The Hulu series tackles depression, the carceral state, and racial tension in L.A. It’s also laugh-out-loud funny.
The protagonists of “This Fool” aren’t irreproachable role models but something rarer and more valuable: relatable assholes.Early in Hulu’s “This Fool,” a Los Angeles man named Julio indulges in a fantasy only he would find seductive.
Julio’s low-grade despair can be extravagant, even aggressive. In the pilot, when some neighborhood toughs threaten to beat him up after he yells at them to stop blocking his driveway with their remote-controlled race cars, he scares them off by shouting, “Please, kill me!,” adding, “I got a lot of work to do on myself, and I don’t want to do it!” But “This Fool” is, thankfully, too whimsical and punchline-driven to join prestige TV’s feel-bad-comedy ranks.
Much of the propulsive energy of the first season came from the cousins’ efforts to upstage each other. Luis is the plum—equal parts sweet and tart—to his cousin’s prune, and he becomes easier to root for once he commits to looking forward instead of rehashing old beefs. But, by the finale, Julio is worse off than when he started.
The trio flounder for lack of purpose until Julio gets the idea for a coffee shop called Mugs Not Thugs, run by ex-felons, and a rather fantastical means of funding it. It’s not exactly his dream, but it’s close enough—he knows that he’s supposed to want something like it. The opening of the café is another occasion for the usual dynamics, reactivating Julio’s savior complex, Luis’s knee-jerk defensiveness, and Minister Payne’s itch for redemption.
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