SummaryEach season this anthology series created by Sam Boyd focuses on one person's search for love. In season one, 20-something Darby (Anna Kendrick) searches for love in New York.
SummaryEach season this anthology series created by Sam Boyd focuses on one person's search for love. In season one, 20-something Darby (Anna Kendrick) searches for love in New York.
The writing remains Love Life’s biggest draw, and Marcus’ world feels richly constructed around him, perhaps more so than in Darby’s story. ... It’s meticulously crafted and snackable.
It takes a lot of missteps and mistakes and clever moves to get there. It isn’t clear who he will end up with, until it is. But watching this delightful show weave all those elements together until it finds a path to satisfaction is a real treat.
Love Life‘s second season surpasses the first just by shifting the focus away from a subject we’ve seen so many times to one that has a messier, and more interesting, story.
Love Life isn’t the first rom-com to trace a character’s belated emotional coming-of-age through successive relationships, yet Harper’s subtle, unaffected performance and the insight with which the people in his life are written and cast save it from the glibness of rom-coms like John Cusack’s High Fidelity.
There isn’t much banter in the series either, and when it does happen it feels like the promise of a show that could have been. ... If only the writing overall were stronger and the storytelling tighter.
Despite minor improvements in its design and a winsome turn from Harper, "Love Life" Season 2 remains frustrating in its selective view of its central figure's choices as well as its boxed-in outlook on love. For those seeking comfort in the familiar patterns of another decade-late coming-of-age story, perhaps Season 2 will prove just distracting enough. But for anyone expecting more than the same ol', same ol'.