Great first season- sadly routine second

mcfaddensflats 3 days ago (Sat Nov 19 2005 10:36:07)
"The 2 seasons of this show are like 2 totally different programmes.The first is simply hilarious,full of great one liners,silliness and the guy playing Jack is wonderful.I actually laugh out loud at a lot of the jokes.The scripts remind me of "the Simpsons" and "Futurama".The one liners come so fast you have to watch a number of times to appreciate them all.The episode "While you were out",features David Rasche in his funniest performance since "Sledge Hammer".It's much better than its forebears like "Charlie's Angels".But oh dear,in Season 2-no more Jack,no Simpson style one liners,in fact the humour is a minimum,and it just became another average adventure show."


The reason for this is that most of the producers/writers who were in
season 1 were no longer there in the second season. In the 1st season
the 2 showrunners (head producer/writers) were 2 ex-moonlighting
writers who also were the head writer/producers on Duckman. Several
of the other producer/writers, on the 1st season, also worked on Duckman,
which was an animated show that had dialogue that sounded like a cross
between Moonlighting and Dennis Miller rants. But all those guys were no
longer there for the 2nd season because the production company wanted to
change the show.

Syndicated shows, like She Spies, need to do well in the overseas markets,
nowadays, in order to make money. The rapid lightning witticisms of
season 1 probably were difficult to translate into other languages, so
the She Spies production company probably decided to get rid of all
the humor and put more emphasis on the action and romance, something that
would be more popular in the overseas markets.

And that's why season 1 of She Spies is one of the funniest shows of all
time and season 2 is totally boring.