Series cast summary: | |||
Kevin Bacon | ... | Dick 8 episodes, 2016-2017 | |
Kathryn Hahn | ... | Chris 8 episodes, 2016-2017 | |
Griffin Dunne | ... | Sylvère / ... 8 episodes, 2016-2017 | |
Roberta Colindrez | ... | Devon 8 episodes, 2016-2017 | |
Bobbi Menuez | ... | Toby 8 episodes, 2016-2017 | |
Lily Mojekwu | ... | Paula 7 episodes, 2017 | |
Sherry Cola | ... | Natalie 7 episodes, 2017 | |
Adhir Kalyan | ... | Geoff 6 episodes, 2016-2017 | |
Phoebe Robinson | ... | Suki 6 episodes, 2016-2017 | |
Gabrielle Maiden | ... | Lila 6 episodes, 2017 | |
Yara Martinez | ... | Mercedes 5 episodes, 2017 | |
Charlie Hankin | ... | Marco 5 episodes, 2017 | |
Jilly Hendrix | ... | Ruby 4 episodes, 2017 | |
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Sebastian Cole | ... | Lawrence 4 episodes, 2017 |
Erik Alvarez | ... | Sonny 4 episodes, 2017 | |
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Leo Lungaro | ... | Rod 4 episodes, 2017 |
Robert Burgos | ... | Rafa 3 episodes, 2017 | |
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Enrique Renaldo | ... | Juju 3 episodes, 2017 |
Stephnie Weir | ... | Larchmont 2 episodes, 2017 | |
Rochelle Robinson | ... | Helen 2 episodes, 2017 | |
Adapted from the lauded feminist novel, I LOVE DICK is set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas. It tells the story of a struggling married couple, Chris and Sylvere, and their obsession with a charismatic professor named Dick. Told in Rashomon-style shifts of POV, I LOVE DICK charts the unraveling of a marriage, the awakening of an artist and the deification of a reluctant messiah.
Being a big fan of Jill Soloway's Tranparent, it seemed worthwhile to check out her failed pilot, I Love Dick. It was not worthwhile. At all.
In I Love Dick, a couple moves to a small town of writers headed over by Kevin Bacon as someone who is billed as cool and charismatic but who actually just seems like a pretentious jerk (charismatic jerks can also be found in Transparent - Soloway seems to be intrigued by them).
The wife becomes instantly fascinated by Bacon, even after he goes on a mansplaining rant denigrating everything she's ever done.
You can't feel sorry for her, because she's an awful person. As is her husband. Really, this is just a show about awful people. When midwest Republicans talk about New York liberal elites, I think they are imagining people like these horrible people.
Ugh.