Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen play a couple whose marriage and road trip go astray because of infidelity and a ubiquitous Taylor Swift song.
Reader, I laughed. Hard. At least half of why I chose to review this six-episode adaptation of B.E. Jones’ novel is because the opening five seconds portended something appealing pulpy and silly, perhaps in a good way.comes close to being the show I wanted it to be. It probably isn’t “good,” but it’s unpredictable and, thanks in large part to Coleman, who acts with a perpetual wily glint in her cosmically expressive eyes, entertaining in a blunt way.
The second half of the season, unfortunately, becomes a wallow in too-familiar genre tropes, only surprising when it defies even basic logic.goes from light on its feet to quite leaden, from a good Lifetime movie to a bad Lifetime movie that thinks it’s commenting on the tropes of Lifetime movies but doesn’t recognize that the good Lifetime movies are already doing that.
So anyway, back to Liv and Will, zipping through Monument Valley, leaving flattened spiders in their wake. They’re extremely attractive and extremely British and extremely happy.The reality is that, after upending her life to follow her husband to New York even though she doesn’t have the paperwork to continue her entirely irrelevant career as a journalist, Liv just discovered that Will had an affair.
So there Liv is, putting on a happy face for Instagram and contemplating some form of comeuppance as they chart a course from the Grand Canyon to Yosemite to Las Vegas . But then, somewhere in the middle, they run into Will’s saucy co-worker Cara and her boyfriend Garth . Heck of a coincidence! Oh, and did I mention that Cara is the woman Will has been sleeping with?
Suddenly Liv’s thoughts turn from comeuppance to revenge and, without spoiling anything else, let’s just say the first episode ends with Liv standing in front of a grave and she isn’t there to mourn that poor spider.has an interesting theme — not a “subtext,” because by the sixth episode everything has been so thoroughly explained that there’s no “sub” left — about the way that possessive men and even some women are desperate to categorize women and, in categorizing women, to contain them.
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