Love is back and it’s better than ever.
Well, maybe – to be honest, we’ve only watched the first episode of the latest season, but if the others are anything to go by, the quality of this show is very much on an upward trajectory.
This weekend, its third season dropped onto Netflix and after a long eight or nine months waiting for the beloved Gus and Mickey to return to our lives, we are graced with their presences once again.
So on that note, if you (like us) aren’t totally caught up on the new season, your weekend plans are sorted.
Or, if you’ve never watched an episode of Love in your life, let us tell you why you should start.
1. Gillian Jacobs is in it
If you’ve seen Community, you’ll be more than familiar with Gillian Jacobs (and if you haven’t seen Community, please go watch seasons 1-4 after you’re done watching Love).
Even though you may not know Gillian Jacobs personally, watching her on the telly kind of makes you feel like you do.
She’s that girl you always see on nights out but don’t have the nerve to approach because she seems intimidating but is really very lovely.
She’s also a great actor, wears a vast array of outfits in Love that we could never pull off because they’re too cool, and just seems like a generally class person – what more could you want?
2. It’s too real
Love is like a typical romantic comedy if romantic comedies actually happened in real life.
It’s about people falling in (you guessed it) love and relationships and sex and all those things, but it’s also about friendship and annoying couples and painfully awkward moments that we’ve all experienced at one point or another that make you want to crawl into a hole and rot.
Much of season one follows Gus and Mickey from the moment they meet through those initial weird beginning points of a relationship where everyone’s confused and you’re glued to your phone and you don’t really know what’s going on.
Essentially, Love is a very accurate portrayal of modern romance and that makes it both terrifying but also sort of lovely to watch.
3. Paul Rust is in it
Not Paul Rudd, Paul Rust.
4. It is genuinely a very funny show
Similar to the way that Love is a romantic comedy if romantic comedies were real, Love is a romantic comedy if romantic comedies were actually funny.
Because Love is very funny – and seeing as it was created by Judd Apatow, the guy who’s responsible for Freaks and Geeks, Knocked Up, and This Is 40, it’s hardly surprising that it’s got those perfect moments of dry humour that are fairly hard to come by these days.
5. It’ll simultaneously make you want to be in a relationship and never want to be in a relationship
And at the end of the day, that’s the marker of a good TV show.
