Modern Love is a Prime Video anthology series inspired by The New York Times column of the same name. The first season featured star turns from the likes of Anne Hathaway, Tina Fey, and Dev Patel. In Season 2, showrunner John Carney gets to infuse a bit more of his native Irish sensibility into the series. At least, in the third episode, "Strangers on a Train." The 35 minute love story is based on a short column written during the height of the pandemic about a meet cute undone by the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown. Carney reinvents the story using film references, musical interludes, and Ireland as a setting. It is, as fans of Once and Sing Street, will note, the first time John Carney has gone full "John Carney" in the anthology.
The Game of Thrones star is adorable and electric, making a strong case for a rom-com franchise of his own in the sixth episode of the season, Train. Lucy Boynton, too, makes it instantly believable why someone would fall hopelessly in love with her over a short train ride. It's the meet cute of most romantic kind as a techie and a medievalist bump into each other. There are impromptu songs, some stoner comedy, a lot of witty dialogue and what's best is that it's all set in the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic. The two, on their way back home on the cusp of a lockdown, decide to meet at the railway station two weeks later, giving each other not their phone numbers, but a chance at an old-school romance. However, the pandemic obviously had a longer stay in mind when it came visiting, without much concern for any cute love stories it may have destroyed.
Jon Snow may know nothing, but Kit Harington knows a good joke when he hears it. When describing his new love interest's specialty to his brother Declan , the latter quips, "Ok. So, like Game of Thrones and stuff?" While Harington's character offers up a frustrated stare in response, the 34-year-old actor tells E! Harrington now wears a bulky black fur coat for a light role in the new season of "Modern Love," based on the New York Times column on a real-life love story. Each episode tells different stories with different actors. Now Harington has hung up his bulky black fur coat for a lighter role in the new season of "Modern Love," based on The New York Times column about real-life love stories. Each episode tells a different story with different actors.
Modern Love is famed for bringing together some very famous actors to perform in an anthology series based on a newspaper column. Every story is completely separate, starring wholly new people and following a different story. The anthology series, developed by Irish director John Carney, is based on The New York Times column and podcast of the same name and each half-hour episode tells the story of a true love story. Honestly, I'm such an advocate of the anthology to other actors. It's set somewhere between a short film and an indie movie, it's in a little box by itself and it's a very satisfying thing to do. I think after eight years of playing one character in a long-running TV show, it's a very appealing thing for me to do.
There's a reason I did Criminal, there's a reason I did Modern Love. There is a reason I'm going to go on and do another anthology piece after this. It just allows me to stretch different sides of myself in a very contained way. Harington's episode of Modern Love, which aired on Friday, Aug. 13, was titled "Strangers on a Train." The anthology series put Harington's character Michael on a train, where he meets a medievalist named Paula .
In the episode, he ends up telling his bro Declan about the chance meet-cute, and that's where the glorious joke comes in. Asking about what she's into, Declan says, "OK. " Michael was not a fan of the reference, but Harington himself says he actually loved the joke. Based on the New York Times column and podcast of the same name, Modern Love has been created by John Carney.
The show features stand-alone stories and explores love in its multitude of forms – including sexual, romantic, familial, platonic, and self-love. In his episode, "Strangers on a Train", which is set in March 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic began, the actor plays Michael who meets Paula on a train from Galway to Dublin. Kit stars opposite Lucy Boynton in the third episode of the series' second installment. The episode follows Michael and Paula, who have a meet-cute of their own on a train in Ireland, just before the start of a two-week lockdown at the pandemic's onset. Being hopeless romantics , they forego exchanging numbers and decide to meet again at the same train station once the shutdown is over.
Of course, the lockdown is nowhere near over, and the story follows the characters as they seek advice on what to do next. The anthology series developed by Irish director John Carney, is based onThe New York Times column and podcast of the same name, with each half-hour episode telling the tale of a true love story. Harington's episode of Modern Love, which aired on Friday, Aug. 13, was titled "Strangers on a Train." The anthology series put Harington's character Michael on a train, where he meets a medievalist named Paula .
Asking about what she's into, Declan says, "OK. So, like Game of Thrones and stuff?" Michael was not a fan of the reference, but Harington himself says he actually loved the joke. They set up a meeting at that train station, 15 days from the day they arrive in Dublin. No address, no phone number, no full names; heck, not even a first name except 'Paula'.
For people who believe in fate and all that jazz, this is just the perfect story. She is the love of his life, he tells his sceptic of a brother. You should go to the station , her mother tells her. They set off on bicycles, sweet-talking cops, dodging barricades and breaking lockdown. Yeah, some people still do that kind of stuff. And somewhere above them, Love lets out another of 'em smirks.
Irish film director John Carney served as showrunner on the series, while also multitasking as writer, director and executive producer. A continuation of the first season of the romance anthology, all of the stories are inspired by true events from the beloved New York Times column of the same name. Andrew Rannellsalso directed an episode this season, which was based upon a personal essay that he penned for the column. In February 2017, it was reported that Harington would write, star in and executive produce Gunpowder, a three-part historical drama for BBC based on the real story of the Gunpowder Plot.
