8.4/106,209 votesLoading...#1 - When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
Director: John Carney
Writer: John Carney
8.3/105,380 votesLoading...#2 - When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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."
Director: John Carney
Writer: John Carney
8.3/105,389 votesLoading...#3 - Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
Director: John Carney
Writer: John Carney
8.2/102,736 votesLoading...#4 - The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
Director: Tom Hall
Writer: John Carney, Tom Hall
8.0/102,561 votesLoading...#5 - On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/12/2021
"Driving, with the top down, I’m reminded that I too can shift gears, face risk, handle inconvenience — and survive tragedy. My partner, eyes misting, says: 'You love that car. And your husband was an extraordinary man.'"
Director: John Carney
Writer: John Carney
7.7/102,616 votesLoading...#6 - Strangers on a (Dublin) Train
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 8/12/2021
"We met on a train. A perfect, flirtatious, six hours. The beginning of our love story? Trusting in the power of the universe, we hadn’t exchanged mobile numbers. Sometimes, a romantic plan isn’t enough."
Director: John Carney
Writer: John Carney
7.6/103,094 votesLoading...#7 - Hers Was a World of One
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
Director: John Carney
Writer: John Carney
7.5/101,116 votesLoading...#8 - A Second Embrace, with Hearts and Eyes Open
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 8/12/2021
"On this night, long after we had thrown in the towel on us, here we were again, crawling back into the ring. This time, though, it would be different. We just never imagined how different it would become, or how quickly."
Director: John Carney
Writer: Kieran Carney
7.4/103,487 votesLoading...#9 - At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
Director: Tom Hall
Writer: Tom Hall
7.2/101,871 votesLoading...#10 - The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 8/12/2021
"I'm a vampire, basically — going to bed around 8 or 9 a.m. and waking around 4 or 5 p.m. First dates usually go OK because they’re in the evening, but complications quickly arise."
Director: Jesse Peretz
Writer: Sarah Heyward
6.9/101,388 votesLoading...#11 - In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/12/2021
"A few months later, I was in the psychologist’s reception room, paying for my fourth really good cry, when a woman carrying a child walked in. I didn’t recognize her at first, and then I remembered her face. 'Are you the wife of the guy my wife is having an affair with?' I asked tactlessly. 'Yeah,' she said. 'But we’re not together anymore.'"
Director: John Crowley
Writer: Susan Soon He Stanton
6.5/103,570 votesLoading...#12 - Rallying to Keep the Game Alive
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
Director: Sharon Horgan
Writer: Sharon Horgan
6.3/103,210 votesLoading...#13 - So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
Director: Emmy Rossum
Writer: Audrey Wells
5.7/101,522 votesLoading...#14 - A Life Plan for Two, Followed By One
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/12/2021
"He was everything a 10-year-old girl could ever hope for in a man. It was decided; I was in love. I started to wonder if the glow from my wedding dress would make him look washed-out. I began devising a plan in which he and I would end up '2gether 4ever,' as all my notebooks stated."
Director: Marta Cunningham
Writer: Marta Cunningham, Dime Davis, Sarra-Jane Piat-Kelly
5.7/101,410 votesLoading...#15 - Am I ...? Maybe This Quiz Will Tell Me
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/12/2021
"In retrospect, maybe I should have known who I was the first time I went looking for a quiz called 'Am I gay?' But I didn’t."
Director: Logan George, Celine Held
Writer: Celine Held, Logan George
5.7/101,220 votesLoading...#16 - How Do You Remember Me?
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/12/2021
"I don’t remember his last name. He was handsome, with a nice smile and startlingly blue eyes. The sex was good, I think. We didn’t know each other well. We never would."
Director: Andrew Rannells
Writer: Andrew Rannells
The Best Episodes of Modern Love
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Genre:Comedy
Network:Prime Video
Best Episodes Summary
"When the Doorman Is Your Main Man" is the best rated episode of "Modern Love". It scored 8.4/10 based on 6209 votes. Directed by John Carney and written by John Carney, it aired on 10/18/2019. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist".