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Netflix’s ‘A Man in Full’ Puts a One-Note Jeff Daniels in an Empty Suit: TV Review
The Netflix limited series adapts Tom Wolfe's novel into a flat, generic drama starring Jeff Daniels as a floundering real estate tycoon.
Regina King, who boasts a deep portfolio of directing credits on top of her work as an actor, helms three episodes, including the premiere; Thomas Schlamme, who helped create Aaron Sorkin’s famous walk-and-talk style on “The West Wing,” takes the other half. Proper nouns like Turpmtime (a quail-hunting plantation Charlie insists on calling an “eco-lodge”) and Raymond Peepgrass (Harry’s deputy at the bank, played by Tom Pelphrey) don’t belong in the prosaic drama they’re now stuck in. Croker’s legal fixer Roger White (Aml Ameen) bridges both, advising incumbent mayor Wes Jordan (William Jackson Harper) in his campaign against a Trumpian challenger and representing Conrad Hensley (Jon Michael Hill), the husband of Charlie’s pregnant assistant, when he’s charged with assaulting a police officer.
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