Hulu’s FourWeddingsAndAFuneral turns into Friends… and that’s OK
Grant and MacDowell in Richard Curtis’ ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’
Many viewers may come to the series for just the same reason, hoping to recapture the blissed-out feeling they had after seeing the film for the first time.
The relationship between conservative politician Andrew and shop assistant Tony emerges as a sensitive exploration of the prejudices that exist within the gay community as well as without, even if the pair’s depth of feeling for one another feels unearned. Rom-com stalwart Dermot Mulroney shows up as a rugged Texan silver fox, nailing the part like the pro every Hallmark leading man wishes he were.
The fact that the show’s lone gay relationship and its Muslim wedding are ancillary rather than front-and-center does invite another unfavorable comparison to the original work: Though the movie glaringly features no one of color, the gay couple Matthew and Gareth are in many ways its romantic heart, the example of true love that the rest of their friend group is chasing.
So, why, in this oppressive TV age, where so much quality abounds, watch a middling, too-long series — 10 episodes at nearly an hour each — when you could spend that time on something of greater substance and sharper craft? For the satisfaction of the ending you know will come. For an escape to a world where the most stressful, complicated element of a person’s life is that they don’t end up with the person they think they’re supposed to.
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