Synopsis
Modern Love (2019) is an Amazon Prime Video series you can watch online on iFILM. Each of the eight episodes in the first season is a self-contained story drawn from real submissions to The New York Times column of the same name: an unlikely doorman friendship, a romance that resurfaces after years, a marriage at a turning point, a date that may or may not have been a date.
The cast shifts episode by episode — Anne Hathaway, Dev Patel, Jesse Eisenberg, Tina Fey, Julia Garner, Andrew Scott, Catherine Keener among them. Directors include John Carney, Sharon Horgan and Emmy Rossum, each bringing a different register to their story. New York is constant throughout, shot as a city where these quiet collisions between people actually happen.
The show works because it isn't interested in grand romantic gestures. It finds the texture of love in small moments — a phone call made or not made, a Tuesday morning, a conversation that shifts something without either person naming it. Episodes run around half an hour and stand completely alone. Stream all episodes of Modern Love online on iFILM.
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