Television series

Lovesick

Name: Lovesick
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 2014
Cast: Antonia Thomas, Daniel Ings, Johnny Flynn, Joshua McGuire, Hannah Britland

Other titles called Lovesick: the 1983 film.

Comedy
Romantic comedy
Light-hearted

A British comedy about a man who contracts an STI and decides to track down his exes to tell them, using the mortification as a springboard for self-examination. It's warm, awkward, genuinely funny, and interested in why people hurt each other—even when they're trying not to. For anyone who loves character-driven comedy with real feeling underneath.

TVMaze rating

3.7

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you like romantic comedy that is frank, messy and very funny about sex, and you enjoy a lead who makes poor decisions with total conviction, closer in spirit to Fleabag than to a polished rom-com.

Skip it if you want romance that plays it straight, since the sex talk is blunt, the jokes are crude at times, and the bleak moments of Dylan's self-absorption can grate over a whole episode.

What it asks of you: Thirty-minute episodes that move briskly, with a lot of talking and little downtime, so it asks you to keep up with rapid banter and to sit with a character who often digs himself deeper.

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