HBO Max’s “Love Life” launches its second season Thursday, with an installment that shifts its romantic focus from Anna Kendrick’s Darby Carter to William Jackson Harper’s Marcus Watkins.
The plan for the Paul Feig-produced, New York City-set comedy anthology was always to follow a different character’s love story each season. And in moving from Kendrick as the star to Harper as the lead, “Love Life” is making one of the biggest shifts in perspective it could: going from a single white woman just out of college to a married Black man in his thirties married to a white woman.