High Fidelity releases its official trailer: Why producers sought a gender-flipped remake

“I didn’t want to redo High Fidelity without making this change,” executive producer Veronica West says of flipping genders for the Zoë Kravitz-led series. “When you watch a lot of romantic comedies with female leads the problem always seems to be you can’t find the right man or you’re desperate to get married or you’re self-destructive in some way. When a man gets to be the lead, the problems are internal. It was interesting for us to put that in a woman’s point of view and let her issues with romance really just be about learning how to figure out herself and not finding mister right.”