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Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves, and Tom Taylor in Us (2020)

Review by southdavid

Us

8/10

Divorce is strong in this one.

Another one from the Guardian's Best of 2020 list, "Us" is a comedy drama mini-series with a tremendous central performance from Tom Hollander, but with great work from the rest of the cast too. We watched it all over one weekend and it sounds cliché to say, but it really spoke to me as a husband and father, about not taking my blessings for granted.

Douglas (Tom Hollander) desperately hopes that one final family holiday across Europe can put the spark back into his dwindling marriage to Connie (Saskia Reeves) and establish better lines of communication with his son, Albie (Tom Taylor). Despite acknowledging the need for the holiday to be fun and for him to change, Douglas' rigid agenda alienates his family, and an incident leads Albie to strike out on his own. Douglas tries to catch up with Albie and reminisces about the incidents in his life that have led to this moment.

Timing certainly does help with "Us" there's a romantic travelogue element as the family head from Paris, to Amsterdam, Venice and Barcelona, with a few other stops along the way. In a year when I've gone more than an hours drive from my house only once, seeing what that unbounded freedom for exploration was like seems a long, long time ago. I'm looking forward to getting back to it when we can.

As I say, it's Hollander's performance that is the real reason to come to the show. Douglas is, at times, an unappealing character. His heart is often in the right place, but he's shy and rigid and has assumed that his relationships will work out despite never really working on them. The end of the relationship is juxtaposed with the beginning of it, with Iain De Caestecker and Gina Bramhill playing younger versions of Douglas and Connie. This element, though well done, jarred for me a little bit as it should have taken place in the late 90's but often felt, from the cars and clothes that it was happening in the 1970's.

It's certainly not for everyone, it's a very "grown up" show dealing with a reality that can happen for all of us, if you don't work at it. A funny, droll, uplifting but also sad and sobering experience.
  • southdavid
  • Apr 25, 2021

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