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Fleishman Is in Trouble

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Generally favorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Ratings

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Fleishman Is In Trouble: Critics Review

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Fleishman Is in Trouble

Series Details & Credits

FX | Release Date: November 17, 2022

Summary: 41-year-old Dr. Toby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg) is recently divorced and starts using dating apps with great success when his ex-wife, Rachel (Claire Danes), disappears, so he has to take care of their two children in this series based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner's book of the same name.

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

Recent Episodes

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S1:E8. The Liver
Air Date: December 29, 2022
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S1:E7. Me-Time
Air Date: December 22, 2022
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S1:E6. This Is My Enjoyment
Air Date: December 15, 2022

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Metascore

79

Positive:

25

Mixed:

5

Negative:

0

Critic Reviews

100

i Marianne Levy

Feb 22, 2023

Season 1 Review: Illuminating and destabilising, Fleishman Is in Trouble is the kind of show that makes you want to grab people by the shoulders and shake them, to shout "watch this!" Read full review

100

Consequence

Jonah Krueger

Nov 10, 2022

Season 1 Review: The series doesn’t end with answers or cures to the problems it deals with, just as it doesn’t fall into the trap of categorizing different characters as heroes or villains. It does, however, end with a truly human portrayal of life’s hardest moments, beckoning viewers to remain empathetic even with those who have caused them their greatest pain. Read full review

91

Collider Ross Bonaime

Nov 10, 2022

Season 1 Review: Fleishman Is in Trouble is a fascinating and contemplative show that hits on some hard truths with an exceptional cast that brings Brodesser-Akner’s story to life with grace and specificity. Read full review

80

Boston Globe

Matthew Gilbert

Nov 16, 2022

Season 1 Review: It’s about middle age and divorce, but it’s also about storytelling and subjectivity. ... Eisenberg is just right in the role, easily making the swing between being a super dad who’s intensely aware of his kids’ sensitivities and being an intellectual whose snide comments can cast a pall over a room full of people. Libby narrates the series in a warm, wry voice-over that holds everything together nicely. Read full review

80

The Atlantic

Sophie Gilbert

Nov 23, 2022

Season 1 Review: The show, because it has to hew strictly to an eight-episode format and the conventions of TV, sometimes feels like it’s indulging old patterns more than upending them. But its cast is so compelling, and its truths so sharp when they stick you, that it doesn’t really matter. There’s enough packed into it that you’re bound to find something that resonates. Read full review

75

Chicago Sun-Times

Richard Roeper

Nov 16, 2022

Season 1 Review: This is an exceedingly well-cast show, with Eisenberg, Danes, Caplan and Brody all playing to their strengths and hitting notes we’ve seen them master in previous roles. Even though Toby, Rachel, Libby and Seth can all be insufferable narcissists at times, we believe them as three-dimensional, feeling human beings, and we find ourselves rooting for them. Well, most of them. Well, maybe all of them. Read full review

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Variety

Daniel D'Addario

Nov 10, 2022

Season 1 Review: In its themes, it resonates: The sense that even the choices one retrospectively would do over are ones that have limited future options is an essential part of the human condition. ... The challenge “Fleishman” sets for itself, and one it finally cannot overcome, is that one never believes that its two leads would have been married in the first place. Read full review

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User Reviews

10

nisabella

Dec 26, 2022

best show on right now. if you're in your 40s, this show will speak to you. it touches on so many real feelings about marriage, life, and children that few shows address

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UncleWillard

Jan 20, 2023

There's little to dislike about Fleishman is in Trouble. Incredibly cast, well-filmed, very contemporary and it definitely has something to say about middle-age, marriage, parenting, and finally trust. It just doesn't take it across the goal line in a satisfying way for me. I guess that'sThere's little to dislike about Fleishman is in Trouble. Incredibly cast, well-filmed, very contemporary and it definitely has something to say about middle-age, marriage, parenting, and finally trust. It just doesn't take it across the goal line in a satisfying way for me. I guess that's what lends it its authenticity, because life rarely gives us nice, neat little endings that wrap everything up. Sitcoms and melodramas do that. I do feel a tad duped, but I think that's intentional. FIIT lulls us into thinking we are righteous in the sides we pick then breaks the bad news that all is not as it seems. And not in a gimmicky way. My issue, and why I only gave it a 6, while thoroughly enjoying it, is that I don't feel that the ending is earned. The men, on one hand, are the heroes in this story. Toby, because he wants to be what he is because it's good for the world and despite everything, and even mistakes, he stays to be the grown up and raise the kids with that same message that life is better spent serving the world than simply accumulating wealth and status, something his wife is obsessed with. Adam, the narrator's husband, is practically a saint, juggling a career and the kids while his unemployed wife wallows in the bad fortune of getting everything she signed up for. Normally, it would be the women doing this as heroes, and I absolutely love that FIIT swapped those roles (so much swapping goes on in TV and film nowadays, it's refreshing to see it actually be a good thing). I just don't think either of the women earned the happy endings they got, despite the very real struggles they both went through. Men don't get that luxury. If they behaved in this way, they'd be excommunicated from the marriage and women would say, "serves you right. you go girl. men are pigs." I can tell you from personal experience that being abandoned into the role of single parent is not something that is easy to forgive or forget, but FIIT seems to allow it for the sake of love.… Expand

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booond

Jan 8, 2023

It is hard to watch a show whose characters dissolve into unwatchable. When Libby and Toby share tears at the end I have no tears to share for them. I felt sympathy for Rachel who needed help for years and never received it. The others lost my empathy.

It's not nearly as good at the end asIt is hard to watch a show whose characters dissolve into unwatchable. When Libby and Toby share tears at the end I have no tears to share for them. I felt sympathy for Rachel who needed help for years and never received it. The others lost my empathy.

It's not nearly as good at the end as it was at the beginning.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 17, 2022
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  S1:E8. The Liver
  Air Date: December 29, 2022
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  S1:E7. Me-Time
  Air Date: December 22, 2022
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  S1:E6. This Is My Enjoyment
  Air Date: December 15, 2022
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  S1:E5. Vantablack
  Air Date: December 8, 2022
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  S1:E4. God, What An Idiot He Was!
  Air Date: December 1, 2022
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  S1:E3. Free Pass
  Air Date: November 24, 2022
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  S1:E2. Welcome to Paniquil
  Air Date: November 17, 2022
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  S1:E1. Summon Your Witnesses
  Air Date: November 17, 2022