Modern Love

1. S01E01Season's bestWhen the Doorman Is Your Main ManOctober 18, 2019 7.9“Ours was a common and unsung friendship, that between women living in New York, single and alone, and the doormen who take care of them, ac
2. S01E02When Cupid Is a Prying JournalistOctober 18, 2019 7.8“I tossed out one last question: ‘Have you ever been in love?’ No one, he said, had ever asked him that in an interview. ‘Yes,’ he finally a
3. S01E03Take Me as I Am, Whoever I AmOctober 18, 2019 7.7“My personal life was another story. In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you are, but I didn’t have a clue who I was
4. S01E04Rallying to Keep the Game AliveOctober 18, 2019 6.9“We rallied, not with the adrenaline-pumping determination to win at all costs, but with the patience and control that came with not wanting
5. S01E05At the Hospital, an Interlude of ClarityOctober 18, 2019 6.4“There is never a good time to fall off your couch onto a martini glass and begin losing a dangerous amount of blood, but having this happen
6. S01E06So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?October 18, 2019 6.0“He was very handsome. He wore gray turtleneck sweaters and smelled like mint aftershave and old books. He was 55 and recently divorced for
7. S01E07Hers Was a World of OneOctober 18, 2019 7.1“There was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster… in fact, our agency warned us that, as a gay male couple
8. S01E08The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final LapOctober 18, 2019 7.0“Old love is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to know who we were, and we had learned to co

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

1. S02E01On a Serpentine Road, With the Top DownAugust 12, 2021 7.6"Driving, with the top down, I’m reminded that I too can shift gears, face risk, handle inconvenience — and survive tragedy. My partner, eye
2. S02E02The Night Girl Finds a Day BoyAugust 12, 2021 6.7"I'm a vampire, basically — going to bed around 8 or 9 a.m. and waking around 4 or 5 p.m. First dates usually go OK because they’re in the e
3. S02E03Strangers on a (Dublin) TrainAugust 12, 2021 8.1"We met on a train. A perfect, flirtatious, six hours. The beginning of our love story? Trusting in the power of the universe, we hadn’t exc
4. S02E04Season's bestA Life Plan for Two, Followed By OneAugust 12, 2021 8.2"He was everything a 10-year-old girl could ever hope for in a man. It was decided; I was in love. I started to wonder if the glow from my w
5. S02E05Am I ...? Maybe This Quiz Will Tell MeAugust 12, 2021 5.7"In retrospect, maybe I should have known who I was the first time I went looking for a quiz called 'Am I gay?' But I didn’t."
6. S02E06In the Waiting Room of Estranged SpousesAugust 12, 2021 6.0"A few months later, I was in the psychologist’s reception room, paying for my fourth really good cry, when a woman carrying a child walked
7. S02E07How Do You Remember Me?August 12, 2021 6.3"I don’t remember his last name. He was handsome, with a nice smile and startlingly blue eyes. The sex was good, I think. We didn’t know eac
8. S02E08A Second Embrace, with Hearts and Eyes OpenAugust 12, 2021 8.0"On this night, long after we had thrown in the towel on us, here we were again, crawling back into the ring. This time, though, it would be

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