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\u201cShared Custody\u201d is a light divorce drama, though it is perhaps better seen as a cellphone drama: the buzzing, the ringing, the texting, the \u201cjust one second,\u201d the deleted messages, the accidental photo uploads, the app notifications. Is everyone disconnected, or is everyone too connected?<\/p>\n
The show, on Hulu (in Spanish, with subtitles, or dubbed), follows Cris (Lorena L\u00f3pez) and Diego (Ricard Farr\u00e9) through the early stages of their divorce. They each tell their parents that they\u2019re going to do things amicably, without lawyers, and that figuring out custody of their little girl won\u2019t be that big of a headache.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t do that,\u201d Diego\u2019s father grumbles. \u201cAnd if you had gone to law school, you\u2019d know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Episodes themselves have a sort of split custody. We see Cris at work, where she is told to keep her child and her separation a secret, lest she be pushed aside. Diego\u2019s client, on the other hand, declares that fathers are inherently trustworthy and that she is impressed by his family life.<\/p>\n
We see each parent on a too-boozy night with friends and how each set of abuelos is both the cause of and solution to some of the issues at hand. Cris is too rigid and selfish \u2014 or wait, Diego is too lazy and has mooched off his family and wife forever. (\u201cI\u2019ve taken two degrees worth of digital marketing courses!\u201d he brags to a friend.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
As with many shows that cattily dissect the bougie, \u201cCustody\u201d includes a party held at the richest friend\u2019s ostentatiously artsy house, where all the kids are screaming and running around, and all the grow-ups are forming hostile cliques. Things boil over! As with many European shows, this one features interesting sweaters and fabulous bathroom tiles. And as with many contemporary domestic dramas, it captures the misery of being around other people\u2019s poorly behaved children.<\/p>\n
\u201cCustody\u201d is not dark or brutalizing, but neither does it shy away from how quickly Cris and Diego can take a whisper of disagreement and turn it into an opera of \u201cyou are in fact just like your parents, specifically in the ways you most fear and resent.\u201d You know what, maybe we should get lawyers after all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n