Pretty disappointing. - Party Over Here (2016) Discussion

[–] Wood-20 8 years ago

I was pretty underwhelmed by the level of comedy. They had a couple of good ideas there, with the vocal fry being annoying and the suffragette who wasn't going to vote, but the writing was just subpar, and in the end they weren't really very funny sketches. I hated the stage routines with the three women together.

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[–] ErikLShaw 8 years ago

I completely agree. The stage routines were cringeworthy and some of the sketches had potential but they ended up going in a dumb direction

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[–] Navihawk 8 years ago

That was 20-odd minutes I'll never get back...

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[–] NotASpookyGhost 8 years ago

Agreed. Maybe they should have tried having a theme for each episode or something. I don't know. I wanted to like it but I just didn't laugh at anything. And there were way too many scenes with them on stage.

OP had it right, it's like a Disney show with a few "dirty" jokes.

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[–] marauder256 8 years ago

There is a theme: SJW comedy. That's why you, along with anybody else who watches this show, aren't laughing.

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[–] lorettaspitzer-50802 8 years ago

Yeah, I definitely got that vibe; from the suffrage skit to the one about "manspainling" - could have overlooked it, if this show was remotely funny.

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[–] jenx42 8 years ago

What the heck is SJW?

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[–] lorettaspitzer-50802 8 years ago

Social Justice Warrior; the show has politically correct, inoffensive humour.

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[–] jenx42 8 years ago

Oh, I believe I may have read that on a comment thread somewhere. I must say offensiveness is relative. I find it offensive to call this humor for example. ?

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[–] TMC-4 8 years ago

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/13/party-over-here-all-female-sketch-comedy-show

"SNL has one or two good moments per show, but Party Over Here doesn’t even have that,” says Brian Moylan of The Lonely Island-produced female sketch comedy show. "It’s like they didn’t quite know how to execute their great ideas.” PLUS: It's fun, funny, relatable, and everything felt forced and contrived.

http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/party-over-here-asks-who-are-these-women-whats-the-233695

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/13/party-over-here-review

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[–] Smdng 8 years ago

There was maybe once that I smirked. Other than that this was very cringworthy

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[–] jenx42 8 years ago

I think I smiled once. Don't remember when because it was that memorable. And I gave this a major chance at four episodes! To quote a real funny lady genius Blarg!

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[–] ZurichGnome 8 years ago

I can't believe this piece of junk ever got the green light. The producers must have been doing some bad acid.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic -- Zurich Gnome

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[–] JMak90 8 years ago

I don't even understand why The Lonely Island are even involved with this, it's pretty lame...

I'm a man of few words. Thank you.

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