The series charts a decade and a half in the intense but troubled relationship between a sweet scientist and a prickly financier.
sets the tone for the story we’re about to see. “Love is the best thing we have,” Jack gaze sadly at each other in a field. “Maybe after we strip away all the bullshit, it’s the only thing we have.”
PG-13 language notwithstanding, it sounds at first like a statement basic enough to embroider on a pillow to sell alongside live-laugh-love signs at Target. In retrospect, however, it reveals itself as a warning. Love, and more specifically the on-off situationship at its heart, is thething this drama cares about. But like anything else, love needs outside nourishment to flourish.
Thus begins a push-pull dynamic that will overcome what Alice describes as a “Kremlin-sized collection of red flags” to define the next decade and a half of their lives, as captured by creator Victor Levin in six hour-long chapters. Riseborough and Gleeson make out about as well as could be expected from two characters we’re barely given a chance to know before they’re thrust into delirious angst.
But the series lacks the perspective to consider anything outside of this black hole of anguish. Alice has exactly one friend, an assistant who continues to devote her entire life to managing Alice’s personal affairs even after they’ve stopped working together. Jack has exactly one friend, a coworker who exists solely to groan about Jack crawling back to Alice yet again.
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