Ed tv casts Matthew McConaughey as Ed Pekurny,
an affable everyman whose life changes dramatically after he's cast as the star of a 24 hour television program documenting his every move - with Ed's newfound notoriety increasing substantially after he begins dating his brother's girlfriend (Jenna Elfman's Shari).
The latter casts
the affable everyman as Richard Drew, a violinist who is, through a series of convoluted plot developments, forced to go on the run after he's mistaken for a witness that could conceivably bring down a high - ranking CIA official.
Not exact matches
The main characters are written relatively straight, with new protagonist Nick Ramos portrayed as an
affable but nondescript
everyman, but this certainly isn't the transformation into a grim and gritty horror game that some feared.
The
affable middle class
everyman (who, according to his station, lives on a middle floor) is quickly welcomed by a number of his fellow residents, including the promiscuous socialite Charlotte Melville (Sienna Miller), aspiring documentarian Richard Wilder (Luke Evans), and his pregnant wife Helen (Elisabeth Moss).