I've watched every episode, but am out after this season's finale, since I just don't care enough about the characters or their travails. It's not dissimilar to "Billions" for me, and not in the sense that the characters are stupid-rich. It's that the showrunners have a limited number of plots and each episode and season boils down to mixing them up in different combinations as this one and that one try to screw over someone else.
Rinse and repeat. My wife finds the show hilarious and actually gets mad at me for not liking it, but I don't see the appeal at all. As for Strong (who, interestingly -- and not surprisingly, given this article (of which I don't doubt a word, even if it is in The New Yorker) -- was the only actor not to do that Colbert show) anyone who is relying on dubious "talents" like Sorkin (who knows as much about acting as he does about writing) and Chastain (who, from my observations, is batshit crazy) is in deep, deep trouble. I even had to wonder if, in order to really feel what Kendall went through, he got himself sky-high and killed someone just to be able to play it. --Dave Sikula On Tuesday, December 14, 2021 at 4:00:34 PM UTC-8 Adam Bowie wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 10:11 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Can you at all out into words what it is you like about spending time >> with them? I keep wondering if I am just looking at it the wrong way. I >> just detest the people, and am not charmed by the snappy dialogue- and >> particularly do not find Roman funny or endearing. >> >> > Objectively, they are all awful people. But that's not what I'm always > looking for from a show. You're not supposed to like these characters. But > you are supposed to believe in them. And they're drawn richly enough that I > do. Indeed what this show is brilliant at is making me interested in these > otherwise terrible people. That's hard to do. Sure, we've had anti-heroes > forever. It's even become a bit of a TV cliché - from Tony Soprano to Vic > Mackey in The Shield to Walter White in Breaking Bad. But those shows are > about us kinda liking the bad boys. This is something different. > > > -- 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/44b9deb9-d599-4fa3-9159-a32047b60f3fn%40googlegroups.com.
