modern love(Ep3-4): The most healing episode of the show

I will continue analyzing modern love in this video. There are 8 episodes in the first season, telling different stories in each episode, involving different creators, with no relevance between them. I will start with the third episode in the video.

Episode 3 Take Me as I Am, Whoever I Am

The episode begins with a 3-minute monologue. It is kind of boring. But fortunately, it is Anne Hathaway, whose beauty keeps me watching. The woman, Lexi is filling out her profile on a dating site, while it is almost full of nonsense. Then, she tells a story about her craving for peaches in the morning. I feel the woman a little different.

As I expect, she is totally sick. Wearing a sequined dress, she comes to the supermarket to buy peaches, just like she comes to the wrong door of a bar. She is in high spirits, as if her stock price surges. The director is also entertaining, making everyone in the supermarket dance with her. Well, I can absolutely get how happy she is. It is Anne's version of lala land. Then, the woman starts flirting in the supermarket. The man is embarrassed. No man ever expects that he could meet such an attractive woman coming on to him in the supermarket early in the morning. Fortunately, it is in the morning. Otherwise, it would be scary if it is at night.

The two have some coffee and make an appointment to meet again on Thursday. She pleasingly goes to the company. Oh wow, she has a job! I really can't discern that she is a lawyer. Her boss is nice, and specially reminds her not to be absent from work anymore. The woman is a little insane, but she does well at work. She gets a good job, being good at work and nice with boss. But she always misses work, and even buys peaches in a sequined dress. I don't understand.

After a day's work, she returns to home. Suddenly, she slouches on the bed without warning. Is she a drug addict? She comes to the supermarket to find fun after taking drugs, while getting tired and inanimate when she stops taking? The man she met at the supermarket comes to her house as scheduled, looking forward to the date with her. It is already Thursday. Has she been lying on the bed? The peaches are rotten.

Seriously, I think the man, Jeff, is nice enough. He dates with a woman who acts like a ghost, accompanying her having a meal of cereal and an ice cream together. If I were Jeff, I would have left impatiently. I don't understand what the woman is doing.

After separating, she returns home and starts recalling. With a large monologue and stage play transitions, the creator does pay great efforts to explain to us that she actually has a mental illness. I have never heard of the disease, do I have friends with the disease? Probably. If Lexi never mentions it to anyone, there's a good chance my friends are living as secretive as she does.

Then, one morning, Lexi is rejuvenated and full of energy. She excitedly asks Jeff to come over to her house for an evening date. I finally heard the name of the disease when she is cleaning.

L: I got to clean the bipolar out of this place.

I get it, the director plays a trick. This episode of Take Me as I Am is not what Lexi says to Jeff, it's what she says to herself. She can only meet people when she is in good condition, because she never tells others about her sickness. The person who does not accept her is never someone else, but herself.

Lighting romantic candles, Lexi is in a dazzling silver dress, and waits for her date with Jeff. Jeff arrives as scheduled, and he rings the doorbell. Then, Lexi gets moody and depressive again. She lies down on the floor in the toilet, crying uncontrollably. Jeff leaves, and they don't meet. I think they are done. After all, they have only met twice.

Then, she gets fired by the company because she is absent from work too much. She abruptly confesses her condition during her conversation with her nice boss. I never expect her to have the courage to say it. Anne's performance makes me cry.

Boss: So where are you right now, mood-wise?

L: I'm coming off of a low. Tonight I'll be pretty manic. You're the first person I've ever told about this.

Boss: How does it feel telling me?

L: Like an elephant's taken one of its feet off my chest.

That is all past. From then on, Lexi begins to accept her illness and tells it to her friends. Although Jeff and she are not in love, it becomes the beginning of her acceptance of herself. The episode receives the most overwhelming response among the 8 episodes. It empowers many bipolar people to face up to their disease, and makes more people understand the hidden disease. According to that, we, like Lexi, are making progress.

Episode 4 Rallying to Keep the Game Alive

The story is about a couple. The couple is getting old, and the conflicts that have been lurking between them for many years finally erupts. The wife chooses to be a housewife to support her husband, who is a star. They love each other, but they lack of communication for many years and have no common interests. The wife couldn't integrate into the life of her celebrity husband. She complains that her husband is narcissistic and self-willed, and never cares about the family. The husband thinks his wife is stubborn and domineering, and it is tiring to communicate with her. Finally, the two cannot handle anymore, choosing to do marriage counseling together.

Compared to the first three episodes, this episode is obviously much more cheerful. Divorced couples are not necessarily not in love, it just may be that the frequency of life is different. The couple in the show chooses to play tennis as a common hobby, and they reconnect on the tennis court. In the end, they are in a tune on the court, after all, they lose the connection in their marriage. It is an light story. I laugh out loud after watching the family of four bickering on the tennis court.

J: Shut your face.

S: Hey, Idon''t like that. That's not nice. Are you all right?

J: Do I look all right? She hit me in my penis.

D: You all right?

S: Nancy, that was not appropriate.

D: Why'd you hit him in the penis?

N: I didn't mean to hit him in the penis. I meant to hit him in the balls.

Alright, that's all for the video. Follow me, I will continue to discuss other episodes of modern love in the next video.