10 Great Characters Ruined By Terrible Sequels

10. Lara Jean - To All The Boys: P.S I Still Love You

Arriving on our screens in 2018, To All the Boys I Loved Before was a breath of fresh air for fans of the sometimes great, always inconsistent teen rom com subgenre.

Joining the likes of 2010's Easy A, the superb Tina Fey-scripted Mean Girls, and the nineties classic Clueless, the film excelled thanks to its likeable and relatable sweet teen heroine Lara Jean, whose life falls into hilarious disarray when a set of love letters she never intended to send are mailed off to every boy she's ever imagined courting.

Sure, the film may be far-fetched, but Lara Jean's mixture of innocence and whip-smart wit gave her an easy charm. It's one which was unfortunately completely undone in 2020's entirely misjudged sequel.

From its clumsy title to its flat direction, nothing about To All the Boys 2 was a success, but it was Lara Jean's character which suffered worse. Going from a well-meaning over thinker to a self-centred, vindictive antiheroine made her a protagonist impossible to root for, and from cheating on her love interest to leading on some likeable new suitor for weeks, there was little sign of our Lara Jean in this poorly planned follow up.