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# Claire Danes Looks Lovely Promoting "Fleishman Is In Trouble"
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/claire-danes-looks-lovely-promoting-fleishman-is-in-trouble-11-2022/
- Published: 2022-11-08T20:00:34.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-08T07:36:43.000Z
- Description: Alongside the rest of the cast.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:20

[View the gallery](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fleishman-is-in-trouble/)

I am extremely curious how this will translate to a miniseries. I read the book -- by the brilliant Taffy Akner, she of so many unforgettable celebrity profiles, some of which I will link at the end of this -- and I really was not sure whether I was enjoying the ride, until one point very very deep into it where the *way* she wrote something made me realize how clever the entire endeavor was. But it was a bit of a slog to get there and that moment of brilliance for me existed entirely in the prose, when and where and in the meta way it was deployed, and I don't know how they'll achieve it on screen. They might! I mean, she adapted the series, and presumably she feels the same way about that moment as I do. (I'm being intentionally vague because if you haven't read it but plan to watch the show, it might spoil you.)

Anyhoo, here is the premiere of *Fleishman Is In Trouble*, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes as the Fleishmans, two people whom I cannot imagine having sexual chemistry. Can I also just tell you that, while I know that no one man has true ownership over a font, I always think of this font -- the title font on the backdrop -- as The Woody Allen Font because he used it for so many of his movies? A pox on THAT dude and his little font, too.

Finally, if you want to walk down memory lane with Taffy, all her NYT pieces are paywalled. The *GQ* pieces want you to enter your e-mail address, but don't make you pay. Consider yourself warned. [The *GQ* profile of Robert Pattinson](https://www.gq.com/story/robert-pattinson-is-alive-again?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) is a truly zany piece of brilliance. Nicki Minaj once fell asleep during their [*GQ* interview.](https://www.gq.com/story/nicki-minaj?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) Nicki fell asleep. She famously wrote one called "[Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/movies/bradley-cooper-a-star-is-born.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)" for the Times, [her Tom Hanks piece for them](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/movies/tom-hanks-mister-rogers.html?searchResultPosition=1&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) is kind of a gentle weepie, and [she dug deep into the warts and all of GOOP](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/magazine/big-business-gwyneth-paltrow-wellness.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). (One of the reasons I abhor Gwyneth is that when Taffy called her out on the lack of fact-checking GOOP does, [Gwyneth basically laughed and was like, "You bet we don't do fact-checking,"](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/18/taffy-brodesser-akner-profile?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) which is so irresponsible when you are peddling wellness advice, ugh, I can't ever give her an inch because of that shit.)

###### \[Photos: MJ Photos/Shutterstock\]