He has a problem with teenage boys, with men who plan romantic gestures for women, with security guards, and women in general.
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Often times, the series will offer Arya a backhanded compliment like someone telling him he writes well but uses difficult words.Īrya certainly has a lot of confidence for someone with a book titled ‘Use Me Darling’. His protagonist Arya, incidentally, is a writer albeit the second-best-selling one and constantly in competition with Chetan Bhagat (who plays himself). The series is created and written by Manu Joseph, and if you’ve read some of his writing, it explains a lot. We watch them discuss what women want and sigh into our cup of coffee (necessary to keep sanity while watching the show). More messy than meta, he ropes in yet another problematic friend who is now a guru of some sort (perpetually surrounded by a group of blonde women, of course) for said show. They plan to end the marriage but stay together for the sake of their adolescent daughter.Īs the series tumbles along, Arya continues to insult everyone from a security guard to the woman who meets him to discuss a ‘Netflix show’. The ‘decoupling’ refers to Arya and Shruti (Surveen Chawla) deciding to end their marriage. The series felt like a refined version of Kabir Singh where the central character’s male entitlement and unacceptable behavior is not only tolerated, it’s flaunted. He’s smug and insufferable, creating trouble out of nowhere, yet mostly getting away with everything. But Decoupled only serves to show us the perspective of Arya Iyer (R Madhavan) who suffers from some sort of a narcissistic victim-complex. Freeway! You naughty dog! Freeway, Come Home.The series could fool you into thinking it’s a modern, realistic take on marriage and separation. If they did not find Freeway, that would make a sad ending indeed, but even if they find him, it hardly matters, because after his big roadside rescue scene, Freeway has too little time onscreen for us to get to know him. In an entirely unexplained and unnecessary animated segment, Freeway is attacked by wolves in action resembling Disney's "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from " Fantasia." Each couple has meaningful conversations, and there's an ankle sprain.Īnd that's it. The Winters get lost in the woods at night. The search for Freeway goes on and on and on, relentlessly. There's also an ominous confrontation with a threatening mountain man wearing a Harvard sweatshirt. He has a kidney stone attack, which generates mighty big excitement. They also appeal to the sheriff's department, tracking down Sheriff Morris (Sam Shepard) while he's fly-fishing on his day off. She provides them with visions she sees a red-haired woman and imagines the color blue - indeed, although when they meet the woman, she knows nothing about the dog. The three couples trek mountain trails and woodland glens, Bryan having hooked up with the gypsy psychic.
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And that's the last we'll see of Freeway until a shot right at the end, which surely found its inspiration in "Lassie Come Home."Īll the rest of the movie involves a search for the missing dog. Winter takes Freeway for a walk, a deer runs across their path, and Freeway bolts off in joyous pursuit. If it were, it has the makings of an outstandingly simple-minded one - but no, it tilts more toward a scrutiny of the relationships involved. Understand, please, that this is not a comedy. Here they're joined by Penny's son, Bryan ( Mark Duplass), and the cabin's housekeeper, Carmen ( Ayelet Zurer), who claims to be a gypsy soothsayer. After the wedding, Beth and Joseph team up with Penny and Russell Alexander (Dianne Wiest and Richard Jenkins) to spend a few days in the Winters' mountain cabin. There is barely enough time for the Winters family to adopt the dog and name it Freeway before the daughter and the vet are getting married. Beth and Grace are driving down a Colorado freeway when Beth freaks out, makes Grace pull over, and runs back to where she saw a beautiful dog abandoned on the roadside.Īlthough claiming not to be dog people, they take this dog to a handsome young veterinarian ( Jay Ali). As the film opens, we meet Joseph Winter (Kline), a back surgeon, his lonely wife, Beth (Keaton), and their husband-seeking daughter, Grace ( Elisabeth Moss).
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