In bringing Fleishman Is in Trouble’s 2016 New York City to 2022 screens, taffyakner discovered how to avoid the nostalgia trap
Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg in Central Park, with supertall towers scrubbed to turn back the clock.Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg in Central Park, with supertall towers scrubbed to turn back the clock., the limited-series adaptation of my novel, in 2016 — the year I wrote it — came from necessity, both practical and creative. The Fleishman of the title is a doctor, and to inject COVID into his story would affect nearly every aspect of the plot.
Something about shooting a TV show on my return felt like making up for lost time. To meet New York again while making a TV show was the equivalent of showing up at an ex’s doorstep with three-dozen roses and a totally legitimate explanation. Baby, I missed you. Baby, I never wanted to leave. Baby, she didn’t mean a thing.
My parents used to do this to me. I was born in NYU faculty housing. My father taught in the computer department and my mother had just graduated from the School of Commerce, Arts and Finance . They would visit me when I was in school there and take me to eat in restaurants that, they explained, used to be other restaurants; they would visit my dorm, which used to be a parking lot. My father would walk me past the Angelika, which was right across from where we’d once lived.
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