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- Josh (Jay Baruchel) is unlucky in love. And most other things.
Nothing exacerbates the millennial male’s misconception that the world revolves around him quite like a freshly broken heart. Take Josh Greenberg, played by the adorably droopy Jay Baruchel, on the new FXX comedy Man Seeking Woman. When the lovable loser is given the heave-ho by his girlfriend Maggie, it’s like a rain cloud is following him everywhere he goes. When his well-meaning—and more together—sister sets him up on a date with one of her friends, it’s like the woman’s a total troll. And when Maggie starts dating someone else, it’s like no one cares that he’s Adolf Hitler.
Clever and pleasantly grotesque more often than it’s laugh-out-loud funny, Man Seeking Woman deserves credit for, if nothing else, its visual ambition. And even if a 30-year-old Ivy Leaguer’s autobiographical boohooing seems like unattractive material, Chicagoans will have fun picking out all the ways it succeeds and fails at being set here, even though it was definitely filmed elsewhere (Toronto, according to the Internet). For instance, I’m not familiar with a Belmont Red Line station (last I checked last night it was Brown, Purple, and Red—duh). That said, these guys would totally would live in Pilsen.
