'A Man in Full' Isn’t Worthy of Tom Wolfe

A Man in Full, Netflix’s new big-budget adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s bestselling 1998 novel, was intended to be one of the year’s most prestigious dramas. Its creator David E Kelley is one of the titans of American TV, responsible for everything from Ally McBeal to the recent Big Little Lies, and its lead is the titanic Jeff Daniels, who has successfully reinvented himself from an amiable comic actor into a magisterial figure who excels at high drama that is often tragic in scope.