Fleishman Is in Trouble

Fleishman is in Trouble has got everything. The actors are great and perfectly cast, it’s visually ambitious and there’s such rich writing, that tackles midlife crisis, couples in troubles, abuses, nevrosis, bad healthcare, classwar, parenthood, small hypocrisies, trauma, being unable to communicate and everything else you could think of. It’s maybe a bit stretched here and there but when it works it’s amazing and that penultimate episode is out of this world.

Starting each episode with an upside-down NYC skyline seems a fitting way to look at almost an autopsy* of a relationship in decline and divorce, yet funny and thoughtful.

* Yes one character is a Doctor, though not a coroner.

Superb commentary on middle age. The last few episodes have much to say and are not light viewing. Highly recommended and will watch again at some point and/or read book.

Shocked I haven't heard more about this although admittedly I've been in a bubble of video games and not tv and film media in a long while. First adaptation I've seen in a long while that makes me upset I didn't read the book first, and I've already put the book on hold at the library.

Kind of funny to see people writing off or even not at all watching the last few episodes because that's when the show shines. The stuff that happens there is the point.

[Disney+] A chronicle of a failed marriage that has the ability to reveal its true point of view as it unfolds. It's a story led by a man (Jesse Eisenberg, too much Woody Allen), but told from the perspective of a woman, without us really knowing if Libby is telling the truth or making it up. And it's them (Libby and Rachel, "Me-Time") who end up taking the reins and being the real main characters. It has a simple structure that, however, is supported by a complex narrative, life turned upside down, Vantablack absorbing their existence.

Started off well but by the end it was really dragging and getting quite annoying. Think they must have just been trying too hard to stretch it into 8 episodes when it could have easily been 6.

Enjoyed the book more overall.

In my life i have now seen two productions depict marriage as an absolute pain in the ass to everything in between and after reflecting on this, I feel even more justified in wanting to steer clear of it entirely.

This show feels at least 30 years too late. Stopped after ep 4 or so.

I put this series on without high expectations and now I can't stop watching it, in a subtle way it covers topics such as the passage of time, frustrated dreams, the constant change in people.