We see Mickey fall off the wagon a few times, but nothing that bad ever comes from it aside from an ill-advised belly flop into a swimming pool at a friend’s party. In the last episode of the season, Mickey attends a meeting for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (or SLAA for short) and realizes that she needs to take a year away from dating to get her own life together. We see her attending AA and lying about her sobriety, even confiding in Andy Dick about the pain in having to reset a phone app back to zero days sober. Sure, Mickey’s addictions are always present.
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On second watch, the first season of Love is sly in not making the series overt about either Mickey or Gus’ baggage.
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I myself am a recovering addict and should have been drawn to this aspect of story line. And as he gave his psychologist readings on the main characters Mickey (a drug, alcohol, sex, and love addict) and Gus (a classic co-dependent), a proverbial light bulb lit up above my head as I wondered why this aspect of the series had flown under my radar.
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“It’s the most accurate portrayal of what an addict experiences in new relationships that I’ve ever seen,” he noted in a live interview for a select group of media and crew members at a swanky Los Angeles movie theater. Drew, the man that informed much of my knowledge of sex, love, drugs, and healing as a young person through his legendary show Loveline, to hit a nail in what makes Love special. Between thinkpieces about the attractiveness disparity between the two leads and the trend of particularly white romcoms set in Los Angeles, it took Dr. Drew Pinski that I realized what the backbone of the show was. It hid it so well that it wasn’t until the premiere party for the second season during a Q&A between the cast (Paul Rust, Gillian Jacobs, and Claudia O’Doherty) and beloved radio and television personality Dr. Maybe the best thing that could be said about the first season of Netflix’s Love is how well it hid what it was really about.
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