#LOVE NETFLIX FULL#

By the end of the first season, Love has begun to reveal the series it maybe always should have been: hurting and truthful, about something far more complex and granular than simply “will they/won’t they.”

#LOVE NETFLIX FULL#

Oddly but engagingly paced, Love, over the course of its 10-episode first season (which Netflix graciously made available in full for critics), becomes something surprising, a bleary and affecting study of a woman trying to come to terms with addiction, all the everyday pain and itch and restless jumble of it. Where Aziz Ansari, in Master of None, tends toward social satire and inquest, Arfin, Rust, and Apatow bore deeper into the psyche.

In that way, Love bears some obvious similarities to Netflix’s other comedy series about romance and showbiz and city living, Master of None.īut as Love gradually chips away at that familiar paint, it uncovers some of the anguish and darkness conjured up, in darts and flashes, by that big, insisting title. It initially appears to be yet another show about young(-ish) straight white folks flirting and dating, another look at millennial(-ish) Los Angeles, another gently chiding, aspirational satire of show business.

On first glance, Netflix’s new series, debuting on February 19, from husband-and-wife co-creators Paul Rust and Lesley Arfin, and Arfin’s former Girls boss, Judd Apatow, doesn’t quite live up to the expansiveness of its title. But it’s also an intriguing one, implying a vastness, an encompassing look at the human experience-or at least one huge, joyful, torturous, consuming part of the human experience.

Love is a broad, generic title for a television show.

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