Jason Segel returns to television in AMC's latest drama, 'Dispatches From Elsewhere.' Read inkookang's review:
From its very first moments, when a silent Richard E.
Several twists and turns later, Peter finds himself on a team with Simone , a cynical young trans woman and museum docent; Fredwynne , a self-serious genius with a conspiratorial bent; and Janice , a cheerful retiree with more life experience than the other three put together., or at least of its first four installments.
Simone and Janice, both lonely, are happy to have a days-long, city-rediscovering puzzle to play, especially one that takes them on a quest through parades and protests, rooftops and shareholders' meetings. Peter is just relieved to feelfor once. But Fredwynne insists that the game is nothing but a distraction from something bigger and more insidious.
The episodes for review highlight the emotional rewards that the game provides for the four players — a narrative focus undermined by the stock characterization of the core cast. It's also hard not to notice that the weakest performance is the one delivered by Segel, whose strengths hew to his eagerness, which often veers compellingly between puppy-like to guard-dog intense — and which he has little reason to showcase here, at least thus far.
hopes to immerse viewers in the same sense of wonder and possibility that the game offers its characters. Even with its initial centering on airless, ersatz Peter, the pilot manages to arouse fierce curiosity about where the show could go and what it could do next. That energy gradually dissipates, though, as the stakes become increasingly muddled and the narrator continues to explicitly point out — for reasons I assume will become clearer — the characters' archetypal natures.
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