Television series

Love Life

Name: Love Life
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: 2020
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Lesley Manville, Keith David, William Jackson Harper, Christopher Powell

Romantic comedy

Love Life is a romantic comedy anthology where each season follows a different person through their relationship history. Anna Kendrick stars in season one as Darby, navigating the mess of modern dating and love in New York. It's thoughtful without being heavy, funny without being mean, and genuinely interested in why people connect or don't. For anyone who loves romance but also recognizes it's complicated.

TVMaze rating

3.2

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy romantic comedy that treats each relationship as its own self-contained story, where the charm lies in small observations about how people fall in and out of love.

Skip it if you want a single through-line or a slowly building central couple, since each episode jumps to a new romance and the season-long arc stays light.

What it asks of you: Half-hour episodes, each a self-contained chapter with its own emotional arc, so it pays off when you watch one at a time rather than racing through.

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