From “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” to “Eighth Grade,” the dads display a brand of thoughtfulness often reserved for their female counterparts. They guide their daughters like the competent caretakers they are, avoiding the bumbling Mr. Lara Jean’s 12-year-old sister remarks early in the movie that she was still eating smushed peas when their mother died, which, by our calculations, means that Dr. Covey has been raising three daughters on his own for a little more than a decade. Covey remembers meeting “little Peter Kavinsky” when Lara Jean was young — but let’s be real, who wouldn’t?

Source: Washington Post September 11, 2018 15:15 UTC