The second season of the web series Modern Love travels beyond its original New York City setting to find that sappy romance isn’t the pre...
The second season of the web series Modern Love travels beyond its original New York City setting to find that sappy romance isn’t the preserve of the Big Apple.
John Crowley’s show for Amazon Prime Video is based on real-life accounts from the New York Times column of the same name. Some of the eight chapters in the new season also draw on personal essays.
The resolutely old-fashioned and simplistic quality of most of the stories assures that the series is never as modern as it threatens to be. Inter-racial couples and same-sex lovers grapple with inner conflicts and mutual differences rather than social pressures or discrimination.
The highlight of the second season is once again the diverse set of actors, many of them cast against type and relishing the opportunity to play die-hard romantics.
In the most compelling episode Second Embrace, With Hearts and Eyes Open, the divorced Elizabeth and Van rekindle their relationship and realise that they are having more fun than when they were officially together. The post-divorce Van is an improved parent to their two adorable daughters and a better lover too. Sophie Okonedo and Tobias Menzies are superb together, and rank as the show’s best couple.
Kit Harington stakes his claim as a romantic hero in Strangers on a Train. Michael...
