This is a lot like Farscape
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Iāll take that as a high recommendation, and seek it out.
Farscape is one of my favorite shows of all time, and is my go-to for when I want something on the tevee that I donāt have to track closely (since Iāve seen it quite a few times).
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I found the first episode confusing but the Farscapiness becomes really obvious in Episode 2āthe bad guys are Space Fascists, somebody is an exiled monarch, thereās one character from Earth, they donāt even bother explaining how he got there, it doesnāt really matter
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Fifteen minutes no one gets back.
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Been watching Ozark, which is pretty good. Iām enjoying Laura Linney and Iām team Ruth all the wayā¦
Just started on Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, which is super-cute and adorable and if you need some light, fun fare (especially if you have kids) I highly recommend it.
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Ozark is great, and Ruth is a real piece of work. I think Iām behind now, and need to get caught up. I did not know that there was a āteam Ruthā.
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I donāt know if there was, but there is now. Sheās awesome-sauce, that girl.
Not team Darlene, tho. Man, that womanā¦
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Iāve been watching āSpace Forceā the last few days. Before watching it, I had seen a review that panned it quite a bitā¦
Workplace comedies need a strong ensemble to connect with, and thereās not a single character here that the audience can get onboard with. Naird lacks the one thing that made Michael Scott bearable: a heart. Heās just straight up a dick.
So my expectations wereā¦ tempered.
What I got, thoughā¦ I wouldnāt call this a comedy, honestly. Itās funny in places, downright ridiculous in places, but in others it really plays thing painfully straight. While the main character starts out a bit of a dick, after two or three episodes it felt to me more like people just trying to hold things together against a tweeting president and other all-too-real issues. Some of the characters could use a good bit of expansion, but with only 10 episodes I can only fault that so much.
That review made a lot of comparisons to The Office, which Iāll admit Iāve not seen aside from the viral memes which are everywhere. So I donāt really have the cultural point of comparison the review author was going for.
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I watched part of the first episode. I found it totally boring and a waste of a lot of star power. I didnāt find the setup very interesting to begin with. Lisa Kudrow seemed promising but of course it was going to focus on the menz. I think she had 2 sentences.
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Iāve made it through three episodes, but, yeahā¦ doesnāt seem to be going anywhere.
I am intrigued though why Lisa Kudrowās character is in jail, so I might keep watching just to find out.
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iāve been very interested in watching it, based on the cast alone, but i wonder if itās suffering because everyone is expecting The Office and itās not trying to be that. granted, iāve never seen The Office either, but it sure seems like Carrell has that looming over everything he does these days.
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Part of my problem is the few episodes of the office I watched I didnāt think were funny either. G
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This. Iām convinced had he lived, he wouldāve done the ultimate parody/satirization of the current POTUS.
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I am acquainted with a person who is not from the Ozarks, but has lived there for more than 20 years. This person watched the first couple of episodes, and found the ādangerous hillbilliesā too close to reality, and too scary to find entertaining. I know there is more to the story, but they would not tell me about it.
I guess I should give it a chance, it appears to be realistic on at least some levels.
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i used to live in St. Louis, went to school in southeastern Missouri, and have been to the Ozarks more times than i can say. iām kind of afraid to watch that show. Although i think the stereotype of āhillbillyā gets applied far too often and often unfairly, it does have a grain of truth.
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The first time I visited, I encountered a lot of people who self identified as hillbillies. I didnāt have a good answer to āwho ya kin to?ā or āwhat kind of name is that, anywayā and the stereotypes were solidified in my mind.
Edit: It was a real cultural experience so soon after living in Central America, I tell ya!
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oh, i bet!
I think it comes off as that early on, but they manage to craft some pretty believable and empathetic characters over the course of the show. There is sort of a hierarchy of criminals they set up (the Mexican drug cartel the main character works for, the local drug king pin still pissed about his land being confiscated by the state years ago, and the working class petty criminal family), and the family at the center of it has to navigate all of them (themselves a sort of stereotype of white, urban privilege). Especially for the most stereotypical of all (the Langmores, who are set up the petty white trash criminals), they manage to make them compelling and complicated characters instead of just the stereotypes they seem to be at the beginning.
Anywaysā¦ team ruth!
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My dad is from Neosho, MO. Iāve been to the Ozarks lots of times. I wasnāt aware of any criminal or dangerous element. But it is a creepy, weird, isolated place.
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