Modern Love review: Amazon Prime series is a celebration of romance — big, small, complex and polarising
FirstpostSometimes you just need a good cry. Amazon Prime’s new anthology series_, Modern Love,_ based on the renowned New York Times column, neatly packs deeply personal stories of love into 30-minute episodes. And with a glowing cast list — Tina Fey, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, Andrew Scott to name a few — Modern Love is definitely worth your time this festive season. It is for this reason that Modern Love is perhaps one of the starkest series this year; you’re unlikely to forget the visuals, the emotional repartee or dialogues, and most importantly, the episode titles, which read like the Perfect Headline — an elusive concept editors around the world chase. For every episode that gives you good ol’ lurrve on a platter — Episode 2, “When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist,” starring the dreamy Dev Patel and Catherine Keener, is Nora Ephron’s dream come true — there’s an episode that explores the breakdown of a relationship and the complexity of ordinary life.