Living with Yourself – Season 1 Review

Living with Yourself is like an elongated episode of Black Mirror. If you can excuse the outlandish technology—they can clone a person and his/her memories in a day?!—then there’s plenty of opportunity to relish in the aftermath. The show does present some interesting ideas, mostly in the form of the clone being in love with and feeling like he’s married to the main character’s wife. I mean, how would you come to terms with that, no matter who you are in this love triangle? The fact that a “love triangle” is the show’s only source of a plot, however, leaves much to be desired. Having a clone of you running about, even if you tried to pass him off as a twin brother, would raise so many questions that the show either ignores or merely flirts with and then abandons.

I kept thinking back to another Netflix sitcom called Sick Note that was equally bingeable and forgettable thanks to its inability to lean too far into dark comedy or compelling drama. Paul Rudd is still great, of course, and does a believable job playing Old Miles and the clone who’s had the weight of the world scrubbed from his DNA. The two don’t interact as much as you would like, though (probably to cut down on costly special effects), so it periodically feels like they may as well be in different shows. The wife, Kate, does act as a central anchor, but we don’t really get to see or appreciate things from her point of view. Sure, there’s a fun surprise at the end that attempts to unite the three characters. Looking back at the season as a whole, however… it’s not necessarily earned.

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Clark
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Clark

I love gaming so much, I wrote a book about it.