Gen Z Romantics

Daily Mail looks ahead to 'The sexiest new TV and film adaptations to hit our screens this winter' including

Wuthering Heights

Emerald Fennell’s adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi may not be the wall-to-wall raunch-fest some expect – but it’s undeniably sensuous. The film leans into storm-soaked yearning and fierce magnetic intimacy rather than shock value. Expect a haunting, passionate love story where every touch feels momentous and every emotion burns just beneath the skin. (Charlotte Vossen)

The Herald Scotland wonders whether Gen Z romantics can 'save us from dating hellscape of 2026'.

The two most talked about Gen Z films are adaptations of quintessential Romantic novels: Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights. And both star Gen Z’s favourite leading man, Jacob Elordi.

I really was ready to pack it in entirely and join a convent when I started to notice this return to romanticism. While the movement does not pertain solely to romance and dating, the overall mood shift opens up the possibility that love is important, not something to be ticked off a list. (Marissa MacWhirter)

Harper's Bazaar reports on Taylor Swift's recent interview on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert during which she made it clear that her fascination with all things Victorian is alive and well.

Colbert asked Swift a particularly poignant question: “What’s the biggest difference between Taylor Swift just walking around and Taylor Swift who appears on stage?”

Setting the scene for Swift, he added, “You’re home, you’ve got the athleisure on,” to which the star quickly corrected him, revealing that her at-home wardrobe leans less model-off-duty and more Victorian ghost.

“I’ve got an old Victorian nightgown on,” she said with a laugh. “I prefer to look… if you were to see me in the window, I’d like for someone to think they saw a ghost, you know what I mean?”

This came as no shock to fans who have listened to Swift’s music over the years, which has drawn from the antiquated language of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and the imagery from period pieces alike. Particularly on folklore and evermore, Swift wrote songs she’d later categorize as “quill pen” tracks, named for the tool she imagined writing the lyrics in. “If my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson’s great grandmother while sewing a lace curtain, that’s me writing in the Quill genre,” Swift said in her acceptance speech at the 2022 Nashville Songwriter Awards.

Elsewhere in the Colbert interview, the singer described the types of books one would find on her metaphorical nightstand, evoking similar visual worlds of ghosts, Victorian tropes, and ivy-covered castles. (Sophie Wang)