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Made for Love is an American science fiction black comedy-drama television series based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Alissa Nutting. The series premiered on HBO Max on April 1, 2021.[1] It stars Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen and Ray Romano. In June 2021, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on April 28, 2022.[2][3] Despite positive response to the series, in June 2022, the series was canceled after two seasons following the merger of HBO Max's parent company WarnerMedia with Discovery, Inc. to become Warner Bros. Discovery.[4][5] It was removed from HBO Max in December 2022.[6]
After a woman escapes from a suffocating 10-year marriage to a tech billionaire, she discovers her husband had her fitted with a tracking device. The device, which he implanted in her brain, allows him to track her location, watch her live, and know her "emotional data" as she tries to regain her independence.
Made for Love is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alissa Nutting.[7] WarnerMedia gave the series a greenlight in June 2019 for their streaming service HBO Max. Patrick Somerville was the season one showrunner and writer, with S. J. Clarkson directing.[10] Made for Love was the first original series from HBO Max.[11] On June 28, 2021, HBO Max renewed the series for a second season.[2] Executive producers Christina Lee and Nutting were showrunners for season two.[12] The series was canceled after two seasons on June 10, 2022.[4] An official statement on the series cancellation from representatives from HBO Max said:
In July 2019, Cristin Milioti was cast to lead the series.[14] Ray Romano was added in September 2019, with his deal only for one season.[15] Noma Dumezweni would join in October 2019, with Billy Magnussen, Dan Bakkedahl and Augusto Aguilera added in November 2019.[16][17][18] In December 2019, Raymond Lee was cast in a recurring role.[19] In July 2021, Caleb Foote was promoted as a series regular for the second season.[8] In November 2021, Sarunas J. Jackson who guest starred on the first season was promoted to a series regular while Chris Diamantopoulos and Angela Lin were cast in recurring roles with Paula Abdul to guest star for the second season.[9]
Hazel Green, wife of billionaire tech CEO Byron Gogol, escapes from the Hub, a massive virtual reality complex where they lived together for 10 years without leaving. She hitches a ride with a radio DJ who drops her off. Hazel, fearing she is being tracked, runs into a strip club and steals some clothes. Lyle, an employee close to her husband, finds Hazel and in the ensuing encounter she chops off some of his fingers then flees. Hazel hitches a ride to her dad's hometown, where she encounters a stranger receiving a call from Byron, informing her that Byron has implanted a device called "Made For Love" in her brain that tracks her sight, emotions, and whereabouts. Hazels runs into her dad's home where she finds him having sex with a sex doll named Diane. In shock, she faints and falls over.
Hazel wakes up and tells her father, Herb, that she wants to leave Byron. She leaves the house with a shotgun, and encounters Lyle again. After failing to convince her to come with him, she shoots him several times, leaving him injured. Herb picks Hazel up and they try to find Herb's old plane to help her escape. They go to a bar called The Spotted Rose where Herb joins a mechanical bull-riding contest against the new owners of the plane - if he wins, Hazel can borrow the plane. Unfortunately, Herb is thrown off the bull and the two head back to Herb's house in defeat, only to find Byron and several security detail waiting for them. Hazel walks in and tells Byron, "I want a divorce."
Byron argues with Hazel about her indecisiveness and how he loves her even if she never fully loved him. Hazel sees through his manipulation, and when she asks to be able to take walks and smell things, he offers to make improvements on the Hub. She goes on a walk and finds the bartender from The Spotted Rose. She asks the bartender to masturbate while looking at her, which Byron witnesses via the chip. Byron leaves Herb's house in a fit of rage but once in bed, he watches her on his phone.
In an effort to convince Hazel to come back to the Hub, Byron seeks to build a smell cube for her, and sends his assistant Bennett out to provide Hazel with some sample scents. Herb demands Hazel pay rent to continue staying with him. To make ends meet, Hazel steals phones from unwitting Yoga students and pawns them. She encounters her old friend Bangles at the pawn shop just as Bennett arrives to have Hazel smell the samples. Bangles and Hazel force Bennett to leave. They go back to Herb's home and after drinking alcohol, they taunt Byron by having Bangles moon Hazel, which Byron sees through her eyes. Meanwhile, Dr. Hodeck tries to find Zelda, fearing Byron did something to the dolphin that inadvertently helped Hazel escape.
At the recommendation of Bangles, Hazel and her father go to a bowling alley to meet with a divorce lawyer who owes her cousin a favor. After much hesitation, Hazel reveals her husband is the billionaire tech mogul, Byron Gogol. The lawyer believes the chip in her brain is their ace, and physical proof he did something to her without her consent but seeing all this, Byron quickly hacks into the bowling alley TVs (showing incriminating photos of the lawyer) and after a quick phone call, the lawyer runs off. Byron commands Bennett to implant a chip into his head so he and Hazel can fully merge, even though Dr. Hodeck had previously warned that would kill her. Dr. Hodeck makes a deal with her ex-husband to sell the chip, the most valuable, revolutionary piece of software and she recruits Lyle to help find Hazel - they find her collapsed on a road after the apparent merge.
Hazel gets a job cleaning bathrooms at the bowling alley, hoping the things she sees repulses Byron. He's not actually watching her though because he insisted on trying to be normal while out in the real world, and got himself cornered by paparazzi. Lyle takes Bennett hostage and tries to bargain for his job and his identity back. Byron initially accepts his deal before leading him into the pasture cube to join Dr. Hodeck. Hazel convinces his dad to take his "synthetic companion" out on a real date. Byron gives a live press conference to the paparazzi and makes sure the TVs at the restaurant are tuned into his announcement about wanting to connect on a personal level. Hazel gets a chance to fly the plane her father built and sold, if only to feel a little taste of freedom. When Hazel and her father go home, they're greeted by one of Byron's drones - that drops off divorce papers.
For the first season, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 94% based on 54 critic reviews, with an average rating of 7.20/10. The website's critics consensus reads,"Made for Love's satirical riffs on technology are undeniably clever, but the most valuable special effects in this twisty odyssey are Cristin Milioti's charisma and comedic timing."[21] Metacritic gave the first season a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on 18 critic reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[22]
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