Love
“Love” is a romantic comedy series following a relationship of a very unlikely pair. All good things must come to an end and earlier this month Netflix released its final season closing out the show.
The series features Gus, who is a painfully nerdy and awkward on-set teacher who writes screenplays and is in a band that makes theme songs for movies that don’t have them. Mickey is the cool alcoholic, sex and love addict who is a program manager at a radio station. The two aren’t necessarily a pair that ends up together. Throughout three seasons we see them try new things, test their boundaries and begin to find love.
Throughout the show we see Mickey struggle with addiction. She is an alcoholic who also likes to dabble in drugs and is addicted to sex and love. This series is one of few that discuses and displays Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous also known as SLAA. Through continuous mistakes in her love life Mickey realizes she has a problem. Even with her consumption problem, the hardest addiction for her seems to be her compulsive relationships. She feels better off sleeping with people instead of investing in people and getting to the root of her problem.
When she finally begins to address her problem through SLAA meetings and decides to take a years break from relationships. The only problem is her feelings for goofy, awkward Gus that won't seem to fade away. Just after having to break things off with Gus, she kisses him leaving the season on a cliffhanger.
In season two we comeback to see the two testing the waters. While her year off of love doesn’t exactly work out, she is trying something different. Mickey is working on herself while Gus is trying to be supportive, yet comes off condescending and overbearing. This isn’t a love story or a fairytale, this is more realistic. This show depicts the struggle between two individuals who are just trying to make something work. A relationship is something that hasn’t seemed to work for them before and nothing is seeming to work for them now.
As the show progresses we can see that Gus is not always this nice guy and Mickey isn’t always the bad guy. We see the two trade roles and go back and fourth.
In season three we see the success of the pair flourish. The two are both excelling in their jobs and begin new projects they never thought they would. We see the two begin to hit the best time in their relationship and maybe even the trickiest. They’ve come far enough to know their feelings for one another and enjoy the comfort but it is also the time to discuss possible futures.
With Mickey still recovering as an addict of many things, Gus begins to put his foot in his mouth. Throughout the season Mickey comes to terms with moving forward in a serious relationship while Gus can’t. While on a trip to visit his family things begin to turn left. After having to make a big recovery from playing victim throughout his entire life, he finally sees just what he really wants. The show closes out with a heartwarming and hopeful finale that not many of us see in real life. “Love” was a show of relationships and mistakes that you go through in your mid 20s to mid 30s. The series brought light to struggles no one likes to talk about and showed hope at the end of what seems like a long tunnel.
This series dives into the reality of love in LA and the reality of love between two people who don’t know how to do love. We see the process of healing and overcoming. The relationships between friends, lovers and coworkers. “Love” is a show about just how hard life can get in your mid-20s and just how good it can get. The series address the transition points in life. The transition of relationships all around you.
