Netflix’s His & Hers Is Too Grim to Be Fun, Too Silly to Take Seriously

As splashy thrillers of every style and subgenre proliferate on platforms clamoring for viewers’ rapt attention, what increasingly separates the ones worth getting hooked on from the ones that are just wasting our time is a single quality: tone. They all feature a marquee star or two. Many, from Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer to the ever-expanding David E. Kelley canon, also boast a prestigious or at least famous creator. Most are adapted from bestselling suspense novels. And they invariably move at a whiplash pace...