“Beyond the innocuous nostalgia, this ModernLove episode actually forced me to watch my own past mistakes play out onscreen”
Photo: Christopher Saunders/Amazon Prime Video You know that feeling when you watch something that seems so uncomfortably familiar, you’re forced to reckon with yourself through the eyes of whatever character you relate to, no matter how excruciating? The second season of Amazon’s Modern Love made me relive — and then process— a singularly painful life experience: my teenage heartbreak. I am, embarrassingly, being only slightly hyperbolic.
In the fourth episode of Modern Love, a girl named Lillian Parker falls in unrequited love with her best friend, Vince. It’s a relatively clichéd plot line, but I guess I lived a relatively clichéd existence in high school, because I took Lil’s story a little too personally. Despite being a confident, driven, and smart girl with goals of becoming a famous comedian, Lil foolishly allows her “best friend” to mess with her life for years because of her feelings for him.
Beyond the innocuous nostalgia, the episode actually forced me to watch my own past mistakes play out onscreen. Vince’s character grows up to be a bit of an arrogant and conveniently oblivious teenage boy, reminding me of all the times my Vince would cross the boundary of friendship then disappear for a few days, come back, and pretend nothing happened — refusing to acknowledge all of my unanswered texts or own up to any of it.
Later, when Lil and Vince get to college, they sleep together — which finally, officially ruins their friendship for good after Vince admits the next day that he regrets it, using the classic “I don’t want to lose our friendship” line.
At the end of the episode, Vince shows up at one of Lil’s comedy shows and apologizes. I was half hoping for her to roast him in front of the audience, but I also wasn’t surprised when they ended up back at their old spot in Brooklyn and decided to be friends again.
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