Living with Yourself

Not that 'Living With Yourself' is a bad title, but I would have admired the guts to just call this show 'Two Paul Rudds'

Living with Yourself is primarily a drama concerning middle-age and marriage with the occasional moment of whimsical or absurd humour thrown in. Rudd is brilliant and the show does a good job showing how a person is worn down by life. Using entire episodes to show the how each character got to a plot event was an interesting choice, but one that contributes to the shows overall pointlessness. Plenty of good moments, but also plenty of filler.

Enjoyable enough but can't say I'd watch more.

It has some brilliant moments, but unfortunately has some execution problems that prevent it from being great. Paul Rudd is awesome.

1843: brilliant idea and well developed! till now it was mind shaking!

I like Paul Rudd, and this show is an easy enough binge, but this show really tests the limits of Paul Rudd's acting. It's not easy to act against yourself, and that's pretty clear. I enjoyed the characters enough that I'll watch the next season, but unfortunately the show wasn't either funny enough or serious enough for me. I wouldn't have cared it it was canceled, honestly.

Fun but feels like something I've seen many times.

(Review is for first season since as of date of reviewing, other seasons were not out yet) Maybe I like it so much, because I completely identify with Rudd's character here. I'm stuck in a perpetual hamster wheel but if given absolute freedom of time usage, the chance to write my never-progressing manuscript(s), I'd probably end up boozing all day along and Netflix binging just as our boi Rudd here. There's much embarrassing truth of human condition in this gem of a series.

Unfortunately this show gets very predictable and thus boring soon. As much as I wanted to enjoy this, I did not find a decent enough story. To top it off, there was little comedy present.

I really enjoy (1) the concept of mundane sci-fi and (2) plot-driven comedy shows. But this isn't really a comedy, and there's a lot that feels like filler. It was also structured in a creative way, but I'm not certain the creativity paid off so much as it deflated a lot of the drama. Rudd is just such a fantastic presence that he makes this all go down pretty smooth, though.