Love’s Full Season 2 Trailer Features People Smashing Things And Feeling Very Confused
Ain't love grand? (It's not)
Spoilers for season one of Love!
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The first season of Love ended on about as much optimism as it could muster. Sure, Gus (Paul Rust) seemed to almost deliberately blow up every good thing in his life and Mickie (Gillian Jacobs) was facing some very serious problems with addiction, but at the end they smooched at a gas station!
Now, it looks like the second season is intent on giving that relationship a real shot. The first full trailer, released today (Valentine’s Day in the US), shows Mickie battle with her love and sex addiction head on while also embarking on a monogamous relationship with Gus. At one point she rage-smashes a $2,000 crystal bowl and Gus seems to get arrested after an elaborate police chase but hey, he seems happy!
Also: bonus Claudia O’Doherty.
Though the first season of Love faced some pushback over its truly unlikable characters, the showrunners (Rust, Girls writer Lesley Arfin, and Judd Apatow) and were always very deliberate about this. The series was repeatedly compared to You’re The Worst, but arguably lacked the same comic strength to cut through the frustration.
“I think Love takes for granted that viewers know yelling at shopkeepers isn’t cute, and that hiding your feelings behind an aw-shucks awkwardness is rarely charming,” TV critic Matt Roden wrote for Junkee at the time. “The show calls both characters on all this shit, and in the final episodes they have to take ownership of their issues.
“Gus and Mickey felt real to me, and their actions were crummy, and their timing was terrible, but long-standing real relationships are sometimes built on all of that and worse.”
Season two looks set to dive into these characters’ neuroses even further and perhaps develop a bit more compassion for their shit. With Please Like Me now finished and Girls entering its final run, Love may well be your new go-to show about extreme (and extremely relatable) emotions.
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Love‘s second season hits Netflix on March 10. It’s also recently been renewed for a third season.