The BEST episodes of Modern Love season 1
Every episode of Modern Love season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Modern Love season 1!
Unique stories about the joys and tribulations of love, each inspired by a real-life personal essay from the beloved New York Times column "Modern Love."
#1 - The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
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#2 - When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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."
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#3 - When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
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#4 - Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
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#5 - Hers Was a World of One
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
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#6 - At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
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#7 - Rallying to Keep the Game Alive
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”
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#8 - So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/2019
“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.”