Netflix has locked in Thursday, September 11 for the global debut of Diary of a Ditched Girl, a Swedish scripted original led by Carla Sehn and adapted from the breakout novel by Amanda Romare.
The eight-part series follows Amanda, a 31-year-old with a failed relationship behind her and a mission to leave no dating app unturned. What begins as a chaotic summer of swipes and misfires becomes a semi-anthological dive into rejection, resilience, and emotional inventory—anchored by Sehn’s portrayal of a woman determined to decode modern love before it burns her out entirely.
Diary of a Ditched Girl is based on Romare’s 2020 novel Halva Malmö består av killar som dumpat mig—a long-tail bestseller in Sweden whose raw humour and episodic structure made it a natural candidate for screen adaptation. Netflix’s take positions Amanda’s emotional spiral not as a breakdown, but as a structural feature of millennial intimacy: one breakup leads to twenty bad dates, a few good ones, and even more existential debriefs over wine with equally confused friends.
The cast includes Moah Madsen, Dilan Apak, Zahraa Aldoujaili, and Malou Marnfeldt, playing a cohort of friends whose own dating disasters give the show breadth and bounce. It’s a local-language title built with international appeal—pitched somewhere between Lovesick, Valeria, and Fleabag—and lands in a September window where Netflix typically slots young-adult relationship dramas or late-summer escapism.
The release also bolsters Netflix’s European scripted slate heading into Q4, following a year of fragmented scheduling around international originals. Diary of a Ditched Girl arrives positioned to tap into the same demo that propelled titles like Young Royals and Everything Now, but with an older, more jaded lead—one whose dating history could fill a season on its own.
Diary of a Ditched Girl streams globally on Netflix from Thursday, September 11.
