Modern Love’s love of all forms
Modern Love is a series that presents love’s complicated and beautiful forms. A collaboration between Amazon Studios and The New York Times. John Carney based the series off of the popular New York Times Column—Modern Love.
As someone who doesn’t enjoy watching series because it bores me out, Modern Love is a good show. Because it really showed love in all forms I am aware of—friendship, lost love, love you can’t let go, love at first meeting, and etc. Also, each episode is a new story so it definitely offers a different perspective each time. And you wouldn’t need to note down so much details just to understand the next part.
Probably, an overused description when reviewing books, films, or series, but the plot isn’t predictable. And the endings are tied up well. It currently has 2 seasons with eight episodes each. And each episode runs for more or less 30 minutes. So it’s definitely easy to binge watch!
Aside from its catchy soundtrack and quite a lot of quotable quotes, the first season of the series also got several Emmys nominations despite only getting 75% rating in Rotten Tomatoes.
Also, this series is only available on Prime Video.
Modern Love’s love of all forms
We’ve listed the top 3 episodes we loved from Modern Love, both season 1 and 2:
WARNING: THERE MIGHT BE SPOILERS FROM THIS PART ONWARDS.
Take Me as I am, Whoever I Am
A snippet of this episode got me into watching the series. It was the only episode I initially wanted to see, but I couldn’t figure out which it was because the episode titles were pretty different. Long story short, it is about Lexi—a person with Bipolar disorder and how she is at work, with her friends, with dating, and even just by herself.
I think the writers and producers, and Anne Hathaway did a great job at showing people the realities of a person living with this kind of struggle. The good, the bad,…and the mad.
When Cupid is a Prying Journalist
After watching this episode, I was thinking about it for days. The story for this episode started when Julie Farber, a New York Times journalist, was interviewing the Fuse—a dating app, CEO, Joshua. And then she asked him if he’s ever been in love and since that moment it is an off the record conversation between them.
It taught me about love unlived and untested, and how both cheetahs and leopards have spots they aren’t the same thing.
Dev Patel—Joshua, got a nomination in the Emmys as Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series in 2020 for his role in this episode.
On a Serpentine Road, with the Top Down
In Modern Love’s second season, the first episode stood out for me. The episode revolved around Dr. Curran’s Stag—which unfortunately is not in her best condition, so much so that Stephanie became friends with the car repairman. Since her family’s finances aren’t doing very well, her husband—Niall, has been persuading her to sell her Stag.
However, selling the car has been weighing her heart down. Despite keeping the Stag meant more expenses on her end, Stephanie loved it more than it being a vintage sports car. It is a car that has become such a big part of her and her daughter’s—Shannon, life.
It taught me that grief can be a big feeling, so big that it can hold you back. But so is love, it can be a big feeling—even bigger that it can pull you out from grief.
This episode had me asking, what are the things we should and shouldn’t let go? And for those that we inevitably will, when is the right time? How are we supposed to let go of the things that held such a big part in our life? And how are we supposed to move on afterwards?
The series was able to show me love in all forms and its complications within 16 30-minute episodes. Choosing the top 3 episodes was hard because everything is good, every kind of love in each episode was different. Of course, some are very intriguing for me. But all endings were reasonable. Definitely a must watch even if it was released in 2019.
