The searching, heartbroken singles at the heart ofLovedont meet cute.
Gus offers to pick up the tab just to move her along or because hes really that nice.
Might he be instantly, instinctively attracted to her, too?
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Mickey takes his money and keeps caustically barking at the clerk.
And… love, too?
The first half ofLoves10-episode first season is really a pair of character studies.
Mickey in particular has a whole lot of them.
She has a sunshiny and slightly clingy new roommate from Australia, Bertie (Claudia ODoherty).
And shes got bitter ex-boyfriends up the wazoo who either provoke or enable her worst parts.
Lovesepisodes vary in length, usually between 30 and 40-something minutes.
One episode sends them on a lazy day drive-about as they get high and then come down.
Put another way:Loveis Apatow to the max.
Who cares ifLoveisnt funny, right?
Gutbusting lines and set-pieces abound, most of them either describing or depicting sex acts.
None of this works without great acting and chemistry, and Rust and Jacobs bring both in abundance.
Rust finds the right balance of sadsack and strength in Gus and rocks the awkward cringe comedy.
I cant get their take onThe Perfect Stormout of my head.)
Jacobs gives a bold zero fs performance as Mickey.
Playing addiction in comedy or for comedy is a tricky challenge.
Ive only seen 5 of the 10 episodes, but so far, so good.
Ive been asking and asking and I havent gotten fing anything, she says.
Hoping and waiting and wishing and wanting love…
Hoping for love has fing ruined my life.
LikeYoure The Worst,Lovemodels the work of dismantling the received wisdom and the received B.S.
about relationships, intimacy and love, finding and claiming their meaning, and rebuilding them for ourselves.
Its not a new story.
But its a lovable one.B+
