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Love Story Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
9 Episodes 2026 - 2026
Episode 1
Pilot
Thu, Feb 12, 202657 mins
John and Carolyn's story starts near the end as they and Carolyn's sister Lauren are seen in 1999 taking off in a private plane piloted by John. Fast reverse seven years before they met or he knowing of her. John is having problems being under the microscope of being a Kennedy, including formerly being named People's Sexiest Man Alive, which makes his recent failure of the New York bar exam, for the second time, even more seemingly illuminating to the world as him as a dumb hunk. His sex life is also under that microscope in being every straight woman and gay man's wet dream, his public recent split with Daryl Hannah not leading to a river of tears for Jackie who never approved of her. And beyond the occasional interactions with the top man, mostly from afar, Carolyn generally hates her job at Calvin Klein as her boss treats her as a peon "salesgirl". But she does come to the attention of Calvin in she having impressed an important client at a styling. John and Carolyn meet at a Calvin Klein charity function she "crashes". While his eyes immediately lock on her, she lets him know that she is not intimidated by him in that she will expect nothing less from him than she would anyone else. But when he is finally able to break down at least the first wall of her shield against him, their romance may not proceed any further with the return of someone to New York.
Episode 2
The Pools Party
Thu, Feb 12, 202645 mins
What looked to be the start of a possible relationship in John and Carolyn's first date being more than good takes a turn with Daryl's return to New York and the very publicly recorded account of their reconciliation. With that public reporting, Carolyn rebuffs John's attempts of an apology. Probably still feeling at a loss and just needing some human comfort, Carolyn falls back into the arms of someone from her past, who she feels could fill a professional void. Regardless, John and Daryl's relationship still has some major hurdles, some stemming from previously unresolved issues such as the somewhat open animosity Jackie shows toward Daryl. Meanwhile, John is trying to reinvent himself in trying to find investors for a new magazine, one to be a never before done mix of culture and politics.
Episode 3
America's Widow
Thu, Feb 12, 202643 mins
Following John's latest unofficial and not as public split with Daryl in she having returned to Los Angeles, John and Caroline deal with Jackie's recuperation from her health scare. What John and Caroline may or may not see is that Jackie is quickly and systematically preparing for the day when she is no longer of the Earth, in the process she reflecting on what it has meant to be as public a figure as she has been for over three decades, and that legacy by its very nature which she has passed along to specifically John in being the President's namesake. John turns to Carolyn for emotional support despite his assumption that she is in a relationship, at least a sexual one, with Mike, Calvin's newest high profile underwear model. When the eventual finally does occur, what happens with John publicly changes.
Episode 4
I Love You
Thu, Feb 19, 202647 mins
The incident with Jackie has led to John thinking about his own morality and thus want to grow up into what he was meant to be. As he and Carolyn have secretly been seeing each other, he begins to believe that she may be the forever one. Conversely, Carolyn is still trying to figure out the status of their relationship, it the reason she wants to keep it a secret, especially from the press who will learn soon enough whether Carolyn or John want. Carolyn just doesn't want to lose her identity to him even before she figures it out. However, John's actions in opposition to his assertion to want to grow up may throw things into jeopardy.
Episode 5
Battery Park
Thu, Feb 26, 202651 mins
Now cohabitating with a "baby" i.e. a pet dog named Friday, Carolyn and John are still managing a life without the press intruding on Carolyn. They are both busy with work. While Calvin wants Carolyn to use her sway with John to have him attend the imminent opening of the new flagship store, Berman is a little less thrilled with John's seeming lackadaisical attitude and behavior leading to the launch of George. In that vein, Berman is less than happy that John is taking the weekend off while Berman has been sleeping at the office for weeks working every day. That weekend is for John and Carolyn to spend in Hyannisport so that Carolyn can meet the family, most specifically who is now considered the de facto family matriarch upon Jackie's passing, John's controlling Aunt Ethel. John also has a planned surprise for Carolyn which doesn't go off quite as he expected or wanted. The outcome of that surprise places an issue between them on the back-burner until they least expect it.
Episode 6
The Wedding
Thu, Mar 5, 202659 mins
News of John and Carolyn's engagement is slowly funneling through their family and social circles. Many within this collective have issue with it, one who eventually makes a fairly open declaration about her opposition, it all only exacerbated by the public reporting of John and Carolyn's public altercation with each other, the video evidence of it being physical. John and Carolyn wanting to make the wedding their own without consulting anyone also places certain noses out of joint. Still, John and Carolyn have to appease certain factions which may make no one happy in the end. In their words, John and Carolyn want an intimate Kennedy wedding without the press finding out about it. In the end, can John and Carolyn both pull it off and be happy about it all, including actually being married with that opposition, in the end?
Episode 7
Obsession
Thu, Mar 12, 202648 mins
John and Carolyn have returned from their honeymoon with Carolyn on a new path in life beyond her marriage in she having quit her job at Calvin Klein in feeling that she has become a distraction to the detriment of the company. Both John and Carolyn expect their lives to be much the same as before their marriage in terms of their relationship with the press, with John ensuring her that he would handle the press on their behalf to shield her. They will find that their life with relation to the press is nothing at least Carolyn could have imagined affecting all aspects of her life, which takes a Catch-22 downward spiral. Carolyn's issues also affect John holistically despite he having faced the press in a 24/7 realm all his life. This situation in its entirety makes John come to a decision about his future he vowed to Carolyn would not be a possibility. Meanwhile, Anthony has some issues which are preoccupying his thoughts.
Episode 8
Exit Strategy
Thu, Mar 19, 202641 mins
Two days, approximately one year apart, are shown in John and Carolyn's deteriorating marriage and Carolyn's life largely as a recluse feeling trapped in their apartment. The first is on the day of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed's deaths, which affect both John and Carolyn's psyches but in different ways. The second is when John is recuperating from a serious ankle injury sustained in a flight mishap as he is trying to earn his pilot's license. The two air out the issues that have gotten them to this point in their marriage, each having a difference of opinion on the causes beyond the underlying reason of the intrusion of the press in Carolyn's every move, and on what is best for them in the short term if there is any chance of their marriage surviving despite each still loving the other.
Episode 9
Search and Recovery
Thu, Mar 26, 202656 mins
Despite John not having returned to the apartment since what he considered his short term stay at the Stanhope, neither John or Carolyn regard the state of their joint life as having separated. In marriage counseling, they react strongly to the term "separation" which brings the reality of their lives into some focus. Making an effort to come back together, Carolyn decides to accompany John to a Kennedy wedding on Martha's Vineyard, John in the process having previously offered Lauren a ride to the island in his private plane, that flight which would end up being their ultimate demise. John, Carolyn and Lauren's deaths will either widen the divide that has existed between Ann Marie and the Kennedys as a collective, most specifically Caroline, or bring them closer together in grief.