The characters talk in tired cliches: “Truth is a great equaliser”,”The past always gives up its secrets one way or another”, “I feel like I’m in a fork in the road and I don’t know what path to take.” What/If comes together in a thrilling ride The setting is the uber-wealthy tech billionaire’s San Francisco (dreamy: galas in penthouse apartments, helicopter rides to luxury villas in the vineyards of Napa), the clothes are equally outrageous, as is the script. There’s the cliched tropes and over-used analogies – a melodramatic clap of thunder and lightning when Anne’s being particularly evil (just stopping short of a “bwah ha hahaaa!”) or a much-talked about broken wedding vase, symbolising a broken marriage. Relatable? No! And that’s just the beginning of the joys of What/If.Īnne, for no explained reason, practises with crossbow and arrow in her penthouse apartment, when she’s not spending evenings staring at pie-charts (we get it, she’s an entrepreneur), or screaming into a stuffed-toy tiger. Another character is pregnant – is it by her childhood sweetheart husband, or her increasingly unhinged colleague who she’s having an affair with? One couple get out the BDSM gear and have a threesome with a guy they pick up in a bar. Someone accidentally clubbed a man to death as a teen and is now being blackmailed. Then there’s the supporting cast and all their equally far-fetched plotlines. Jane Levy and Blake Jenner as Lisa and Sean Donovan (Photo: Netflix) In a reference less subtle that an arrow to the head (more on that later) Anne responds: “I always thought that was a decent deal”. “This is ripped out of a bad ’90s movie!” the cartoon-character cute Lisa (Jane Levy) says to Anne. First up – there’s an indecent proposal to smug married couple Lisa and Sean, when she requests to spend the night with Sean for $80 million (ha! ha!), going to help Lisa’s ailing company, a start-up firm making medicines for sick kids.
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