"Love Life" series on Amazon: There has to be at least one

For statistics freaks, the pairing parameters thing is as clear as it is boring.

The average person has seven more serious relationships over the course of their life, two of which are long-term.

Twice the average person loves seriously (the other times are more like opportunities), twice they are left heartbroken and usually make a full recovery.

In numbers, a whole love life is pretty mediocre.

On closer inspection, it doesn't necessarily get any more grandiose.

The average person, at least the one who the omniscient narrator (Lesley Manville) leads in the RomCom anthology series "Love Life" (HBO Max), sees the process in the same way: meeting, fireworks, the sky full of violins, fear of rejection , the feeling of being chosen and changed and being able to give life new turns, the “next level”, moving in, marrying children, one, two or three, the insight that neither you nor your partner is as perfect as you thought , Irritations, fear of the future, fear of the end, the end.

Next try.

Romantic love in New York

The only interesting thing about romantic love is through stories. When these play in New York City, you have an exciting teammate - the city that doesn't sleep, even if nothing is going on for its residents. One of the last "RomCom" series that got serious about New York was "Modern Love" (Amazon Prime). In it you can see how the possibilities of love fan out in alternative narratives. Age, gender, altruistic love, the love between a mentally ill person (Anne Hathaway) and someone who is learning to deal with it, self-love - since Carrie Bradshaw's unhealthy fixation on “Mr. Big ”and his sensitivities in“ Sex and the City ”have changed a lot.

"Modern Love" tells a new relationship in each episode, with new staff. “Love Life”, on the other hand, devotes ten episodes in the first season to the coming-of-age experiences of Darby Carter (also producer: Anna Kendrick). Between 2012, the year she graduated from NYU, and 2019, the year when Darby, as a young mother with sleep deprivation, breast pump routine and dark circles, unexpectedly meets "The Person", she meets men, falls in love, falls out of love, tries - one only time - with therapy sessions to finally be able to forgive yourself for an embarrassing episode of your youth, get back together with an ex, give someone a second chance, almost give up your own life for an older, established partner,finds back and works on her expectations and her ideas of professional and private happiness - that she found with her flat share and her friends Sara (Zoe Chao), Jim (Peter Vack) and Mallorey (Sasha Compère).

In addition to the consistency that romantic love lacks in modern times. From Augie, the first boyfriend who took a job with a political magazine in Washington DC (problem of long-distance relationships), to her ex-boss Bradley (problem of inequality of living conditions) to "Danny Two Phones" (problem of exiles) and the aspiring gourmet chef Magnus ("Your dreams are my dreams"), with whom she wants to temporarily set up a self-catering farm with a restaurant in Upstate New York (problem clusters of power couples, career kinks and broken dreams), Darby, the child of divorce, loves herself more and more towards self-knowledge.

"Love Life" is double the program - as "love life" and with "love life" (as it is). Even the individual episodes are not exclusively narratives of couple constellations. While Darby, who tends towards dry humor, lets Augie and all the others into her life, she learns from others, from various women and men with life experience, repairs the relationship with her mother Kate (Hope Davis) and continues to break new ground in her professional life. Jim's mother knows that ideal ideas are guaranteed to prevent fulfilled love. The tenth and final episode makes Darby the midwife to the fame of an artist beyond eighty. The midwifery of fate still has surprises in store for old age.

Years of emancipation have been removed from “Love Life” from the deceptions of the “Sex and the City” fiction.

However, the series is still based on the statistically unprovable assumption that there is a lid for every pot (and that the latter actually wants it).

Within the genre, the series seems like a lighthearted attempt to rely on more colorful colors instead of rose-red.

A new second season keeps the concept of the chief producer Sam Boyd, but with William Jackson Harper it focuses on a black man instead of a white woman.

Love Life

runs on Starzplay / Amazon Prime.