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This show was a victim of its own eccentricities

posted 7 years ago by starwolf
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Every single character on the show was wildly eccentric. I think it that was just too much and the show was trying too hard. After a bit it just got too hard to care, and I think it made it difficult for the show to attract new viewers.

Perhaps if Walter and his batsman had been the only two weird ones the show could have fared better, but trying to have everyone be "wacky" versions of people just didn't really work for me, as much as I wanted it to.

I found I wasn't enamored of the Celia-Jim thing, and didn't care even a little about Jim's or martin's over the top eccentricities. I thought those two just drug the show down with their odd backstories.

In fact, the only one in the office I did care about and thought was a good fit was Shelly, and to a lessor extent Rosalie.

I am not surprised it's being dropped, but I am a little saddened because I thought this could have been a great vehicle for Patrick Stewart.

Oh well...

[–] tay-15 7 years ago

Possibly, although for me the basic problem is that the show just isn't very funny. I'm a big Patrick Stewart fan and will watch the whole thing (currently midway through season 2) but I'm rarely laughing. It's weird, I kind of like the show except for that fact. And in the end that's the only way I can judge comedies ...

Watching the "behind the scenes" segments, I get where Jonathan Ames is coming from, he acknowledges inside references to famous films, and it all sounds great "on paper" - listening to him, I'm amused. But for whatever reason it doesn't seem to carry over into the actual product.

What I'll take away from this is that I still enjoyed watching Stewart, and I love the theme music by Moby. Other than that, I'm honestly not surprised it got canceled, sad to say.

I'm reminded of the famous quote (whether or not apocryphal) that "dying is easy, comedy is hard."

California Über Alles

[–] RomaVictorrrr 7 years ago

I can't really speak for season 2 since i barely watched it, but I think you're both right

Too many eccentricities

Not funny

As much as I love Patrick Stewart, I'm not so sure he should be doing comedy. Between "Blunt Talk" and his annoying Strongbow commercials, maybe he should go back to more dignified roles.

What a missed opportunity to make fun of news stations, media figures, comedian-journalists. Alas.

[–] tay-15 7 years ago

Season 2 is a lot like Season 1, not much difference.

Watching I'd say I'm mildly amused more than anything ... that can be enough with certain films, but if you go with lowbrow humor (which I don't mind at all) you really need some LOL moments to keep it going and that's what's missing, for the most part.

I'm not sure I'd blame Stewart because the show goes out of its way to focus on multiple characters, and it's the same problem across the board. I'd sooner blame the writers, since that's the first group I credit for the great shows we watch.

California Über Alles

[–] verycoolnin 7 years ago

Or you know, it just wasn't very funny.