Oddly effective college years novel, the heroine Lucy shows us her self-destructive reasoning. Her lugubrious, conventional, tacky, ersatz boyfriend Stephen is a true-to-life characterization. From the trailer, looks like they flattened them into soap opera characters for the sepia-toned, somber Hulu series, but perhaps not. The tone from the novel seemed to be more like a cross between Animal House and Gone Girl. Lucy shows us her why then begins a better path.