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With Love

With Love is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Gloria Calderón Kellett that premiered on Amazon Prime Video on December 17, 2021 and ran for two seasons until its cancellation in November 2023¹^•². Set in Portland, Oregon, it follows the Diaz siblings, Lily and Jorge Jr., and their extended family as they search for love and purpose across a year of holidays¹^•³. The show was the first series to emerge from a deal between Kellett's GloNation production company and Amazon Studios⁴.

Key fact	Detail
Created by	Gloria Calderón Kellett, co-creator of the One Day at a Time revival⁴
Network and run	Prime Video, December 17, 2021 to June 2, 2023; canceled after two seasons¹^•²
Episodes	11 total: 5 in season 1, 6 in season 2, each about 49 minutes⁵
Setting	Portland, Oregon, centered on the multigenerational Diaz family⁶
Main cast	Emeraude Toubia, Mark Indelicato, Isis King, Vincent Rodriguez III, Rome Flynn, Desmond Chiam, Benito Martinez, Constance Marie, Todd Grinnell¹
Critical score	100% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer from 13 reviews; 81% audience score⁷
Audience rating	7.2/10 on IMDb from about 3,200 votes³

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Premise and structure

Each episode takes place on a different holiday over the course of roughly a year. Season 1 covers Nochebuena (Christmas Eve), New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, the Fourth of July, and Día de los Muertos, with all five episodes released on December 17, 2021¹. Season 2, released all at once on June 2, 2023, moves through Christmas Eve, an engagement party, Lily's double quinceañera, a bachelor party, Thanksgiving, and a wedding⁵.

The central characters are twenty-something siblings Lily Diaz (Emeraude Toubia), a hopeless romantic who is freshly single when the series opens, and Jorge Diaz Jr. (Mark Indelicato), who brings his boyfriend Henry (Vincent Rodriguez III) home to meet the family in the first episode⁸. Their parents, Beatriz (Constance Marie) and Jorge Sr. (Benito Martinez), run a Mexican restaurant while their long marriage quietly frays, and their cousin Sol (Isis King), a trans oncologist, begins a relationship with a hospital colleague, Dr. Miles Murphy (Todd Grinnell)⁸. Lily's romantic entanglements involve Santiago Zayas (Rome Flynn) and Nick Zhao (Desmond Chiam), who is also Jorge's best friend⁹. Grandparents Marta and Luis Delgado are played by Renée Victor and Pepe Serna⁹.

Creation and representation

Kellett, a Cuban American showrunner who had co-created the One Day at a Time revival with Norman Lear's production team, conceived the series after noticing that the holiday rom-coms she watched featured almost exclusively white couples⁴. She pitched it to Amazon in January 2021, and the show went into production that year¹⁰. Portland was her hometown; her parents had moved there in 1964 among a community of roughly 30 to 40 Latino families, mostly Cuban, and she set the series there partly to show that Latino communities exist in the Pacific Northwest¹⁰.

Representation was the show's stated purpose. Kellett said she set out to portray Black, brown, queer, and Asian joy on screen, and the cast and writers' room were mostly Latinx¹¹. The series features a Latino/Asian gay relationship, a trans character played by the trans actress Isis King in a storyline defined by happiness rather than trauma, love after 50, and love after loss¹¹^•¹². Kellett contrasted this with One Day at a Time, saying With Love features "two queer people who came out a decade ago — nobody gives a shit anymore," meaning the drama lies elsewhere than in coming out⁴. The frequent Spanish-language dialogue is left untranslated, and the score was composed by Siddhartha Khosla, including a song written for the show by Lin-Manuel Miranda and performed by Gloria Estefan's daughter¹².

Reception

The Washington Post's review by Inkoo Kang called the show a "lovingly crafted confection" that stands out among assembly-line holiday content, praising its verve and its grounded subplot about the parents' marriage⁸. Time included it among its December 2021 recommendations, describing it as a culturally specific five-episode story spanning a year of holidays¹³. On Rotten Tomatoes the series holds a 100% Tomatometer from 13 reviews and an 81% audience score⁷; IMDb users rate it 7.2 out of 10³. Common Sense Media praised its diverse cast, which the show itself jokes about, noting a line about the Diaz family being "97% of all Oregon Latinos," while finding some of the dialogue overly explanatory⁶^•¹⁰.

Season 1 received a ReFrame Stamp in 2021–22, an industry mark for gender-balanced production¹⁴.

Cancellation

The series was renewed for a second season in April 2022, and that season premiered on June 2, 2023². In November 2023, Prime Video canceled With Love after two seasons, alongside The Horror of Dolores Roach, another Kellett production²^•¹⁵. Its final episode, "The Wedding," aired on June 2, 2023⁵. The cancellation came amid a wider wave of Latinx-led show cancellations that season, a context in which HipLatina noted that simply reaching a second season felt like an achievement¹⁶.

Other uses of the title

The name With Love also refers to other screen works: a 2026 Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by Madhan, starring Abishan Jeevinth and Anaswara Rajan, which streams on Netflix¹⁷; With Love, Meghan, a Netflix lifestyle series hosted by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, which premiered in March 2025 and was canceled after two seasons¹⁸; and WithLove, a European subscription streaming service specializing in romantic films and series¹⁹.

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Sitcom and comedy series › American sitcoms and comedy series › 2020s cable and streaming comedies

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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