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Love is bathing your 92-year-old grandmother after her stroke with the solemnity of a prayer.
Love is a gaze that sets off your nerves like fireworks.
Love is hungry and complicated and richly mellifluous and sunsets the color of orange peels.
A gay couple adopts a child from a woman who chooses to be homeless.
A journalist and her subject bond over lost love.
The major hurdle to connecting withModern Loveis that the characters have the depth of a thimble.
Weirder still are the seriess racial dynamics.
Women of color are a rarity in this vision of New York, which relegates black women to sidekicks.
InModern Love,love is vacuum-sealed from the murkier dynamics that shape our lives.
Even the way the would-be relationship with Jeff fizzles out is because of Lexis inability to be present.
More importantly, we never understand Lexi beyond her illness.
Shes tied her identity so fiercely to her diagnosis, and the filmmakers cant see beyond it either.
Its stars, and viewers, deserve better.
