Billy Crystal's goofy Apple TV+ project is a total bust—a psychological thriller that offers neither psychological insight nor thrills.
has a show out every few months and still never stops making movies. Samuel L. Jackson’s IMDb page lists five film credits this year, on top of his role in the new Peacock docudrama. Which makes the restraint of a performer like Billy Crystal feel kind of refreshing. Voice acting and guest gigs aside, Crystal has been off the small screen since 2015, when FX canceled his and Josh Gad’s showbiz sendupafter a single limp season.
As Eli works with Noah, whose hallucinations of inky water leaking through ceilings and creepy, worm-like creatures make him lash out violently, it becomes apparent that the boy’s appearance on his doorstep was no coincidence. Their lives overlap. Or, as Eli puts it in one of the show’s many accidentally funny outbursts: “We’re connected.never tires of showing us something gory, then—gotcha!—revealing it was all a dream.
One useful, if trite, function of trauma in fiction is to give characters depth. So it’s doubly disappointing thatdoesn’t even manage to use the trope effectively to that end. Noah has no personality or backstory to speak of. Denise exists solely to fret over Noah. Jane is here to mark how far Eli eventually strays from the norms of his profession. Even Eli is a cipher; the show gives little sense of what he was like before Lynn’s death plunged him into the doldrums of grief.
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