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The Best Episodes of Modern Love

Every episode of Modern Love ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Modern Love!

Best episode
S1E1 When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
8.46,710 votes
Worst episode
S2E4 A Life Plan for Two, Followed By One
5.71,679 votes
Top season
Season 1
7.6avg
Binge time
8h 48m
16 episodes
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Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Modern Love Season 1 Episode 1 - When the Doorman Is Your Main Man
    8.4/10(6710 votes)

    S1:E1

    “Ours was a common and unsung friendship, that between women living in New York, single and alone, and the doormen who take care of them, acting as gatekeepers, bodyguards, confidants and father figures.”

    Director:John Carney
    Writer:John Carney

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  2. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 3 - Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am
    8.3/10(5885 votes)

    S1:E3

    “My personal life was another story. In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you are, but I didn’t have a clue who I was from one moment to the next.”

    Director:John Carney
    Writer:John Carney

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  3. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 2 - When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist
    8.3/10(5781 votes)

    S1:E2

    “I tossed out one last question: ‘Have you ever been in love?’ No one, he said, had ever asked him that in an interview. ‘Yes,’ he finally answered. ‘But I didn’t realize it until it was too late.’ Then he asked me to turn off my recorder. I hit Stop."

    Director:John Carney
    Writer:John Carney

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  4. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 8 - The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
    8.2/10(2999 votes)

    S1:E8

    “Old love is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to know who we were, and we had learned to compromise. The finish line was drawing closer.”

    Director:Tom Hall
    Writers:John Carney, Tom Hall

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  5. Modern Love Season 2 Episode 1 - On a Serpentine Road, With the Top Down
    8.0/10(2806 votes)

    S2:E1

    "Driving, with the top down, I’m reminded that I too can shift gears, face risk, handle inconvenience — and survive tragedy. My partner, eyes misting, says: 'You love that car. And your husband was an extraordinary man.'"

    Director:John Carney
    Writer:John Carney

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  6. Modern Love Season 2 Episode 3 - Strangers on a (Dublin) Train
    7.7/10(2890 votes)

    S2:E3

    "We met on a train. A perfect, flirtatious, six hours. The beginning of our love story? Trusting in the power of the universe, we hadn’t exchanged mobile numbers. Sometimes, a romantic plan isn’t enough."

    Director:John Carney
    Writer:John Carney

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  7. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 7 - Hers Was a World of One
    7.6/10(3322 votes)

    S1:E7

    “There was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster… in fact, our agency warned us that, as a gay male couple, we might be in for a long wait.”

    Director:John Carney
    Writer:John Carney

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  8. Modern Love Season 2 Episode 8 - A Second Embrace, with Hearts and Eyes Open
    7.5/10(1247 votes)

    S2:E8

    "On this night, long after we had thrown in the towel on us, here we were again, crawling back into the ring. This time, though, it would be different. We just never imagined how different it would become, or how quickly."

    Director:John Carney
    Writer:Kieran Carney

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  9. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 5 - At the Hospital, an Interlude of Clarity
    7.4/10(3733 votes)

    S1:E5

    “There is never a good time to fall off your couch onto a martini glass and begin losing a dangerous amount of blood, but having this happen in the middle of a promising date is an especially bad time.”

    Director:Tom Hall
    Writer:Tom Hall

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  10. Modern Love Season 2 Episode 2 - The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy
    7.2/10(2048 votes)

    S2:E2

    "I'm a vampire, basically — going to bed around 8 or 9 a.m. and waking around 4 or 5 p.m. First dates usually go OK because they’re in the evening, but complications quickly arise."

    Director:Jesse Peretz
    Writer:Sarah Heyward

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  11. Modern Love Season 2 Episode 6 - In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses
    6.9/10(1526 votes)

    S2:E6

    "A few months later, I was in the psychologist’s reception room, paying for my fourth really good cry, when a woman carrying a child walked in. I didn’t recognize her at first, and then I remembered her face. 'Are you the wife of the guy my wife is having an affair with?' I asked tactlessly. 'Yeah,' she said. 'But we’re not together anymore.'"

    Director:John Crowley
    Writer:Susan Soon He Stanton

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  12. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 4 - Rallying to Keep the Game Alive
    6.5/10(3809 votes)

    S1:E4

    “We rallied, not with the adrenaline-pumping determination to win at all costs, but with the patience and control that came with not wanting it to be over: not the summer, not our son’s childhood, not this game, ever.”

    Director:Sharon Horgan
    Writer:Sharon Horgan

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  13. Modern Love Season 1 Episode 6 - So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right?
    6.3/10(3438 votes)

    S1:E6

    “He was very handsome. He wore gray turtleneck sweaters and smelled like mint aftershave and old books. He was 55 and recently divorced for the second time. He was my father. He wasn't really my father.”

    Director:Emmy Rossum
    Writer:Audrey Wells

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  14. Modern Love Season 2 Episode 7 - How Do You Remember Me?
    5.7/10(1346 votes)

    S2:E7

    "I don’t remember his last name. He was handsome, with a nice smile and startlingly blue eyes. The sex was good, I think. We didn’t know each other well. We never would."

    Director:Andrew Rannells
    Writer:Andrew Rannells

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  15. Modern Love Season 2 Episode 5 - Am I ...? Maybe This Quiz Will Tell Me
    5.7/10(1555 votes)

    S2:E5

    "In retrospect, maybe I should have known who I was the first time I went looking for a quiz called 'Am I gay?' But I didn’t."

    Directors:Celine Held, Logan George
    Writers:Celine Held, Logan George

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  16. Modern Love Season 2 Episode 4 - A Life Plan for Two, Followed By One
    5.7/10(1679 votes)

    S2:E4

    "He was everything a 10-year-old girl could ever hope for in a man. It was decided; I was in love. I started to wonder if the glow from my wedding dress would make him look washed-out. I began devising a plan in which he and I would end up '2gether 4ever,' as all my notebooks stated."

    Director:Marta Cunningham
    Writers:Dime Davis, Sarra-Jane Piat-Kelly, Marta Cunningham

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Best Episodes Summary

"When the Doorman Is Your Main Man" is the best rated episode of Modern Love. It scored 8.4/10 from 6,710 votes. Written and directed by John Carney, it aired on October 18, 2019. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am".

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