Amazon: Return to the 80s with Red Oaks

Starting tonight you can watch season one of Red Oaks.  This drama did well during the last set of Amazon test pilots and is now a full-blown 10-episode series on Amazon. Here are the basics:

Set in suburban New Jersey in 1985, Red Oaks centers around college student David Meyer--a young man at a crossroads as he tries to figure out who he is and what he wants to be in this world. He gets a summer job as an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club and while there, David finds himself the recipient of unsolicited life advice from a colorful group of coworkers and club members.

I agree that the cast is colorful with David as the only sane one of the bunch. Even his parents are lunatics, though few parents are role models on TV these days. It is worth watching the pilot just to see Paul Reiser have a tantrum.

I also enjoyed seeing the 1980s as one of the show's characters via the music, cars, and clothes. It seems as far away as Downton Abbey. I think I will go along on this nostalgic trip.