As for the charactersâ motivations, itâs clear theyâre all being haunted by certain demons, whether itâs Byronâs wealthy roots or Hazelâs past family tragedy involving the loss of her mother. âI think all of the characters are sort of surprising in a way because they all have behaviors or make choices that arenât the best ones and yet you sort of understand all of them,â Lee explains. âAnd it was important for us in our approach of developing these characters that even when theyâre doing bad things that you empathize with them.â
That surely could be the case when it comes to Byronâs employees, Lyle Herringbone (Dan Bakkedahl) and Bennett Hobbs (Caleb Foote), who often do dirty deeds, but who win us over with their humanity (and their humor).
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Sometimes, parts of a TV show are charming enough to distract you from its faults . . . or the plot s subtext.
HBO Max s Made For Love is such a case, a feather-light black comedy about a disillusioned wife attempting to escape her smothering husband. Its premise has taken a thousand and one shapes over the years by way of sitcoms, Lifetime women-in-peril flicks or dystopian trifles.
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Alissa Nutting s 2017 novel inspired this fast-paced tale, which is energized by winning performances from Cristin Milioti and, further into the season, Ray Romano. Nevertheless Made For Love never manages to ascend beyond something more than conventional buddies-on-the-run comedy within the four episodes made available to review.
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HBO Max reveals trailer for dark comedy Made for Love starring Cristin Milioti
Made for Love. Starring
Palm Springs‘ Cristin Milioti, the series sees her on the run from her tech billionaire ex-husband who secretly implanted a chip in her head that can track her anywhere.
The series is based off Alissa Nutting’s novel with the show created by Christina Lee, who is also serving as showrunner. SJ Clarkson will direct the series. Nutting, Lee and Clarkson will executive produce alongside Patrick Somerville, Dean Bakopoulos and Liza Chasin.
Made for Love is a darkly absurd and cynically poignant story of love and divorce. It follows Hazel Green, a thirty-something woman on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to Byron Gogol, a controlling tech billionaire. Soon she discovers that her husband has implanted a monitoring device – the Made for Love chip – in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her, and know her “emotional data” as she tries to regain he