Finding your heart: Love Me express realistic glimpse into romance

The desire to find love is a natural phenomenon that is within us.  When it erupts, other emotions descend, including anger, joy, laughter, strength, and grief.  Love has no boundaries, nor does it possess judgment on who it embraces, or how they’ll handle it.

It is a gift to experience love, even when it causes pain, for the pain can heal and only makes the feelings deeper and more in-depth.

In the Binge exclusive mini-series, Love Me, the Mathison family residing in Melbourne all go through romantic expeditions in varied age peaks.  There is twenty-three-old law student Aaron (William Lodden), who is trying to carve his life path; Clara (Bojana Novakovic), a successful anesthesiologist who’s on the approach of forty; and Glen (Hugo Weaving), their father in his sixties who’s unsure of experiencing relationships again after enduring a devastating loss.

The entire family copes with the grief in their rights, but there is a balance among them as they all share a common ground.  However, the Mathison’s all wanted their lives improved and with happiness that nearly everyone desires.

Glen and Clara benefitted most from Love Me’s romantic narrative, while Aaron proved to be self-absorbed and narrow-minded when it came to embracing such emotional concepts.  It might be the fact that he is young and inexperienced and just wants everything to go his way, which concluded in a less-than-pleasant result.

As Aaron is young and adjusting to the adult world, he has a rosy-esque view on how love should be; only to realize that with its highs, it also can hit rock-bottom.  Aside from this asset, Aaron is a dedicated student and career-orientated.  However, he has yet to realize that relationships reflect two people and are not one-sided.

As for Clara, she throws herself into her work but wants a meaningful and mutual relationship.  Her fear of getting hurt limits the prospect, but despite this, she takes the plunge and finds someone worth her while in a man named Peter (Bob Morley).  There are a few turbulences in the relationship, including his job as a model and that he is the father of a young teenager.

Additionally, Novakovic’s and Morley’s onscreen chemistry is fiery and sweet, coupled with the love that they have for one another is raw and enviable.  For The 100 fans, they’ll see a new side to his acting outside of Bellamy Blake, who added more ‘heart’ to the drama.  The character of Peter is a polarization of Bellamy, but like Bellamy, the ‘model’ dominates in every scene with his presence.

It’s refreshing to see Morley’s talent yet again onscreen following his The 100 departure, allowing it to bloom to its full potential just as it had on the dystopian series.

Glen takes his uncertainty into his hands as he discovers that he can be opened to new passionate ventures and that his age is not a barrier as originally believed.  It’s to be noted that Hugo Weaving’s talented range of portraying Glen is remarkable, with an added perk that the character can be relatable to older audiences in similar situations.

At first impression, Glen may appear nonassertive and soft-spoken, but it’s clear that he truly loves his wife with the way he dotes on her.  Yet, as the six-episode series streams on, Glen lifts the self-doubt. He embraces newfound love after his wife’s death and discovers that age is irrelevant when it comes to romance.

In the sixth episode, Clara nearly has a loss herself that threatens to shatter her. Well, maybe not completely, but she knows that she’ll regret it if she doesn’t step up to the risk and see what her future will entail.  In the gorgeously laid setting, followed by her father’s words, Clara acts on her chance and gets something more than she could imagine.

Produced during the pandemic in the cityscape of Melbourne, Australia and through the lens of acclaimed Australian director Emma Freeman, Love Me will seduce the audience with a feel-good, warm storyline, and escape from reality’s chaotic world.  It may even offer hope for those who want to acquire love themselves or take another chance on it.

The entire first season is available to stream on Binge Australia.