‘Fleishman Is In Trouble‘ takes on a tour of the mess in an adult’s life
Fleishman is in Trouble is an engaging, thoughtful drama, which deals with some difficult truths, and features a superb cast, which brings Toby’s tale to life with grace and precision. Her debut novel is a book, desperate for solutions to the despair of gender inequality, solutions she knows she is not going to find–and yet, Brodesser-Akner and her characters are impotently, mercilessly, and impossibly charmingly searching for them nonetheless.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s debut novel follows Toby Fleishman, a hepatologist in his forties, as he goes through an acrimonious divorce with his wife, Rachel. Brodesser-Akner, the staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, has written a debut novel that follows Fleishman’s journey through a bitter divorce, the bitterness of which is mitigated to some extent by the wonders of his dating app.
Opening in Fleishman Is In Trouble, Toby introduces us to his profession as a Liver Specialist Doctor, saying that he loves the organ and all about itself like how it heals itself, its improvement, etc. But as excited as he is about his job he is single after his divorce for the first time in 15 years.
His overly successful wife or we may say ex-wife, Rachel, one day leaves their two children at his apartment one night and then disappears, Toby is all messed up suddenly as he tries to manage his romantic life, his family, and his job where he might have a possibility of potential promotion. Running through so many phrases in one set of his life he is also out trying to find out what happened to his ex-wife.
The new series is amazing and deals with adult messy situations that take a right arrow hit in the tragedy with unexpected real-life truths and with a fascinating cast, and whenever Toby asks himself “how did I get here?”, we all could relate to it with our own respective lives.
The show teaches a lot about making new beginnings for ourselves even if the old ones did not end yet, and that’s okay.
Fleishman Is In Trouble is streaming now on Hulu since its release on 17 November 2022.
Also read: REVIEW: IS ‘A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS’ IS THE SEQUEL WE NEEDED?