The Best Episodes of Modern Love Season 1

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(6509 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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   Director:John Carney

   Writer:John Carney
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   8.3/10(5614 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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3. 

   8.3/10(5656 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
4. 

   6.5/10(3712 votes)

   #4 - 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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   7.4/10(3631 votes)

   #5 - 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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   Director:Tom Hall

   Writer:Tom Hall
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   6.3/10(3346 votes)

   #6 - 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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   7.6/10(3224 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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   Director:John Carney

   Writer:John Carney
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   8.2/10(2867 votes)

   #8 - 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