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Sophia, played by Olivia Holt, works in a store but secretly steals money from customers to help pay for her mother's medical treatment. Nick, played by Connor Swindells, works in a hardware store and spends his time secretly watching the security footage of the store where Sophia works. When Nick catches Sophia stealing money from the lost and found room, he approaches her with a plan to rob the store together.

The movie starts off both funny and engaging. Watching a pickpocket thief team up with an ex con has a playful energy that works. Unfortunately, at some point the film decides to slow things down with a forced romcom detour and that is where it loses momentum. Olivia Holt and Connor Swindells simply do not have the emotional range needed to sell the deeper moments. The feelings the movie tries to draw out of the audience never land.

Because of that lack of emotional connection, I found myself waiting for the heist storyline to resume. When it finally does, the pacing becomes messy. The story moves forward, then stalls, then jumps ahead again. It feels like the movie is constantly trying to get itself back on track and even when it succeeds, the damage is already done. What remains is a sense that you just watched something slightly chaotic rather than cleverly constructed.

A side note, I genuinely thought the actress playing the mother of Nick's daughter was Jennifer Connelly at first. They look remarkably alike. In better lighting it became clear she was someone else entirely.

This is not a movie you will remember or feel the urge to rewatch. Maybe it would have worked better in the nineties.

Caitlin Jones, played by Betsy Brandt, is in a friends with benefits relationship with Doug, Tom Goodman Hill. They agreed from the start that once one of them found their soulmate, Doug would move out of Caitlin's house. Caitlin is finally about to meet her match, Nathan, played by JJ Field, but Doug refuses to leave.

Caitlin meets Nathan and quickly falls for him. Nathan, however, has a dark secret. He used to be afraid of women, but not anymore. Caitlin herself is timid and anxious most of the time. Nathan helps her confront her fears and stand up for herself. When Caitlin finally tells Doug to leave, he does and only then does Nathan feel free to reveal his secret.

The more episodes of Soulmates I watch, the more depressing the characters become. It is not very enjoyable. The stories are mildly interesting, but there is little payoff afterward to justify sitting through them. JJ Field is an attractive man, but his performance does not add much tension or depth to the situation. The only moment where I actually felt any real tension was when Tom Goodman Hill's character refused to move out.

This episode leans heavily on Caitlin's personal drama and that is where I started wondering whether I was watching a drama or a thriller. If it was aiming for a thriller, it never quite got there.

Kurt Shepard, played by Charlie Heaton, never met his soulmate Heather. She died before he ever had the chance. Kurt works on his father's farm and spends most of his time thinking about her, which leaves him depressed and stuck. One day he meets Martha, played by Malin Akerman and she becomes his first real connection. That same night he receives a message from a religious group asking if he wants to meet Heather.

Kurt joins the group and finds Martha there as well. They are told they can reunite with their soulmates who have passed away, but only if they die themselves. With little sense of purpose left in their lives, they agree.

This is one of the episodes that still leans heavily into the idea that finding your soulmate is the soul's ultimate purpose. The show never really challenges that idea or suggests that a person should be whole on their own first. That is a dangerous message, especially when wrapped in something that closely resembles a cult. The logic is uncomfortably similar to extremist groups that promise paradise through death.

I like Charlie Heaton a lot. He is my favorite actor in Stranger Things and he was one of the reasons I kept watching this series in the first place. His performance here is solid, but the episode itself is quite boring. Malin Akerman does not bring much more to the role than Charlotte Spencer did in her brief appearance as Heather, which only makes things more confusing and less engaging.

Instead of feeling like a Soulmates episode, this played more like a warning about the dangers of cults.