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There is exactly one sizzling moment in the 10 installments, and it has nothing to do with the couple’s supposedly fiery romance. Without any sign of a romantic spark, it is not clear why they would endure one another and stay together. Hoflin, are entirely devoid of the thing that the real Fitzgeralds apparently had in abundance: chemistry. That’s too bad, because some of them probably could have been more interesting than the central couple, who, as played by Ms. None are given enough screen time over the 10 episodes to emerge as full characters it’s as if they’re thrown in for the benefit of the academic crowd who will recognize the references. Vincent Millay (Lucy Walters) the Bankhead sisters, Tallulah (Christina Bennett Lind) and Eugenia (Natalie Knepp). The series, though, is mostly content to name-check these people - Heywood Broun (Tony Manna) H. The series is based on Therese Anne Fowler’s book “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald” and is a fictionalized version of the Fitzgeralds’ lives with a reasonable underpinning of fact and real-life figures.

Watching the spectacle is like being stuck in a hipster party that never ends or stops wallowing in its self-indulgence and self-importance.

As the newly married Fitzgeralds ride the success of “This Side of Paradise,” published in 1920, there are endless shots of one or both drinking from a bottle, imbibing in bathtubs and so on, navigating the party circuit in New York and elsewhere. Not so fortunately, what follows is no more interesting than the Southern-belle banalities of the show’s early moments. You do not walk away from your father when he is addressing you.” He soon whisks her out of there, which is fortunate since it means we no longer have to listen to David Strathairn, who plays her strict and humorless father, mouth lines like: “Zelda Sayre, you come back here. She meets Scott (David Hoflin), an aspiring writer who barely avoids being shipped off to fight thanks to the armistice. Scott Fitzgerald were one of the liveliest literary couples ever, right? And the flapper era was a blizzard of energy and saucy fun, wasn’t it? Well, this series, which arrives Friday on Amazon, makes both the Fitzgeralds and the 1920s seem drab as dishwater.Ĭhristina Ricci plays the title letter, who when we first meet her is Zelda Sayre, living a privileged life in Montgomery, Ala., during World War I. Any college English major knows that Zelda and F.

Perhaps the kindest way to look at the Amazon series “Z: The Beginning of Everything” is as a brave example of revisionist history.