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Black comedy Made For Love mirrors your abusive relationship with your phone
Technology manipulates us, exploits us and even harms us, but we love it. We’re in an abusive relationship, but we just can’t break up with our gadgets. That’s the warning of Made For Love, a new black comedy streaming on HBO Max.
HBO Max Watch Guide | Made For Love
Based on the 2017 novel by Alissa Nutting, Made For Love introduces us to a world dominated by the ubiquitous phones, drones and tablets created by Byron Gogol, the very model of a laser-focused technology entrepreneur superstar. Like your Zucks and your Musks, Gogol is a singular individual whose success is driven by his personality flaws — which is a problem for his wife, pampered but unhappy Hazel, who’s shocked to discover her husband has placed a tracking chip in her head.
The show begins with Hazel making a break for it, before flashing back to reveal why she’s running and why she married Gogol in the first place. This cut-up structure allows the show to tease out illuminating or macabre revelations, but also robs the story of momentum. The show as a whole has a stop-start feel to it, opening as a chase with absurd violence before shifting into a much lower gear with very little consequence.
