My shameful secret of this TV season is that two of the only three new broadcast shows I have watched (and the only two I watched or will watch to completion) were musicals (Perfect Harmony and Zoey). There are so many reasons to hate (or at least be aggressively indifferent towards) these shows, and yet both shows hooked me. In the case of Zoey, what got me was not the music or the cloying sweetness, but the show’s early commitment to deal with death in a head on manner, and as a (the) core through line of the season. We are not at the end yet, and I will have to take any positive thing I have to say about the show back if the finale brings us a miraculous cure, but I doubt that it will. The show would be ten times better with less sugar, but I kind of get why a network would want that frosting to cover such a bitter cake. Oh, and also, Jane Levy. But mostly the death thing.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:20 AM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to remain neutral on this, as the creator/writer is a friend of > mine from our theater camp days. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/453d28eb-801d-4942-9fe4-f914fd6b5bb2%40googlegroups.com > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJx7Wm5vVfkzp987NVed43HJZE049633fL1CmmULErcSA%40mail.gmail.com.
