Making friends and building relationships that are honest and last are difficult to come. But when you cannot communicate with the same ease as the next person or in a world where the majority doesn’t understand you language, making connections can prove much tougher. This Close TV series streaming on Sundance Now takes us into the world of Kate and Michael, who are both deaf and their struggles with untangling the mess of relationships.
This Close TV Series Cast
Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman write and play the lead role in this new indie Dramedy and is the first ever straight to series order the streaming service has placed. The relationship drama premiers on the Valentine’s Day 2018 and comes in six 30-minute episodes.
This Close (2018)
Developed by: Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman
Cast: Shoshannah Stern, Josh Feldman, Zach Gilford, Cheryl Hines, Colt Prattes, and Marlee Matlin
Network: Sundance Now
Release Date: February 14 208
This Close TV Series Plot
This Close TV series follows best friends Kate (Stern) and Michael (Feldman). Kate and Michael are both deaf and share a special bond. Their professional and personal lives are in a bit of a flux right now. Kate works as an event planner in LA and struggling t get along with her boss. Her clueless co-workers are not much of a help here. Michael on the other hand is trying to get over his break-up with his fiance and facing a bit of a writer’s block with his second book.
The series explores the relationship between Michael and Kate as they try to wade through a world that doesn’t communicate with them or understand them completely.
This Close TV Series Trailer
Watch this trailer of This Close TV Series and tell us if you like this new drama and if handles the various issues in the right light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_UmXS8cO-w
This Close TV Series Reviews
Here’s what the early reviews of the new streaming series say about This Close,
Verne Gay of Newsday says that the series doesn’t work as a Rom-Com in the first six episodes and will take another season to find the right tone and direction. It works best when Kate and Michael are on the screen, but falters when it moves into the world of the hearing.
“Characters’ deafness figures as just one sliver of an effervescent dramedy about friendship, romance, sex and ambition, its sweet but gritty tone inspired by series like Looking, Girls and Transparent.” ~ Joy Press, NewYork Times
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