In the second season of Nick Hornby and Stephen Frears' short-form romantic dramedy, Brendan Gleeson and Patricia Clarkson play a new couple in need of marriage counseling.
begins with a few rough episodes whose problems stem from the not wholly successful selection of the season’s new focal couple and their initial presentation. The season gets better as it goes along, and by the end, thanks especially to the appeal of stars Brendan Gleeson and Patricia Clarkson, it has a lot to recommend it — and nothing so much as how easy it is to coast past a stretch of so-so episodes when they’re only 10 minutes apiece.
In reimagining the format, Hornby and Frears surely could have found any number of points of demographic differentiation, but went once again with a straight, white couple of some economic means. The action has been moved to the United States, but a pretty generic version of the United States.
Adding an additional wrinkle is Jay , manager of the coffee shop below the counseling office where Ellen and Scott hold their weekly pre-brief. Jay uses they/them pronouns. Jay is asexual. Jay is a well-acted writers’ contrivance, existing exclusively to help expand Scott’s horizons and expose certain aspects of Ellen’s liberal privilege. Jay, unfortunately, is a poorly conceived character with very little initial interiority.
This puts the season’s energy in a bad place to begin with. Scott and Ellen are too often cartoons, him with his exasperated hand-wringing about “they” and “them” being plural pronouns and therefore inappropriate — a conservative ideological chestnut that somebody different gets dunked on for expressing on social media every week — and her with her pink pussyhat as if it were 2017.
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