Living With Yourself (series) : It's Paul Rudd on Netflix and it's just OK (Potential spoilers)

When I say it is just OK i mean that I watched the entire first season in one sitting but I was a bit underwhelmed after it was all over. Comparing this series to Dead to Me I can easily say that this is nowhere near as good as the Christina Applegate series.

I am kind of indifferent to whether or not Living with Yourself even has a second season and mostly, in my mind, that isn't a great sign.

I found it difficult to completely eliminate spoilers in this write-up so if you want to go into this series blind, i highly suggest you turn back

The basic premise is that Miles Elliot (Rudd) is unhappy with his own life professionally and personally and finds out from a work colleague a method of changing all of that through a day spa that did wonders for him. Rudd decides to persue the same avenue and ends up being cloned with improved DNA, but unlike those that have come before, his original self survives the process resulting in two Miles Elliots living in the same time and space.

[source](https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/08/LWY_PaulPaul102_2022_CAR_R-8b9ad06.jpg?quality=45&resize=620,413)

What we are left with is two identical Miles Elliots that have the same body, same memories, and same basically everything. The other people in their lives are unaware that there are 2 of them but since the "improved" Miles had access to DNA betterment, the old Miles is less desireable in most ways....certainly professional.

That's all of the plot that I think i should reveal and exactly that is revealed in the trailer so please don't give me a headache over this, i did the best i could.

I think that this show is entertaining for sure: I did actually sit through 8, 22-minute episodes without leaving the sofa after all. However, I for one have never enjoyed films where one person is playing the role of multiple people and I am going to be seriously judgmental any time that someone tries to pull this off.

[source](https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/living-with-you-paul-rudd-1.jpg)

For the most party, Paul Rudd doesn't need to interact with Paul Rudd and when they do need to do so, the CGI team or whatever actually pull it off quite well by virtue of limiting the physical contact between the two characters that are both, essentially, "Miles."

I just don't believe that the underlying story of "self-discovery" that Miles experiences is particularly compelling and also, a lot of what goes on is pretty unrealistic because well, people around them would notice the difference.

Overall, I would say that this sequence of 22 minute episodes is decent, and I am not disappointed that I watched them but in the end I don't really think they have much of a show here. Even though the season ends with an obvious indication that there is material for a 2nd season in store, I'm not looking forward to it because the show kind of runs its absurd course after 8 episodes.

While I did enjoy certain aspects of this series I would say that there is a really good chance that you can pass this one and still feel as though you have missed nothing. People may be talking about this now, but they wont be doing so a month from now.