The new TV adaptation of “Fleishman Is in Trouble” is set in 2016. It’s a testament to how quickly social movements can crest that the show’s argument already feels slightly dated, Inkoo Kang writes.
The TV adaptation of the novel “Fleishman Is in Trouble” begins with the mildest and least interesting of the simultaneous midlife crises plaguing the show’s three main characters. On a cloudless summer day in Manhattan, Toby Fleishman , a recent divorcé, wakes up in his sparsely furnished apartment, alarmed that he is “suddenly, somehow, no longer living with Rachel,” his wife of fifteen years.
Rachel, the least solipsistic of the trio, would say that she can’t possibly squeeze another crisis into her schedule. As her ex-husband attempts to solve the mystery behind her vanishing, the show drops clues to its much larger reveal: that Toby has been an unreliable narrator of his marriage, and that, while his years with Rachel were disappointing, hers were harrowing.
And yet it’s hard to deny how compassionately, even beautifully, Libby’s and Rachel’s midlife crises are rendered. Previously, television’s foremost chronicler of women at a graying crossroads was arguably Joey Soloway, whose series “Transparent” and “I Love Dick” were distinctly horny; their characters embarked on ethically messy pursuits of sexual rediscovery, the intoxication of their libidinal potential matched by the destruction wrought on their families.
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