By Jason Adams Film September 6, Egads, aghast, et cetera. As in he sort of wants one with her at least but she sort of does not. Several weeks pass, they ghost each other into the rear-view, when Wendy texts Milo an urgent message. They must meet, most urgently! Naturally Milo thinks scary thoughts of pregnancy, but no, Wendy has given birth to a plan insteadโthey got along well enough, right?
So why not try a friends-with-benefits type of thing? Millennials do hate labels! And so these two relationships, one effortless and one wildly effortful, are I suppose meant to offer us a panorama of modern romantic possibilitiesโ-dating in the tech age, Oh Em Gee Golly! So edgy, so hip! Having lived in and loved in New York for over two decades now let me tell you that the mere idea of the Disneyfication of this place is to any of us who care about it, in actuality, a dirty word.
These people have all the character of cardboard cut-outs shaking hands with a real estate broker in a store window. Their gigantic generic apartments decorated by Pier One have the life-force of showrooms; their toothbrushes and artwork are indistinguishable.
Their witty repartee reveals no essence, no personhoodโthey talk about each other talking about talking. Do they have interests outside of the romantic plot they are trapped inside of? To tell you how dire things get, the mention of a John Mayer concert comes in electric, a bolt out of the blue. John Mayer! It keeps me up at night, I tell ya.
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