Pick of the week
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Toby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg) is a neurotic New York doctor dealing with the physical pathologies of American capitalism. When his wife Rachel (Claire Danes) leaves him, the emotional dysfunctions of the era begin to overwhelm him. This adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel is like a flipbook of modern, middle-aged, middle-class horror: the toxic but inescapable relationships, the status anxiety, the dating apps, the treadmill of networking. But why is the tale being told by our acerbic narrator – and how does her relationship affect the story? It’s a forensically acute character study; these people feel more like laboratory specimens than real humans – but maybe that’s the point?
Disney+, from Wednesday 22 February
