“The Resort,” a new mystery series streaming on Peacock, is a dense, and occasionally lush, literary conundrum.
It’s August, the dead month. Abscondence and cocktail season. But that Cristin Milioti! She never gets a day off. In “The Resort,” a convoluted mystery series streaming on Peacock, her character is trapped in a tense romantic situation, launched to a hostile locale, and made to endure a gruelling, pseudo-religious trial—again. “The Resort,” coming on the heels of “Made for Love,” a tech satire, and “Palm Springs,” a time-loop comedy, crowns Milioti the doyenne of millennial science fiction.
Why the malaise? Noah and Emma are beautiful, and, by the looks of their digs at Bahía del Paraíso, these millennial brats make good money. They meet a middle-aged gay couple at the resort, two men who are both named Ted , who dispense a reflection: marriage is a contract. The Teds take a vacation every seven years as a sort of test; should they find that the passion in their relationship is gone, they will agree to go their separate ways. Noah and Emma are not as enlightened.
It’s an exciting idea, to look at a young marriage through an exuberant, video-gamey lens. No sarcastic indie energy here. But too often “The Resort” induces a heavy feeling of déjà vu. It’s not just that the culture clash and the light bourgeoisie satire are reminiscent of “The White Lotus.
The episodes can be genuinely hard to follow, and too much of the dialogue gestures vaguely at existential contemplation, or is forced to serve some variant of the expository question “What happened next?” No wonder, as the plot—a cavalcade of showy action—is hopelessly dense. Emma is riding an A.T.V. when she takes a tumble and ends up on the ground, next to a crusted-over flip phone. Itscard offers her a welcome distraction from her unsatisfactory life.
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