Director: Lucy Gaffy
Sheffield, 1989: two teenagers fall for each other over shared cassette tapes, not knowing the songs will still be pulling them back together decades later. That is the premise of "Mix Tape," a 2025 drama series directed by Lucy Gaffy.
What is Mix Tape about?
The series splits its attention between two timelines. In the late 1980s, young Daniel and Alison find each other through music, trading tapes and building the kind of bond that feels permanent at seventeen — until life pulls them onto separate paths. Decades later, adult versions of the same two people, played by Jim Sturgess and Teresa Palmer, reconnect after years apart, with an old mix tape resurfacing enough memories to make them question whether they ever really moved on. The show leans heavily on its soundtrack, using specific songs as emotional markers that jump between the two eras, while Florence Hunt, Rory Walton-Smith, and Julia Savage round out the younger timeline. It is a story about how a handful of songs from one summer can stay attached to a person for the rest of their life.
Cast & crew
Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess play the adult Alison and Daniel, carrying the emotional weight of two people confronting a past that never fully closed, while Florence Hunt and Rory Walton-Smith handle the teenage version of the same characters with an entirely different, more tentative energy.
Context & significance
Adapted from the novel by Jane Sanderson, "Mix Tape" arrives as an Australian-Irish co-production and joins a small run of recent series built around music-driven nostalgia, using needle-drops from the era as a structural device rather than background texture.
Where & how to watch
"Mix Tape" streams on K-Time once viewers log into a free account, with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles both included. There is no cost to browse the site, and its fully Farsi interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking audiences to follow a dual-timeline series like this one.