Based on the New York Times column, Modern Love fails to retain what is 'so lovely and sharp-edged' about the prose that inspired the series
—but the poetry of the tennis game doesn’t translate to the screen, and the viewer’s left wondering why the couple didn’t talk more at dinner.
It does not help that this contemporary collection of stories about New Yorkers in love is almost exclusively about the feelings of writers with very nice apartments. The show is at its strongest when it moves away from the solipsism of personal essay and toward the tension of conflicting desires and fraught conversations—which it finds in its best episode, “Hers Was a World of One,” starringAnd yet even then, it’s alarming what the show doesn’t do.
would criticize. But this is the trouble with branded content masquerading as television: Are these stories that really need to be retold—or does converting thorny prose into slippery, well-meaning episodes serve another purpose? It’s hard to shake the feeling thatexists to communicate a fantasy of this particular New York, experienced by these particular upper-class people, in order to sell something to someone. Maybe more Prime memberships, maybe moresubscriptions.
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