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Love is an American comedy Netflix series created by Judd Apatow, Paul Rust, and Lesley Arfin. Starring Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust, the tv series navigates the highs and lows of their evolving relationship with humor and authenticity and a "down-to-earth look at dating," exploring male and female perspectives on romantic relationships through the characters Mickey and Gus.

Love follows Gus and Mickey as they navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, and other things they were hoping to avoid. Having recently ended their respective dysfunctional relationships, Gus and Mickey meet each other by chance at a convenience store and forge a connection in the mending of their broken hearts and egos.

 

 

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“Playing that Guitarlito’s way” One of my favorite scenes in the entire show (S1E8)

2 Comments
2024/12/14
15:07 UTC

108

Low effort post but Gus’ nose shadow when they zoom in on his face in the Heidi witch scene made me laugh 😅

20 Comments
2024/12/09
18:40 UTC

5

Zolpidem episode??

Does anyone remind in which episode Mickey takes Zolpidem and forgets everything that happened?
I tried to search but i cant find it and i cant remember as well

3 Comments
2024/12/04
23:42 UTC

6

Roger and the Eberts songs?

Does anyone have a list of all of the movie theme songs Gus and his band do? If not can we put one together?

4 Comments
2024/12/04
06:03 UTC

14

Cringiest Show Moment of All Time

IMO it is so cringe and physically hard to watch the scene where Mickey and Gus go meet Gus' family and they all go to church together. When Mickey started singing and getting super loud and into the song it makes me sick to my stomach and I have to fast forward that part. Especially when the mom starts side eying. I find myself randomly replaying this scene in my head when I'm at work or driving in my car or while im doing some other mundane stuff. That part just irks me!! What do you guys think is the most cringe?

21 Comments
2024/12/01
15:27 UTC

12

How Would You Rank the Seasons from Best to Worst?

Love is one of my favorite comedies. Seriously underrated show and has become a comfort show for me whenever I need something to just relax to or have in the background (since I've rewatched a couple of times now).

Just curious, how would everyone rank the reasons from best to worst? I l absolutely love the first season, I think the writing, acting, and seeing Gus's and Mickey's relationship start was by far the most interesting.

Season 3 just doesn't do it for me at all. I feel like there's a lot more "overacting" between the characters, the plots are kind of all over the place, felt undercooked and kind of unneeded other than giving the fans another season.

1 > 2 > 3.

5 Comments
2024/11/29
17:28 UTC

44

Holy fuck, Gus is insufferable.

On E03E04 where he decides to take care of Mickey when she's sick because his friends convince him it's a "test". And then he blames her for getting sick. What an insufferable, fucking twat. I know it's a show, and the fact that I'm all worked up about this just means that Paul Rust is a good actor (maybe), but somebody needs to punch this knob in the face.

13 Comments
2024/11/29
08:28 UTC

18

So turns out the show wasn’t cancelled. It was instead just ended.

https://decider.com/2018/03/08/love-season-3-ending-interview-paul-rust/

Randy says it was a mutual break-up or whatever.

27 Comments
2024/11/28
05:05 UTC

18

"Whenever I think about smoking weed I'm gonna do ten pushups. Whenever I think about jerking off, I'm gonna do ten situps. That way by the end of the week I'll be high on self esteem."

It would be nice to see Bobby Lee in more stuff, he's always so funny

1 Comment
2024/11/25
07:17 UTC

38

Which character would you choose to have a one night stand with?

21 Comments
2024/11/23
22:40 UTC

1

Question about a Heidi scene

Just wondering, do you find the Heidi “Witch Sex” scene to be hot / a turn on or was the weirdness a turn off for you? At first it was a turn off for me but every time I’ve reached the show I’ve liked it more. I guess it’s a mix of crazy / sexy / comedic 😅. What about you guys?

3 Comments
2024/11/23
19:47 UTC

16

Anything you noticed after multiple viewings?

I’m watching it for maybe the fourth time now and just curious if there’s any little things that y’all have noticed in multiple viewings

18 Comments
2024/11/16
20:19 UTC

31

When someone says Gus and Mickey should’ve broken up after (insert episode)

0 Comments
2024/11/13
22:55 UTC

16

I channeled my inner Mickey tonight.+

LOL, well, sort of, anyway. I had bought some things at a grocery store tonight, including a box of Mallomars. I had seen the Mallomars on a display at the last minute, so it was an impulse buy.

Right after I bought them I realized that I should have checked the date--I am slow with eating & finishing boxes of cookies, and I also don't always open them right away. The one that I had bought had a January 13 date on them (which obviously is not bad) but when I went back to the display to take a second look, I saw some with a January 26 date.

