Modern Love: Season 2

2021 · 8 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 2 of Modern Love

Love breaks all the rules. Each episode of this anthology series brings to life different stories of relationships, connections, betrayals and revelations — all inspired by true events.

8episodes

Aug 12, 2021premiered

4.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down
Aug 12, 2021 · 36 min · ★ 7.7
"Driving, with the top down, I’m reminded that I too can shift gears, face risk, handle inconvenience — and survive tragedy. My partner, eyes misting, says: 'You love that car. And your husband was an extraordinary man.'"
Directing: John Carney · Writing: John Carney · Starring: Minnie Driver, Tom Burke, Don Wycherley, Simon Delaney
2x02 The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy
Aug 12, 2021 · 36 min · ★ 7.4
"I'm a vampire, basically — going to bed around 8 or 9 a.m. and waking around 4 or 5 p.m. First dates usually go OK because they’re in the evening, but complications quickly arise."
Directing: Jesse Peretz · Writing: Sarah Heyward · Starring: Zoë Chao, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Aparna Nancherla, Rachel B. Joyce
2x03 Strangers on a (Dublin) Train
Aug 12, 2021 · 36 min · ★ 8.3
"We met on a train. A perfect, flirtatious, six hours. The beginning of our love story? Trusting in the power of the universe, we hadn’t exchanged mobile numbers. Sometimes, a romantic plan isn’t enough."
Directing: John Carney · Writing: John Carney · Starring: Kit Harington, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Miranda Richardson
2x04 A Life Plan for Two, Followed By One
Aug 12, 2021 · 35 min · ★ 7.8
"He was everything a 10-year-old girl could ever hope for in a man. It was decided; I was in love. I started to wonder if the glow from my wedding dress would make him look washed-out. I began devising a plan in which he and I would end up '2gether 4ever,' as all my notebooks stated."
Directing: Marta Cunningham · Writing: Dime Davis, Sarra-Jane Piat-Kelly, Marta Cunningham · Starring: Jessica Lee, Isaac Powell, Dominique Fishback, Darius Jordan Lee
2x05 Am I ...? Maybe This Quiz Will Tell Me
Aug 12, 2021 · 34 min · ★ 6.4
"In retrospect, maybe I should have known who I was the first time I went looking for a quiz called 'Am I gay?' But I didn’t."
Directing: Celine Held, Logan George · Writing: Celine Held, Logan George · Starring: Lulu Wilson, Angela Grovey, Pearl Zeldin, Telci Huynh
2x06 In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses
Aug 12, 2021 · 31 min · ★ 6.0
"A few months later, I was in the psychologist’s reception room, paying for my fourth really good cry, when a woman carrying a child walked in. I didn’t recognize her at first, and then I remembered her face. 'Are you the wife of the guy my wife is having an affair with?' I asked tactlessly. 'Yeah,' she said. 'But we’re not together anymore.'"
Directing: John Crowley · Writing: Susan Soon He Stanton · Starring: Garrett Hedlund, Anna Paquin, Ben Rappaport, Jeena Yi
2x07 How Do You Remember Me?
Aug 12, 2021 · 25 min · ★ 6.4
"I don’t remember his last name. He was handsome, with a nice smile and startlingly blue eyes. The sex was good, I think. We didn’t know each other well. We never would."
Directing: Andrew Rannells · Writing: Andrew Rannells · Starring: Marquis Rodriguez, Zane Pais, James Scully, Nikki M. James
2x08 A Second Embrace, with Hearts and Eyes Open Season Finale
Aug 12, 2021 · 35 min · ★ 7.7
"On this night, long after we had thrown in the towel on us, here we were again, crawling back into the ring. This time, though, it would be different. We just never imagined how different it would become, or how quickly."
Directing: John Carney · Writing: Kieran Carney · Starring: Sophie Okonedo, Tobias Menzies, Savannah Skinner-Henry, Ellie-Mae Siame