Escapism is very good, but it can also be exciting to find. a series in which we will see ourselves reflect and perhaps even explain. Someone who is interested in the things we experience: work, love, sex, money, children. And if possible, in the most obvious way. They’re not much, so they taste a bit of a miracle when they arrive: ‘Secrets of a marriage’, ‘Conversations between friends’ or now, ‘Fleishman is in trouble’ (Disney+, Wednesday, 22nd) is perhaps the worst show to watch if you’re thinking of getting married and starting a family.
Former best known as a journalist Taffy Brodesser-AknerAuthor of iconic celebrity profiles for ‘GQ’ and later ‘The New York Times’ poured all his midlife neurosis into himself. a witty 2019 novel that he himself wants to turn into a series. By preserving his own creature, he preserves the narrator’s voice and this outburst as clever as it is misleading: “Toby Fleishman wakes up one morning in the city that has been his home for his entire adult life. He’s suddenly surrounded by women who want him. And it’s not just any woman, it’s determined, independent women who know what they want.”.
Toby (Jesse Eisenberg‘The Social Network’s Zuckerberg), recently from talent agent Rachel (Claire Danes), the mother of her children entered the world of online dating without a bit of vertigo. One morning, he wakes up to an unexpected message from his ex-wife: He went to a yoga center for a few days and dropped the kids off earlier than anticipated. The final challenge of a woman portrayed by a narcissist as an even worse narcissist. The book and series follow these difficult moments for Fleishman as they recount how the marriage ended with flashbacks.
through them
Like? Another male midlife crisis? Yes and no. The point is, perhaps, as the novel says, “The only way a woman can listen to a woman is to tell her story through a man”. Libby is the one who uses Toby to (reluctantly) talk about herself (Lizzy Kaplan), ex-best friend and serial seducer Seth (Adam Brody). Toby and Rachel’s wedding separated them; With their divorce, they reunite for eight-minute conversations that do not last long.
In both the book and the show, Brodesser-Akner knows how to sneak into the straight male psyche—sometimes the words seem to have been stolen from someone. Philip Roth-, but in the end he also talks about women. Women as diverse as Rachel, who doesn’t apologize for wanting money, who doesn’t apologize for wanting to be part of Manhattan’s wealthiest class, and Libby, who gave up her journalism passion to become a suburban housewife. So far and yet so close because they have a common life. ambivalent feelings about parenting; Fear of being identified as a mother or wife and not as entities in their own right, or the frustrations of being an adult, big and small. There is also the female midlife crisis.
Portrait of shocking contrasts
The directing of a series where male and female perspectives intersect, first of all by male and female duos, breaks all logic in the world: Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton (“Little Miss Sunshine”) and Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (“American glory”), creative couples who are married in both cases and therefore know what they’re talking about.
Although they dare not say it in public, the comedy-dramas of Manhattan Woody Allen They look like your main reference. The difference is that the characters in ‘Fleishman’ live in the 21st century (or rather 2016) and use their cell phones for more than just calls. also a tonal dare game A very sad farewell scene (“I think we should get a divorce”) can be chained to the image of Toby masturbating coldly with photos of other women. Life in its creaking glory.