‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ Turns the Missing Wife Trope On Its Head

If Gone Girl were given the recut-trailer treatment in the style of a Woody Allen film, it would probably look a lot like Fleishman Is In Trouble. The smart new Hulu limited series, based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel of the same name, premieres Nov. 17.

It’s got the failed marriage, the sad sack 40-something white man and, most importantly, the missing wife. But it’s also filled with anxious, neurotic New York Jews, philosophical walk-and-talks, money and sex. Lots of sex.

Toby Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg) is a newly divorced liver doctor with two kids who kinda hate him and a bachelor pad that’s fairly realistic in its dinginess (complete with a…