And so is everyone, as it turns out - Mrs. Fleishman and his two old friends. It's based on Taffy's 2019 novel.
Fleishman - Jesse Eisenberg - is recently divorced and we flash back to how the relationship with Claire Danes unravelled. And we also get to know how his friends Lizzy Caplan and Adam Brodie have been getting on. And although Danes seems like a horrible person, we learn it's not all her fault.. And whilst our sympathies lay entirely with Eisenberg at the outset, by the end we're not even sure we like him so much... So it's a nuanced, adult character study, very good and interesting.
The kids are Meara Mahoney Gross (who makes a wonderful transition from vile to sweet) and Maxim Swinton.
And has quite a roster of talent involved, with Susannah Grant an executive producer, and other producer / directors including Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine, The Battle of the Sexes) who directed three episodes, Alice Wu (The Half Of It), and Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (The Nanny Diaries) who made four. All the cast are exceptional.
Eight episodes for FX. I didn't mind the upside-down New York, it certainly said 'disorientation' very clearly, but the best use of this was when Danes is upside-down in bed and it's like she could fall at any minute.
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