- Network: OWN
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 19, 2018
- Summary: Nuri (Michele Weaver) and Yasir (Will Catlett) look back on their lives in 1990s Los Angeles in this drama series created by Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil.
- Genre(s): Drama
- Season 1 premiere date: Jun 19, 2018
- Episode Length: 60
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Positive: 4 out of 6
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Mixed: 2 out of 6
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Viewing a depiction of love and relationships as a quest equally as important to men as it is to women grants Love Is ___ a layered sensitivity we don’t often seen on television.
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The producers of Love Is __ clearly know this terrain better than most. And they hope to make it accessible to audiences of all colors without losing the flavors that make it unique.
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The scenes with their friends tend to be livelier and lighter and more ordinarily lifelike than those that Nuri and Yasir have together. They keep Love Is_ from sinking under the weight of its own ardent sincerity.
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As good as Weaver and her Nuri are, the best scenes belong to Victor and her Angela Brown. ... Never bet against a show created by Mara Brock Akil, but feel-good "Love Is __" could use a little more edge and a lot more dramatic tension.
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Love Is has one problem that keeps it from truly working like it could: the chemistry between its leads, a crucial component of any worthwhile rom-com, falls flat when it should fizz. Weaver, at least, is effervescent, giving Nuri a confidence and palpable longing for stability that makes her truly magnetic. Both Yasir and Catlett, however, struggle to keep up with her.
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OWN’s syrupy immersion romance Love Is__ leads with a 1990s meet-tepid between two Hollywood wannabes and then glides along like molasses, allowing low-stakes minutiae to dominate the plotting.
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