I had my receipt so I went back over looking for the cashier that I had just had two minutes before, but she had left her area and was doing something else in the aisles. I saw another cashier and showed her the two boxes and my receipt and said, "I just want to change to this one because it's a better date." She said, "Oh, you have to see the manager for that."

Me: (feeling tired) "Who is that?" (I looked around and saw the cashier that had just had, so I gestured towards her, although she wasn't looking over at us.) "She was the one who checked me out.."

Cashier is still looking around for the manager. I'm tired and I just want to get out of there.

Me: "I'm just taking this." I put the new box into my tote bag, and I leave the old Mallomars box on the register, and start to leave.

I just wasn't in the mood to stay in the store anymore. It was really just trading one box of cookies for another with a slightly better date. I totally thought of that LOVE coffee scene though, when the guy didn't want to let Mickey take the cup of coffee even though she's a regular there, because she didn't have her wallet (end of Season 1/Episode 1) and she says, "No, I'm fucking taking this coffee right now." ("No no no, you stealing the coffee!")

I really love that scene 😄

6 Comments
2024/11/05
02:56 UTC

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Gus and Mickey should’ve stopped seeing each other after the first date.

Currently rewatching the show, Season 1 ep 7 “Magic”, with their first date, and can’t stop thinking that they were never good for each other from the start.

Pre-date, when Mickey set up Gus with Bertie.

During the date, Mickey very openly hated the magic club and made Gus feel embarrassed for being kicked out of the club. Also made Gus uncomfortable in the club by making comments about magicians and the show. And after, them having a conversation in the car and both looking unsatisfied.

AND THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST DATE.

Then, they’re having sex and Mickey asks to use a vibrator and forgets about Gus in the process, he notices it but doesn’t say/do anything.

And the next morning, Gus invites Mickey to his friends’ party and she says “Sounds stupid”, and again he looks puzzled.

They should’ve just broke it off right there and then. They’re obviously too different people and there’s nothing wrong with that.

I get it’s the show and if they stopped “dating” right after the first date, we wouldn’t have the show at all, I get it.

I also get that Mickey is an addict and have history with unhealthy relationships, and Gus is co-dependent and tries way too hard to be nice, and that’s what pulls them together.

But like, it was just their first date, and it felt like they were already in the relationship from the get-go.

27 Comments
2024/10/27
20:05 UTC

11

Do you consider South Dakota to be in the midwest?

As someone from Illinois, I never have. I always find it strange when Gus calls himself a Midwesterner or someone else does. Paul Rust is from Iowa which is more west so maybe that has something to do with it? Curious what people think about my geography question.

5 Comments
2024/10/27
17:44 UTC

43

What time of day do you think Mickey and Gus first meet, and is Mickey still kind of high?

The meet-cute obviously takes place early morning, as the sunset is pictured as Gus and Mickey both leave their homes, but when do people think they actually meet at the gas station? Is it still early, like 7am? Or later on? Also, is Mickey still kind of buzzing on Ambien right now?

8 Comments
2024/10/26
04:35 UTC

76

Who’s the hottest character in the show? I’ll go first

31 Comments
2024/10/25
18:45 UTC

12

Similar series?

Hi! I just finished my first rewatch, after rewatching girls. Are there similar shows that anyone know of?

22 Comments
2024/10/24
17:40 UTC

58

Who would you want to go out with on a date and why?

33 Comments
2024/10/16
13:45 UTC

48

This scene between Gus and Heidi caught me so off guard 😅 (S1E8)

26 Comments
2024/10/15
20:19 UTC

5

Gus (and the show) is obsessed with movies - why isn’t Mickey (or the show) as interested in music?

This may seem like a weird criticism of the show, and tbh it’s kind of minor, but after multiple rewatches and being a Love fan for several years, it struck me that Mickey isn’t as into music as perhaps someone who works in radio should be.

I know several people in radio, and they’re all big time muso’s - even if they don’t play instruments or sing, they’re always talking about music, buying records or going to gigs - things we never see Mickey do. Yes, she works on a station that’s more geared towards talk, but the show establishes early on that she’s been to Burning Man, is close friends with a guitarist, and owns a turntable - all indicators that she should be into music (also check out all the guitar magnets on her fridge).

I guess it makes sense that a show created by a big movie writer/director, set in LA and focusing on a guy who works at a studio and whose dream is directing a movie, should have so many movie references throughout (and they are EVERYWHERE, in the dialogue, in the sub-plots, the cameos, etc etc), plus Love does of course have a killer soundtrack, but it just struck me that Gus’s obsession is movies, while Mickey’s obsession is her addictions, rather than music.

