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Positive:
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Mixed:
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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineOct 14, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Modern Love is an irresistible confection of perfectly cast, sensitively written and utterly enjoyable short stories that belie their brevity with deep emotion. [14-27 Oct 2019, p.10]
Aug 11, 2021
TV Guide MagazineAug 12, 2021
Season 2 Review:
Exceptionally well-cast and admirably diverse series. ... I hated running out of new episodes. More, please. [16-29 Aug 2021, p.4]
Oct 15, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Among the standouts are “Take Me As I Am, Whoever I Am,” a fine showcase for Anne Hathaway. ... Also good are Tina Fey and John Slattery, who demonstrate instant chemistry despite playing a couple whose marriage has hit a trouble spot. ... Like the best of “Modern Love,” the [first] episode is funny, sweet, and heartfelt without being schmaltzy. At a time when conflict rages across the media, there’s something appealing about pulling up the comforter and falling into “Modern Love.”
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Oct 14, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Like many an anthology series, it is a bit uneven, sometimes corny and clunky, sometimes wonderfully sweet and sentimental. But when on top of its game, “Modern Love” produces some magically romantic results. The touching first episode is enchanting proof of that. ... Another superb entry stars Dev Patel.
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Uncle BarkyOct 18, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Despite its varying trials and travails, Modern Love strives for an overall feel-good vibe that isn’t always entirely earned. For the most part, it’s gentle on the mind and soothing to the nerves in times when The New York Times front page is a steady drumbeat of downers.
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Oct 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It’s a pro job, though at times it feels professional in a Madison Avenue kind of way, as if you are being sold something, rather than told a story. Most feel minor, even when the subject is major, perhaps because they’re so faithful to spirit of the essays. I don’t mean that as a criticism. And I did choke up a few times.
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Oct 18, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Modern Love, when it works, provides the kind of soothing comfort supplied by an inviting armchair, a warm fire, or a mug of hot tea on a chilly night. It’s the TV equivalent of a hand-knit cardigan or an Instagrammable latte; a mood of transitory wistfulness appears to be the goal, not some chest-thumping artistic statement about Life.
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Oct 10, 2019
Season 1 Review:
If the stories can fall prey to “Wealthy Upper West Siders: They’re Just Like Us!” self-flattery, most of them are also sincere, thoughtful, and generous of spirit in a way that typifies Carney’s work (see also Sing Street and Begin Again). Not every installment works(*) — the Horgan/Slattery/Fey one is disappointingly one-note (and one of several that would have done well to ditch the original Times headline as its title) — but enough of them hit that narrow but satisfying target of being sweet but not overly saccharine.
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The IndependentAug 13, 2021
RogerEbert.comOct 18, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The successes, minor and major, somehow make the missteps even more frustrating, because the ingredients for all the episodes are pretty similar. You take a column about someone’s personal experience, add a great cast, and attempt to dramatize that experience in 30 minutes. Yet somehow, only two are unabashed successes.
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ColliderOct 18, 2019
Season 1 Review:
With an ensemble that also includes Tina Fey, Andrew Scott, and Julia Garner, the show feels like something of a missed opportunity. But while the quality isn’t quite up to par across the board, there’s likely still a viable audience for a show like Modern Love. Just don’t be surprised if it’s not for you.
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Oct 8, 2019
Season 1 Review:
No matter how valiantly they [the cast] push through, there’s only so much they can do with what they’ve got, which is a saccharine series of clichés that promises way more insight than it’s ultimately capable of. .. It serves up plate after plate of lukewarm leftovers that are somehow never filling.
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Oct 22, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, it’s an aesthetically and narratively empty enterprise that confuses treacly, saccharine gestures with a complex understanding of interpersonal relationships. The major hurdle to connecting with Modern Love is that the characters have the depth of a thimble. ... Modern Love is at once empty and retrograde. Its stars, and viewers, deserve better.
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