A couple of taglines for Love Me (now streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime) state that it’s “a story that spans billions of years” and explores “what it means to be alive and in love.” This is a lot to accomplish in 91 minutes, but we should at least give it the benefit of the doubt, no? After several decades or so, give or take, it eventually catches the eye of a satellite that asks, in Yeun’s voice, if the buoy is a lifeform, and after a bit the buoy realizes that it needs to maybe fib a little and say “yes” if it’s not to be left bobbing there, alone in the agua. The Zucheros have the chutzpah to assemble a Golden Corral buffet of big ideas, ranging from the passage of time to the nature of reality and the definition of love, eventually winnowing down to relatively teensy topics like the tug-of-war between happiness and despair.
Author: mliss1578
Published at: 2025-06-16 23:00:00
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