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Emails! Goal-setting! To-do lists! Paul Rudd is as overwhelmed as the rest of us

LOS ANGELES - There's a moment in the first episode of Netflix's mid-life crisis comedy "Living With Yourself" in which dissatisfied marketing executive Miles Elliot (Paul Rudd) hangs barside at a TGI Fridays, where most of life's existential questions unravel. Miles is trying to understand how his co-worker, once grumbling, is suddenly so capable that a work presentation has earned him a cocktail shrimp tower at the chain restaurant.

"You really want to know my secret?" the colleague (Desmin Borges) says. "I went to a spa ... Ever since then, I am on fire."

What happens next sets the show, now streaming, in motion. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.) Miles undergoes the same "spa treatment" at a hefty $50,000 fee. But he doesn't receive a massage

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