Art&Culture // Watching “Modern Love”

Over the last months I received several signs that I should watch “Modern Love” and I ignored them all until this late spring. Last fall, I took a screenshot on Instagram of a book called “Modern Love” which looked very nice and inspiring to me. Shortly I saw an announcement on IG about a show called “Modern Love”. Early spring I watched the trailer of a show called “Modern Love” on Amazon Prime and with tears in my eyes I thought that I have to watch this. And only a few months after, one Friday evening that I was alone at home, did I start to watch this mysterious show and only after the first episode I realized that it’s a) a series not a movie b) it’s based on a column called “Modern Love” in the New York Times and c) it was this show/book that I came across several times over the last few months.

Modern Love explores “love in its multitude of forms – including sexual, romantic, familial, platonic, and self love”.

The first couple of episodes absolutely blew me away. They are absolutely heartwarming, inspiring and each in itself very beautiful. I was incredibly inspired and I started to write my first short story – a morning in New York that I might publish one day. And I thought about modern love and how many different forms it can take and how many stories it writes. My absolute favourite episode, that I can highly recommend watching, is the second one where a journalist and young entrepreneur share their stories of love and while one already had her chance the other can still go after it. I wish I could talk to the authors of these columns and asked them about theses stories and if they really took place in the way they were portrayed.

I still have two episodes to watch and apparently there is a second season to come. There is also a podcast based on the same concept if you are craving for more love stories. Let me know if you fell for “Modern Love” as well and which one was your favourite episode.

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