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- Netflix
- Feb 19, 2016
- Netflix
- Feb 19, 2016
Summary Nice guy Gus (Paul Rust) moves into a new apartment after the end of his relationship and meets free-spirit Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) in the comedy from Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin.
Created By: Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, Paul Rust
- Netflix
- Feb 19, 2016
- Netflix
- Feb 19, 2016
Summary Nice guy Gus (Paul Rust) moves into a new apartment after the end of his relationship and meets free-spirit Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) in the comedy from Judd Apatow, Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin.
Created By: Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin, Paul Rust
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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74% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
72
74% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
26% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Love communicates the honesty its creators strived for, if only for the believable way it draws Gus and Mickey together across time, space, and their own insecurities. Put in the time with Love, and that time will be rewarded.
Apatow, Arfin, and Rust do a nice job of balancing the relationship, and of exploiting the abundant chemistry between Rust and Jacobs.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 168 User Ratings
7.7
80% Positive
135 Ratings
135 Ratings
11% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
8% Negative
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14 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 168 User Ratings
7.7
80% Positive
135 Ratings
135 Ratings
11% Mixed
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
8% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
There are few shows that focus on the trivial moments between major events as well as this one. Love portrays the doldrums of 30-hood in a raw and laughable fashion. Where the characters compare their awkward moments only to poke fun at themselves and the generation of people who skipped out on marriage for a life less expected. Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust are a match made in the purgatory before midlife.
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SEASON 1
It’s a show that’s structured like a sitcom but frequently works like a low-stakes drama that just gets more emotionally expensive. After you’ve watched all 10, Love stays with you like a memory you can’t--or don’t want to--shake.
Love doesn't reach the comic heights of You're the Worst, but it does bring the funny, much of it supplied by Claudia O'Doherty (Trainwreck) as Mickey's put-upon Australian roommate.
Most of Love doesn't feel new, but it's committed and if you can shake the fact that there are a dozen shows with similar moves and if you can warm up to the prickly, but probably realistic, characters, there's a lot to like, if not love.
It’s all perfectly likable without being overly memorable. Too much of the comedy in Love relies on awkward sitcomish set-ups.
Love's first four episodes are so overstuffed with bland filler that episodes two, three, and four could've been cut altogether, and the show could've skipped right from the pilot with "The Date" without the plot losing much importance. The show's saving grace is that the far more interesting end of season one is a promising sign for season two, which Netflix ordered months before the show even premiered.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 1
Judd Apatow's Netflix original series "Love" starts strong then fizzles out by the end. It's great to have flawed characters, but not if the self-sabotage feels a little bit too scripted.
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SEASON 1
it's like a mix of scenes stolen from other tv **** i can think watching it is: "this scene reminds me of that episode of that other show" (the australian roomate has the same job that the lead of the autralian show "laid"). the acting is very bad and cringeworthy.
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SEASON 1
Mikey is the most annoying character i have ever seen in a show. shes like a sad sac child who cant decide what she wants. she wants to be with Gus then when he takes her to do anything she just **** the entire time. it hurts to watch. she also trys to pull the crazy card when shes the crazy one. the show would be better without her. kill her off
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