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\n\tIt takes some time to work out exactly who Jamie (Andrew Rannells) and Diane (Allison Janney), the two lost and lonely leads of HBO\u2019s Miss You, Love You<\/em>, are to each other. She might be his mother, but then she asks his name when he enters her home. He could be some sort of consultant, except he seems no more confident than she does when she asks how \u201cthis\u201d is supposed to work. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tAs it turns out, it\u2019s not just us: Diane and Jamie don\u2019t really know who they are to each other, either. They are strangers, linked socially by a person who is not present and situationally by another who has passed. It\u2019s a clever conceit, using the very nebulousness of their dynamic as a way to explore their messy, even ugly feelings surrounding the people who really matter most to them. But an overly mannered affect undermines the rawness of the emotions, keeping them from landing with the impact they ought.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Bottom Line<\/span>
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\tRaw emotions, overcooked execution.
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\nRelease date:<\/strong> 8 p.m. Friday, May 29 (HBO)
Cast:<\/strong> Allison Janney, Andrew Rannells
Director-screenwriter:<\/strong> Jim Rash
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\n\tThe script by Jim Rash (who also directed) reveals the actual explanation for Jamie\u2019s presence at Diane\u2019s in pieces. Eventually, it becomes apparent that Diane has very recently lost her husband of 24 years, Henry. Jamie is the assistant to her son, Tyler, here to help with funeral arrangements while Tyler is stuck abroad for work. On paper, Jamie would seem to be the dream aide for a devastated widow \u2014 he\u2019s competent, empathetic, almost pathologically insistent on being of use. But Jamie is no replacement for Diane\u2019s semi-estranged son and they both know it, even if she snaps, \u201cYou\u2019d be surprised how low that bar is,\u201d when Jamie tries to acknowledge as much.<\/p>\n

\n\tDiane\u2019s prickliness is not limited to Jamie, and not new. Since moving to New Mexico from New York three years earlier, she says, \u201cHenry made friends here. I made acquaintances.\u201d With no one else for her to turn to but Jamie, Miss You, Love You<\/em> unfolds almost as a two-hander, notwithstanding brief appearances by Bonnie Hunt, Oscar Nu\u00f1ez and Suzy Nakamura as various townspeople. And most of their interactions take place within the confines of her tasteful two-bed-one-bath abode, notwithstanding occasional detours to the diner or grocery store.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe tiny cast and closed setting give Miss You, Love You<\/em> almost the feeling of a stage play, to the extent that I was surprised to learn it\u2019s not based on one. That sense is augmented by performances that feel slightly too heightened for the intimate drama this actually is, that might feel more at home before rows of theatergoers. The dialogue unfolds in exchanges too precisely rhythmic to feel natural and monologues that sound more like acting exercises than spontaneous expressions of emotion. Even the blocking and camerawork (by Daniel Moder) seem designed to prioritize our understanding of the characters, rather than the one they have of each other.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, within the constraints of a TV movie that seems to wish it were a play, the performances are good enough to keep things interesting. Janney knows just how to embody Diane, her posture braced against a world that can\u2019t seem to stop dealing her blows and her face fixed in a semi-permanent state of pre-emptive disapproval. On the receiving end of Diane\u2019s brusque, acidic comments (this is a woman who demands to know, \u201cAm I a lot?\u201d and then, when reassured she\u2019s not, retorts, \u201cThat\u2019s a shame, because I\u2019m trying to be\u201d), Rannells absorbs each blow with a compassion so determined it borders on desperate.<\/p>\n

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\nMiss You, Love You<\/em> is hardly what you\u2019d call unpredictable; if you\u2019ve seen one indie drama about an unlikely friendship between two strangers, you can guess the basic outline of this one. But it benefits from the fact that there\u2019s no pre-existing template or obvious destination for the relationship between a widow and her son\u2019s personal assistant. The story is able to wander freely through their hurts, swerving or doubling back as needed.<\/p>\n

\n\tMostly, it winds up circling the two men who are so front of mind that their very absences become presences in themselves. The loss of Henry is as ambient and essential as air, felt not only in Diane\u2019s grief but in the physical artifacts he left behind: the unfinished painting in a corner of a room, the succulent plant withering without his green thumb, the empty bowls he\u2019d insisted on continuing to leave out for a cat who\u2019d been taken by an owl weeks before his own death. If he seems more like an idealized memory of a person than a real person, that\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n

\n\tTyler\u2019s is a more intrusive sort of absence, announcing itself with the sharp ping<\/em>s of text messages that Diane cannot help but notice only ever seem to find their way to Jamie\u2019s phone and not hers. More so than Henry, Tyler is the gaping hole around which Diane and Jamie\u2019s connection grows, each of them sensing the other\u2019s complicated feelings about him before they\u2019re even able to admit them to themselves. <\/p>\n

\n\tIf Tyler seems more like a projection than a person who presumably has his own perspective on his relationships with them \u2014 to the point that I started to feel a bit sorry for the guy getting a ragging in absentia \u2014 maybe that\u2019s also the point. When their emotions do finally boil over in the third act, Miss You, Love You<\/em> is most effective for the way Rash, who won an Oscar for co-writing Alexander Payne\u2019s offbeat grief dramedy The Descendants<\/em>, refuses to pave over it with comforting platitudes or tidy life lessons.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not saying that for sympathy. I\u2019m not saying that to excuse,\u201d cries Jamie after spilling his deepest fears and regrets to Diane. \u201cI just don\u2019t know where else to put it.\u201d There\u2019s catharsis in simply allowing himself to finally feel and express those emotions. If only Miss You, Love You<\/em> had been more able to allow us to feel them, too.<\/p>\n

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