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Critic Reviews
The GuardianMay 6, 2022
Oct 28, 2021
Season 2 Review:
A number of series try to speak to the specific weight people of color carry into the dating pool, but the fact that this show deftly maintains its comedic buoyancy while making Marcus' search for love stand apart in a way that's captivating and ultimately heartening is noteworthy.
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Oct 28, 2021
Season 2 Review:
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.
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Oct 26, 2021
Season 2 Review:
While it’s entertaining and a mostly breezy watch, it’s also committed to showing the realities of being one-half of a couple. Love requires work, introspection, and pushing oneself to be bigger and better for the sake of another. Love Life does not shy away from showing that. ... In a series structured so much around one character’s experience, it’s imperative that we connect with and enjoy that person. Harper makes that easy.
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May 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Just when a viewer thinks the show is mainly frosting with little to no cake, “Love Life” steers into far more substantial and surprising territory. By the middle episodes, Darby hits some real road bumps. ... Say what you must about Kendrick’s trademark cutesiness, it’s her acting chops that really pay off here. ... “Love Life” evolves into a serious rumination on self-awareness.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 26, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Endearing even when she's being aggravating, Kendrick lets us in on Darby's deep-rooted insecurities. [25 May - 7 Jun 2020, p.2]
May 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Love Life manages to wrestle some piquant insights out of its limited constraints. The writing is keen to the subtle pleasures and indignities of sex and love, the frustrations that arise out of regular problems rather than the outsized absolutes so often created for TV. ... Kendrick is more compelling in the serious moments than she is with the funny stuff, as is true of the show on the whole.
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May 18, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Creator Sam Boyd has given us a female protagonist who is not only very familiar, she seems to be living by a set of rules that are distressingly outdated. ... Love Life is at its best when it examines how Darby's non-romantic connections influence her approach to finding a significant other.
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The TimesOct 1, 2020
The TelegraphOct 1, 2020
The GuardianMay 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
A few more risks could have been taken, especially in its portrayal of a rather blandly wholesome lead, but it’s an easily binged watch, with narrator Lesley Manville bookending each episode soothingly. If it’s to return, let’s just hope the life at its centre is one that’s a bit easier for us to love.
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May 18, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“Love Life’s” meandering uncertainty about its story leads to a great-looking show wobbly in a way a cabler graded on quality every time would likely force to refine and redefine. As it stands, though, “Love Life” is a piece of content that makes for amiable company and that doesn’t stand out as particularly grievous; as part of a library graded on capacity rather than curation, it fits right in.
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IndieWireOct 28, 2021
Season 2 Review:
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'.
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May 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
One would like to be less conscious of the fact that Darby is living a lie, or a series of them, or indeed is a character in a TV series; nevertheless, anyone who has has been in a relationship of any length will find some behavior here to accuse themselves of. ... Kendrick is well cast, and as an excuse to hang out in her company, “Love Life,” frustrating as it sometimes is, will do.
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May 21, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“Love Life” has its mild virtues for rom-com addicts who enjoy a good meet-cute every now and again. But the anthology show, starring and executive produced by Anna Kendrick, trades in tropes that are as overused on TV as the word “tropes” is in TV criticism. ... The flatness of the plot turns, many of which recall the less sexual arcs in “Sex and the City,” is compensated, to some degree, by the characters and the actors surrounding Darby.
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The PlaylistOct 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“Love Life” treads well-worn ground without blazing a unique path for itself. Like most outings in the genre, it’s not without a fair share of charm to make the time enjoyable – although these pleasures stem largely from star Anna Kendrick and her earnest embrace of the middling material.
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May 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
"Love Life" is not "My Best Friend's Wedding." At its best, it falls squarely in the "thing I wouldn't mind falling asleep to on a plane" genre. ... If "Love Life" suffers from its stale concept and execution, it is done no further favors by Kendrick's rote performance.
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RogerEbert.comMay 26, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“Love Life” is far from the first story to follow a person who has centered her own life on the pursuit of romantic love, nor is it the first to acknowledge that she’s doing so, to her detriment. “Love Life” makes the mistake of doing the same, and that’s apparent from the first hour. That it recovers at all is due mainly to Kendrick.
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May 20, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It's a toothless, dull proof-of-concept that any network or service could have produced, made more worrisome if it's also meant to be a toothless, dull proof-of-concept for HBO Max. ... The semi-remarkable thing is how frequently Kendrick holds the show together. She's funny even when the scripts aren't.
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May 27, 2020
Season 1 Review:
I was not prepared for how much I disliked early episodes of this show ... Showrunners Sam Boyd and Bridget Bedard (backed by a team of executive producers that includes Kendrick and Paul Feig) spend much of the season leaning on worn-out romance tropes and overplaying the lead’s adorkable charm. It’s all too expected. ... And when, to its credit, the show finally heads for novel territory about five episodes in, it’s too little, too late.
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