He played the role of his ancestor Robert Catesby alongside actors Mark Gatiss, Liv Tyler and Peter Mullan. Featuring a star-studded cast of Natalie Portman, Jacob Tremblay, Susan Sarandon, and Kathy Bates, this 2019 Canadian drama film stars Harington in its titular role. Covering themes of celebrity, tabloid culture, mother-son relationships, and homosexuality, the movie follows a child actor who exchanged letters with a troubled established actor through his unfortunate death. Harington transitioned from stage to screen with the lead role of Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, which he played for a total of 62 episodes over its eight seasons. Throughout Snow's wild story arc filled with death, resurrection, and family troubles, the actor earned Emmy, Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for his portrayal of the fan-favorite character.
Born in London's Acton neighborhood in 1986, Harington made his acting debut with the lead role of Albert Narracott in the acclaimed 2008 West End production of War Horse. After starring in another English play called Posh, he landed his television debut as Jon Snow in HBO's Game of Thrones, which ran for eight seasons and singlehandedly elevated his career to A-list status. Each half-hour episode tells a story of a real life love situation, usually based in New York. In episode three of season 2, titled, "Strangers on a Dublin Train", there is a short and witty reference to 'Game Of Thrones'. In the scene, we see Kit Harrington, who is playing the character of Michael, have an endearing first meet moment with the medievalist Paula, played by Lucy Boynton, in a train.
Micheal talks about his new love interest with his brother Declan , where the brother goes on to say, "OK. " To which Michael had a very strange and angered response. While Harington's character offers up a frustrated stare in response, the 34-year-old actor tells E! News that the line is actually the reason he signed on for Modern Love's new season.
"No, that was in the script," he says on whether the moment was improvised by Reynor. "And it's one of the main reasons I did the piece. You know, I read that and I pissed myself laughing." Harington developed, produced and starred in the BBC drama series Gunpowder based around the leading role of his ancestor Robert Catesby in the Gunpowder plot. His film roles include the historical romance film Pompeii and the British period drama Testament of Youth . He also voiced Eret in the How to Train Your Dragon film series. This 2014 British drama is about a young woman named Vera Brittain who dropped out of Somerville College, Oxford, to become a World War I nurse in 1914.
Based on the real-life Brittain's memoir of the same name, Harington stars in Testament of Youth as soldier and poet Roland Leighton, aka her romantic companion. The film also features Rocketman's Taron Egerton and Bridgerton's Jonathan Bailey. While many critics were satisfied with the intriguing storyline, many felt that season 2 lacked depth with underwritten characters. Matt Roush from "TV insider" highly appreciated the element of surprise. He said, "Modern Love can make you laugh, weep, sigh, shudder or swoon, sometimes all within a single story. Even when this exceptionally well-cast and admirably diverse series plays by the romance genre's rules, there's usually an element of surprise".
In the same vein, Game of Thrones does not provide a history lesson, even though some people might think it's based on medieval times. While there is a fair amount of worldbuilding involved in Game of Thrones, and that can feel like history in a lot of ways, it's not real history at all. Unless dragons are real and there's some big conspiracy to hide it from us…. He's really bold when it comes to those sorts of ideas in his work, and I loved that moment. I love the motif of strangers on the train, where it sort of swoops in being this 1940s kind of war drama.
I love Lucy walking into her childhood bedroom and it's tiny. I think that there were some really interesting decisions in this piece that kind of speak of the absurdity of the situation they're in. I definitely think he should have given his number, but then we wouldn't have a story, right? This episode is actually a really nice breath of fresh air about the pandemic it's possible to write something light and profound about this horrific episode in humanity's history. There are loads of interesting stories that I'm sure will come out of this that are worth investigating, and this is one of them. There are so many different meta elements to this piece, and shooting in the pandemic was kind of fascinating.
John Crowley , Marta Cunningham Jesse Peretz , and Andrew Rannells , will also direct episodes of the anthology series with Celine Held and Logan George co-directing an episode. The episode Rannells will direct is based upon a personal essay that he penned for the NYT column. Harington co-developed, co-produced, and starred as Robert Catesby in BBC and HBO's three-part 2017 historical drama miniseries Gunpowder. Harington and Vikander reunited for another 2014 film, Seventh Son, in which they star as William Bradley and Alice, respectively, alongside a cast that also features Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore. The actor is not there on any social media platform, be it Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook despite his global popularity as Jon Snow, the brooding hero of the epic HBO fantasy drama series where he also met his wife, actor Rose Leslie. The question now is, will Modern Love make you fall in love with Season 2?
