a better father to his daughter Jasmine, born from his previous union with Sylvie. He also ventured into his own business, opening a Parisian-style café in their British town. Furthermore, Dex and Emma move in together, then get married and decide to start a family.

All they have to do is find a new house that can accommodate their common projects and their new life, after already three years officially as a couple. But life played a bad turn on them when on July 15, 2002, Emma lost her life when she was hit by a driver.

The fourteenth and final episode of One Day takes place over four years, from 2003 to 2007, and tells us of Dex’s deep sadness at having lost the love of his life, and the way in which he will try to rebuild himself thanks to his daughter, his father, his friends and those close to him.

After rediscovering his old demons like alcohol, Dex finally pulls himself together and recalls memories with Emma, ​​notably the Christmas spent with his parents in 1988 or passages of their reunion in Paris. The series ends on July 15, 2007, where Dex takes his daughter to Arthur’s Seat Hill where he had gone with Emma after their first night together.

Thanks to the support of his daughter, he finally cherishes and embraces the memories of his past life with Emma and is finally able to move forward while keeping in his heart the presence of the love of his life who was never “an anecdote in the story of his life”.

The series One Day is available on Netflix.