How Taffy Brodesser-Akner Created The Ultimate Divorce Therapy With ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ – Crew Call Podcast

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner knows something about love. And men and women, and why they fall in and out of love. It’s no wonder why her debut novel, Fleishman Is in Trouble became an immediate New York Times Bestseller, as well as a notch on the National Book Award longlist, resonating with many.

Now, Fleishman Is in Trouble is a 7x Primetime Emmy nominated FX series. Similar to the 4x Oscar winning movie Annie Hall, Fleishman Is in Trouble is a deconstruction of how a great relationship goes very wrong.

Part of the blame goes to those couples who are managing their egos, as they head into the middle ages of middle age. Across eight episodes, the FX/ABC Signature limited series is laden with a plethora of wisdom as to why the sacred institution of marriage goes unholy: “People aren’t having affairs because they’re betraying their spouse, rather they’re trying to rejuvenate who they were in the first place.” Also reminiscent of Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters, Fleishman Is in Trouble delves into the class anxieties and fixations of Manhattan’s uptown society, and what happens when divorce dents that like a meteor.

Fleishman Is in Trouble follows 41-year-old hepatologist, Toby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg) whose ex-wife, talent agent Rachel (Claire Danes) leaves him with their young daughter and son.