One of Anne Hathaway’s Best Performances Is Only 30 Minutes Long

Anne Hathaway’s role as Lexi in the first season of *Modern Love* is highlighted as one of her strongest performances, despite lasting only about 30 minutes. The episode follows an accomplished lawyer whose bipolar disorder affects her relationships, showing how her changing moods can be misunderstood by people who do not know what she is experiencing.

In the episode, Lexi meets Jeff, played by Gary Carr, at a supermarket and later struggles to explain her condition after her mood shifts between exuberance and depression. The story draws on Terri Cheney’s column “Take Me As I Am, Whoever I Am”; the article argues that Hathaway conveys both sides of Lexi’s experience with an unusually wide emotional range in a short time.