I binge watched Love on Netflix more than a year ago when I was going through a Netflix watching spree and I was pleasantly surprised. I am a sucker for imperfect female characters because I feel like women need to be portrayed in every light. including good and bad. I feel like Love does a good job of capturing different roles that women play in their everyday lives. Love revolves around Mickey, a now self-admitted sex and love addict who has a tendency to go off the rails and mess everything up. She meets Gus, who is the complete opposite of that. The entire first season is one after another unexpected surprise, but it keeps you enthralled and waiting to see what happens next.
Here's a couple more reasons why you should give this show a binge watching chance.
1. Mickey- A.K.A. the trainwreck
I love imperfect female characters because women are multidimensional and we're not all the martyrs or the lovers. Sometimes we are simply just the destroyers of the universe and all that annoy us and Mickey is well very good at destroying her own universe. Her character is pretty complex once you get past the first wall, so it's worth sticking around past the first episode to see it evolve.
2. Birdie is everything.
She is the unexpected voice of reason throughout the show and you have no choice but to fall in love with her because you have no choice but to hate every other character in the show.
3. A real look on love
I was bitter and tired of love when I binge watched it the first time and this was such a refreshing show because it didn't show love through rose colored glasses, but quite the opposite. It portrayed love through smoke filled car windows and midnight subway rides. It was realistic about how badly love can mess you up and how girls can be the bad guys in the romance area too. It's a really real look on what love is as young adults living in the today and now and I found it refreshing.
4. A real look on what writing is
Gus is a writer, but he's actually a tutor for kid actors and it sheds a lot of light on the whole, "if you can't do, teach" part of what it is to be a writer. He lives in California where everyone goes to be a star, but he ends up mediocre and just falling short of what he always wanted to be. The dream is right in front of him, but it still seems really far away-even when he's invited to the write'rs table.
5. It's like watching a car crash.
I know, I know. Why would I want to watch something that sounds so terrible? Now, let me ask you, why not? The show is one bad choice after another and one bad decision away from falling off a cliff but that's what makes it so good. It's so much bad that you can't help but keep rooting for some good to come out of it and isn't that all love is?
If you haven't been convinced yet, here's the trailer for the upcoming season.
