“We have never been particularly pleased to communicate with each other,” admits the hero of the story, O. Henry, talking with an acquaintance about his only real friend. About the same thing could be said about friendship and the heroes of the series “The Kominsky Method”.
An influential Hollywood acting agent and a former illustrious artist, now a recognized acting teacher, have been friends for almost a lifetime. And this is a long and long time – both are under 80. They worked together, watched the best and worst times of their industry together, the ups and downs of their colleagues, and now they are seeing their loved ones off on their last journey together. Why, they themselves will soon set off along the same route …
Which for Sandy Kominsky and Norman Newlander is absolutely no reason to be discouraged. They help each other as much as they can and cover each other, on which the light stands. Indeed, everyone experiences failure through their own stupidity and has a more or less bad character, which, as Jung said, is, after all, only the sum of our neuroses.
The main thing in their friendship is that for everyone it is an incentive to live life to the fullest, right now, without delay
So the grumpy Norman and the cynic-hedonist Sandy compensate for each other’s neuroses – exchanging what one lacks, while the other has an excess. Well, they find support in each other – in dealing either with their daughter, a forty-year-old “teenager”, or with their own wayward prostate. But the main thing in their friendship is that for everyone it is an incentive to live life to the fullest, right now, without delay. Especially since there is nowhere to put it off. Which, as it turns out, is happiness.
And yes, it looks exactly like that – a friend to the grave, which is no longer a figure of speech.
Genre: tragicomedy.
Creator: Chuck Lorre.
Cast: Michael Douglas, Alan Arkin, Danny DeVito.
“Chrysalis” – a nickname given to the comedy heroine by an ex-boyfriend. And she hates him, that’s the nickname. As, however, and the boyfriend who left her after five years together. So now she’s trying to get back into the circle of old friends.
“Mindhunter” – boring, to be honest, underdetective. But what’s captivating about it is how a duty-bound friendship develops between two FBI innovators who were the first to incorporate psychology into the sleuthing business.