‘A Man in Full’ Review: Jeff Daniels Bellows, but David E. Kelley’s Tom Wolfe Adaptation for Netflix Is Mostly Hot Air

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The 1998 novel about excesses in the Atlanta real estate bubble becomes a limited series co-starring Diane Lane and Lucy Liu.

. There’s no reason for you to remember the series — it wasn’t renewed — because it was the one thing a Tom Wolfe adaptation should never be: wholly forgettable.

Charlie is counting on his chief legal counsel Roger White to get him out of trouble, but Roger is being pulled in several other directions. Despite a lack of criminal legal background, he’s handling a criminal case for a Croker factory worker who punched a cop and happens to be married to Charlie’s secretary . At the same time, Roger is being hounded by Atlanta’s incumbent mayor to help him get dirt on a political rival.

Folks who read the book will probably notice that Kelley has done away with its instigating event and, well, most everything. That’s OK. I actually remember very few things about the book. I remember Doctor Rammer Doc Doc and Wolfe’s flailing attempts to replicate hip-hop and urban vernacular, his most embarrassing writing failure until he tried doing something similar for college-aged girls in. Whatever Kelley and the show’s directors fail at, they mostly succeed in eliminating the book’s ample cringe factor. Doesfind an interesting way of representing Atlanta’s thriving Black community? Not at all. There’s a scene in a barbershop and a scene in a church.

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

 

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