In showing us the sum of Forrest’s travails, Review has given birth to something extraordinary: a bleak, serialized tragedy that inspires spasms of unrestrained laughter.
Daly’s tightly wound performance is so pitch-perfect, and the world around him so meticulously crafted, that the show works almost as well as a drama as it does as a comedy. Its final episodes are particularly loaded with gripping twists and turns.
It presents the age-old struggle of a work/life balance (or more accurately, the perils of not having one) as an excruciatingly brutal fable, starring a man who is doomed to repeat his mistakes--yet always with a smile.