Hulu’s new limited series “The Girl From Plainville,” which premiered at the SXSW festival on March 12, faces, and surmounts, an interesting challenge: Its two lead characters have a relationship b…
,” which premiered at the SXSW festival on March 12, faces, and surmounts, an interesting challenge: Its two lead characters have a relationship based almost entirely on text messages. The sight of someone with their face buried in a phone is hardly novel, nor is it compelling — at least not enough to sustain an eight-episode drama.
The consuming nature of virtual communication, and the ways in which reality fades in favor of a simulated intimacy, are what’s at issue here: “The Girl From Plainville” represents the Carter-Roy relationship as one in which both parties lost themselves in a slow-rolling and constant dialogue, eventually allowing themselves to push each other toward tragedy as part of a game neither was equipped to understand.
This series is less interested in Carter’s home life than in Roy’s, creating a slight imbalance. And “The Girl From Plainville” falters when it restages Carter’s trial: The question of whether or not she is legally culpable for Roy’s death is a fascinating one , but it fits jaggedly against the story the show is otherwise telling.
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