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).

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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...

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