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Netflix fans left 'needing therapy' after Daisy Edgar-Jones drama that sees viewers breaking down in tears

Normal People star Daisy Edgar-Jones’s latest movie release on Netflix is causing fans to burst into tears while watching the intense drama that’s based on a popular novel

Based on the novel by Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing is a mystery that stars Daisy as Kya, a young woman who has been raised in a shack by her family on a North Carolina marsh. Daisy Edgar-Jones in emotional drama Where the Crawdads Sing (Image: Sony Pictures)The movie did get some bad reviews when it was originally released in the summer of 2022, with one critic describing it as an “uncompromisingly terrible southern gothic schmaltzer… a relentless surge of solemnly ridiculous nonsense” and another writing that it was “downright cringey.” However, it was a success at the box office and is now a hit on Netflix. Where the Crawdads Sing marks Daisy’s first leading movie role since she rose to fame following the success of 2020 TV series Normal People, in which she starred with Paul Mescal.

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