Modern Love, in both the NYT column and the tv show, explores people’s experiences with love. Because NYT’s demographics have their majority in the 18-29 range, it is a prime time to explore the world and the NYT cleverly the world of romance with Modern Love. Each story has a different storyline however because love is universal, the reader will always put themselves into the article.

Readers often like to read for the future and dream of what they want. Modern Love cleverly does this with a range of stories of all types of different people. The stories are all linked with the story conventions. Every Modern Love article will have an overall lesson from the experience and can be applied to the real world.