Despite the comedic talents of Jenny Slate and Charlie Day, we liked this somewhat less than the critics. The two star as friends who enlist each other to win back the paramours who dumped them, played by Scott Eastwood and Gina Rodriguez, respectively. The two leads and their two "straight men" are great and we're fans but I guess the concept of these desperate adults was a little off-putting. Manny Jacinto has a nice bit as Rodriguez' new boyfriend.
Jason Orley directs from a script by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger with music by Siddhartha Khosla.
Slate was last blogged for On the Rocks, Day for The Hollars, and Rodriguez for Kajillionaire, Eastwood was covered in Gran Torino. Jacinto was hilarious in all fifty episodes of The Good Place and earnest in all eight of Nine Perfect Strangers–this character is an amalgam of the two–among his dozens of credits. Orley directed one other feature and a TV special. The writing team of Aptaker and Berger have four Emmy nominations for producing the series This Is Us and co-wrote fourteen episodes, among their many TV works. Khosla has three Emmy nominations for scoring This Is Us and scored ten of Only Murders in the Building as well as several other Aptaker/Berger projects and much more.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics are reconciled with an 87% average and its audiences, at 72, are on the fence as we are. We watched it on May 5 on Prime Video.
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