Just saw the finale, and I found it very moving. They dealt with the death thing without a flinch. And the closing titles revealed a new dimension that just added to its richness.
And even though I know it was done with computers, the single-take final number - done on a multi-room set, and lasting maybe nine minutes - was a real bravura piece of work. Somebody deserves an Emmy for that. I had reservations too, and not just because of the sweetness. I felt the Lauren Graham character was written very inconsistently, veering from villain to bestie. And I strongly disliked the "Zoey jumps on a conference table and sings Billy Joel" episode because it fiddled with the concept too much and humiliated a main character who I didn' t want to see hurt. But I am very, very glad I made the journey. On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 10:48:06 PM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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/b344e4e5-ed06-4035-9c7e-df016c992130%40googlegroups.com.
