The Best Episodes of Modern Love

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   8.4/10(6526 votes)

   #1 - When the Doorman Is Your Main Man

   S1:E110/18/2019

   “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

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   8.3/10(5622 votes)

   #2 - When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist

   S1:E210/18/2019

   “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

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   Director:John Carney

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   8.3/10(5665 votes)

   #3 - Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am

   S1:E310/18/2019

   “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

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   Director:John Carney

   Writer:John Carney
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   8.2/10(2871 votes)

   #4 - The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap

   S1:E810/18/2019

   “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

   Writers:John Carney, Tom Hall

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   Director:Tom Hall

   Writers:John Carney, Tom Hall
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   8.0/10(2707 votes)

   #5 - On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down

   S2:E18/12/2021

   "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

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   Director:John Carney

   Writer:John Carney
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   7.7/10(2781 votes)

   #6 - Strangers on a (Dublin) Train

   S2:E38/12/2021

   "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

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   Writer:John Carney
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   7.6/10(3228 votes)

   #7 - Hers Was a World of One

   S1:E710/18/2019

   “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

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   7.5/10(1192 votes)

   #8 - A Second Embrace, with Hearts and Eyes Open

   S2:E88/12/2021

   "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

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   Writer:Kieran Carney
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   7.4/10(3633 votes)

   #9 - At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity

   S1:E510/18/2019

   “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

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   Writer:Tom Hall
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    7.2/10(1972 votes)

    #10 - The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy

    S2:E28/12/2021

    "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

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    Director:Jesse Peretz

    Writer:Sarah Heyward
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    6.9/10(1466 votes)

    #11 - In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses

    S2:E68/12/2021

    "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

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    6.5/10(3714 votes)

    #12 - Rallying to Keep the Game Alive

    S1:E410/18/2019

    “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

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    Director:Sharon Horgan

    Writer:Sharon Horgan
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    6.3/10(3348 votes)

    #13 - So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?

    S1:E610/18/2019

    “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

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    Director:Emmy Rossum

    Writer:Audrey Wells
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    5.7/10(1614 votes)

    #14 - A Life Plan for Two, Followed By One

    S2:E48/12/2021

    "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

    Writers:Dime Davis, Marta Cunningham, Sarra-Jane Piat-Kelly

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    Director:Marta Cunningham

    Writers:Dime Davis, Marta Cunningham, Sarra-Jane Piat-Kelly
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    5.7/10(1491 votes)

    #15 - Am I ...? Maybe This Quiz Will Tell Me

    S2:E58/12/2021

    "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."

    Directors:Celine Held, Logan George

    Writers:Logan George, Celine Held

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    Directors:Celine Held, Logan George

    Writers:Logan George, Celine Held
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    5.7/10(1288 votes)

    #16 - How Do You Remember Me?

    S2:E78/12/2021

    "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

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    Director:Andrew Rannells

    Writer:Andrew Rannells