Review of Z: The Beginning of Everything

I had high expectations for this series, but in the end, there were some fatal flaws, the biggest of which might have been that it's missing a season? Perhaps they intended to shoot a second season where Zelda has a child and then Fitzgerald goes to Hollywood. For what they did show, I think several episodes were great and really showed the luster and enchantment between the couple and the twenties. I loved the beginning episodes in the south and it really built up the main character as a rebel without a cause. Zelda is fiesta and enchanting, and everything we expect her to be. Then the tumultuous love unfolds in later episodes, ... all important stories to share in the initial episodes: The booze, booze, booze, which would help even the strongest of relationships crumble, and all of the tensions that go along with careers of men, and the stifling of careers for women throughout history. I liked that they were able to draw on factual evidence that Zelda and her husband wrote similarly enough to concede that his stories were not purely his own. However, I thought the last episode or two fell flat and were somewhat liberal with the truth. Zelda tried to run away from her husband with another man when they lived on the French coast (around the time he wrote the Great Gatsby) and sure enough, given the times, he locked her in a room until she promised she wouldn't leave him, because you know...the 20's...and Scott likely wasn't having extramarital affairs until he lived in Hollywood, so there are tons of plot holes here and to be fair, I can't for the life of me figure out why they made an entire episode out of driving to Montgomery from the East Coast. I mean, on screen, it's just as boring as it sounds, and doesn't do anything to develop the characters or the plot which is their lives. YIKES! Big fail on the last 2 episodes. My guess is that season 2 would have had a few episodes dedicated to their time in Paris, Zelda's tense relationship with Hemingway, and eventually the death of her father, who was a Supreme Court Justice (a detail which is baffling to leave out, as it develops his character). Last, Zelda's time in and out of institutions would have been an interesting plot twist. I feel some of these episodes were just down right boring, and they could have really had more bang for their buck with a better writer to adapt the book to a screenplay. WTF, writers?!?!?! You kind of rendered a brilliant idea dead in the water. Sigh. What a sweet and heart-aching story, fumbled before it fully took off. And who wasn't craving a glimpse into their fancy life in Paris? I mean HELLO it's in a ton of other charming movies, but not a show about Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald themselves?!?! This had to have been a second season cancellation, in which case, please bring season 2 back, please! I will mumble curse words here while I'm waiting.... F#%&;/+ no good w#$&;/%...