Romantic comedies live and die by the chemistry and charm of the project’s main pairing. For The Love Hypothesis, Prime Video’s latest foray into the genre, it’s an embarrassment of riches on both fronts. Based on the Ali Hazelwood novel of the same name and directed by romcom veteran Claire Scanlon, the film centers around perky Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith (Lili Reinhart) and the notoriously grouchy, young professor Dr. Adam Carlsen (Tom Bateman). The pair find themselves in one of the romance genre’s staple situations — fake dating. The actors knew pretty early one that their chemistry was going to work for the film. “I could tell that…
