Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes a big swing as creator, writer, director, and star of 'Mr. Corman,' a new Apple TV+ series about a depressed music teacher who can't get out of his own way. Alan Sepinwall's review.
On the one hand, that ambition seems well-suited to a character like Josh Corman, who has had to adjust to a more mundane life than the one he wanted, and who can’t resist locking himself in the bedroom of the apartment he shares with best friend Victor to try out some new electronic-music ideas on what seems like an endless supply of instruments.
It’s clear from the first moment we see Josh — playing percussion against his bare chest in the shower until his skin is red and raw from the effort — that music is his passion, while nothing else makes him feel that way, or perhaps feel at all. He seems like a well-meaning, if somewhat oblivious, teacher, but is often going through the motions. His friends complain that he only reaches out to them when he needs something.
Because Josh is such a drag, and so generally one-note about it, even the show’s more impressive Walter Mitty-ish flights of fancy — a musical number where Gordon-Levitt and Winger dance across rooftops, or a video game-style fight sequence outside a Halloween party — ring hollow. They look cool, but in service to a thin, frustrating protagonist., he had filmed only three weeks of the season when the pandemic transformed the world in the spring of 2020. Eventually, production moved from L.A.
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