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Thefirsttwoepisodes are these tight, tense, claustrophobic installments almost entirely about two people and their not-really-a-relationship.
Theyve been ways to externalize the questions about Ruby and Billy.
There are outside pressures, too.
We know they have lives theyve abandoned, and Billys life especially has some mysterious elementsRunkeeps under wraps.
Billy has it, naturally.
He also tells Ruby they need to turn off their phones for the day.
Ruby goes along with this promise; Billy flagrantly breaks it almost immediately and then repeatedly throughout their day.
For Billy, the problem is that someone named Fiona keeps blowing up his phone.
(Dear Archie Panjabi: I know youre inRunnow.
I know youre playing an entirely new character.
just tell me what happened between you and Julianna Marguelies.)
There are two questions: Does all this Fiona stuff work?
And at the same time, does the show still work?
For me, at this point, the answer to that first question is not really?
I would probably stuff a dress into my bag and then run three blocks before having a panic attack.
But her introduction is not artful.
Theres Rubys story about the mortifying time when she quit architecture school and lied about it to her family.
Within the first ten minutes, he called a woman onto the stage and asked her about her problems.
Will it still feel that way once theyre running side by side rather than toward each other?
They have the same cheeks!
There are moments when its hard to believe in Billy as a powerful, cultish motivational speaker.
Its easy to get blinded by Wevers brilliance in this show, but Gleeson is also justcrushingit.
