Love - the Netflix series
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Love - the Netflix series
Has anyone else watched this new series?
I kind of got into Season 1 last year but wasn't quite sure how I felt about it/where it was going. Now that I just finished binge watching season 2, I'm really liking this show. It took me a while to really sink into the characters & "see" them, even though I found a lot of it very quirky & witty in a real-life kind of way.
It is striking me as raw & honest & it could be subtitled: "Love - a real look at living with cross-addictions and co-dependency."
I don't want to spill 2 seasons worth of spoilers in the first post but if you are looking for a mature, quirky drama that isn't a tear-jerker the way "This Is Us" tends to lean, you might want to try Love out for a few episodes.
I kind of got into Season 1 last year but wasn't quite sure how I felt about it/where it was going. Now that I just finished binge watching season 2, I'm really liking this show. It took me a while to really sink into the characters & "see" them, even though I found a lot of it very quirky & witty in a real-life kind of way.
It is striking me as raw & honest & it could be subtitled: "Love - a real look at living with cross-addictions and co-dependency."
I don't want to spill 2 seasons worth of spoilers in the first post but if you are looking for a mature, quirky drama that isn't a tear-jerker the way "This Is Us" tends to lean, you might want to try Love out for a few episodes.
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Originally Posted by firebolt 
I watched just the first episode and didn't love it - looks like I need to circle back!
The way the addict/codie seem to be drawn together despite both logically knowing that they don't make sense is so realistic, it's eerie. It's likely easy to dismiss as "unreasonable" because you want to say - who would tolerate THAT?.. who would stay & be treated this way?.... (yet we know the answer - WE are those people a lot of the time, slowly adjusting to the ever-increasing temperature of the water) It builds subtly, IMO, the same way it does IRL. I'm pretty sure when I go back & re-watch it in a few weeks, I'll pick up a lot more than I did the first time around.
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Yeah wow - sucked in and 2 seasons down in less than a week.
The relationships and characters were pretty painfully familiar.
I saw some of myself in every one of them. I see 4 ex boyfriends in the show, and my boss. It's crazy, and a little raw for me too. What an interesting perspective as a codie to watch codies in action - the show made our part pretty clear. It's very good!
The relationships and characters were pretty painfully familiar.
I saw some of myself in every one of them. I see 4 ex boyfriends in the show, and my boss. It's crazy, and a little raw for me too. What an interesting perspective as a codie to watch codies in action - the show made our part pretty clear. It's very good!
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I hear ya, firebolt. What's ironic is that I was able to call out all those codie behaviors from the get-go, but didn't start to see the negative impacts until much farther in the series. Or - I didn't interpret them as negative for a while, might be the better way to say it. It was close to the end of season one before I realized, yes, she's a mess but she KNOWS it. The subtle stuff really resonated for me - how a day could start out with one intention & end up sideways before you know it.... and how early on in the relationship this is exciting & fun but how it wears on the non-addict quickly when they recognize that loss of stability & control but have no clue how to manage it.... when it becomes EVERY day.
It's a definite testimony to why big changes (like starting or ending relationships) aren't typically advised during the first year of sobriety.
It's a definite testimony to why big changes (like starting or ending relationships) aren't typically advised during the first year of sobriety.
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I just blew through the first season in a week or so, and just started the second. I didn't think I'd like it, but I do. What makes for great characters is that they are flawed human beings. I think that's what gets on my nerves so much about "This is Us"--on that show it seems like the flaws are more decorative than they are integrated in the person. Their wonderfulness seems just a scratch below the surface. In this show, it seems like the character flaws run a lot deeper. But you can still turn the character a certain way and see good, or appealing, qualities, too.
Anyway, I'm enjoying it. I think I like my stories a little more on the dark side.
Anyway, I'm enjoying it. I think I like my stories a little more on the dark side.
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Oh, geeze, I saw that decades ago, no real desire to revisit it. And after I read some stuff about how Brando and other males on the set surprised his co-star with the butter, I no longer really have the stomach for it.
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My husband and I watched both seasons. We liked it. Like the main character Mickey, my sister is a sex/love addict and alcoholic. That's why I joined this forum -- to talk and learn.
The main character Mickey is flawed but seems to function fairly well -- I know she is in recovery.
The main character Mickey is flawed but seems to function fairly well -- I know she is in recovery.
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Originally Posted by LexieCat
What makes for great characters is that they are flawed human beings..... In this show, it seems like the character flaws run a lot deeper. But you can still turn the character a certain way and see good, or appealing, qualities, too.
Gad you all are enjoying it!
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Originally Posted by LexieCat
I think I like my stories a little more on the dark side.
THIS show is the graphic, messy "Anti-This Is Us" and if anything "Love" really seems all the more realistic and middle-of-the-road to me now. Shameless goes too far down the road of complicated & outrageous the same way Us ties everything up into too many pretty, neat packages.
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Season 3 just loaded to Netflix over the weekend..... I've only caught a couple of episodes but I have high hopes. I'm forecasting that we're going to see the codie in this relationship struggle with recovery as much or more so than the the addict.
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FireSprite, thank you for the recommendation. Watched the first season this past week and really enjoyed it! Looking forward to Season 2 and 3. Loved the dinner scene with Gus and Bertie and their excessive "thank yous" and hesitation to ask for a better table and then regretted that, too. Too funny...I recognized my codie self in so many scenes. I love Mickey's alcoholic/ addicted character as well...totally messed up, but so endearing at the same time. Easy to see why we codies are attracted to alcoholics!
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