Episode involving married Emma & Jonah's rescue of kidnapped Lemur is way out there, then continues to get progressively more crazy. The attraction for the two leads must in part have been that they had the opportunity to play so many different roles, to be many different characters, as they both pursue enlightenment and a resolve to change their lives.
In episode three (the aforementioned lemur story) they are happily married. Jonah can't say anything ruder then 'fudge', but at least you can hear him - in some of the framing scenes he speaks so quietly it's annoying.
In the penultimate story, Jonah is hilarious as Icelandic Snorri, whilst Emma is a CIA assassin:
Also loved Emma's British accent in elf story.
Patrick Somerville created the show which took a vague leaf from a Norwegian show of the same name about a patient in a mental hospital who has different hallucinations each episode. There were several other writers involved, including Fukunaga, who had made an impression with season one of True Detective.
The way objects, ideas, words and people pop up in fantasy and reality is not in itself new - Eternal Sunshine - as far back as AMOLAD - but it's most pleasingly inventive and by the end we were smiling broadly, having forgotten the ending which had been telegraphed to us way way back.
Justin Theroux is the lead doctor, Sonoya Mizuno his No. 2, Rome Kanda the deceased one. Gabriel Byrne, Julia Garner, Trudie Styler, Sally Field, Billy Magnussen (brother in trouble with law), Jemima Kirke, Hank Azaria.
Anonymous Content / Paramount Television for Netflix. Darren Lew shot it widescreen (2.35:1 by my reckoning), Dan Romer wrote the music, Pete Beaudreau and Tim Streeto edited, the production design was by Alex DiGerlando.
Title is wrong though - possible alternative is 'Where Do We Get Off?'
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