On April 15, 2022, the second season of the series "Love Life" was launched exclusively on the streaming media playback platform "Happy Premiere", which is exclusively operated by Huanxi Media .
Two years ago, HBO, which had just started its streaming business, launched the series "Love Life". Although there are countless love stories that happen in New York City, "Love Life" still has its "really heart-wrenching" "Newbie Love" and has become another successful love drama created by HBO after the "Sex and the City" series.
A year after the first season was aired, the main creator of the series, Sam Boyd, quickly launched the second season of "Love Life". At the beginning of the series, Boyd decided on the tone of "one season, one story", but the story still needs a "springboard" to integrate with the previous season.
In this way, a love story that also happened in New York but was set more mellow, revolved around the protagonist of the first season, Darby Carter, a man named Bien Marcus at the wedding of the first season, came to the audience again.
After divorce, the man in decline was looking for his soul mate, and the old man in New York was stumbled and found love
"No destined. No soul mate. But it can still be said that the core of human concern is the desire to create connection."
Although the "Love Life" series is a romantic comedy, it focuses on realism. In the second season, it puts the deepest questions of many young people about their relationship: Are there really so-called soul mates in this world? If the loved ones that we once identified leave, how should we deal with our emotional world and find the next relationship?
Marcus, who works in a New York publishing house, has been married to his wife Emily for many years. Although people may not be optimistic about their union, Marcus believes that this is Emily, the love of his life. But after years of marriage, Marcus and Emily waved goodbye to each other's life due to an accident caused by a text message.
The love instantly became a passerby. After the divorce, Marcus moved out of his original apartment and lived alone. His life was broken and confused, his career was unrealized, and his life was in a mess. In his ordinary life, Marcus came into contact with all kinds of dates, stumbled in the huge New York city, waiting for the arrival of a sincere relationship...
In the modern concept, walking with his soul mate to the end is the final form of love. "Love Life" season 2 goes the opposite way, starting from the perspective of questioning "soul mate", bravely tearing off the fairy tale cloak of romantic comedy.
Different from the heroine Darby in last season, Marcus is both a minority and has entered a marriage. Therefore, for Marcus, the journey of finding a soul mate is difficult. Whenever he takes the initiative to attack love, he gets a dramatic breakup.
From the painful experiences, the confused Marcus learned to listen to the voice of his heart and describe the appearance of his ideal object. And the person he expects may not be perfect. Marcus constantly seeks balance between ideals and reality, and gradually explores his answer to the life question of " soul mate "...
Emmy Award male lead acting "certified", "heart-wrenching" class teasing fast-food romance
Love has no standard answer. The reason why the "Love Life" series resonates with the audience is that the protagonist's many mental journeys have happened in real life.
In the first season, the "Newbie" girl Darby has an imperfect original family, and her parents are neglected to take care of her, which is the main reason for her to form a "pleasant personality". The male protagonist of this season, Marcus, has both parents knowledgeable. If Darby's love is healing, then Marcus's love is a process of clearing away the fog.
Psychology, love has been divided into Eros type, Rutas type and Strojuku type.The "Love Life" series uses a new story mode every season, which is actually using the "love model" of different ordinary people to build a "love group portrait" of modern people, so as to feed the "hard lessons" learned from the protagonist to the audience. In order to allow the audience to better adapt to the rhythm of the new story, the first season cast, which some viewers are familiar with, will return in the second season and interact with the characters of this season.
In the process of creating this season, the main creator of the series, Sam Boyd, referred to many emotional classics such as " When Harry Meets Sally ", "Love at Sunset and Dusk", and "Love Jones". The team spent a lot of energy on the new protagonist "Marcus" and tried to get close to ordinary people in reality as much as possible. It is this "imperfection" that makes the stories in the play not as patterned as traditional Rom-Com (rom-Com), and invisibly broaden the audience of the play.
Love dramas have never been a limit for female audiences. "Love Life" season 2 starring William Jackson Harper After watching the previous season, he praised the perspective of the show. In the discussion area of the "Love Life" series, many male viewers also gave high scores for the series.
In this season, "Love Life" will turn into a male perspective, and through the plot of "divorce", it will completely tease the fairy tale of love, which will truly and bitterly tease the phenomenon of fast-foodism supremacy in contemporary love. In addition to the protagonist's experience, through Marcus's two "bad friends", they also show three completely different views on love: "literary man", "tall, rich and handsome" and "home man". In addition to the inner growth of the characters, the series also introduces social issues such as the survival status of ethnic minorities in the United States and the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you have watched the high-scoring American drama "Good Land", you will definitely be impressed by William Jackson Harper's performance in the drama. This American drama also made Harper nominated for the Emmy Award and his fame rose sharply. In the sequel to "Love Life", director Boyd, as a loyal "fan" of Harper, invited him to join the show. In the end, Harper won the 12th American Critics Choice TV Awards for Best Actor in TV Movie/Limited Drama for his outstanding performance in "Love Life".
No matter how different everyone’s love experience is, love always has commonalities. Although the "Love Life" series sets the background in a reinforced and concrete city, the core is still to resonate with the audience with the connection between the individual and themselves, and the individual and the surroundings. It is precisely this connection that ultimately builds everyone's "love" and "life".
Huanxi Premiere is an ad-free streaming media playback platform combining all membership system and paid on-demand broadcast, providing viewers with high-quality film and television content from all over the world. Currently, the HBO high-scoring love growth drama "Love Life" which tells the story of ordinary people's love has been exclusively launched and premiered for both seasons. In addition, there are high-quality domestic films " murder ", "Poet", "Win the Championship", "One Second", "Warm Hug", "Son of the Jianghu", the popular youth drama " The Sky of the Wind Dog Boy ", and many overseas high-quality movies and series are being aired. The premiere of Huanxi, which has covered the three major terminals of PC, mobile and TV, has now exceeded 38 million downloads, and has accumulated more than 11 million paid users.
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