Fleishman Is in Trouble
"What if it was all different?"
Overview
Recently separated forty-something Toby Fleishman dives into the brave new world of app-based dating with the kind of success he never had dating in his youth. But just at the start of his first summer of sexual freedom, his ex-wife disappears, leaving him with the kids and no hint of where she is or whether she plans to return.
Fleishman Is in Trouble pulls apart a marriage with the precision of a surgical procedure. Based on the novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, the series turns a standard divorce narrative into a complex study of perception and middle-aged expectations. It examines the gap between how people represent themselves in dating apps and the actual reality of navigating single life while tethered to a previous life.
Jesse Eisenberg plays a doctor whose sudden shift into independent parenthood forces a confrontation with his own assumptions about his ex-wife. Because the perspective shifts among different characters, the series avoids a static take on the separation. It functions as a portrait of transition, focusing on the friction caused when two people who once shared a home suddenly occupy diverging realities. The tension centers on the frustration of trying to understand a former partner once the legal terms of a divorce are set, but the emotional terms remain unresolved.
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- First Aired
- November 17, 2022
- Status
- Ended
- Origin
- US
- TMDB Votes
- 137