Every week, devotees of Modern Love—a Sunday column in The New York Times—read all kinds of love stories: heartwarming, heartbreaking, inspiring, infuriating.
Now, fans can get even more of the cult favorite: Amazon has adapted some of the most uplifting accounts into a feel-good series premiering Friday that runs counter to the dark, sarcastic tone of much of today’s peak TV.
“I hope that when people watch this, their heart is opened up because I think it can’t hurt” said actress Cristin Milioti, who plays a woman seeking advice from her doorman.
Modern Love first appeared in October 2004 with an installment entitled “She dumped me.” Since then, nearly 800 stories have followed.
Not all are about romantic love. Some are about platonic love, sibling love or even love for a pet. And in some columns, love hurts.
A podcast version of the wildly popular column debuted in 2016, which only served to reinforce the popularity of the stories’ format: short, poignant and intimately told by one of the people involved.
And now it comes to television, with a host of boldface names like Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, Dev Patel, Milioti, singer Ed Sheeran and more.
It is not the Times’ first foray on the small screen: it recently launched The Weekly, a documentary series.
