It’s an interesting experience, watching a rom-com – it always carries a vague sense of deja-vu. We don’t need the genre reinvented. Don’t Blame Karma on Netflix, hits those romantic beats and clichés quite well. A regular of Mexican rom-coms, Aislinn Derbez plays Sara, a woman who has converted her late grandmother’s house into a small shop that sells gaudy t-shirts to tourists, but who holds higher aspirations to become a fashion designer. These aspirations, along with other parts of her life, are held back by Sara’s belief that she is cursed with bad karma. When she was a child, Sara blew out the candles on her younger sister Lucy’s birthday cake and ‘stole her wish.’ In retaliation, Lucy angrily told Sara that she was going to steal all her wishes for the rest of her life. This statement, coupled with her fierce jealousy of her sister, lead Sara to live her life in fear of bad karma. She blames her failed romance with Aaron, her high school best friend, on karma, and she refuses to pursue a career in fashion design out of fear of the curse. Sara must overcome or give in to this bad karma when Lucy – now a model/social media influencer played by Renata Notni – visits with her fiancee. It’s (surprise!) Aaron, the man Sara still loves, is played with laid-back charisma by Gil Cerezo. As the romance grows between Sara and Aaron, so does her fear of the curse.