We can't wait for more 'With Love!'
We absolutely adored the first season of Amazon Prime Video's romantic queer Latine series With Love, and now, we can’t wait to see the upcoming second season!
Creator, showrunner, and executive producer Gloria Calderón Kellett, who also made the wonderful and wonderfully queer One Day at a Time reboot, created With Love about the Diaz siblings, Lily and Jorge Jr., who are on a mission to find love and purpose.
The first season followed the siblings as they looked for love on five different holidays: Christmas Eve/Nochebuena, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, the Fourth of July, and Dia de los Muertos.
Here’s your first look at the upcoming second season of Prime Video’s With Love, as well as some insights on what will happen this season via Calderón Kellett.
The second season of With Love premieres on Amazon Prime Video on June 2.
“We’re still making up for [lack of representation] and all of those romantic comedies where we have never seen ourselves centered,” Calderón Kellett told Entertainment Weekly about the new season. “There's always homages paid to big life events that have happened that we've never gotten to see ourselves in. And so, this is supposed to be righting that wrong of never seeing ourselves centered.”
Each episode this year will focus on a major celebration: Christmas Eve, an engagement party, Lily’s double quince (30th birthday party), a bachelor party, Thanksgiving, and finally, a wedding.
“There's no kink shaming. Everyone's got their kinks — walking in on parents having sex, visiting your aunt who happens to have a gimp in her house decorating her Christmas tree. This is the fun that we get to have that we don't usually get to have,” Calderón Kellett said about new areas to explore this season. “And I'm so happy that we get to explore all of that, and fulfill all of those fun comedic moments that you would see in a romantic comedy, and it's through the lens of these characters.”
“We start with a direct pickup, figuring out who is getting married, and then, this season is really following that wedding,” Calderón Kellett said. “It's following this Latino family supporting and loving [this couple] getting married. These stories being centered on queer people, brown people, AAPI, it's a rarity for our communities to get to see this.”
“This is about Black and brown and queer and Asian people experiencing love and luxury and beauty and all of the things that are worth living for, like love and celebration of that, and centering these stories on love, and also simply existing,” she said. “And how does that specificity change the story and make it a little bit new and fun in a way that invites people in? Because this show is really about: You're invited. You have a seat at the family table. That's what we want the viewer to feel, whatever background they come from. The show is for anyone.”