Taffy Brodesser-Akner adapts her novel about a broken marriage as an eight-episode limited series also starring Adam Brody.
limited series, produced by FX for Hulu, is one of the closest book-to-screen adaptations I can remember in terms of tone and incident. But in jumping media, a lot of the mystery has been sapped, the twistiness devalued. For me, that made for an often more satisfying story. Hulu’sis funny, sad and relatable. If it isn’t surprising on top of that, it hardly matters because the ensemble is so superb.
Filled with confusion, rage and disappointment at the interruptus of his planned coitus, Toby is forced to confront the past he believed was happy, a present that’s suddenly and unexpectedly unmoored and a future that once seemed limitless and now seems to be a black void.
A similar absence of “surprise” comes from the casting of Eisenberg, a committed expert in embracing the nettlesome discomfort of characters who are as alienated from themselves as from the world around them. Toby is initially presented as admirable mostly by virtue of not being the parent abandoning two kids in the dead of night. But that doesn’t mean you ever, for a single second, doubt that he shares culpability in the outcome of his marriage.
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