Romantic Comedy Series 'Modern Love' on Amazon

Created a new thread because the OP of the old one got red-tagged and it looks like a right mess.

The show features a gay couple, so maybe give it a go. 🙂

I will watch only if Dev is part of that gay couple.

r2 He is not, sadly. But Andrew Scott is and he apparently pulls off a New Yorker really well!

But I totally get what you mean. Dev is so damn handsome...

Olivia Cooke is the new Olivia Thirlby

who plays the gay couple in this show?

r5 Brandon Kyle Goodman and Andrew Scott.

Brandon got married in January, it seems.

So glad they got gay actors to play the gay characters. Refreshing.

Oh boy, this is some hardcore frau shit. Only watch the whole thing if you're super into saccharine romantic stuff.

However, do check out the seventh episode featuring the gay couple, which also happens to be the best of the bunch. And the last, eighth episode, which revisits all the stories of the season. Andrew Scott is amazing and the other actor is super charming as well.

Oh good, just found out Andrew Scott is not Adam Scott.

Looks interesting.

R7 Brandon's hubby looks like a tiny Jon Hamm in that pic.

I watched seven out of eight episodes today and just... meh. I actually wish there could be something more about daddy issues in the Julia Garner episode. But guess a May-December romance would be too much for its fraubase.

Except for they gay episode, I thought it was unwatchable. But I firmly believe you might benefit from it if you're a person who is super into romantic relationships in your own life. Which I am not. Because the writing is pretty mature and so you might find yourself in some of the storylines and gain some insight/catharsis from them.

I could only stomach one episode, the first one, with the doorman. It was just too weird. But these are supposed to be true stories, no?

Does anyone remember which series features a character who lives in that same Park Slope building, the Copley Plaza? Was it in Mrs. Maisel?

The first episode rubbed me the wrong way. Did anyone else find it oddly... classist? That doorman's entire existence was presented as something only there to prop up that frau. He seemingly had no life of his own and no interactions with other people. The narcissism of it all...

I enjoyed it for the most part. The Anne Hathaway episode not so much.

I thought Brandon Kyle Goodman was an angel. Maybe that’s the way he is in real life. That homeless girl was awful and reminded me of Abrasive Juno.

I thought Ann Hathaway did a great job, except the Broadway fantasies were a bit much. She reminded me a lot of my bipolar friend and usually actors can’t capture bipolar at all.

The rest was dull and Woody Allen territory of affluent New Yorkers eating at fancy restaurants all the time.

If anyone didn't recognize it, the gay adoption story was based on Dan Savage's experience adopting his son. Originally told in his book The Kid, he later wrote a Modern Love column about the ongoing experiences with the birth mother that was adapted into this. The fact that they changed the title from the original column, unlike every other episode, indicates just how sanitized it was versus the real story.

r18 Oh, god, he's everywhere. I hate that story now.

So were all the weird vignettes in the last episode part of the original stories, or were they made up to shoehorn the whole thing together? And are we to assume that the Jane Alexander’s character gets ill and dies from exposure of running in the rain wearing funeral clothes so she can be with her last great love? This was just so disappointing, how did they manage to muck it up when it had such great provenance and possibility?

I binge-skimmed the entire season, wherein you watch episodes but fast forward through sections that are dull.

It was tedious, but I kept thinking that it got some bigger name stars, so it's got to have a few good episodes.

Nope.

[quote]I binge-skimmed the entire season, wherein you watch episodes but fast forward through sections that are dull.

Thanks, r21. We would [italic]never[/italic] have guessed what "binge-skimmed" meant.

[quote]Thanks, [R21]. We would never have guessed what "binge-skimmed" meant.

Well r22, I was distinguishing between simply binging or skimming it, either of which might have been done without having done both.

But, glad to know that you were able to figure it out without any guidance - you get an "A" for perspicacity.

How is Diana Neal in it? Seeing her picture in OP made me realize how much I missed her since she left SVU.

[quote]How is Diana Neal in it? Seeing her picture in OP made me realize how much I missed her since she left SVU.

Huh? For me at any rate, OP's pic is of AnnE Hathaway riding a bike.

Diane Neal from SVU isn't in the series, as far as I recall unless it's a small bit part.

Where was David S. Pumpkins, I thought that was going to be an annual thing?

^^^ Sorry, wrong thread!

That photo looks a lot more like Diane Neal than Anne Hathaway.

And yet, it's AnnE Hathaway in the photo.

Perhaps Hathaway has had surgery to make her look more like Diane Neal.

Some people become obsessed like that and have plastic surgery to look more like some celebrity.

Looks like one step above Lifetime shit.

Watching the Daddy episode with Shea Whigham. The girl is a terrible actress.