‘A Man in Full’ Review: Jeff Daniels Plays a Real Estate Tycoon in Scattered Netflix Series

The late Tom Wolfe wrote sprawling, overstuffed, zeitgeisty novels that always threatened to (and sometimes did) spin out of control. To read “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” “A Man in Full,” or even a lesser work like “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” is to take a long road trip through American hubris and excess, including the author’s own. But the experience is usually breezy, and generally feels like when there’s something good on the car radio.

“A Man in Full” is now a Netflix limited series, its 742 pages pared down to six episodes adding up to less than six hours. Created by David E.