‘Adults' revisits the time-honored territory of young friends in New York
The show is vague about employment and income for several of the housemates. One way it avoids the 'cost of living in NYC' debate is to make clear early on that Samir is putting everyone up in the house rent-free. (Given that Samir is one of the characters without a job, he might be wise to charge his free-loading friends some minimal fee to cover his own expenses.)
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It's fitfully funny, though half the cast is acting for the cheap seats and could do with dialing their performances down to, say, an 11. Mostly, though, it makes you think of how many, many efforts there have been to reproduce what worked on 'Friends.' There was an era in the show's heyday where it seemed like each new season of television brought you another batch of photogenic young people.
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Unfortunately for all of us, it's not that easy to recreate. 'Friends' had many flaws, which have been enumerated at length over the years, but what it had down was impeccable cast chemistry and the consistent ability to land setup, punchline, punchline, knock 'em dead punchline.
Here, the setups are frantic — the show has a manic energy that it has trouble wrangling into effective payoffs. One of its funnier threads is when housemate Anton (Owen Thiele) is revealed to be too effortlessly charming for his own good: his phone contacts are full of people he's met briefly and formed heartfelt bonds with, including a handsome young man who turns out to be the neighborhood stabber.
Revealing the list of randos Anton is texting (and how much more frequently he responds to these unnamed strangers than, say, Samir) is funny. The stabber's eventual appearance at the house for paella night, where unsuspecting housemates Billie (Lucy Freyer) and Issa (Amita Rao) flirt with him then miss every possible cue from Anton about the man's identity, falls flatter.
By the time Charlie Cox emerges from Marvel's '
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Lisa Weidenfeld is an arts editor at the Globe.
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