Everybody's fault, honestly. Everyone is unlikeable on this show and is basically terrible.
It's also very much a girl-power show, it's like a major plot point that the (very professional) women involved end up doing child-care while their useless husbands do fuck-all. The husbands are also virtually all comic-book evil while the women just want to raise their kids and be happy.
This is absolute shlock and I have no idea how it got to 7.6 on IMDB.
Yeah, I toughed it out and this was just not good. It had potential based on the first episode. I read a review that kind of nailed it. The entire middle section of the show is just filler and completely pointless. And "middle" in this case is everything except episodes 1, 7, and 8.
I saw lots of reviews praising Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning, but in my opinion they were both terrible in this. Hell, Sarah Snook was the worst part of Succession, and her overacting was still present here.
Worse is that Dakota Fanning's character is completely pointless except to do some weird praise for working moms. I have no idea why we needed so many scenes of her trying to juggle childcare and working. But holy shit were they everywhere! She's a girl boss, and she still finds time to take care of her kid unlike her worthless husband! Somehow despite the fact that it appears she's never accomplished anything yet (her first big break is reeling in this author), and her husband being a high school teacher (I think?), they live in a mansion in the suburbs of Chicago and send their kid to private school.
Thinking back on the show, it's just so many episodes of pointless shit to drag this out into 8 episodes. This could've been a solid premise for a 2 hour movie, although even then the entire thing is so ludicrous that it just doesn't really work.
The only positive I can say is that Michael Pena was really good in this. I'd say also the actress who played Carrie wasn't bad, although she was in so little of it it's hard to really make a judgement there.
