“Hulu’s horror film False Positive aches to evoke the sick, helpless, enveloping dread into which Mia Farrow’s character so famously descended in Roman Polanski’s 1968 classic Rosemary’s Baby.
“And there’s a lot it gets right, in the early going anyway, as it forces us to watch as the young, pregnant Lucy (Ilana Glazer) gets treated with polite but determined condescension by everyone around her.
“While it’s presenting itself as a tightly focused study in the cumulative impact of micro-aggressions, the specificity on display is satisfying: Lucy’s handsome husband Adrian (Justin Theroux) slyly undercuts her feelings (“I’m sorry if I made you feel bad”) even as he stares at her soulfully, the smarmy head doctor at the fancy fertility clinic (Pierce Brosnan) tut-tuts her concerns away and lightly tosses around words like “hysterical”…”
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