Not only that, when music does get brought up in the show, it’s always through the prism of Gus and his friends’ shitty movie theme songs band, Roger and the Eberts, which works fine in the context of the show, but would just be a joke irl. It was specifically the episode when the band finally plays a live show (You’re My Gran Torino), and Mickey is so full of praise for them at the end, that this notion really struck me, because Mickey specifically says it was the best gig she’s been to in a long time, which got me thinking - when does she ever go to a gig, plus, how bad were those gigs for THAT to be on of the best gig she’s seen? (OK, I know she was super loved-up after Gus dedicated a song to her and basically serenaded her, but still)

Basically, Gus gets to have TWO creative outlets in the form of his movie passion, AND his band, while Mickey has multiple addictions and a job she seems totally disinterested in for most of the show’s run, especially in a creative, artistic context. I guess that really she has so much personal shit to deal with that maybe she doesn’t have the bandwidth to have any creative dreams, but that seems like a cop-out from the show and the writers… anyone else feel the same or am I just reading too much into this?

5 Comments
2024/10/15
08:04 UTC

23

"Paul Rust, who is possibly too much of a nice guy"

I came across this article about Gillian Jacobs, which says...

there’s something very compelling about Gillian Jacobs, the co-star of Love, the Netflix series, which this week begins streaming its second season. It might be because this veteran of NBC’s Community is a bit of an unusual leading lady. Her character, Mickey, is as unavailable as she is needy of love, the very thing that connects her to her co-star, Paul Rust, who is possibly too much of a nice guy.

The comment that Paul Rust is too much of a nice guy piqued my curiosity (bear in mind, I've never watched the show). What do they mean by that and are they talking about his character or the actor?

8 Comments
2024/10/12
17:41 UTC

1

Looking for a song that may have been in this show

Maybe I have the wrong show, but ChatGPT at lease seems to think it was Love and I did watch this a while back. I kinda forget most of it though.

Fred Armisen is emotionally entangled in a woman, he stands outside of her hotel room or something similar and there is a slow song playing where the male vocals says "Falling, falling, falling". It is very low tempo and not "Falling" by Haim, but maybe a remix or something.

All I know for sure is Fred Armisen was there and it played on whatever show I watched. Almost positive it was a TV show. Any help would be great, the song has been randomly triggered in my head years later and I can't even find it to put it to bed.

If that scene happened in this show, that should help narrow it down if I could get an episode number.

4 Comments
2024/10/10
09:52 UTC

32

While You Were Sleeping realisation - what Susan says

Just realised that when Gus drove stoned Susan back to her mansion and she tried to fuck him, she may have planted the idea of doing While You Were Sleeping at his movie theme tunes party later that same evening.

She says of Heidi (who of course was at the previous movie theme tunes party) that “if she doesn’t get Sandra Bullock famous she’ll snap and rob a bank.” Gus then walked home with that conversation in his mind and it may have got him thinking about Sandra Bullock, and then on to While You Were Sleeping.

Just great writing.

3 Comments
2024/10/09
11:21 UTC

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RANDY 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

That’s it that’s the post FUCK RANDY!!!

36 Comments
2024/10/09
00:31 UTC

24

Where can I find this same or similar shirt Mickey wears in S3 EP2?

6 Comments
2024/09/29
05:38 UTC

51

Is it just me, or is Nobody Wants This just a Love rip-off?

So, I’ve only watched the first episode of this new Kristin Bell romcom on Netflix, but found myself comparing it (unfavourably) to Love. They’re both set in LA, they’re both about two very different people around the same age who don’t seem right for each other on paper, she’s abrasive and blunt and works in media, and he’s a bit geeky and reserved and has just broken up with a long term girlfriend. But it’s just not as funny, and doesn’t seem as natural, and frankly the Kristen character (Joanne) comes across as a less likeable Carrie from SITC and I don’t think I can sit through another nine episodes of her doing that. I get that there’s a whole Jew/Gentile thing the writers have thrown in, but that doesn’t seem believable either.

Has anyone else tried it and feel the same way? Has anyone stuck at it and can tell me if it’s worth it, ‘cos from just one episode all I’m getting is “inferior knock-off Love” vibes and I don’t think I’ll be able to get over that if I keep watching.

25 Comments
2024/09/28
03:01 UTC

29

I watched the shrooms episode on shrooms last night

Gus looked scary as hell. Otherwise enjoyable

4 Comments
2024/09/23
08:10 UTC

45

I was catching up on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and saw Heidi (Briga Heelan) in the season 10 premiere!

3 Comments
2024/09/15
17:58 UTC

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