Anne Hathaway plays a bipolar patient in the third episode "Accept the real me, no matter who I am".
The first episode "When your most important man is a concierge"
The star-studded Amazon drama "Modern Love" received constant praise after its first season broadcast, with an IMDb score of 8.1 and a Douban score of 8.7. The eternal theme of "love" was once again conveyed to the hearts of drama fans through eight short stories. Many fans lamented "believing in love again", and some fans bluntly said: "It’s so warm and comfortable, and I want to fall in love after reading it, especially suitable for autumn viewing. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve grown up or been single for a long time. It’s easy to be moved by this kind of plain truth between people and poke people’s tears. "
The first season of "Modern Love" received such a good response that Amazon also announced that it would renew the second season while the iron was hot and go online in 2020.
[Not just stories]
Modern Love consists of eight independent short stories, each of which tells a love story of urban men and women. Each episode is only about 30 minutes, short and exquisite.
These stories come from The New York Times’s emotional column of the same name. Since 2004, The New York Times has set up a column of "Modern Love" to regularly publish readers’ letters about "love", which are all touching stories. In the past 15 years, the column has gradually become an enduring popular column, and many stories have been assembled into books and published, which have become spiritual reading materials to comfort the hearts of urbanites.
The second episode of the drama "When Cupid is a Troubled Journalist" comes from the submission of journalist Di Bola Copakan in 2015. She tells the story of her love that ended in nothing 30 years ago and dating Justin mcleod, the founder of App Hger. Through the mouth of the female reporter in the play, she expressed her feelings about love: "The love we once had, which was not completed and lost without trial, is so rash and naive for those who choose to settle down. But in fact, this is the purest and most devoted love. "
Di Bola said: "Everyone who has experienced it will want to know, am I the only one who has experienced these feelings? I have received many letters from readers who said ‘ Thank you for saying what I have always wanted to say for me ’ The story I tell may be the story of any other, and it is the helplessness and sadness of others. "
[not just love]
Although the theme is "love", the focus of Modern Love is not limited to the love between men and women. The opening episode "When Your Most Important Man Is a Porter" is recognized as the best of the season. This episode is about a hotel porter’s paternal care for a little girl who came to new york alone. It was written and directed by john kani, and the story comes from the story submitted by Julie houben in 2015.
Maggie, the heroine, is a female doctor who writes books as a student. Her boyfriends come and go, but she has never met MR. RIGHT. Gu Simin, the concierge of the hotel where she stayed, cared for her like an elder, as if he had a mind-reading ability, and he could see at a glance whether the man around Maggie was suitable for her, and his inference was always proved to be correct. Even so, knowing the world, he wouldn’t interfere with Maggie’s behavior, but stood upright in front of the hotel, guarding his daughter’s resting harbor like a father.
Maggie, who was pregnant unexpectedly, left new york for Los Angeles. Five years later, she came to visit Gu Simin with her new boyfriend. Unexpectedly, this time, my boyfriend passed the test easily. Gu Simin told Maggie, who looked surprised, that her judgment standard was not the goodness of those men, but Maggie’s own mind: "I never looked at those men, Maggie, I looked at your eyes."
Julie houben, the original author, said that the original text was only a 150-word essay, which was not even an article. The adaptation of the series was very large, but the emotional connection between her and Gu Simin was real. "Gu Simin’s friendship and care for me were great. Every time I came to new york, I would go to the door of the hotel to secretly see if he was there."
Anne Hathaway’s third episode "Accept the real me, no matter who I am" was also highly praised. Hathaway plays a bipolar patient, always switching between two extreme moods, sometimes falling into mania and sometimes falling into depression. Terry Cheney, the author of the original text, is a bipolar patient. She revealed that Hathaway and director john kani had had in-depth talks with her. "They are very careful in dealing with the roles, hoping to learn more from the details.".
[not just one season]
John kani, who is good at musical comedy, is a director, producer and screenwriter. He is especially good at expressing fresh and refined intimate relationships and making the audience feel the warmth of life silently. As one of the fist products of Amazon’s streaming media war, Modern Love has a star-studded lineup: Anne Hathaway, andrew scott (Sherlock), tina fey (I am a comedian), Andi Garcia (The Godfather Part III), Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire), olivia cooke (Ready Player One) & HELIP; … This made john kani sigh: "We have successfully assembled our favorite cast just like waking up in an actor’s candy store. This proves the influence of the original column, and it also proves that we need certain love now more than ever. "
Because of the good reputation in the first season, Amazon quickly signed an overall contract with john kani and announced that it would renew the second season. It will continue to adapt The New York Times’s "Modern Love" column, with daniel jones as the consultant, but it has not been announced whether Anne Hathaway and other actors will return. John kani said: "There are infinite possibilities in the new season, which may tell love stories in other cities and further explore the meaning of love in this complex world." (Yangcheng Evening News reporter Shao Yuheng)