Diary of My Two of Spades: In Search of Love in a Fast and Painless Series

Amanda is a thirty-one-year-old single woman from Malmö who dives into an intense summer of dating in the modern world, which is increasingly fast-paced and waits for no one. Eager to finally be loved for who she is, Amanda is willing to "try everything," starting to date different people, swiping on dating apps, and trying to pick up guys in the city's bars.

In Diary of My Two of Spades, as the Italian adaptation of the title already suggests, it doesn't matter if she adopts a submissive role or a dominant approach, as the result is always the same and she is regularly abandoned. Whether it's a bartender from a popular club or a peeping tom who follows her in the park, no one seems to be the right man for her. Perhaps an old childhood crush, who has returned expressing his renewed interest in her, could rekindle her hope for love, but the road to happiness will still be full of unforeseen events. 

Diary of My Two of Spades and Beyond

Seven short episodes – half an hour or less characterize the various installments – tell a story of modern romance, where the search for love inevitably involves sex, a predominant element in a story that sees the protagonist grappling with a true existential crisis.

At the heart of Diary of My Two of Spades is the book Half of Malmö's Men Have Dumped Me by Amanda Romare who, despite the character's namesake, did not create a purely autobiographical work, although it is easy to imagine that several situations were extrapolated, in a more or less fictionalized form, from real-life events. Because, after all, the operation is full of plausible situations, including jealousies, arguments, and reconciliations that anyone in their life will have experienced in the romantic sphere.

Diary of My Two of Spades works in terms of genuineness, with a credible backdrop of friends and family to accompany the misadventures of the unfortunate protagonist. The protagonist can count on the contagious charm of Carla Sehn, a petite but resolute actress whom we had recently seen in another Netflix exclusive, namely Åremorden - The Åre Murders (2025). She is a true hurricane, tossed from one adventure to another, waiting for that fateful spark to finally ignite.

Everything and More for Prince Charming

Tinder, swiping, the mobile phone as a constant companion, so much so that it repeatedly appears in the numerous split screens that show us the actress's expressions alongside what is currently written on the smartphone screen. A direction that tries to be cool at all costs and to intercept the tastes of an audience increasingly obsessed with technology, even when it comes to finding one's soulmate through it.

While the screenplay poses non-trivial questions, effectively conveying Amanda's growing sense of unease, as she slowly begins to believe that she is the problem, the rhythm and direction don't always manage to stay on point: the overall duration, although short in individual episodes, is perhaps excessive for what there actually was to tell, to the point that certain passages suffer from a certain redundancy, with characters returning, disappearing, and returning in an apparently endless loop. All this to further spoil our protagonist's plans and open the door to a second season that is more than necessary to continue that wide-open epilogue.