I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.
If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.
I was not quite as gracious as Mark Darcy about wearing what my mother tried to make me wear. It tended to stop really, when I was quite young.
I want to say, strenuously, that although I have never considered the Darcy thing to be a problem, that is simply not going to happen.