Is Love Grand?
What Is This Thing? Relentlessly passive sad sack Gus, and Mickey -- a high-energy shit-stirrer -- meet each other by chance just as they've both gotten out of toxic relationships. Will they find that...
View ArticleEven If You Hated The Pilot, Try The Second Episode Of Love
I have an unorthodox recommendation. If you are interested in watching Love, Netflix's new relationship dramedy from Judd Apatow & Co., then do yourself a favor and start with the second episode....
View ArticleIs Love Just Trolling Feminist TV Critics With S01.E03?
J.K. Simmons should really be in Love, because this fucking show is giving me whiplash. (HEY-OHHHHH! Who's telling the 100 greatest jokes now?!?!) Here's what I'm saying: the pilot sucked a thousand...
View ArticleLove Throws A Housewarming Party With A Bar Fully Stocked With Clichés
Following the incredibly bleak events of the last installment, Judd Apatow and crew decide to start bringing more of the actual funny in "Party In The Hills," the fourth episode of the season. And...
View ArticleMickey's 'Nice' Friends Bring Out The Best In Each Other On Love
Love's Gus and Bertie are each great characters on their own -- sweet, perky foils to cynical, self-loathing Mickey. But when you put them together, without Mickey, at a nice restaurant, under the...
View ArticleDoes Love Portray How People Really Date Now?
That's it. I give up. I admit that I have absolutely no clue what this show is about or what the plan for the endgame could be. Netflix has an order in for a second season, so we should not be...
View ArticleLove Teaches Mickey And Gus A Tough Lesson About Planning Dates
Mickey and Gus are finally going on a proper first date, albeit one that starts with sex, after Mickey gets turned on by Gus's bug-squashing abilities. Netflix (It is pretty important that at least...
View ArticleLove's A Little Too Into Its Male Lead
Through and through, Love has all the markings of a Judd Apatow project. Apart from the most obvious -- that it's a semi-hard look at relationships -- its most marked quality is probably its...
View ArticleLove Shows How Not To Date
Confession: I'm not a huge Judd Apatow fan. Even as someone who theoretically falls into his target demographic as a consumer of hysterical/feministish comedy, I've never really seen myself in any of...
View ArticleLove's A Mess -- And, At The End Of Season 1, So Are Gus And Mickey
Here's a riddle: is it better to be addicted to everything, but on the brink of a breakthrough, or a self-proclaimed "nice guy" who loses everything he had going in one giant flame-out of a day? You...
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