Created by: John Carney
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video.
An anthology of different love stories set in New York City. The tone of the show is beautiful visually and bittersweet emotionally - just like what Pixar does. Some of the stories are centered around conflicts where you the characters can't do anything about it. Anne Hathaway can't do anything about her condition. She's trying. The old lady in the last episode, what can she do. The older guy and the young girl in Ep-6, what can they do. Somehow these stories are centered around things which we can't control. Life and death. Making someone like you. Fate. These are beyond your control. And that's what makes it heartbreaking. The bittersweet part comes out of the aspect that they can choose to move on and let life happen to them. The setting of New York comes through very well, by the way they shot it. It also comes through the locations it is set in; houses, cafes, grocery store and such life affirming locations.
My favourite is Ep-6, and Ep-8. I wish they showed us more the story in Ep-8 instead of calling back to the earlier episodes. For some reason, I found Ep-8 so endearing. It felt like something impossible was happening, to the both of them. It's quite rare to find someone at that age and be together. And Ep-6, the way it's shot is entirely from the girl's perspective which is why when the guy kisses her, we go WTF. But do a rewatch of the episode from the guy's perspective, it's a totally different reading of the same episode. Ep-6 has lots of scope for discussion about it.
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