Modern Love: Start With Any Episode on Prime Video

Modern Love on Amazon Prime is an anthology adapted from the New York Times column that ran in 2019 and spans two seasons. The show brings together a notable cast — Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, Dev Patel, John Slattery and others — and is structured so individual episodes stand on their own, meaning you can jump in anywhere without losing the story.

The series explores more than romantic relationships, turning to angles such as adoption, friendship, grief and parenthood. One episode follows a gay couple facing an adoption match complicated by a nomadic pregnant woman; another, written and directed by Andrew Rannells and based on his essay, centers on learning about his father’s death and the sudden importance of a casual date.

Tina Fey and John Slattery examine the strains of long marriage in “Rallying to Keep the Game Alive,” and Kit Harrington plays a man trying to reconnect with a woman he met just as the COVID-19 lockdown began.

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