‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ Review: New Hulu Series Is Delightful (and Sexy)
If Gone Girl were given the recut-trailer treatment in the style of a Woody Allen film, it’d probably look a lot like Fleishman Is In Trouble. The smartnew upstream limited series, based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel of the same name, premieres Nov. 17. It’s got the failed marriage, the sad sack of 40-something white man and, most importantly, the missing wife. But it’s also filled with anxious, neurotic New York Jews, philosophical walk-and-talks, money and sex. Lots of sex.
Toby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg) is a newly divorced liver doctor with two kids who kinda hate him and a bachelor pad that’s fairly realistic in its coldness (complete with a broken set of vertical blinds). Despite his sad-sackery, Toby’s status is on the rise. on”the apps“at least.
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Formerly unlucky in love, with an undiagnosed eating disorder and a chip on his shoulder that both predate his marriage, Toby can’t believe his newfound social capital as a middle-aged divorcee within the likes of Tinder, a universe that doesn’t exist last time he was on the market. Suddenly he’s drowning in sexts from available single women who send photos of “their side boob, or their underboob, or their just plain regular boob,” says the show’s very opinionated narrator.
The identity of the narrator, at least to those who haven’t read the book, is a bit of a