Forever – Review

Cast: Maya Rudolph, Fred Armisen, Catherine Keener, Noah Robbins, Kym Whitley
Genre: Comedy
Forever, the new eight-part Amazon series from the creators Alan Yang (Master of None) and Matt Hubbard (30 Rock), begins with a long series of images that slide by and explain how June (Maya Rudolph) and Oscar (Fred Armisen) met, began dating, and eventually embark on married life together.
Rudolph and Armisen are both comedic talents with easy chemistry, so there’s no surprise that they deliver nuanced and memorable performances as June and Oscar.
Their marriage is changing. But only one of them, June, really understands that. Forever is a story about a marriage, though it embraces so much about life’s existential questions, small and large, that it is ultimately a meditation on the search for personal happiness and how to share space on the planet with people who can either help you with that. It is about how readily human beings succumb to routine and resist being shaken out of it.
The main couple will be at an emotional crossroads, which will test their relationship in unexpected ways. The show embraces some familiar concepts one can expect from a dramedy about marriage, but it also catapults the characters into uncharted territory, enabling the creators of the show to ask some interesting questions.
Yang and Hubbard are forcing us out of our habitual TV comfort zones; they do a great job balancing comedy and drama. Every episode is different, with its own moral and thematic questions, and its own unique story inside of a story. This show is funny, sad, exciting, but most of all entertaining.
What we got is a dark comedy full of funny moments with a mysterious sub plot. It’s the kind of show you can’t stop watching even though you want to savor it, and that you will want to discuss with someone as soon as you finish.
> Mar Martínez