Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ series is loaded with references to the classic Nick Hornby novel and 2000 John Cusack film. Here are our nine favorite hat-tips
attempting to buy a copy of Stevie Wonder’s corny hit single, “I Just Called To Say I Love You” — much to the frustration of Rob, who needs all the business he can get. Here, it’s a more democratic debate among the store staff when Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s Cherise gets upset that a customer is attempting to buy Michael Jackson’salbum, in light of what we now know about the late King of Pop’s alleged crimes against children.
Kravitz is phenomenal throughout, and it’s hard to imagine a better choice to play a gender-flipped Rob. That said, if you know the movie, it’s more than a little weird to see the scenes where this Rob flirts with Liam , a hot young musician who later visits the store. That’s because Liam is himself a gender-flipped version of Marie De Salle, whom Rob briefly falls for in the movie after seeing
of Peter Frampton’s “Baby, I Love Your Way.” Why is it weird? Because Marie was played by Kravitz’s mother, Lisa Bonet, which… yeah. Moving on!Cusack’s old buddy Tim Robbins appears in the film as Ian “Ray” Raymond, the ponytailed, patchouli-smelling new boyfriend of Rob’s most recent ex, Laura, whose visit to the store inspires several. In the show, Rob is long since broken up with fiancée Mac , but is nonetheless thunderstruck to learn he is dating a woman named Lily .
by The Beta Band.” The song he plays, “Dry the Rain,” serves as the theme music for the show’s seventh episode, but TV Rob declares that she will sell five copies of“Dry the Rain” is one of several cuts from the movie soundtrack that are repeated on the show. The movie ends with Rob playing Stevie Wonder’s “I Believe ” as a nod to the earlier “I Just Called To Say I Love You” scene, but also as a sign of how he’s maturing as a person and as a boyfriend.
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