Jesse Eisenberg Is Neurotic As Ever And Claire Danes Is In The Weepy Best Of Her Life In The Hyped TV Series

'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a story that, in the narrator's words, is about "the whole fucking world" That is to say, if the whole fucking world existed on the Upper East Side in New York.

The TV series, based on a novel by portrait journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who rose to stardom with a stunningly intimate and detailed portrait of Gwyneth Paltrow in the New York Times, is a multi-themed relationship drama about everything from divorce, class, midlife crisis, existential angst and fundamental loneliness And not least sex.

Toby Fleishman (usually neurotically played by modern Woody Allen incarnation Jesse Eisenberg) is our (apparent) protagonist A self-righteous liver doctor from a good Jewish family who takes pride in working in the public sector, and who has just divorced the ambitious theater agent Rachel Fleishman (Claire Danes in the crying top form of her life), who lost her parents early and will go to great lengths to secure the ground under her own feet.

In the very first scene of the series, the camera floats upside down through the skyscrapers of New York A small nod to the subconscious that everything may not be as it seems.

Newly divorced Toby wakes up to the sound of dating apps buzzing A confusing combination of new-found sexual freedom and grief rushes through his blood.

Never again will he hear Rachel stress about her job, never again see her "apply a thick layer of eyeliner with the precision of an arthroscopy robot", as the interpretive narrator's voice - which will later turn out to belong to Toby's old college friend Libby Epstein (Lizzy Caplan) – informs us But then Rachel delivers their two children to him a day early and goes on a yoga retreat.

To Then Disappear Toby Is Angry

Toby is left as a single father in an absurdly privileged upper-class environment that Rachel has elbowed her way into, and where the other doctors dominate him with their astronomical salaries in the pharmaceutical industry, while the stay-at-home wives powerwalk in 'Rosé all dé' and 'Boss Bitch' -T-shirts and stress about their next charity party It is in the small portraits of the Upper East Side parnassies' unbearable snobbery that Taffy Brodesser-Akner's sharply satirical novel flourishes.

As in the narrator's introduction to the couple's 'friend', who is also simply called Rich, "and whose father had made his fortune in the 1980s by buying up the life insurance policies of AIDS patients" Toby reaches out to his college friends, the frustrated matriarch Libby and the chronic bachelor Seth (Adam Brody), who loyally lets him pour his bitter water out of his ears, and while the self-pity and time run - and at one point Libby cautiously asks "what if something happened to her?" – we get Toby's life with Rachel wrapped up in flashbacks.

And best of all, just as we're most outraged by Rachel's shame over Toby's career frugality (as a doctor!), her blatant flirtation with cigar-smoking alpha male and Vicodin millionaire Sam Rothberg, and her disengaged motherhood, the series takes an unexpected turn Because who is it that Libby spots, sitting there on a bench in Central Park – blacked out, eerily confused, bagel fluttering in hand? Maybe it wasn't the Fleishman we thought was in trouble.

The shift in perspective deepens events, there was little else but peripheral and irritating to Toby - such as Rachel's obstetrician's bodily transgression - and the hidden depths of Rachel's invisible and, for Toby, so inconvenient vulnerability grow like a tragic iceberg on the glossy surface of the cool comedy In other words, with perfect narrative elegance we are confronted with our own himpathy – or at least a version of the logic at play in the concept of 'himpathy', coined by the philosopher Kate Manne in the 2017 book 'Down Girl' to explain the gendered benevolence and the violent defenses (Johnny Depp, cough ) which often become men's part in public MeToo cases.

But Toby and his pain are not dismissed or ridiculed Rather, the series succeeds in expanding the heart and understanding space for how different genders, economic and traumatic premises with which we enter life, society and the relationship.

The fact that it is a little too far there is a bit unsatisfying The series is simply far too quiet in the middle part, where it also suffers from the absence of Claire Danes' tremblingly eminent portrayal of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

But all in all, 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a thought-provoking and contemporary tragic satire that, with alternately neurotic and resigned energy, opens up into a touching examination of the existential pain of the midlife crisis Not least as it appears to the once 90s-ironic cool girl Libby, who blows up the role of narrator.

