History Series / HighFidelity

* HellBentForLeather: Rob always wears a long black leather coat when it's colder out, which others recognize as her favorite.

* DreadlockRasta: Rob wears dreadlocks and is a cool, freespirited young woman. {{Deconstructed}} however as she's also lonely and pretty unhappy with her life.

* BathScene: Rob is in the tub when her family video calls on her birthday, quickly covering herself.

* AdaptationalLocationChange: The series is set in Crown, Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.

* PrecisionFStrike: GenderFlipped from the movie and novel, when Rob hears Mac is with some "Lily girl".

* TomboyishName: Due to the series making Rob a woman, the name becomes one (it turns out that her full name's Robyn).

* [[AsHimself As Herself]]: [[Music/{{Blondie}} Deborah Harry]] is the one who convinces Rob she's doing the right thing in tracking down her "top five" exes.

* BadInfluencer: The SettingUpdate of the Creator/{{Hulu}} series makes Rob's third ex, the mercurial, glamorous Charlie (named Kat Monroe in the series)f, a professional influencer. Rob goes as Kat's plus-one to an event and is struck by how fake it all feels. Even the glamorous apartment turns out to have been rented by the company for the event.

* BadInfluencer: The SettingUpdate of the Creator/{{Hulu}} series makes Rob's third ex, the mercurial, glamorous Charlie, a professional influencer. Rob goes as Charlie's plus-one to an event and is struck by how fake it all feels. Even the glamorous apartment turns out to have been rented by the company for the event.

* ButNotTooBi: The series has Rob be shown as dating a woman previously, although most of her exes are men in the flashbacks. She is never seen involved with nor even attracted to women in the present.

** Music/StevieWonder's "[[Music/TalkingBook I Believe (When I Fall in Love it Will Be Forever)]]" plays over the closing credits of the movie, and for the beginning of the last episode of the first season.

-->'''Rob''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WHAT! FUCKING! LILY GIRL?!]]

** In the novel, Rob, Barry and Dick end up seeing Marie [=LaSalle=] at a club. In the series, the singer Rob, Cherise and Simon go to see - Liam - is playing at a club called [=LaSalle's=].

** In the novel and movie, Rob, Barry and Dick end up seeing Marie [=DeSalle=] at a club. In the series, the singer Rob, Cherise and Simon go to see - Liam - is playing at a club called [=DeSalle's=].

* LighterAndSofter: The series warm and has comedic elements, missing some of the darker events or themes of the novel.

* InUniverseSoundtrack: Much of the music is diagetic, being played in the record store, in headphones when a character puts them on, or from other sources such as phones or laptops.

* TruerToTheText: The series, unlike the film, opens with the same line the book does and includes the scene where a vengeful ex-wife attempts to sell Rob her husband’s record collection (the scene was cut from the film).

[[caption-width-right:350:"''So here's how not to plan a career. One: split up with girlfriend. Two: ditch college. Three: go to work in struggling record shop. Four: become owner of said record shop and stay there for rest of life.''"]]

Like the book and film, the show is about a music snob and record store owner Rob (reimagined as a woman played by Creator/ZoeKravitz). Rob isn't over her ex-boyfriend Mac ([[Creator/KingsleyBenAdir Kingsley Ben-Adir]]), and eventually decides to seek out her top five exes to find out where her relationships go wrong, even as sparks fly with a man named Clyde (Creator/JakeLacy). Along for the ride are her employees and friends Cherise ([[Creator/DaVineJoyRandolph Da'Vine Joy Randolph]]) and Simon ([[Creator/DavidHHolmes David H. Holmes]]); the latter is Rob's third heartbreak.

Like the book and film, the show is about a music snob and record store owner Rob (reimagined as a woman played by Creator/ZoeKravitz). Rob isn't over her ex-boyfriend Mac (Creator/KingsleyBenAdir), and eventually decides to seek out her top five exes to find out where her relationships go wrong, even as sparks fly with a man named Clyde (Creator/JakeLacy). Along for the ride are her employees and friends Cherise ([[Creator/DaVineJoyRandolph Da'Vine Joy Randolph]]) and Simon ([[Creator/DavidHHolmes David H. Holmes]]); the latter is Rob's third heartbreak.

* HeelRealiztion: The series has Rob confessing, relatively late, about something utterly terrible she did. Redeeming this somewhat is her dawning knowledge that she is a "fucking asshole".

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Played with. Vinyl went through a resurgence since the book was published and in 2020 record stores are still a thing. However, the store also carries cassettes, which one minor character finds odd. Simon, the clerk who replaced the Dick character, admits to still using cassettes as they're "weird and warm".

* TruerToTheText: The series, unlike the film, opens with the same line the book does and includes the scene where a vengeful ex-wife attempts to sell Rob her husband’s record collection (the scene was cut from the film).


* SettingUpdate: The series moves the book's 1990s London setting to 2020s Brooklyn, New York.

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