Rachel Abrams

From The New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily on Sunday.

Here in Manhattan, downtown in the East Village, there's this tiny Indian restaurant called Panna 2.

It's a bit of a hole in the wall, but like any restaurant that survives, it has its charms.

For Panitou, one of those charms is that it is filled with Christmas lights.

Absolutely covered.

Like imagine the most Christmas lights you could fit into a restaurant and then double or triple that.

That's how many lights are in Panitou.

Panitou has been a novelty for New Yorkers for decades.

But lately, it's been drawing a different kind of crowd.

Love Story, the fictionalized retelling of the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr., son of a president, one of the most famous New Yorkers of the 1990s.

And Carolyn Bissett, the Calvin Klein publicist whose relationship with JFK Jr.

vaulted her into what the show portrays as an unwelcome spotlight.

In the series, JFK Jr.

takes her to the unpretentious and empty Panitou on their first date.

This your go-to date spot?

The show, which ended this week, has been ascending into a real cultural moment.

Even if you haven't heard of Love Story, you might still be aware of it or at least know about the kind of phenomenon it's become.

It's what people are texting about, posting about, criticizing, loving.

And suddenly, and this is according to Hulu, it is the most streamed limited series in its history.

It's got its own center of gravity, so much so that a single scene in a single episode could bring a fresh wave of business to a small Indian restaurant in Manhattan.