The new HBO comedy “Run” is one of those high concept, “What if?” shows that doesn’t quite hang together. It’s not that the talent isn’t there.
Boldface names — several Emmy award winners — abound, but the energy they bring to the screen doesn’t stop the show from running out of steam by Episode 3.
Imagine the pitch meeting in Hollywood: “We’ve got this guy and this girl who made a bond when they were in college that whenever they texted the word ‘Run’ to the other, they would drop everything they were doing, meet and run off together.
And then what? So nearly two decades after college, when life has soured on them, they do it! Yeah! And the guy, let’s call him Billy (Domhnall Gleeson), he’s a writer of self-help books but basically a fake,
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