The failure of “Conversations With Friends” lies in its inability to argue that Joe Alwyn’s Nick is anything but the blandest, most forgettable character on TV right now. New piece from LegsFrank:
) a song. It’s Joanna Newsom’s “Peach, Plum, Pear,” the iconic piece of early-aughts freak folk that soundtracked a thousand depressive girls’ adolescence.
On second thought—and third, and fourth, and, oh god, I’ve thought about this show far too much since my daylong marathon of its interminable 12 episodes—Joanna, be free. “Sensitive bore”to a T. But “blue and unwell,” a lyric Frances never got around to hearing, works just as well.
Nick is flirtatious and sexy, I suppose, insofar as the show explicitly tells us he is. Read between the lines and you realize that Nick, whose other traits are “thirtysomething,” “married,” and “B-list actor,” is just a cipher. He is a hollow panel in the show’s romantic polyptych, a man whose job it is to introduce low-stakes drama into a young woman’s life and suffer no consequences for it.
This was on my mind when I finished the show. Episode 12’s final conversation was so frustrating as to make me yell and facepalm with one hand, then clicking “play” on Joanna Newsom with the other, Tumblr girl-style.
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