Going through a typical day for Victor Morales (Arturo Castro) implies seeing a L.A. story that TV doesn’t tell again and again. A local Angeleno, Victor goes through his days conveying bundles all around the city for UPS, his evenings playing computer games with his companions, and his ends of the week with his little girl who’s currently immovably in the feared high school phase of detesting everything and everybody, most particularly her folks. Castro, most notable for all the more unmistakably comedic jobs on shows like “Wide City” and his own series “Alternatino,” pervades Victor with open earnestness and easygoing empathy that makes him convincing to follow regardless of how worn-out the scene.

Sadly, “Mr. Spirits” — coordinated by Aurora Guerrero and composed by Roja Gashtili and Julia Lerman — by is only an oddball scene on “Mr. Corman,” a show that is generally about Victor’s disenthralled flat mate Josh, played by maker, essayist and chief Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Josh is a discouraged instructor nursing a wrecked heart and broke dreams of melodic fame. Leader created by Gordon-Levitt related to A24, every half-hour scene of “Mr. Corman” mirrors Josh’s dormancy with grave conviction. His dull emphasis on the world’s unavoidable destruction and his own uselessness to make anything of himself before then concerns Victor and his mom (Debra Winger), disturbs his sister (Shannon Woodward), and confounds himself incalculable. The obscurity of Josh’s uneasiness covers the show, regardless of whether through Gordon-Levitt’s very persuading execution regarding dreary abdication or through elaborate contacts, for example, a chime flagging his frenzy spiking, fanciful arrangements unfurling in collaged liveliness, or the meteor Josh frequently envisions rushing towards the Earth to devastate himself and all that he knows.

But then notwithstanding these strange breaks in actuality, “Mr. Corman” experiences difficulty discovering a lot of anything new to say about the mind-boggling boredom of a thirtysomething year-elderly person feeling stuck in his own exhausting life. At times the series shows some mindfulness that Josh’s downturn doesn’t pardon his narrow-mindedness, ordinarily through another person like his sister or ex-life partner (Juno Temple) calling him out in an explosion of dissatisfaction. These minutes are oftentimes a consolation, yet rapidly tedious as “Mr. Corman” turns into a labor through Josh’s staggering self-loathing. The crowd doesn’t need to like the primary person for the show to work, however in any event, its focal point of gravity ought to be more nuanced and convincing than this one.

The most intriguing part of “Mr. Corman,” regardless of whether coincidentally or deliberately, is the manner by which the Apple TV Plus show uncovers its certain topical connections to one of Gordon-Levitt’s most suffering jobs to date. A productive entertainer in his childhood, Gordon-Levitt turned into a mainstream society symbol in 2009 as Tom, the non-romantic ideal of a romantic comedy “pleasant person” in Marc Webb’s “500 Days of Summer.” The deplorable talk around that film and its focal Manic Pixie Dream Girl (played with lilting appeal by Zooey Deschanel) has been disputed to death and back, so no compelling reason to revive it here. However, in watching “Mr. Corman,” it became inconceivable not to consider “500 Days of Summer,” regardless of whether in light of how it likewise lets Gordon-Levitt play in inconsistent breaks from the real world or, all the more pressingly, the amount Josh brings out a depressing future rendition of Tom. In contrast to “500 Days of Summer,” Gordon-Levitt had the opportunity to shape “Mr. Corman” as its maker just as its star, however it actually appears to be a partner piece getting 11 years after the fact (and that, not in vain, might have been exceptional off as a limited film versus a series).