Modern Love: Season 1

2019 · 8 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 1 of Modern Love

An unlikely friendship. A lost love that resurfaces. A marriage at a turning point. A date that may not have been one. A new, unconventional family. These are the extraordinary stories of the joys and tribulations of love, each one based on a personal essay about real relationships from The New York Times' beloved "Modern Love" column.

8episodes

Oct 18, 2019aired

4.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
Oct 18, 2019 · 33 min · ★ 7.9
“Ours was a common and unsung friendship, that between women living in New York, single and alone, and the doormen who take care of them, acting as gatekeepers, bodyguards, confidants and father figures.”
Directing: John Carney · Writing: John Carney · Starring: Brandon Victor Dixon, Cristin Milioti, Laurentiu Possa, Marin Ashby
1x02 When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist
Oct 18, 2019 · 32 min · ★ 7.9
“I tossed out one last question: ‘Have you ever been in love?’ No one, he said, had ever asked him that in an interview. ‘Yes,’ he finally answered. ‘But I didn’t realize it until it was too late.’ Then he asked me to turn off my recorder. I hit Stop."
Directing: John Carney · Writing: John Carney · Starring: Dev Patel, Catherine Keener, Caitlin McGee, Andy Garcia
1x03 Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am
Oct 18, 2019 · 35 min · ★ 7.5
“My personal life was another story. In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you are, but I didn’t have a clue who I was from one moment to the next.”
Directing: John Carney · Writing: John Carney · Starring: Anne Hathaway, Gary Carr, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Judd Hirsch
1x04 Rallying to Keep the Game Alive
Oct 18, 2019 · 30 min · ★ 6.9
“We rallied, not with the adrenaline-pumping determination to win at all costs, but with the patience and control that came with not wanting it to be over: not the summer, not our son’s childhood, not this game, ever.”
Directing: Sharon Horgan · Writing: Sharon Horgan · Starring: Tina Fey, John Slattery, Sarita Choudhury, Aidan Fiske
1x05 At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity
Oct 18, 2019 · 33 min · ★ 6.5
“There is never a good time to fall off your couch onto a martini glass and begin losing a dangerous amount of blood, but having this happen in the middle of a promising date is an especially bad time.”
Directing: Tom Hall · Writing: Tom Hall · Starring: John Gallagher Jr., Sofia Boutella, Erinn Anova, Chris Kepford
1x06 So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?
Oct 18, 2019 · 31 min · ★ 6.2
“He was very handsome. He wore gray turtleneck sweaters and smelled like mint aftershave and old books. He was 55 and recently divorced for the second time. He was my father. He wasn't really my father.”
Directing: Emmy Rossum · Writing: Audrey Wells · Starring: Julia Garner, Shea Whigham, Myha'la, Seth Andrew Bridges
1x07 Hers Was a World of One
Oct 18, 2019 · 36 min · ★ 7.2
“There was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster… in fact, our agency warned us that, as a gay male couple, we might be in for a long wait.”
Directing: John Carney · Writing: John Carney · Starring: Olivia Cooke, Brandon Kyle Goodman, Andrew Scott, Ed Sheeran
1x08 The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap Season Finale
Oct 18, 2019 · 30 min · ★ 7.2
“Old love is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to know who we were, and we had learned to compromise. The finish line was drawing closer.”
Directing: Tom Hall · Writing: John Carney, Tom Hall · Starring: Jane Alexander, James Saito, Olivia Cooke, Quincy Tyler Bernstine