Toby gets the first few words, but Libby gets the last: "I always return to the museum of my youth to look for the last place I saw myself" society and the relationship with The fact that it is a little too far there is a bit unsatisfying.

The series is simply far too quiet in the middle part, where it also suffers from the absence of Claire Danes' tremblingly eminent portrayal of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown But all in all, 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a thought-provoking and contemporary tragic satire that, with alternately neurotic and resigned energy, opens up into a touching examination of the existential pain of the midlife crisis.

Not least as it appears to the once 90s-ironic cool girl Libby, who blows up the role of narrator Toby gets the first few words, but Libby gets the last: "I always return to the museum of my youth to look for the last place I saw myself" society and the relationship with.

The fact that it is a little too far there is a bit unsatisfying The series is simply far too quiet in the middle part, where it also suffers from the absence of Claire Danes' tremblingly eminent portrayal of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

But all in all, 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a thought-provoking and contemporary tragic satire that, with alternately neurotic and resigned energy, opens up into a touching examination of the existential pain of the midlife crisis Not least as it appears to the once 90s-ironic cool girl Libby, who blows up the role of narrator.

Toby gets the first few words, but Libby gets the last: "I always return to the museum of my youth to look for the last place I saw myself" you live a little unsatisfied with The series is simply far too quiet in the middle part, where it also suffers from the absence of Claire Danes' tremblingly eminent portrayal of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

But all in all, 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a thought-provoking and contemporary tragic satire that, with alternately neurotic and resigned energy, opens up into a touching examination of the existential pain of the midlife crisis Not least as it appears to the once 90s-ironic cool girl Libby, who blows up the role of narrator.

Toby gets the first few words, but Libby gets the last: "I always return to the museum of my youth to look for the last place I saw myself" you live a little unsatisfied with The series is simply far too quiet in the middle part, where it also suffers from the absence of Claire Danes' tremblingly eminent portrayal of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

But all in all, 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a thought-provoking and contemporary tragic satire that, with alternately neurotic and resigned energy, opens up into a touching examination of the existential pain of the midlife crisis Not least as it appears to the once 90s-ironic cool girl Libby, who blows up the role of narrator.

Toby gets the first few words, but Libby gets the last: "I always return to the museum of my youth to look for the last place I saw myself" where it also suffers from the absence of Claire Danes' tremblingly eminent portrayal of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown But all in all, 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a thought-provoking and contemporary tragic satire that, with alternately neurotic and resigned energy, opens up into a touching examination of the existential pain of the midlife crisis.

Not least as it appears to the once 90s-ironic cool girl Libby, who blows up the role of narrator Toby gets the first few words, but Libby gets the last: "I always return to the museum of my youth to look for the last place I saw myself" where it also suffers from the absence of Claire Danes' tremblingly eminent portrayal of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

But all in all, 'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a thought-provoking and contemporary tragic satire that, with alternately neurotic and resigned energy, opens up into a touching examination of the existential pain of the midlife crisis Not least as it appears to the once 90s-ironic cool girl Libby, who blows up the role of narrator.

Toby gets the first few words, but Libby gets the last: "I always return to the museum of my youth to look for the last place I saw myself" which, with alternately neurotic and resigned energy, ends in a touching examination of the existential pain of the midlife crisis Not least as it appears to the once 90s-ironic cool girl Libby, who blows up the role of narrator.

Toby gets the first few words, but Libby gets the last: "I always return to the museum of my youth to look for the last place I saw myself" which, with alternately neurotic and resigned energy, ends in a touching examination of the existential pain of the midlife crisis Not least as it appears to the once 90s-ironic cool girl Libby, who blows up the role of narrator.

Toby gets the first few words, but Libby gets the last: "I always return to the museum of my youth to look for the last place I saw myself".