How many episodes are in To Love, To Lose?

To Love, To Lose has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does To Love, To Lose premiere?

To Love, To Lose premieres on 2026-01-15.

Is To Love, To Lose a new series?

To Love, To Lose is a new series (Season 1).

NEW

To Love, To Lose(2026)

Also known as Alles fuer die Liebe • L'Amour à perte

Archived · Netflix

148 eps

S01

Drama

ON AIR: JAN 15Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

A debt collector and a screenwriter waiting tables make for an unlikely pairing, and the drama takes its time with that gap. Kemal's job requires a certain coldness; Afife's situation requires a certain endurance. Watching those two postures come into contact is where the story finds its footing, less interested in whether the debt gets paid than in what proximity to each other costs them both.

Afife's quiet refusal to be diminished by her circumstances is the specific pressure that works on Kemal across the season. His beliefs about virtue and what it means to live correctly shift not through confrontation but through accumulation, small moments that add up. The romance grows out of that friction between two people who have arrived at very different answers to the same hard questions.

Best for

story-driven drama, debt and class and Drama

Story lane

Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Kemal, the debt collector for a loan shark family, sets out to collect the debt of Afife, a screenwriter who is forced to work in a restaurant. Along the way with her, Kemal discovers that virtue and love are not what he once beli...

Watch Next If This Is Your Lane

Start with the closest match, then check out two more shows with a similar feel, pace, mood, or theme.

Nepobaby

TV 2 Play • Aug 28, 2026

Drama

Nepobaby is about the dream of a family, and what it does to a person when this family you dream of comes with enormous wealth and a way of life that is completely different from your own. How are you supposed to suddenly maneuver through this without losing yourself? In the middle of it all stands down-to-earth and naive Emma – in wedding preparations with her boyfriend Nico and single mother Mona.

View show

Strongest Match

Nepobaby brings the same slow, character-first pressure as To Love, To Lose, where money changes how people speak and what they can afford to feel. Watch a woman navigate family and marriage expectations with quiet panic and small humiliations, then feel the contrast when the discomfort stays more domestic and sharper than Kemal’s road to dignity.

The Chi

Showtime • May 22, 2026

Drama

On Chicago's south side, an average day finds kids prepping for school as their parents head off to work, young adults trying to make a living, and the elders keeping an eye on things from their front porches. But in this tough neighborhood, real dangers threaten daily to squelch dreams, and the simplest decisions can have life or death consequences. From Emmy® winner Lena Waithe, The Chi is a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.

View show

Why this pick

The Chi shares To Love, To Lose’s focus on everyday choices that carry real consequences, not just big plot turns. In the neighborhood’s daily routines, ambition and loyalty collide until one decision can tip a whole week into danger, and the contrast is that the danger hits faster and the community energy runs louder.

Falling

Channel 4 • May 19, 2026

DramaRomance

A nun and priest, each dedicated to their religious calling, unexpectedly fall in love and must confront what this means for their vows and faith.

View show

Why this pick

Falling keeps the same slow-burn focus on how love changes a person under pressure, not through big set pieces. In To Love, To Lose, Kemal’s debt work forces him to confront dignity in everyday hardship, and Falling traps two people in a British religious community where duty and desire collide quietly, with restraint, guilt, and real emotional cost.

Want the bigger picture?

Get recommendations from a show you love See 3 more shows like To Love, To Lose

More Discovery Paths

All January 2026 Premieres Browse Archive