One Day

Molly Manning Walker, Luke Snellin and Kate Hewitt's One Day (the Netflix series, distinct from the 2011 Lone Scherfig feature adaptation) launched on Netflix in February 2024 and was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Mini-Series 2025. The fourteen-episode series consolidated Ambika Mod, after her earlier work on the BBC's This Is Going to Hurt, as a major leading-actress career, and Leo Woodall, after his earlier The White Lotus appearance, as a continuing leading-man career.

Adapted by Nicole Taylor and others from David Nicholls's 2009 novel of the same name, the series follows Dexter (Leo Woodall) and Emma (Ambika Mod), two Edinburgh University graduates who meet on the night of their 1988 graduation and part the next morning with a tentative promise to stay friends. The series's structural conceit revisits the two of them on 15 July of every subsequent year across approximately two decades, examining where each of them is in their life and how the relationship between them has evolved across the intervening months. Essie Davis plays Dexter's mother; Tim McInnerny plays Dexter's father.

The series operates simultaneously as romantic period drama, sustained character study of two complementary contemporary lives, and meditation on what intermittent annual contact actually means across the longer decades of an adult relationship. Mod's central performance (quietly distinctive, comically precise, finally emotionally serious) was widely cited as one of the most distinguished British leading-actress performances of 2024.