<em>Modern Love</em> Has Nothing New to Say About Modern Love
Most of the eight episodes of Amazon’s anthology series Modern Love, based on the New York Times column of the same name, examine romantic love at different stages: the start of a relationship, the middle of a long and turbulent marriage, the aftermath of missing the one who got away. Several episodes explore platonic love, and a few toe the line between friendship and romance. One, about a woman with bipolar disorder, even explores self-love.
In the final episode, these New York City–set stories receive a coda in the form of an extended montage in which all of the characters’ lives intersect. As a thunderstorm rolls in, Margot (played by Jane Alexander), a widow from’s separate stories may be strangers to one another, they’re all connected.
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