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What do you think - renew or cancel?


I’ll finish it out, but I’m leaning towards cancel. Decent idea, poor execution. But simply put - it’s just simply not good. Every character is insufferable and they can all DIAF for all I care (except for Fonzie - he’s the bright spot).

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I will gladly look forward to more episodes. The writing is incisive, the characters work well (even the intentionally annoying ones), and the show presents the world of struggling actors in a fair way while mocking it at the same time.

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Good synopsis of what I feel they are *trying* to do. We'll see. I think this will go the way of, "Vinyl", though.

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It's been renewed for another season. Vinyl was not. Despite what you or I may think about the show, it has definitely found an audience, and HBO feels confident enough based on that to order another batch of episodes.

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Nice. I did like the finale quite a bit.

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Glad to hear you liked the finale. I really enjoyed the whole season myself so am really glad more is coming.

It definitely turned a corner that I wasn't expecting. It's strange because it feels like he's a character we're supposed to root for, but they put him down a path beyond redemption. At least the kind of redemption that would allow him to live happily ever after.

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It got better as it went and ended really high. Plus, HBO tends to give shows a chance. It will get at least another season.

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So you was serious aye

https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Good-Fellas-Hilarious.jpg

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At the time yes. If you read the whole thread I had come back to say that by the finale I enjoyed the show. It’s still not a *great* show though. But I agree that a S2 is warranted now. It just needed to warm up. I felt that way with “Kidding” as well which blew me away by the end.

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