And I think there’s a lot of universality within all the relationships, even though clearly it’s about a specific group of people in a specific income, in a specific zip code.”

“There’s essentially three marriage narratives, all interesting and all representing somewhat different aspects of a potential marriage,” added star Adam Brody, who says his character Seth, Toby’s friend, represents “the hedonistic side of the male perspective.” “It takes a long look - a somber and contemplative, yet wistful and romantic in addition to bleak, view - at newfound middle age in the world at this time. The ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ team at the premiere in New York earlier this month Noam Galai/Getty Images A free man (in his middle age), Fleishman attempts to re-enter the dating scene through dating apps while juggling his work and now single parent-esque duties.

In FX’s limited series Fleishman Is in Trouble, author and showrunner Taffy Brodesser-Akner wants you to rethink whose side you’ve been on.ĭescribed by Brodesser-Akner as an “absurd comedy” mixed with marriage drama and based on her debut novel of the same name, the series follows doctor Toby Fleishman ( Jesse Eisenberg) after he and his wife Rachel ( Claire Danes) get a divorce and assume shared custody of their children.

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