In his frustrating new TV show, James Corden plays a man it's hard to root for
In “Mammals,” premiering Friday on Prime Video, James Corden plays Jamie, a London chef on the verge of opening his own restaurant. He is married to Amandine , who is French and works in market research, a job that exists here, for the space of a single scene, only to demonstrate that it is not interesting. Jamie’s best friend Jeff is also his brother-in-law, married to his sister Lue . Jeff is an academic, specializing in veterinary neurobiology; Lue works in a second-hand store.
As the six-part series begins — parceled out like a comedy, which it sort of is, in 30-minute episodes — Jamie and Amandine are spending a celebratory holiday in a rented cottage overlooking the ocean. On the way there, despite the fact that Amandine is pregnant, Jamie encourages her to drive fast for fun on a winding cliffside road.
As to Lue, she is slipping into a state of distraction, which, once she falls upon a biography of Coco Chanel, gives way to scenes in which she imagines herself a designer in 1920s Paris. Her interactions with the other main characters are comparatively brief, and Jeff is often away.
The title, of course, is a fairly blunt headlining of the same idea. There’s also an ongoing opposition of the scientific and the spiritual, and the question of when a surfacing whale is just a mammal coming up to breathe and when it is the universe calling. “If love is impossible, we must believe in the impossible,” Jamie and Amandine declare in a “manifesto” early in their relationship. “We must believe in magic.”
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