I love you, too.
Anthology series have become all the rage these dayshell, Ryan Murphy himself hasthreecurrently in production.
The unscripted, hang out atmosphere of their work is an attractive quality for a show about love.
That being said, I was surprised at how unaffected I was by the majority of this series.
Certain actors like Jake Johnson and Hannibal Buress even feel like after thoughts.
They get swallowed up by the bigger stories and they barely even register.
Id just think that the presence of other cinematic vantage points could have taken this show even further.
However, theres an episode thats nearly entirely in Spanish with subtitles that feels particularly out of Swanbergs wheelhouse.
Is Swanberg really the best person to tell this story?
Theres an episode that looks at a long-time married couple whose spark is vanishing.
Theres another that digs into the lust and magic of new relationships and becoming addicted to someone.
Things bubble up to a pleasant, poignant discourse about privacy that I ended up enjoying a fair bit.
A lot of the bigger beats of these stories are also fairly obvious.
The episodes would benefit from taking more left turns and being less telegraphed.
I suppose though that those are the sort of things that could happen in a second season.
I actually fear that watching a lot ofEasyback-to-back will only leave you with relationship fatigue.
The singular voice present only becomes more apparent.
Another puzzling area for this show is its relationship with its universe and the shared connections between characters.
At first it seems like there is going to be no attempt at all to connect these stories.
The seasons final two episodes indulge in this area in such a gratuitous way that its almost distracting.
All of these connections come across as forced fan service.
Itsfunforced fan service, but its justthere.
Everyones got an opinion on love, after all.
