blackfilm.com correspondent Koku Tona attended the ‘Modern Love‘ press day, participating in a Q&A with Minnie Driver, Sophie Okonedo, Tobias Menzies, & producer/writer/creator John Carney, to talk ‘Modern Love’ Season 2.
Season 2 of ‘Modern Love’ is streaming and available now on Amazon Prime Video! Listen to the Q&A and let us know what you think!
Modern Love Season 2 Trailer
About Modern Love Season 2:
The Amazon Original Series Modern Love returns for season two with another impressively star-studded cast and new stories of love and relationships in all their complexities and beauty, inspired by The New York Times column of the same name. The season was filmed in Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, New York and Dublin, Ireland. All episodes will premiere on Prime Video on Friday, August 13th in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
SEASON 2 EPISODES:
Zoë Chao & Gbenga Akinnagbe – A woman with delayed sleep phase syndrome meets the love of her life. The catch is: he’s awake while the sun is shining and she is not.
Marquis Rodriguez & Zane Pais – For two young men, running into each other reminds them of their first and only date together. But do they remember that night the same way?
Grace Edwards & Lulu Wilson– A middle-school girl questions her sexuality when she finds herself having feelings for another girl. She turns to social media quizzes for answers.
Dominique Fishback & Isaac Powell – The new girl in school falls in love with her best friend and is convinced that they’re meant for each other… even though she can’t seem to ever get out of the ‘friend zone.’
Anna Paquin & Garrett Hedlund – After a chance meeting in a therapist’s office, a former marine and a housewife develop an unlikely connection when they discover their respective spouses are having an affair with each other.
Lucy Boynton & Kit Harington – Two strangers meet on a train from Galway to Dublin in March 2020 and decide to go old school: no numbers exchanged, only a promise that they will meet up on the train two weeks later. And then a worldwide pandemic shuts down all of Ireland.
Minnie Driver & Tom Burke – A woman’s only remaining connection to her late husband is her vintage car but now, 30-years later, she’s confronted with the difficult choice of selling it – and saying goodbye to her old love forever.
Sophie Okonedo & Tobias Menzies – Two parents, after being divorced for several years, begin a casual fling and reignite their old flame, only for one of them to receive a life-changing medical diagnosis.
About John Carney
John Carney serves as writer, director and executive producer. Additionally, John Crowley (Brooklyn), Marta Cunningham (Insecure) Jesse Peretz (Glow), and Andrew Rannells (Black Monday), direct episodes of the anthology series with Celine Held and Logan George (Topside) co-directing an episode. The episode Rannells directed is based upon a personal essay that he penned for the New York Times column. Todd Hoffman, Trish Hofmann, and Anthony Bregman also serve as executive producers on Season 2, along with Caitlin Roper and Choire Sicha of The New York Times, with Sean Fogel serving as a producer and Daniel Jones, editor of the “Modern Love” column, who serves as co-producer. The series is produced by Amazon Studios, Storied Media Group, Likely Story, and The New York Times.
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