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failed to generate the buzz it deserves during its inaugural 10-episode run. But for those who have become indoctrinated into the world of FAM, few shows have provided a more wonderfully strange journey. Set in Orlando in the early 90s, the series follows Krystal Stubbs whose life is turned on its head when her husband’s dangerous obsession with FAM leaves her alone and figuring out how to provide for her young daughter.
Krystal may not be an outright hero, but she is someone well worth rooting for thanks to Dunst’s award-worthy portrayal. Krystal is a little rough around the edges and often gets in her own way, but even when she’s completely worn out she doesn’t ever stop scheming or thinking of ways to make her life better. That includes dragging her co-worker, neighbor, and friend Ernie into the void of FAM, which he then develops his own obsession with.
Both Ernie and Krystal are smarter and better than the FAM system allows them to be, since it’s designed so that you canbe good enough to actually earn real money. It’s the tide that continues to batter their boats back out to sea, first with Krystal being forced to shut down her Splashercise operation, and later when Ernie smartly expands into the Latinx market but is ultimately left with nothing.
In a less certain place, though, is Ernie, who has also had an incredible arc over the course of the season—all of which culminated in him appearing on the FAM telethon with a fake family. Ultimately, though, he seems to have lost his family, the friends he brought into FAM, and even his mind after witnessing a death, and the finale only gave us a hopeful peacock of wealth that his wife may or may not accept as a peace offering.
But Dunst makes Krystal’s brazen resourcefulness a boon rather than a flaw, and seeing her behind the desk at Krystal Waters was a moment of triumph. “You are a demon,” Obie says to her. “No, I am a business man,” she replies. Is there a difference? The road to Krystal Waters might be a corruption of her original dream, but perhaps there is no more honest portrayal of the American Dream than what Krystal achieved.
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