Remake Our Life! was something of an easy pick for me: I watched the fifty-minute premiere the day it dropped and found myself wanting to see this series become something more, which it’s not… at least, not yet. And I’ll readily admit, episode 1, “Nothing Was Working,” is fifty minutes of table-setting that during my first watch of Remake Our Life!, I didn’t particularly enjoy consistently, and honestly… on a second watch, have come to mildly appreciate and see the potential that’s hinted at around the edges of the developing plot. It’s intensely relatable at its core, following 28-year-old Kyoya Hashiba, who’s in the midst of a low point after his life gets flipped turned upside down. In an era of high unemployment and general dissatisfaction with work culture, it strikes home, especially when Kyoya moves back home with his family, and who hasn’t had to do that at…
