A Blind Date with my Mr. Meant-to-Be
GoodShort
Years after losing her daughter to child services, single mother Jessica marries a billionaire and slowly realizes his adopted girl is her own lost child.
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What it is
Jessica loses her daughter Lola to child services, and years afterward she marries billionaire James Parker without knowing he adopted that same lost child. GoodShort builds this single-mother melodrama on a stacked coincidence: the wealthy stranger she weds is raising her daughter, now his ward Zoe, whom Jessica only gradually recognizes as her own. What holds it is that slow recognition and the family the two try to rebuild against betrayal and outside threats, with a pregnancy thread woven through. At seventy-two episodes it makes for a substantial run. GoodShort keeps the first twelve outside the paywall, and a weekly pass opens what follows.
Verdict
Reviewed by the editor
How much this works depends on tolerance for a reunion the audience sees long before the characters do. The lost-daughter hook carries real feeling when it lands, and the rebuilt-family arc gives it somewhere to go. Viewers who bristle at tidy contrivance will trip on the setup.
