People meet, people fall in love, get married. Have kids, cheat, lose loved ones. They appear before each other in all their vulnerability. Doubt that they made the right choice. They get tired of each other. They decide to move on. This is Modern Love, an anthology series based on personal stories from the Modern Love column in The New York Times.
What do an eccentric lawyer with bipolar disorder and an ambitious dating app creator have in common? A «bookworm» and a pregnant homeless woman? An elderly man who buried his beloved wife six years ago, and a girl desperately longing for a fatherly caress she never knew?
All of them are residents of New York, beautiful, diverse, multinational. And each of them once became the hero of the column «Modern love» in the daily newspaper The New York Times. In the 15th year of its existence, based on the best letters received by the editors, a series was shot.
In the first season, there were eight episodes — about dates on which something went wrong (or absolutely everything went wrong). About the inability to open up to another out of fear that we will never be accepted as we are, which means that we are doomed to eternal loneliness.
The fact that often in adulthood in a relationship we try to get what we didn’t get in childhood, and in this case it would be worthwhile to honestly admit it to ourselves.
Love is bigger than romance and sex and longer than life
About marriages that seem to be beyond saving. About missed opportunities and unlived loves. That this feeling knows no age limits, does not recognize gender divisions.
Love is bigger than romance and sex and longer than life.
And no matter what people say about the fact that most today prefer to start relationships later or stay single at all, or that divorce statistics in general cast doubt on such an event as marriage, it is obvious that we all still need love.
Perhaps in a slightly different form than before. Perhaps without the exchange of vows and pathetic «…until death do you part» (and maybe with them). Such a different, unpredictable, strange modern love.