.keeneTV reviews the HBO series Run, where two college exes (Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson) take off across the country together, more burdened than free:
) and Domhnall Gleeson star as a pair of college exes who, 17 years later, are making good on a promise that if one texted “RUN” to the other and they responded in kind, they would do just that. Their plan—involving planes, trains, and automobiles—thus ensues over the course of a week, where the duo then decide to stay together or never see each other again.
It sounds glamorous, but the reality is anything but. Slowly, we learn the truth about Billy and Ruby’s lives outside of this adventure, and where they are now . Most of the early episodes take place on a cross-country Amtrak train, a wonderful cramped space that director Kate Dennis incorporates into the beats of the story itself. There are moments of fantasy or excitement, but mostly the interactions are believably awkward.
Things start to take a turn, though, with the increased presence of Billy’s emotional baggage made flesh, his personal assistant Fiona who is tracking the couple. There are clues that Billy may be running from something much more concrete than Ruby’s more existential woes, and at that pointmaintains its worthy gaze on the ever-changing relationship between its leads, Fiona’s almost super-powered abilities of disruption start to turn the show in an entirely new direction.
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