Warning: spoilers for Netflix’s Our Little Secret.
Netflix’s Our Little Secret opens with an animated sequence telling Avery (Lindsay Lohan) and Logan’s (Ian Harding) story, followed by a flashback and then a title sequence covering various events throughout a whole decade. Lindsay Lohan’s creative partnership with Netflix includes the Christmas rom-com Our Little Secret, directed by Stephen Herek and executive produced by Lohan. Our Little Secret takes the audience to Peachtree City, Georgia, to meet Avery and Logan, who met when they were kids. Avery and Logan formed a strong friendship that, with time, developed into love.
However, when Avery gets her dream job in London, Logan tries to make her stay and they end up breaking up. Our Little Secret catches up with Avery and Logan a decade later, when Avery is dating Cam (Jon Rudnitsky) and Logan is dating Cassie (Katie Baker). Avery and Logan are invited to spend the holidays with their respective partners, but Cam and Cassie are siblings. Avery and Logan spent the last decade without talking or seeing each other, and the passage of time is cleverly illustrated in a fun sequence.
Why Our Little Secret’s Opening Titles Show 1 Pop Culture Event From Each Year Since 2014
A Fun Look Back To Various Key Pop Culture Events
Logan makes the impulsive decision at Avery’s going away party to propose to her in a last effort to make her stay. Unfortunately, this only leads to their breakup, as Avery feels he’s not being supportive and Logan feels she’s running away from her past and loved ones. Right after Logan leaves the party, Our Little Secret transitions to its opening titles, with a montage of key pop culture events from each year from 2014 to 2024, and it covers a bit of everything.
Among the events shown are the ice bucket challenge, the rise in popularity of vegan products, the success of Stranger Things, the fire of the Notre Dame cathedral, the Bernie Sanders meme, the appearance of NFTS, and more. The sequence is not only fun and somewhat nostalgic, but it serves an important purpose, as it shows how much the world and life in general around Avery and Logan have changed since the last time they saw each other, which is also a reminder that they are not going to be the same in the present day.
How Avery & Logan Went 10 Years Without Seeing Each Other, Despite Living In A Small Town
Avery Did What She Could To Avoid Crossing Paths With Logan
At some point during those 10 years Avery and Logan spent apart after their breakup, Avery returned from London. However, Avery carried on with her life and met Cam, but Our Little Secret never explains when, where, and how they met, same with Logan and Cassie. It’s implied by the fact that Avery and Logan are dating siblings that Avery still lives in her hometown or, at least, very close to it, but Cam and Cassie’s family make a very good point about it during Christmas dinner: it’s a small town, and it’s strange that Avery and Logan supposedly didn’t know each other.
Logan even mentions to Avery that his mother asks about her often and her father gave his mother Avery’s card, which she put on the fridge for Logan to see. However, it’s also mentioned that Avery avoided returning home, mostly because it reminded her of her mom and all their good times together, so that’s why she and Logan didn’t see each other in those 10 years despite Peachtree City being a small town. In the end, Avery opened her heart again, acknowledged her past, and embraced it, and she and Logan became the family she wanted to have in her family’s house.
Our Little Secret is a holiday drama in which two resentful exes find themselves spending Christmas together after discovering that their current partners are siblings. The film explores themes of reconciliation and the complexities of family dynamics during the festive season.
- Director
- Stephen Herek
- Release Date
- November 27, 2024
- Cast
- Lindsay Lohan , Kristin Chenoweth , Ian Harding , Jon Rudnitsky , Chris Parnell , Tim Meadows , Dan Bucatinsky , Henry Czerny , Katie Baker , Ash Santos , Jake Brennan , Brian Unger
- Runtime
- 99 Minutes