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- Netflix
- May 2, 2024
- Netflix
- May 2, 2024
Summary Atlanta real estate magnate Charlie Croker (Jeff Daniels) faces sudden bankruptcy in this limited series adaptation of the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name.
- Netflix
- May 2, 2024
- Netflix
- May 2, 2024
Summary Atlanta real estate magnate Charlie Croker (Jeff Daniels) faces sudden bankruptcy in this limited series adaptation of the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
50
25% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
25% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
A Man in Full is workmanlike in comparison [to Succession]. But perhaps that’s invidious. Standing alone, it is more than good enough.
The show is not as good as the book. The catch is, it’s still pretty good.
A Man In Full feels half-baked. All the elements are there. It’s well-shot, acted, and directed. No expense was spared. But it lacks punch. Spice. To use a word Croker loves: vigor.
Where Wolfe was adept at exploring societal, political and racial issues with a satirical eye, Kelley doesn’t have the same talents. There are hints of Succession – family troubles, talk of money, Croker yelling about “the Boeing” – but the series is nowhere near the same league.
Kelley replaces what was on the page with little of distinctive note. A Man in Full isn’t big enough, smart enough, funny enough or outlandish enough to bother using the Wolfe title or his character names. Despite an exceptional cast that feels like it would have been game for almost anything Kelley and directors Regina King and Thomas Schlamme asked of them, A Man in Full is a small and flat TV series.
"Man" fails to achieve the scope or satire that made "Succession" so successful. There's a watchable quality you can find in any of Kelley's series. But the sheen wears off quickly.
The individual elements of the story aren’t really the problem with A Man in Full. Instead, it’s the challenge of translating Wolfe’s singular style of prose — vivid, elaborate, effusive, ornamental — which thrives on the page but can devolve into cartoonish farce on screen.
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