Modern Love

Season 22019

An unlikely friendship. A lost love resurfaced. A marriage at its turning point. A date that might not have been a date. An unconventional new family. These are unique stories about the joys and tribulations of love, each inspired by true events.

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8 Episodes

E01 When the Doorman Is Your Main Man

“Ours was a common and unsung friendship, that between women living in New York, single and alone, and the doormen who take care of them, acting as gatekeepers, bodyguards, confidants and father figures.”

October 18, 2019

E02 When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist

“I tossed out one last question: ‘Have you ever been in love?’ No one, he said, had ever asked him that in an interview. ‘Yes,’ he finally answered. ‘But I didn’t realize it until it was too late.’ Then he asked me to turn off my recorder. I hit Stop."

October 18, 2019

E03 Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am

“My personal life was another story. In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you are, but I didn’t have a clue who I was from one moment to the next.”

October 18, 2019

E04 Rallying to Keep the Game Alive

“We rallied, not with the adrenaline-pumping determination to win at all costs, but with the patience and control that came with not wanting it to be over: not the summer, not our son’s childhood, not this game, ever.”

October 18, 2019

E05 At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity

“There is never a good time to fall off your couch onto a martini glass and begin losing a dangerous amount of blood, but having this happen in the middle of a promising date is an especially bad time.”

October 18, 2019

E06 So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?

“He was very handsome. He wore gray turtleneck sweaters and smelled like mint aftershave and old books. He was 55 and recently divorced for the second time. He was my father. He wasn't really my father.”

October 18, 2019

E07 Hers Was a World of One

“There was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster… in fact, our agency warned us that, as a gay male couple, we might be in for a long wait.”

October 18, 2019

E08 The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap

“Old love is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to know who we were, and we had learned to compromise. The finish line was drawing closer.”

October 18, 2019

Modern Love

E01 When the Doorman Is Your Main Man

E02 When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist

E03 Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am

E04 Rallying to Keep the Game Alive

E05 At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity

E06 So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?

E07 Hers Was a World of One

E08 The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap

Four More Shots Please!

Boundless

Modern Love Tokyo

Mind Field

Hache

Ice Road Truckers

Gestern waren wir noch Kinder

Turn Up Charlie

Little Things

Black Earth Rising

College Romance

Whitechapel

Toda la sangre

Mrs. America

Ethos

The One

City on a Hill

The Naked Director

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

Painkiller

E01 When the Doorman Is Your Main Man

E02 When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist

E03 Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am

E04 Rallying to Keep the Game Alive

E05 At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity

E06 So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?

E07 Hers Was a World of One

E08 The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap