Many of the reviewers are correct in saying that the casting is off. In general I like Joshua Jackson, Lizzy Caplan and Amanda Peet...just not together. Joshua Jackson is dumpy and barely recognizable as Dan Gallagher, Lizzy is very attractive usually but somehow they manage to make her dumpy too and Amanda Peet looks like a warmed over corpse. Understandably this creates zero chemistry. Bland and boring. The different viewpoints are interesting, turns out that Alex us evening nuttier than as played by Glen Close. If they were trying to garner sympathy for the Alex character they are failing. The power dynamic between Dan and Alex is all wrong, they have rewritten it to put Alex in a much weaker position. Trying to make her more sympathetic, albeit unsuccessfully. The best change is the character Mike, the most entertaining person in the whole shebang. This brings us to the worst character, Ellen Gallagher. Seriously, who cares about her POV. Or her therapists. She's barely a prop in the event story so why is so much time wasted on her whining?
Edited to up the rating..if you're still on the fence, just watch it. I just finished the first season and holy pajamas what a ride. Even Ellen becomes relevant when she stops whining, give it a chance. I wish this were a stand alone tbh, it would have fared much better if people had not compared it to the original.
Edited to up the rating..if you're still on the fence, just watch it. I just finished the first season and holy pajamas what a ride. Even Ellen becomes relevant when she stops whining, give it a chance. I wish this were a stand alone tbh, it would have fared much better if people had not compared it to the original.