This is about Neflix's new (2016) TV series "Love" starring Gillian Jacobs.
First of all this series is seriously mis-titled. Why someone would choose such a wide, multilayered, and with so many different meanings, universal, yet vague without the proper context, word as the title of a TV show, is beyond me. Maybe he thought a generic title like "Friends" could bring him success eventually, but "Love" is broader by far. It even makes it very confusing searching for it in the WWW.
Anyway. This series isn't ambitious enough to justify such a heavy title. It is just a same-o same-o attempt to give you some "insights" about dating in modern USA (basically). I've lost count on how many comedies are/were/will be out there about dating.
So, is there any significant difference from all the previous attempts? Well, no. Not really. The pilot episode tries to be a little bit more "direct" (I could use another word such as spicy or even vulgar here) with Gillian Jacobs's character saying to the mother of her on-and-off boyfriend phrases like "His cum is still inside me."
The thing is that, choices like that, makes you think about the essence of the show and if its purpose is more to provoke than to present any serious aspects and problems of todays relationships.
I wouldn't try to recommend you not to see it. It's not a sin or the end of the world if you do, but hold a small basket and see it as the thing really is. A light and forgettable TV series.
------ UPDATE: After watching All 10 episodes I have to lower the grade. Again the show has absolutely NOTHING to do with Love of any kind. Also it didn't felt like a comedy at all. The last 2-3 episodes were actually quite depressing. ((("Love" is basically the story of a troubled young substance and sex addict and a guy who is the definition of Loser.))) One of the things I hated the most is that the supposedly "Nice Guy" Gus is a Jerk and a Mean person with terrible personality. A truly unsympathetic character with no charisma whatsoever. Plus no one can believe that an ugly lame idiot like Paul Rust could possibly score with 2 beautiful girls like Gillian Jacobs and Briga Heelan in the same week.
First of all this series is seriously mis-titled. Why someone would choose such a wide, multilayered, and with so many different meanings, universal, yet vague without the proper context, word as the title of a TV show, is beyond me. Maybe he thought a generic title like "Friends" could bring him success eventually, but "Love" is broader by far. It even makes it very confusing searching for it in the WWW.
Anyway. This series isn't ambitious enough to justify such a heavy title. It is just a same-o same-o attempt to give you some "insights" about dating in modern USA (basically). I've lost count on how many comedies are/were/will be out there about dating.
So, is there any significant difference from all the previous attempts? Well, no. Not really. The pilot episode tries to be a little bit more "direct" (I could use another word such as spicy or even vulgar here) with Gillian Jacobs's character saying to the mother of her on-and-off boyfriend phrases like "His cum is still inside me."
The thing is that, choices like that, makes you think about the essence of the show and if its purpose is more to provoke than to present any serious aspects and problems of todays relationships.
I wouldn't try to recommend you not to see it. It's not a sin or the end of the world if you do, but hold a small basket and see it as the thing really is. A light and forgettable TV series.
------ UPDATE: After watching All 10 episodes I have to lower the grade. Again the show has absolutely NOTHING to do with Love of any kind. Also it didn't felt like a comedy at all. The last 2-3 episodes were actually quite depressing. ((("Love" is basically the story of a troubled young substance and sex addict and a guy who is the definition of Loser.))) One of the things I hated the most is that the supposedly "Nice Guy" Gus is a Jerk and a Mean person with terrible personality. A truly unsympathetic character with no charisma whatsoever. Plus no one can believe that an ugly lame idiot like Paul Rust could possibly score with 2 beautiful girls like Gillian Jacobs and Briga Heelan in the same week.