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Paul Rudd taking on Paul Rudd in new Netflix series: Living with yourself
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Watched the first 2 episodes with my friend last night. Thoughts:
-It's not funny enough to be a comedy but I couldnt take it seriously enough to see it as a drama
-It's really just multiplicity and the first 2 episodes dont take it anywhere more interesting than that though I will give it credit that (episode 4 synopsis)
-The first episode is just about the lengths that men will go to in order to avoid going to therapy and that's pretty annoying
-The "improved" version of himself is just a superficially more "sensitive type" guy which makes it difficult to interpret the show as having any meaningful commentary on the issues it's tackling
Was not impressed at all.
-It's not funny enough to be a comedy but I couldnt take it seriously enough to see it as a drama
-It's really just multiplicity and the first 2 episodes dont take it anywhere more interesting than that though I will give it credit that (episode 4 synopsis)
it looks like the wife finds out by episode 4, so at least they knew better than to go down the "dont let the wife find out her husband's clone is fucking her" route
-The first episode is just about the lengths that men will go to in order to avoid going to therapy and that's pretty annoying
-The "improved" version of himself is just a superficially more "sensitive type" guy which makes it difficult to interpret the show as having any meaningful commentary on the issues it's tackling
Was not impressed at all.
I watched some of this, liked it but it didn't really grab me super hard. Paul Rudd is a great pick for the character(s).
Great track
Great track
That and watch the title card get more and more weird as each episode goes on.
I actually really loved how they subverted plot lines dozens of other shows have done when dealing with the clone concept.
Examples throughout the series:
Examples throughout the series:
- Revealing the clone situation to the wife by episode 3. Then when it seemed like they were going to veer into calling the OG Miles some dumb twin name like "Kyles", Miles basically owned up to it and said his name was Miles. So while the rest of the company thought they were twins, his wife really knew. We didn't have to deal with tricking Kate the whole season thank God.
- There was going to be a start to some self improvement montage with encouraging music with OG Miles where things start looking up for him after he finds out his fertility test was normal, and he's getting out the running shoes but then they completely cut that short when the Golden Pencil people call about the new Miles's campaign and he goes back to his petty schlubby self.
- In the second to last episode it looks like new Miles is going to pretend to be OG Miles for the last episode but they abandon that plotline entirely because it's something we've seen a thousand times everywhere else.
- There was going to be a start to some self improvement montage with encouraging music with OG Miles where things start looking up for him after he finds out his fertility test was normal, and he's getting out the running shoes but then they completely cut that short when the Golden Pencil people call about the new Miles's campaign and he goes back to his petty schlubby self.
- In the second to last episode it looks like new Miles is going to pretend to be OG Miles for the last episode but they abandon that plotline entirely because it's something we've seen a thousand times everywhere else.
i loved
the front logo opener font changing and getting more warped as the show progressed
it's so well put together. Probably one of my favourite Netflix shows
3 episodes in and I adore this. Not because of the premise as it's been done or even so much for the plot as some feels a bit forced, but because Paul Rudd is executing with astounding force. Dude feels so sincere.
I loved them. The fact that they were so incompetent was hilarious to me.
Stopped about halfway through the show rather than binging the whole thing. So far I feel like it's a cool idea, but it occupies a weird middle ground where it's not quite funny enough to be a comedy and not quite serious enough to be a drama. Not sure if it's planning to pick a side or not before the end.
Paul Rudd and Aisling Bea are both great, so the show is worth watching, but it's definitely suffering from a bit of an identity crisis. Intentional, maybe?
Paul Rudd and Aisling Bea are both great, so the show is worth watching, but it's definitely suffering from a bit of an identity crisis. Intentional, maybe?
Up to episode 7. Will watch the last one today. Didn't have much expectations but really liked it. It is Sixth Day when the movie ends. But what really sets the series is the way the story is told from multiple perspectives (he, his clone, his wife), when a later episode tells the same story with a different perspective giving more depth to it.
Rudd performance really sets two different characters (the clone is pretty much basic Rudd, but original Miles is really distinctive, up to body posture and language).
Rudd performance really sets two different characters (the clone is pretty much basic Rudd, but original Miles is really distinctive, up to body posture and language).
Watched the first 4 episodes, I really like it. Forced myself to stop so I have something to watch tomorrow.
I really like the tone, I like the mix of funny and drama, though that seems to be a problem for some. I love shows like that. Just like Six Feet Under where the funny bits work really great with the drama.
I really like the tone, I like the mix of funny and drama, though that seems to be a problem for some. I love shows like that. Just like Six Feet Under where the funny bits work really great with the drama.
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One episode alone isn't enough to judge the series, as the episodes intercalates the PoV.
I agree Rudd made it all worth it. I also agree the ending was a wet fart
I have to watch this ASAP. Rudd to me is a pure comfort zone watch, which is a good thing in my book. You kinda know what you will get, you won't be surprised but you still enjoy it enough to make it worthwhile.
This has been milquetoast and boring as fuck... I think I made it mid episode 4, when he visits his sister
I liked it but I wish the tone wasn't so sitcom-y - this could've been God-tier if it had a darker tone on par with an HBO prestige drama, or even started off broad and cute and got progressively more fucked up as it went along.
The dramatic parts did work well though, Paul Rudd nailed it. Did eyeroll at the ending though. I think short episodes was a smart call here, I would've found it a lot less charming if it was much longer.
Also didn't care for the constant back-and-forth with the timeline. Felt like an attempt to make it seem more complex but just came off as padding to me.
The dramatic parts did work well though, Paul Rudd nailed it. Did eyeroll at the ending though. I think short episodes was a smart call here, I would've found it a lot less charming if it was much longer.
Also didn't care for the constant back-and-forth with the timeline. Felt like an attempt to make it seem more complex but just came off as padding to me.
I think the different perspectives episodes added more depth to the story, aside from the one from the last episode which was totally unnecessary. And the ending was too comical for the tone of the other episodes, even if the twist was expected. I agree with you that the show was a little bit too comedy for its own good.
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