Netflix’s newest drama, a sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious ly missed opportunity that takes juicy ingredients but dries them all out, is the story of Jean (Naomi Watts), a terrible but successful Manhattan psychiatrist. Jean has a handful of patients with whom she makes little progress, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding which she blames them, but makes abundant’ample’plentiful money that she can “take mornings off half the week”. At home she has a handsome lawyer husband (Billy Crudup) and a daughter who is reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ing eliminate’remove token s of gender-nonconin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mity (the daughter is comin/with regard to’concerning’regarding table with this; Jean is intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully much not). Jean is bored.###An undiagnosed sociopath, Jean amuses herself by delving into the lives of her patients outside office hours. She finds the individual they discuss and befriends them, calling herself Diane to shun detection, then uses the knowledge she gains to manipulate eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone. In peculiar , she fixates on Sydney (Sophie Cookson), one patient’s generically ‘edgy’ ex-girlfriend (barista, sings in a band, knows her bourbon). Jean and Sydney begin a flirtation that becomes a mutual obsession. If any one of Jean’s lies is reveal d, her whole life would crumble. If merely’barely one of them would dislodge a little quicker.###Nobody could be better cast than Naomi Watts as a woman crowding multiple personas in one head.###The bones of the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue are rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent , with a premise that promises plenty of scandal and intrigue. Nobody could be better cast than Naomi Watts as a woman crowding multiple personas in one head. Yet it’s all too dull, a reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue that wants to glide mysteriously when it should race madly. The nature of Netflix’s binge model is supposed to give creatives the opportunity to let a story breathe and not misgiving’fret with regards to’concerning’with respect to cheap hooks to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure an audience tuning in next week. Gypsy is an example of how this can be a negative. It pinches out plot at such a lethargic rate that there’s little reason to stick with Jean as she drifts in and out of the orbit of horrible Sydney. For a reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue billed as a psychological thriller it is intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully low on thrills — twists are dropped at the end of a few episodes but left to go slack in the next — and pretty fundamental in its psychology.###There’s not a lot to unlock with regards to’concerning’with respect to its characters. The object of Jean’s obsession almost straight away’in a flash’promptly’instantaneous’in a trice reveals she has daddy issues. Jean clashes with her mother (Blythe Danner) who is the selfish attention hog Jean insists she doesn’t want to be but is eliminate’remove ly becoming. When Jean meets her husband’s extremely eye-catching’good-shaped’appealing’charming’fascinating’gorgeous assistant she asks him not to possess’own’nurse an affair with her because “you’d be making me part of a cliché”. He starts flirting almost straight away’in a flash’promptly’instantaneous’in a trice with this woman who is much younger than him and attends to him in a way his increasingly absent wife does not. It’s all day one, lesson one shrink stuff. Perhaps it’s a statement on how uncomplicated individual actually are, that those clichés are clichés in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a reason, but it makes in/with regard to’concerning’regarding dreary, predictable narrative.###The obviousness of Gypsy’s plotting might not be an issue if the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue had a different image of itself. As lurid, soapy, psychosexual trash it might work, but that doesn’t seem to be what anyone involved is trying to make. Gypsy has the clean glamour and verbose scenes of prestige drama. It rejects its own absurdity. Sam Taylor-Johnson directs the establishing episodes and gives it plenty of gloss, but none of the wink she gave to Fifty Shades Of Grey, a project with similarly daft psychology, but at least it knew it. There are flashes of the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue this could possess’own’nurse been. Jean and colleagues sitting around a table bitching with regards to’concerning’with respect to patients and discussing them as commodities is something you want to eavesdrop on more. Jean’s relationship with her daughter throws up a tough’challenging’demanding’awkward battle between the mum who wants to maintain’sustain her child but also wishes she were like eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone else. Yet these are brushed past to focus on the bland affair. Beneath all the deceptions and scandals, Jean is hiding a deeper secret: she’s just not interesting.