Love Life is an American romantic comedy anthology web television series which follows the story of Darby Carter who embarks on a journey from first to lasting love, which includes the people she meets along the way. Darby lives with Sara (Zoë Chao) and Mallory (Sasha Compère), diverse roommates whose lives are vastly more complicated and perhaps more involving than hers, the casting for Darby’s roommates/BFFs is similar to The Bold Type where we have two best friends of a different color.
Darby’s love life kicks off in 2012 with aspiring journalist Augie (Devs co-star Jin Ha). Along the way, we meet her first love (a bratty high schooler played by American Vandal veteran Griffin Gluck), a leering boss ( played by the great Scoot McNairy), her needy mother (Hope Davis) and other functionaries.
Review
Love Life was very refreshing to watch because it was very witty, deep, heartwarming, satisfying, and relatable. I loved the fact that Anna Kendrick’s character Darby wasn’t portrayed as a zealous woman who keeps struggling to reach her goal but keeps failing…Although at the beginning of the season, we saw her struggle to achieve her career goals but as the season continued, we saw Darby walk her way towards success as she eventually owned a art gallery.
Another remarkable thing is how frequently Kendrick held the show together. She was funny even when the scripts weren’t because Kendrick is a master of slightly askew line-readings.
The Pitch Perfect star has always had a way of bringing a sarcastic bite to her performances without it seeming overly affected or try-hard, and this was exactly the case with her performance in Love Life. As the episodes unfold, you begin to see what lies behind the walls Darby has put up around herself through failed relationship after failed relationships after the failed tryst, which means Kendrick really had to bring it when expressing those tender, fragile parts of Darby’s heart
The twists, turns, and complications which arise as Darby searches for the one person she can settle down with (and luckily, blessedly, the premiere episode gives us a good reason to believe she will succeed in finding “the one”) help break with expectations and keep you hooked. The season is cut into chapters, with each episode named after the person Darby is dating or, as we see later in the season, a person whose relationship to Darby is undergoing profound and transformative growing pains which illuminate within Darby a part of herself she needs to work on in order to become the person ready to accept the kind of love we see she deserves. This, in combination with Kendrick anchoring the show in a reliably strong, seemingly effortless performance, makes Love Life both a breezy, binge-able watch as well as a worthwhile viewing endeavor.
You should check out Love Life as it is different, all 10 episodes are available for viewing on HBO,I mean, you get to watch all 10 episodes at once, no waiting and it has been renewed for a second season.
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