SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

SnoopyStyle In LA, Mickey Dobbs (Gillian Jacobs) is tired of her job at a podcasting company, has a loser sex partner, and tons of personal issues. Gus Cruikshank (Paul Rust) is a geeky aspiring TV writer working as a teacher for spoiled child actor Arya Hopkins (Iris Apatow) on a middling TV show. His girlfriend cheats on him and leaves him. Both Mickey and Gus are deeply flawed. Chipper Bertie Bauer (Claudia O'Doherty) joins Mickey as her new roommate fresh off the boat from Australia. One day, Gus helps Mickey at a convenience store.I love Community and Gillian is a great part of that. I don't know anything about Paul Rust. The odd part of this show is that a nerdy looking guy like Rust gets plenty of hot women. Sure, he gets dumped by a cute girl at the start but then he gets a threesome with two hot young sisters ... and he blows it. All of it pales in comparison to a goddess like Gillian. The show explains it by giving Mickey a mountain of personality issues. It could have played into the superficial difference between the two leads' looks but they rarely go there. At least, they don't go there enough. Judd Apatow is overseeing this show with Rust and his wife. The show has his brand of painfully personal awkward humor. The mix is pretty good. Mostly, I like all the characters. Most importantly, I like these two leads and their roles. They pull me into their relationship and O'Doherty is a terrific third wheel. Even Judd's daughter Iris actually work despite the nepotism. It's cancelled after three seasons on Netflix.

legotech98 Mickey and Gus are terrible people, cheating etc. While those things would seem like a good set up for conflict, the other person never finds out or they are just forgotten by everyone. Instead of the truth about Mickeys affair coming out, it's swept under the rug and the show abruptly ends with season 3. Gus never finds out, there is no resolution to this conflict.

thecaptain-390-686858 I would have given this a 10 but I think the fact that Gus came completely clean and Mickey still had her little secret was kind of a mess and it's a shame every other word had to be a curse word especially from children actors.The story is great and it is relatable in so many ways. You see a lot of the ups and down of relationships and the characters are likeable. I say it's well worth watching!

The_late_Buddy_Ryan If you're okay with the premise that a gorgeous Twelve Stepper like Mickey could stick it out for thirty-odd episodes with a geeky pop-culture vulture like Gus, then it's pretty much all good, especially the third season. There've been plenty of recent shows about aspiring entertainers and entry-level culture workers (Mrs. Maisel, Mr. Roosevelt, Master of None...) but Love also has plenty to say about high-risk relationships, coping with self-destructive patterns and putting away childish things, most of it relatable for anyone who's had a normally chaotic young adulthood, some of it even kind of profound. OTOH, some of Mickey's Amy Schumer-style antics in the first season as well as the couple's continuing tiffs and squabbles may seem a bit contrived at times, but for the most part the writing's sharp and original. The workplace-comedy stuff--he's an on-set tutor for a struggling TV series, she's a talk-radio producer--and the occasional glimpses of the underparts of the LA entertainment complex (the radio shrink's book-signing debacle, the Horror House bus tour, the Van Nuys amateur wrestling scene) seem especially well observed, and the supporting cast is excellent. Special mention to Claudia Doherty as Bertie, Mickey's bemused Aussie roommate, and Iris Apatow as Arya, Gus's spoiled child-star tutee.