Oops! I Kidnapped the Sexy Best Man: The Grumpy Sunshine Romance With a Getaway Vehicle

What is Oops! I Kidnapped the Sexy Best Man about?

The plan was airtight, in the way plans are when your only consultant is an aunt who asks whether you stretched first. Penny sneaks out of the bridal suite, grabs the man on the balcony, tapes his wrists and floors it out of the parking lot in Aunt Rita's neon pink RV. She is going to drive him somewhere quiet, get a confession on camera and send it to Madison before the ceremony. A brief educational kidnapping. Home by lunch.

The man under the tablecloth waits a full hour before asking, very calmly, who she thinks he is.

He is Jack Whitman — Chad's older brother, the best man, a mechanic and a carpenter with a granite jaw and absolutely no interest in being rescued from anything. He agrees to be driven back. Three seconds later the RV explodes into smoke and dies on the shoulder of a two-lane highway with no houses, no turnoffs and no signal. Jack lifts the hood, looks at the engine and tells her he can fix it. Then he tells her he won't.

So who exactly is stuck in this RV?

Penny. Mid-twenties, warm, loyal and operating several miles past the edge of her competence. She has been Madison's best friend since eighth grade and she did not guess about Chad — she saw something at his bachelor party, and what she chooses to do with it drives everything that follows. She is also, as her hostage keeps pointing out, very bad at crimes.

Jack Whitman. Early thirties, dry as a bone, impossible to rattle. He doesn't panic, doesn't beg and doesn't cooperate. He confiscates her orange juice, eats her Doritos in front of her, assigns her the night watch, and removes his shirt to evict a raccoon — an act with consequences for Penny's ability to form sentences. He also knows something about that RV that he has not mentioned.

Aunt Rita. Never appears on screen. Runs the entire operation by phone in Episode 1, owns Rita's Rolling Paradise, and is completely unbothered by her niece committing a felony — she is mostly concerned that Penny didn't warm up first.

Madison. The bride, Penny's best friend since eighth grade, and the one person in this story who does not know she needs saving.

Chad Whitman. The groom, the intended target, and a man who talks about Bitcoin like it's a personality trait. He is not in the RV. He is, however, looking for it.

Why this grumpy sunshine romance will hijack your evening

If you loved the coerced-partnership comedy of The Proposal, Oops! I Kidnapped the Sexy Best Man is your next binge — the same two people who can't stand each other, in a far worse vehicle.

So: does Penny ever get her confession? Does Madison believe a word of it? And what exactly does Jack know about Rita's Rolling Paradise that he isn't saying? Here's what we'll give you — Chad has a way of finding that RV, it is getting closer, and only one of the two people inside knows it.

• Forced proximity romance, maximum setting. One dead RV, one empty highway, no signal, two people who would each rather be anywhere else.
• Grumpy sunshine, but the grump has a wrench. Jack can fix the engine. Jack will not fix the engine. Watching Penny negotiate with that is the show.
• Only one bed. The Sunset Lodge has exactly one room left, and the universe has clearly been taking notes.
• Enemies to lovers, on foot. The insults are excellent, the Dorito war is genuinely funny, and then a raccoon changes the temperature in the room.

• The wrong — man mix-up, committed at full speed. She doesn't check under the tablecloth for an hour. By then they're on the highway and it's a felony with a witness who is also the victim.