TV-MASynopsis
Modern Love (2019), Season 1 is Amazon's anthology you can watch online on iFILM — eight episodes, each a self-contained story drawn from the long-running New York Times column about real people and real feeling.
There's no through-line, and that's the point. A lonely woman leans on the doorman who has tracked her love life for years. A reporter interviews a celebrity and ends up confessing his own. A young woman with bipolar disorder struggles to let anyone see who she actually is. A first date detours to the emergency room; an adoption stretches on with no guarantees; a couple in their eighties takes stock of a long marriage near the finish line. Dev Patel, Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, Andrew Scott, Julia Garner — every chapter brings a new face and a different register.
Eight short films arguing that love rarely arrives the way the movies promise. Some chapters land harder than others, the way anthologies go, but the best ones cut clean. Stream Modern Love Season 1 online on iFILM.
8 episodes
S1·E1When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
“Ours was a common and unsung friendship, that between women living in New York, single and alone, and the doormen who take care of them, acting as gatekeepers, bodyguards, confidants and father figures.”
S1·E2When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist
“I tossed out one last question: ‘Have you ever been in love?’ No one, he said, had ever asked him that in an interview. ‘Yes,’ he finally answered. ‘But I didn’t realize it until it was too late.’ Then he asked me to turn off my recorder. I hit Stop."
S1·E3Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am
“My personal life was another story. In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you are, but I didn’t have a clue who I was from one moment to the next.”
S1·E4Rallying to Keep the Game Alive
“We rallied, not with the adrenaline-pumping determination to win at all costs, but with the patience and control that came with not wanting it to be over: not the summer, not our son’s childhood, not this game, ever.”
S1·E5At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity
“There is never a good time to fall off your couch onto a martini glass and begin losing a dangerous amount of blood, but having this happen in the middle of a promising date is an especially bad time.”
S1·E6So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?
“He was very handsome. He wore gray turtleneck sweaters and smelled like mint aftershave and old books. He was 55 and recently divorced for the second time. He was my father. He wasn't really my father.”
S1·E7Hers Was a World of One
“There was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster… in fact, our agency warned us that, as a gay male couple, we might be in for a long wait.”
S1·E8The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
“Old love is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to know who we were, and we had learned to compromise. The finish line was drawing closer.”
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