Yeah, except for after doing that for a few episodes, Love Life drops that construction and zeroes in on Darby's relationships with other people who loom large in her life: her best friends, her mom, her boss, who would be absolutely horrible if he weren't played by the incomparably charming Scoot McNairy.
The first episode, "Augie Jeong" makes the viewer imagine that each episode will concern itself with one particular romance and we'll move tidily through the litany to a wrapped-up happy ending, true love always.
ABOUT LOVE LIFE SERIES
The show starts out with the premise of investigating how Kendrick found "her person" by seeing her through a series of failed romances. Love Life's structure is a little hard to grasp, true. She's a sweetly sardonic delight, whether she's getting bowled over by the sudden betrayal of a boyfriend, pulling support duty for a substance-addicted friend, or arguing with her neurotically needy mom ( Hope Davis, also fantastic). Characters are diverse in terms of age, ethnicity, and sexual identity.Īnna Kendrick is very good in this rom-com that isn't particularly strong on either the rom or the com, but moves along pleasantly enough mostly due to Kendrick's charmingly off-kilter performance. Darby makes a decent role model as she's smart and assertive and takes her relationships with friends, family, and romantic partners seriously, but she also has no real ambition or plan for her life, or at least, not one that's communicated to us. At bars they have liquor, beer, and cocktails, and sometimes get sloppy drunk. Cursing and language is somewhat common, often for emphasis ("What the f-k?") but sometimes directed at people, like when a woman says to catcalling men, "Eat s-t, motherf-kers." A side character smokes cigarettes, and many characters drink. There are also many scenes set in bedrooms, though there's no nudity and what we see is lots of passionate kissing, suggestive movements, and visuals like a man's feet sticking out suggesting he's performing oral sex on a woman. Because of the focus on romance, expect lots of romantic complications, kissing, dating, marriage, and lots of sex talk. Parents need to know that Love Life is a romantic dramedy about Darby ( Anna Kendrick), a woman who charts a course from her first love to her last in a single season.
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