After losing his shows, Mr. Carlin went to Europe, where he produced more than a half-dozen game shows, including the Italian hit "M'ama Non M'ama" ("Love Me, Love Me Not").
Each of these four "love" and "non-love" elements conceals some complication, something moving at cross-purposes to it.
Beneath what seems to be non-love, there is… it's hard to say what, but something indefinable that looks very much like love.
Then a Freaks and Geeks-like dynamic of younger and older high-school kids was added with the dark, non-love triangle between Natalia Dyer's Nancy, Joe Deery's Steve and Charlie Heaton's Jonathan.
There are several versions in two and three dimensions here, but most of the show consists of non-love paintings of words and numbers rendered in graphically punchy compositions from the 1960s.
It's as if they showed up here through a worm-hole from the 1990s – arriving in 2016 for our summer of non-love, making a game entrance in a country where the recent referendum has caused depression in the hearts of fully 100% of those who voted.
She said, 'What are you afraid of?'... 'I like love, I like being with love, but I don't want to be trapped in the love space.'... That's a joke now between us all the time, whenever I start to withdraw.... 'Are you afraid of the love space?' " The non-love space in his house is his study, which she avoids.
Gilbert echoed a similar sentiment, saying "A non-love bomber will respect your wishes and follow through.
Sometimes that's the way non-love goes, and if you do take him up on his offer, a couple of years from now you'll be envied, admired and unbearably miserable.
In a come-to-Jesus moment, I found myself looking around at 34 and fearing that I hadn't done enough to prioritize the non-love relationships in my life.
We all harbor memories, beliefs, and old conditioning that block love or even oppose it, that feel bitter and wounded, that want to defend non-love in order not to be hurt again.
