Unstable appears to be a deeply personal show for lead actor and co-creator Rob Lowe. After all, it revolves around a father/son duo played by Lowe and his real-life son, John Owen Lowe. Rob Lowe’s headlined worse stuff than this, for sure. Tragically, Unstable is a mostly just average comedy that leaves little in the way of an impression for good or ill. The biggest issue here is a lopsided tone. Big dramatic developments come across as lifeless, while equally pronounced stabs at comedy register as similarly comatose. Unstable boasts easygoing vibes and a plethora of characters being gentle with one another, but it’s hard to connect with the vibes when Ellis Dragon’s moral complications can’t easily inhabit such an aesthetic. It is so forgettable that it fails to muster up any passionate emotions. Instead, it’s something doomed to slip away into the vast Netflix library, never to be heard from again just a few hours after all eight of its episodes drop. Perhaps if Unstable had mined its primary father/son dynamic for richer storytelling or even just more amusing goofy gags, it could’ve avoided a fate that plagues so many sitcoms in the streaming era.