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Gavaxeman said:
Slow Horses was well … slow… but 3 episodes in its galloping away - great show so far - particularly impressed with Gary Oldman’s wind breaking skills…..
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dhodo said:
Just finished the 2nd season and really enjoyed it.
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jamieanderson1968 said:
Same, think I actually preferred this season to last. Helped that they didn't have to spend as much time explaining how they all screwed up.
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I was kind of lukewarm on S1 of Slow Horses but S2 was excellent! I'm excited that S3 looks to be already shot.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Fleishman was more of a gut-wrenching watch than I thought it would be, both because of the performances and because of how skillfully it mines the universal out of the specific (as others have noted, I shouldn't really find so much in common with the story of a divorced Jewish doctor on the upper east side of Manhattan, and yet...).

The puncturing of the balloon comes with reading a follow-up interview with the showrunner/author of the source novel who notes how many people have asked her if she based the story off of their own lives. In its own way, this is another layer of indictment of how profound it feels to go through these mid-life phases and relationship traumas, when in actuality it's fairly banal and a symptom of our own self-centeredness.

This show is a real success story in an author adapting their own work. For as engaging as it was, though, I don't know if I would necessarily recommend it to others, because I'm not sure most people are looking for a show that demands some emotional labor and narrative questioning from its audience in the way this one does.
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It’s so sneaky in the way that it gets to that profound place though. The first 5 and 4/5th episodes felt like something Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig or Whit Stillman would have put together in a slice of life sort of way with a good amount of humor and for me, if the whole series ended up being just that, it would have been a success but those last two episodes perspective shifts are really where the gut punch gets ya. The first part feels relatable in, like you said, a self involved sort of way but those last two eps point out the Ubiquity of those feeling and that everyone have to comes to terms with those feelings in their own way.

Also, if Claire Danes doesn’t win every TV accolade this award season then they should stop giving out awards for TV.

Lizzy Caplan and Ted from How I Met Your Mother should probably get acknowledgment too.
 
Another thing that Fleishamn In Trouble really nails (which I am coming to expect from HULU show following The Bear and Reservation Dogs) is the soundtrack.

Lizzy Caplan doing here dance class workout to that somber cover of “Total Eclipse of The Heart” while the end credits rolled wearing a Guster T-shirt was the perfect way for the show to go out.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Yeah -- admittedly I didn't know what I was getting into when I started it, and I realized halfway through the episode (2nd or 3rd one maybe?) that traces the breakdown of the marriage from Toby's perspective that I was watching it on a big anniversary of my own divorce. It was more triggering than I had any idea it would be, and that was *before* it got to the actually interesting part that uses those inciting events to speak to much larger themes.
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Yeah, I am a child of divorce so it’s relatable from being an outside observer of how two people can view the same relationship from such wildly different perspectives.

The fact that it starred Eisenberg and dealt with divorce in upper class New York made that early portion feel like a modern companion piece to Baumbach’s Squid & The Whale.
 
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Indymisanthrope said:
I was a little confused by the selection of the cover of "Dancing On My Own," since Robyn's original is already a perfect version of that song.
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That was the only one that I though was strange. The only thing I could think of was maybe they wanted something more singer/songwriter-y but Robyn’s version is hard to beat and that cover didn’t do it.

The Nicole Atkins cover of “Dancing In The Dark” was amazing though and the Hebrew cover of “Fight Song” was pitch perfect as well.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Lizzy Caplan and Ted from How I Met Your Mother should probably get acknowledgment too.
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Josh Radnor is the dark horse performer of this fairly stacked cast. He annoyed me on HIMYM, but I thought he did great work here. The way he looks at Lizzy Caplan, you know he loves his wife even though he is pissed off at her, compared to the way Eisenberg looks at Danes with utter contempt.
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Another thing that Fleishamn In Trouble really nails (which I am coming to expect from FX on HULU show following The Bear and Reservation Dogs) is the soundtrack.
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fify. FX is the studio, Hulu is just the platform.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Fleishman was more of a gut-wrenching watch than I thought it would be, both because of the performances and because of how skillfully it mines the universal out of the specific (as others have noted, I shouldn't really find so much in common with the story of a divorced Jewish doctor on the upper east side of Manhattan, and yet...).

The puncturing of the balloon comes with reading a follow-up interview with the showrunner/author of the source novel who notes how many people have asked her if she based the story off of their own lives. In its own way, this is another layer of indictment of how profound it feels to go through these mid-life phases and relationship traumas, when in actuality it's fairly banal and a symptom of our own self-centeredness.

This show is a real success story in an author adapting their own work. For as engaging as it was, though, I don't know if I would necessarily recommend it to others, because I'm not sure most people are looking for a show that demands some emotional labor and narrative questioning from its audience in the way this one does.
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Do you recommend this for someone who is currently going through a divorce, or should I wait on it?
 
nolalady said:
Do you recommend this for someone who is currently going through a divorce, or should I wait on it?
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Oh god! I would imagine you’d find part of it very relatable. It would probably depends on how you use art/entertainment; if you are looking for something to help you cope and feel like you not alone in dealing with divorce you would love it. If you are someone looking for escapism then this is not for you but good new Season 16 of RuPaul’s Drag Race premiers tomorrow night on MTV.
 
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