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Jul 9, 2020 · While Love Life was originally planned to be part of HBO Max’s launch slate, the series — after the novel coronavirus shut down production across the industry — would become the upstart...
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May 28, 2020 · 'Love Life' recap: Season 1, Episode 1 of HBO Max's romantic-comedy anthology starring Anna Kendrick — weigh in on the series premiere.
Jun 13, 2020 · Love Life – Season 1 Episode 10 (The Finale) Recap & Review. 13 June 2020 by Greg Wheeler. Grant. With the recent news of Love Life’s renewal, it’s strangely comforting to know this isn’t the last we’ll see of HBO Max’s romantic drama.
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- Season 2 of HBO Max’s “Love Life”
Since Darby was a child, she has struggled to maintain meaningful romantic relationships. It is said this is due to the divorce of her parents, Claudia and Larry, and neither setting the example of love or giving the kind of love, Darby needed. This problem followed her through high school, and with the first guy who reciprocated her feelings, Luke...
Darby & Kendrick’s Charm
The journey we go on with Darby is far from simple and needed the right person. After all, watching a girl go through terrible relationships and wonder where she went wrong doesn’t work for every show, see “High Fidelity.” So when it comes to Darby, who sometimes is given the short end of the stick. There had to be an actress who would get you to commit to rolling with the punches, no matter what happens. Kendrick is that actress. With her, we go through heartbreaks, Darby cheating, being a d...
Sara
While the show doesn’t deep dive into Sara’s issues with love, what we get does leave you to believe this could be Sara’s show, and you’d still enjoy it. For what Chao does with Sara elevates her beyond that party girl who becomes a burnout. With her, from seeing her as the one put together, in a long term relationship, and the maternal sage, to basically bottoming out, you are reminded how much relationships take work. Also, you are allowed to see the rare depiction of a long term relationsh...
Claudia’s Growth
Often it is said that the parent we had the most complicated relationship with is the one who will have the most influence on us. For Darby, that is Claudia, who brings to the show the idea of generational trauma. For with her mother having an unplanned pregnancy, and not showing the love Claudia needed, she passed that down to Darby. Which from generation to generation, you can see the damage was getting worse and worse. So, to see Darby go from dreading her mother coming around to her being...
Mallory
It hurts me in a way to note Mallory as a low point, but she is. Often she felt like the token Black person who existed to check off the box of having a Black character. Then, her being lesbian seemingly was just to acknowledge New York’s queer population. But with little said or done with Mallory, it made you question why the actress’s name was amongst the series regulars when we rarely got an opportunity to bond with her? I mean, take note, Sara’s journey with Jim, her job, and how her rela...
Darby’s Relationship With Her Dad Isn’t Explored
I know the idea of a woman having “Daddy Issues” is a bit played out, especially since it has become an insult, but it was strange how Larry barely existed. Not that I don’t get Claudia, and the generational trauma thing wasn’t a big deal. However, between her dad’s alcoholism, and him starting a new family, it seemed Darby had some issues stemming from her father as well. So him being in, what? Two to three episodes and us barely getting to know him, it kind of sucked. Especially since he wa...
It Doesn’t Address Culture or Ethnicity
“Love Life” doesn’t really dig much into culture. It perhaps is the one thing that isn’t explored when it comes to relationships, and while you get a taste of cultural differences, through Jim being Jewish and Sara not, it doesn’t touch upon Darby’s interracial dating. Which, I get, is a complicated subject you perhaps can’t jam into a half-hour. However, between Augie, who has multiple episodes, or Grant, who we meet in the finale, it would have been interesting to explore the things Darby d...
Rating: Mixed
Perhaps the issue “Love Life” has is that in trying to be approachable and universal to anyone’s love journey, it loses any sense of specificity. Meaning, using Kendrick’s charm, it allows anyone to relate to her without Darby ever truly becoming her own person and going through something that can be specific to that character. Thus leaving racial dynamics behind for it would call into question topics that would complicate the levity of Darby’s story and force a more serious tone than the sho...
- Sam Boyd
- 5/27/2020 to 6/11/2020
- Comedy, Romance, Young Adult
Jun 11, 2020 · So, how does season 1 of “Love Life” end? Is it happy endings, lessons? Does Darby’s dad finally show up? Well… This content contains pertinent spoilers. Baby Theo & The Challenge Of Co-Parenting – Augie, Theo, Darby, Claudia. With Theo only being two-ish, maybe a bit past one, while it is still early on, it does seem Darby broke the cycle.
May 28, 2020 · Episode 1 of Love Life begins with an introduction to our protagonist Darby Carter, a girl who grew up with two separate homes thanks to her Mum and Dad breaking up. From here, we jump to present day (2012) as Darby meets Augie Jeong at a karaoke bar.
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Love Life: Created by Sam Boyd. With Anna Kendrick, Zoë Chao, Peter Vack, Sasha Compère. Anna Kendrick stars in a fresh take on a romantic comedy anthology series about the journey from first love to lasting.
