The splashy new streaming platform kicks off with an easily binged if uneven show with Anna Kendrick as a woman whose relationships are analysed
There’s a canniness to the structure of slick new anthology series Love Life, which aims to analyse the dating history of one protagonist per season, each episode focusing on either a major or minor relationship. It’s an ambitious way to extend the constraints of a 90-minute, one-couple romantic comedy to a 12-episode examination of all the dating highs and lows someone experiences throughout their life, theoretically providing us with a depth often missing from the genre. But as nifty as this all might seem, it’s still an inarguably low-key way to launch HBO’s splashy new streaming platform HBO Max, given that Love Life is the only scripted original for adults made available from the late May kick-off. Comparisons to streaming competitors as well as – most damagingly – HBO’s regular content are inevitable and unfortunate.
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