Love Life

SERIES PREMIERE

Wednesday, May 27, HBO Max

when a single girl in the big city could really use her help figuring out love, sex and a series of messy relationships? Instead of perky Sarah Jessica Parker posing the big—are narrated in the plummy tones of Lesley Manville (PBS’s ). Her omniscient perspective is designed to comfort, even at Darby’s nadir: “It will all happen for her,” we’re assured, “just not the way she thinks it will.”