Holling needing to fight someone before the ice broke up was my favorite episode among lots of great ones.
Adam was over the top but he was only in (checks Wikipedia) 10 episodes, and I know that in at least three of those episodes Eve wasn’t present, and in one of those episodes he only appeared in one single scene.
Adam was the guy who today would have a TikTok channel where he posts videos of himself sitting in the cab of pickup wearing a MAGA hat and cheap sunglasses and sharing whatever the government conspiracy du jour is. I think he was added to make the other characters seem a bit more normal.
Having known some hypochondriacs in my day (and suffering from a bit of that myself), I found Eve much more realistic than Adam.
LOL. Yes. Priceless. Great episode. Did that one have the Running of the Bulls? 
I disagree. Adam was not political. He wasn’t stupid enough to be a MAGA. He lived in his own reality - though how much was true- international jet-setting? CIA? He might have been autistic, though.
I think of more as having an insufferable douche vibe.
As far as I know, DFW did have a douchey side. (I never knew him, but I’ve heard a couple of second-hand reports.) So one does not preclude the other.
Just popping in to say that I’ve now started re-watching the show. It is much as I remember it, except that the plot moves more quickly than I recall - I’m only on episode 6 of season 1, and a lot of events that I won’t recount here so as to avoid spoilers have already occurred.
On Chris’s David Foster Wallace vibe – I googled it, and it wasn’t just me, that was definitely a thing. (See for yourself if tbat interests you.) So I am glad I picked up on it.
Okay, so maybe I’m the only one who couldn’t figure out why Chris was being compared to composer David Walter Foster. Still not sure how he was similar to that other guy.
I started slowly rewatching it about a few weeks ago, before I knew anything about a new streaming version on the way. My latest watch was 3x17.
Both could be argued to tend to logorrhea and deepity.
To each their own, of course, but if you needed someone to play cute/quirky/funny and borderline unhinged, you couldn’t do much better than Valerie Mahaffey.