Modern Love 2 Review: Rediscover The Sweetness And Romance Of Stories To Be Told

One cannot fail to be covered by a thread of romance when writing the review of Modern Love 2, the second season of the Amazon Prime Video anthology series which returns on August 13 with 8 new episodes. 8 new stories inspired by real relationships, part of the New York Times column of the same name. What is missing in this second cycle, compared to the dazzling first season of 2019, is that – perhaps due to set problems linked to the pandemic – not all episodes are set in New York – and the stories therefore do not find a reunion. final to give cohesion and fluidity to the story as a whole. As done for the inaugural cycle, let’s briefly review the new 8 stories proposed in Modern Love 2 episode by episode, interpreted by a cast that is not always all-star and not always impactful.

Modern Love Season 2 Episode Wise Review

S02 Episode 1 On A Serpentine Road, With The Top Down

We are always overseas and not in NY, again with Carney’s pen, direction and music. Sometimes love for a loved one is tied to an object that reminds us of it, especially if we lose that person forever. As happens in On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down to the character of Minnie Driver (Speechless) and to the vintage car that reminds her of her deceased husband Tom Burke (Mank). Will the woman be able to look forward with her new companion in the passenger seat, and not continually peek into the rearview mirror in search of what happened?

S02 Episode 2 The Night Girl Finds A Day Boy

The first episode The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy starts from a fairy tale and therefore very romantic assumption. What happens if a “night” girl (Zoe Chao , Love Life), suffering from a medical condition just like Anne Hathaway’s character in the first season, falls in love with a “daytime” boy ( Gbenga Akinnagbe, The Deuce)? It will be difficult to make the two parts of the day collide, but it will be easy to show two equally fascinating faces of the Big Apple.

S02 Episode 3 Strangers On A Train

The other perhaps most successful episode of the season, written and directed by creator John Carney who draws two actors (in addition to the British-musical atmospheres) from Sing Street , Lucy Boynton (The Politician) and Jack Reynor (Midsommar), look a bit again interpreters of the love interest and the brother of the protagonist (in this case Kit Harington from Game of Thrones). Strangers on a Train (perfect title of a song look a bit) is set in Ireland during the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 and two guys (Harington and Boynton) meet by chance on a train but at the station they have to say goodbye: why not choose a way toSerendipity – When is love magic to meet again, instead of just exchanging the phone number? With the participation of Miranda Richardson (Stronger) to confirm the stellar cast of the episode.

S02 Episode 4 A Life Plan For Two, Followed By One

Sometimes it’s impossible not to fall in love with your best friend. But things don’t always turn out as expected. This is what happens in A Life Plan for Two, Followed by One to the characters of Dominique Fishback (Judas and the Black Messiah), aspiring stand up comedian, and Isaac Powell (Dear Evan Hansen). They have been linked since her arrival in New York in a new school and a new neighborhood. A story shown from pre-adolescence to college years, in a city to be discovered on the rooftops.

S02 Episode 5 Am I …? Maybe this quiz will tell me

Let’s move on to the not necessarily New York teenage love of Lulu Wilson ‘s character in Am I …? Maybe this Quiz Will Tell Me. First crush, first pimples, changing body, all elements told through the fears, anxieties of that age, in which everything seems extreme and is lived to the end, with many close-ups and details of the personages. At the same time there is the discovery of one’s sexual and personal identity, through a technology that sometimes helps, sometimes perhaps confuses ideas a little more. But meeting another person could clarify them.

S02 Episode 6 In The Waiting Room Of Estranged Spouses

There is the motto ” God makes them and then pairs them ” but that doesn’t exactly apply to the characters of Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) and Anna Paquin (Flack, True Blood). In In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses two marriages fall apart due to a clandestine relationship but this double breakup could lead to an unexpected and curious new love. An episode told with some dreamlike and ironic moments not always completely successful but with a good chemistry of the two protagonists, two substantially good people who find their lives turned upside down.

S02 Episode 7 How Do You Remember Me?

This episode, How Do You Remember Me?, written and directed by Andrew Rannells (LGBT actor seen in many productions), is one of the most engaging and successful of the season. The whole episode takes place on the fortuitous meeting in a NY neighborhood of the characters of Marquis Rodriguez (When They See Us) and Zane Pais (Room 104), long after they first met. The two are noticed from a distance as they are walking towards each other, accompanied by their respective friends and boyfriends, and then take a journey into memories. Will they greet each other once they arrive facing each other? Why didn’t it work between them? Some flashbacks with a double point of view in The Affair style will tell it, shown as their reunion looks like the longest road ever.

S02 Episode 8 Second Embrace, With Hearts And Eyes Open

A mature love of a broken marriage is the one told in Second Embrace, With Hearts and Eyes Open , as it happened in the first season in the episode with Tina Fey and John Slattery. Not necessarily an ending with a bang, but one that demonstrates a beautiful chemistry and a story with unexpected implications for the characters of Tobias Menzies (The Crown, who finds himself playing a man who takes stock of his life, sentimental or otherwise) and Sophie Okonedo (Ratched).

Modern Love 2 Review: The Last Words

We conclude our review of Modern Love 2 happy to find one of the series that best captured the love of the 21st century in its many facets, while maintaining a sweet and romantic tone. At the same time, however, we are sorry that this second season is less successful than the first, with fewer memorable episodes and less cohesion also caused by the not always New York setting of the story, which therefore does not allow a final reunion of the characters and stories as happened in the inaugural cycle.

What We Liked About Series

• Rediscover the sweetness and romance of stories to be told and inspired by real relationships
• Some really successful episodes, for writing, directing and casting, like the first, the second (written and directed by Andrew Rannells) and the sixth (written and directed by creator John Carney)

What We Didn’t Liked About Series

• … Accompanied, however, by much less successful episodes, compared to the first season

Not having made more of New York in the new episodes and not having connected the stories as they did in the first season