Ava DuVernay's Cherish the Day takes love and strips it down to its barest elemen

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DuVernay's eight-episode OWN romantic anthology series that focuses on a couple over the course of one day "doesn’t tell an especially remarkable story, but that’s kind of the point," says Tambay Obenson. "These are two people we are meant to instantly recognize, because they are us. The series takes a very universal concept — love — and strips it down to its most basic elements. What does it mean? What does it look like, and what does it take to get there?"

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