An old flip phone is found by an American woman while vacationing in Mexico with her husband in “The Resort” on Peacock. The couple has arrived at this lush hotel on the Mayan Riviera for their 10-year anniversary. She, in particular, is looking for anything to distract from the boredom and bickering that’s settled over their marriage. And that phone — a banged-up relic from the early 2000s — becomes a welcome distraction. An obsession, really.
It’s a digital time capsule, filled with a stranger’s photos and text messages. Turns out, that stranger was another American — a college kid vacationing in the same area who went missing 15 years earlier.
Starring Cristin Milioti and William Jackson Harper as Emma and Noah, there’s something fitting about seeing these two actors play a couple; both have resumes filled with stories that look at romantic relationships from unusual angles. For Milioti that includes everything from “How I Met Your Mother” to “Palm Springs” to “Made for Love.” For Harper, that encompasses “The Good Place,” “We Broke Up” and “Love Life.”
