It took me a while to warm up to this show. This may be, in part, because my expectations were set very wrongly by some of the publicity I'd heard; I was expecting a comical romp poking fun at new-age spiritual therapy. It's not that. There's a taste of that, but this is really about relationships, and it's really getting interesting. The first couple of episodes, I'm now coming to understand, were exposition, just setting up the situation. But now we're starting to see a lot more development of the Amy/Levi, Amy/Mom, and, probably most importantly, Amy/Tyler relationships, and they're all quite nuanced and credible. Laura Dern is great, but it's really an ensemble cast, and Mike White, Luke Wilson, and Diane Ladd (Laura's real-life mom, I see from IMDb) deserve equal kudos. This is by far the best thing I've ever seen Luke do; it's a "whoa, this guy can actually act" revelation on the level of Charlize Theron in "Monster."
I'll say the same thing others have said: don't give up on this one based on the pilot and the first couple of episodes; it really does seem to be taking off.
I'll say the same thing others have said: don't give up on this one based on the pilot and the first couple of episodes; it really does seem to be taking off.