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'Fosse/Verdon' Wiggles And Kicks, But Fails To Satisfy

The FX series is deeply interested in Bob Fosse as an awful genius, but much less invested in Gwen Verdon as an overlooked collaborator.
Michelle Williams gives it her all as Gwen Verdon in <em>Fosse/Verdon</em>.

If you could bottle the keen curiosity the new FX series Fosse/Verdon has about the details of both Bob Fosse's genius and his destructive, dishonest, sexually harassing, emotionally abusive behavior, you would perhaps have a little bit of curiosity to spare to make up for the project's limited interest in what it all meant for Gwen Verdon and countless other women he treated like hot garbage.

The first tell that this highly anticipated limited series cannot live up to its aspirations for itself is that while it is called , the book it's based on is called . It a better idea, in theory, to make a series that's about Fosse andVerdon and the collaboration that brought forward musicals like , and . Unfortunately, the series isn't really about both

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