While Charming, Hulu’s Musical Series Up Here Can’t Get Out of Its Own Head

While charming, Hulu’s musical series UpHere can’t get out of its own head. savion_blanc reviews:

Everyone knows there are few stories about writers risking it all to move to the Big City. Even fewer of these stories are romantic comedies about writers risking it all to move to the Big City. Evenof these romantic comedies are musicals about writers risking it all to move to the Big City. And even, the latest romantic-comedy-musical about a writer in New York City, may lack in terms of originality, it has an annoying tendency to counterbalance with undeniable charm.

With the adorkability meter cranked up to its highest gauge, Lindsay and Miguel have an instantaneous spark, but where most romcoms would have a medley of outside forces come between their courtship, Lindsay and Miguel’s hangups all stem from within. The hallucinatory voices of reason/unreason buzz around our heroes’ heads and appear at the most inconvenient of times to cast doubt upon the neurotic lovers’ decisions.

This is all very well and good, but for a show so steeped in its central blithe-yet-psychologically-dubious conceit, it does surprisingly little with the gifts at its disposal. Its late-1990s setting provides little impact on the proceedings other than as a gag for plastic pants and some wink-wink-nudge-nudge bits about impending Y2K doom.

In some ways, you can’t fault the eight-episode series too hard for leaning into the well-trodden tropes of the romantic comedy, nor for song-and-dance moments that don’t always bring the house down.appears hindered by budgetary redtape, though production designer Almitra Corey captures the claustrophobia of an East Village apartment as wonderfully as she executes the expansiveness of the stage where big emotions can blossom.

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