Written, Directed, Edited and Produced by: Joe Swanberg
Streaming on Netflix.
It's an anthology, it comprises of different characters and stories set in Chicago. It talks about the modern world problems: like navigating through murky relationships, spicing up life amidst midlife crisis and it deals with the day to day activities of life. The show captures the intellectual postmodern world very well, where there is a lot of conversations that go on about purpose, absurdity, and the futility of life. In the 1st episode - they discuss evolutionary science and apply it to today's world and see what masculinity means, and it feels like we're going in loops of subverting norms. Once we break gender norms, we realize that even though we do it in the modern world - biology doesn't change and we get back to evolutionary science. It's crazy.
I could not appreciate the ones where they face midlife crisis and try to spice up things. My favourite ones would be episodes 2, 3, 5, 1 in the order. Ep-2 talks about wanting to confirm to the norms and belong. I think that's the most important story of the show. The struggle of the young people is to adhere to the political correctness, and to do the right things by choice - but we also feel tired. I miss that naivety, where we didn't try to correct everything that's "problematic" and just let things be. All of this coming through a love story was masterful writing. Ep-5 talks about something that probably every artist would've faced. Drawing from your own life to create art. You're constantly confused where to draw a line. This episode is a hilarious take on it. I'm curious to watch the 2nd and the 3rd seasons. I think this is an interesting format, where you can explore a lot of ideas within a similar tone and genre.
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