You will like it in parts, depending on what your story is. You might find resonance in the strangers on the train who read Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed instead of spending their time glued to a screen; or you might see yourself in the estranged spouses at the therapist's. What the series does do though is reassure you, even if you're dealing with a particularly abrupt cold turkey of a relationship and have almost sworn off love, that there's still love out there. The rom-com is based off a New York Times column of the same name, and showcases a series of love stories taking place across the city.
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However, the romantic comedy anthology series also has ties to his past. In Modern Love season two, Driver stars in a heartbreaking episode entitled "On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down" about a woman who has lost the love of her life. Instead of exchanging numbers or social media profiles, the pair decide to go old school, arranging to meet again on the same train in two weeks time. But when the pandemic makes this impossible, they're left trying to work out how to find each other again. However, I would take the cliches over whatever Anna Paquin and Garrett Hedlund's episode, In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses, was trying to be.
It goes from whimsical to weird in an instant and never with any subtlety. Garrett plays a war veteran whose wife cheats on him with the husband of Anna's character. The cheated-ons meet at a counsellor's office and kick-start a romance of their own. On paper, it can seem complicated and worthy of a Modern Love episode but the treatment of it was far from it. The day dream sequences seem unnecessary and the performances are too one-note to register. Two years later, Modern Love returns with eight new, more relatable stories inspired by the popular The New York Times column, about love in New York City.
Of course, the short, 30-minute runtime helps when the stinkier ones arrive, but it also feels like a tragically small time when you want to watch more of Kit Harington and Lucy Boynton's Before Sunrise-but-make-it-Edgar Wright love story. I think my episode of Modern Love is the only one that deals with it directly. That's one of the things I really liked about the episode, that it was the first piece I'd read or seen that was dealing directly with consequences of the pandemic. I don't think we're going to live in a world now where we see people with masks on screen. We'll move to a place that we were at before unless it's directly dealing with what happened to us over these last two years.
There will be some who want the lingering spectre of Covid banished from their leisure pastimes. It has dominated virtually every other aspect of our lives, after all. Rather, it's a device used to frame this particular relationship and as a result, we're not wearied by its insertion into their world. Our eyes don't suddenly start twitching as our muscle memory recalls the trauma of the past 18 months.
It doesn't feel "too soon" or even "old news", depending on where you're at emotionally. It gives this story its outline, and Michael and Paula fill in the colour. It's not uncommon for a show or movie to reference an actor's previous work, but the fact that it was already in the script before Kit Harington even decided about taking the role is almost too good to be true. It's great that Harington loved the joke so much that he ended up signing up for the role. What would have made it even more perfect would have been if his character made the joke, I think, rather than being on the end of it. Developed by John Carney who serves as showrunner, Modern Love explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, as each standalone episode brings some of the NYT column's best known stories to life with an A-list cast.
Developed by Carney, Modern Love explores love in all of its complicated and beautiful forms, as each standalone episode brings some of the NYT column's best known stories to life with an A-list cast. This is the perfect excuse to spend a weekend afternoon catching up with or re-watching season one and feeling the love. Kit Harrington , Dominique Fishback , Anna Paquin , Tobias Menzies and Gbenga Akinnagbe , Sophie Okonedo are among more than two dozen actors joining the anthology series. Since April 2016, Harington has been an ambassador for The Royal Mencap Society; a leading organisation in the United Kingdom helping people with learning difficulties that also provides support for their families and caregivers.
In 2014, Harington also appeared alongside Jeff Bridges in the film Seventh Son, a poorly received fantasy–adventure film. Harington played Billy Bradley, Bridges' first apprentice killed early in the film by a character played by Julianne Moore. Ben Barnes, Alicia Vikander and Emily Watson also star. The film was released in wide distribution in the UK on 16 January 2015. Its world premiere was in The Centrepiece Gala, supported by the Mayor of London, at the British Film Institute London Film Festival in October 2014.
This 2016 Western film tells the story of a frontier woman running from law enforcement and a vengeful preacher after she's been wrongfully accused of a crime. Dakota Fanning starred as fugitive Liz, and Harington played Samuel, one of the last survivors in a deadly dispute over gold who finds himself in a battle with The Reverend . In 2014, Harington nabbed a starring role as a gladiator named Milo in the romance historical disaster film Pompeii. Based on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
That destroyed the Roman Empire city, the film also stars Emily Browning and Kiefer Sutherland. While it received mixed reviews from critics, the film went on to gross a total of $117.8 million worldwide. In reality, Harington said he has come across people who believe that "Game of Thrones", based on author George RR Martin's book series, is actually history. "My episode deals with the pandemic directly but it does so in a way that you go, 'oh, people can still fall in love. Human connection can still happen. There is hope'. This was one of the reasons I did this piece," Harington said. The story sees their bond develop into something 'meaningful' during the journey, so much so that they decide to opt for the old school romance by not exchanging numbers or social media contacts and meet again in the traditional way. The Ireland-set episode, which seems to have taken a leaf out of Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy's 1995 classic "Before Sunset", presents the meet-cute story of two strangers Michael and Paula, who meet on a train from Galway to Dublin.
