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From writer, director, executive producer, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception, Don Jon), “Mr. Corman” follows the days and nights of Josh Corman, an artist at heart but not by trade. Things haven’t been going his way lately – his lifelong dream of a career in music didn’t pan out and he finds himself teaching fifth grade at a school in the San Fernando Valley, his ex-fiancé Megan has moved out and his high school buddy has moved in. Aware that he still has a lot to be thankful for, Josh struggles nevertheless through universal feelings of anxiety, loneliness and self-doubt. Darkly funny, oddly beautiful and deeply heartfelt, this relatable comedy-drama speaks for our contemporary generation of 30-somethings – rich with good intentions, poor with student loans and working to become grown-ups sometime before they’re senior citizens. (synopsis via YouTube (c) Apple TV)
As you get older, it becomes all too apparent that there is an unsettlingly large gap between the shiny, rose promise of your dreams and the cold, hard hand of reality.
Let’s face it – most of are able to dream big, really BIG.
But those huge dreams don’t always translate to the kind of transformed reality we yearn for, and while our actual lives might be actually okay, they aren’t what the dream doctor ordered and we know it.
Mr. Corman, coming to Apple TV on 6 August 2021, heads deep into this existentially fraught territory and over the ten episodes of its first season – the first two are available on the premiere date – promises to think hard about that yawning gap between the good times and the bad times and that murky period in-between (with some added whimsically visual touches).