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The Best Episodes of Modern Love Season 1

Every episode of Modern Love Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Modern Love Season 1!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Modern Love Season 1 Episode 1 - When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
    8.4/10(6716 votes)

    S1:E1

    “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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  2. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 2 - When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist
    8.3/10(5783 votes)

    S1:E2

    “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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  3. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 3 - Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am
    8.3/10(5889 votes)

    S1:E3

    “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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  4. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 8 - The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
    8.2/10(3002 votes)

    S1:E8

    “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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  5. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 7 - Hers Was a World of One
    7.6/10(3324 votes)

    S1:E7

    “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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  6. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 5 - At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity
    7.4/10(3736 votes)

    S1:E5

    “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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  7. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 4 - Rallying to Keep the Game Alive
    6.5/10(3812 votes)

    S1:E4

    “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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  8. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 6 - So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?
    6.3/10(3440 votes)

    S1:E6

    “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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"When the Doorman Is Your Main Man" is the best rated episode of Modern Love season 1. It scored 8.4/10 from 6,716 votes. Written and directed by John Carney, it aired on October 18, 2019. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist".