Netflix’s Living With Yourself trailer pits Paul Rudd against Paul Rudd in an existential comedy that asks whether or not we really want to get better.
What would you do to be a better version of you?
That’s the question at the center of the new, upcoming Netflix series, Living With Yourself. The eight-episode mini-series is told from multiple perspectives and intersecting storylines, and explores the nature of existence, the formation of identity, and the meaning of happiness.
It also gives us the ageless icon Paul Rudd twice over, as both a shlubby, sad version and an upbeat, optimistic version.
Check out both versions and the mind-bending conceit at the heart of Living With Yourself in the newly released trailer below!
Living with Yourself is a mini-series that stars sad Paul Rudd and happy Paul Rudd as Miles Elliott, a man struggling with his marriage, his job and just his entire life in general. When he hears about a revolutionary new spa treatment that promises to make him a better person, he eschews any sort of self-help books and journeys for a quick and easy fix — that seems to work!
Until he realizes that all it’s done is literally replaced him with a better version of himself.
The series follows Miles — the first, unhappy Miles, that is — as he is forced to deal with the unintended consequences of his actions and fight for his wife (played by Aisling Bea), his life and his entire identity.
Living with Yourself is written by Emmy Award winner Timothy Greenberg, who’s best known for his work as a writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and directed by Jonathan Dayson and Valerie Faris, of The Battle of the Sexes and Little Miss Sunshine fame.
Living With Yourself will be released on Netflix on October 18.
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