{"id":321741,"date":"2021-08-11T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/falling-in-love-again-with-modern-love-stories\/"},"modified":"2021-08-11T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T15:00:49","slug":"falling-in-love-again-with-modern-love-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/falling-in-love-again-with-modern-love-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"#Falling in Love Again With ‘Modern Love’ Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Falling in Love Again With ‘Modern Love’ Stories<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Be still my heart. A new batch of eight slice-of-life \u2014 and love \u2014 vignettes inspired by the New York Times<\/i> column Modern Love<\/em> has arrived like a gift from a mercurial Cupid.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you think this is? Some movie on Netflix?\u201d barks a Dublin cop to a lovesick swain trying to skirt past a pandemic roadblock to reconnect with a woman he only recently met. The scene perfectly embodies this anthology\u2019s app<\/a>eal. As with any good rom-com \u2014 or rom-dram<\/em> for that matter \u2014 Modern Love<\/i> can make you laugh, weep, sigh, shudder or swoon, sometimes all within a single story. Even when this exceptionally well-cast and admirably diverse series<\/a> plays by the romance genre\u2019s rules, there\u2019s usually an element of surprise.<\/p>\n

Take \u201cStrangers on a (Dublin) Train,\u201d one of my favorites, referenced above. This timely tale set against the pandemic\u2019s early days brings together Paula (Lucy Boynton), a bookish student of medievalism, and charming tech expert Michael (Game<\/a> of Thrones<\/i>\u2019 Kit Harington), both headed to their respective families to begin quarantine. Theirs is a classic \u201cmeet-cute,\u201d but this clich\u00e9 is underscored and amplified when fellow passengers acknowledge this fact musically. (The hand of director-showrunner John Carney, of Once<\/i> and Sing Street<\/i> fame, is especially evident here.)<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the \u201cmeet sour,\u201d when Spence (Garrett Hedlund), an uptight ex-Marine, and suburban mom Isabelle (Anna Paquin) realize their spouses are having an affair. Circumstances keep bringing them together, at first if only to remind them that, as Isabelle tearfully explains, \u201cLife cannot be planned.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Credit: Amazon Studios)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This wouldn\u2019t be news<\/a> to Liz and Van Cannon (the glorious Sophie Okonedo and The Crown<\/i>\u2019s Tobias Menzies), a divorced couple in their 40s who reignite their spark, keeping it from their precocious daughters until fate knocks them for a potentially tragic loop. Nor to Stephanie (Minnie Driver), a remarried widow who can\u2019t part with her first husband\u2019s sports car for the most wrenchingly sentimental of reasons. I expect these particular stories will have viewers reaching for the tissue box.<\/p>\n

Some episodes see themselves as a \u201cfairy tale,\u201d like the bizarre nocturnal fable of Jordan (Gbenga Akinnagbe) and Zoe (Zo\u00eb Chao). He\u2019s completely smitten despite her rare condition that only allows her to be awake at night. Whereas aspiring stand-up comic Lil (The Deuce<\/i>\u2019s Dominique Fishback) feels \u201cbrainwashed\u201d by fairy tales when it comes to her unrequited longtime crush on princely childhood friend Vince (Isaac Powell).<\/p>\n

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(Credit: Amazon Studios)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Same-sex attractions are explored in two very different and provocative episodes. In \u201cAm I \u2026? Maybe This Quiz Will Tell Me,\u201d insecure middle-school teen Katie (the remarkable Lulu Wilson) is drawn to the more free-spirited Alexa (Grace Edwards), even though listicle quizzes keep telling her she\u2019s probably not queer. In the haunting \u201cHow Do You Remember Me?,\u201d written and directed by Andrew Rannells (Black Monday<\/em>), two young men reflect differently on what could have been as a chance encounter brings back memories of a fateful first and only date.<\/p>\n

Not every Modern Love<\/i> story has a happy ending \u2014 or sometimes even an ending at all. \u201cI don\u2019t like getting to the end of things,\u201d insists Paula during her fateful Galway-to-Dublin train trip<\/a>. I know how she feels. I hated running out of new episodes. More, please.<\/p>\n

Modern Love<\/em>, Season 2 Premiere, Friday, August 13, Amazon Prime Video<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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