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Post by rimjobflashmob on Nov 26, 2015 12:40:41 GMT -5
Okay I forgot about this in my original post, but the use of Durutti Column's "Otis" as the musical cue in the finale was inspired, and if I hadn't already been in it for the long haul already, that alone would have sold me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2015 16:21:02 GMT -5
I don't hate the show, but I get a bit tired of the theme of youngish people being shallow, mostly selfish, distractible adult-children. It's an ok theme, as themes go, but as a deep, altruistic and focussed Adult by Act of Parliament I can't relate to the theme and don't find it to be explored with particular cleverness or wit here. I've only seen three episodes, though, so perhaps I'll like it more when billy girl forces me at gunpoint to watch the other episodes.
Have at me.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2015 23:56:48 GMT -5
Late to the party (as ever), but I liked this show a ton. Uneven, I guess, but I'm always willing to excuse that when it seems like a series is really stretching itself.
I'm also on the other end of the 30s spectrum, looking at all the withered figs around me, so it made me kind of maudlin. But it feels unfair to blame the show for that.
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Post by Dackquiri on Dec 14, 2015 9:19:39 GMT -5
Finished this over the weekend. Thoughts in no particular order: - I think the thing I loved most was that for someone with such broad and intense humor as Aziz, I certainly wasn't expecting the most complete break from gag-based writing I've seen in anything that still played as a comedy series. I absolutely love that not every event or sentiment had to be a Chekhov's gun for some big laugh. The scene where they were busting the subway masturbator, I was just waiting for something to go wrong, that he wouldn't really be masturbating, he'd
get off be exonerated on some technicality... all the things years of broad comedy jokes conditioned me to expect. It was really refreshing, but it's just a shame that it took me so long to let down my guard. That Dev and Rachel's first fights were not meant to be red flags the relationship was doomed and unsalvageable (like sitcoms usually use such innocuous fights to communicate to the audience), and they got through them to find an equilibrium was oh-so refreshing. - The show really did have some pretty wildly mixed results when tackling issues. At its worst, it felt like a very competently-written film-cum-school-project, trying to be entertainment but bending to fit in all the talking points required by the professor. Ansari and Yu's delivery felt like something out of a long-form anti-smoking PSA when they were discussing how much they learned from listening to their parents. But when it was on fire, it was on fire. Indians on TV was the perfectly constructed, presenting the perfect circumstances to delve into the issue at length while propelling the story forward. Ladies and Gentlemen did so similarly, but there was a point where Dev was bringing up the pay gap at the bar that it started to feel a little "meeting the professor's project requirements" again. It felt weird he went from espousing feminist platitudes to being a skeptic when the director doesn't shake Rachel's hand—it seems like a "yeah, what was up with that?" would have been a far better course of action than going so aggressively to bat for a guy you barely know and will probably never work with again. But then, I hear stories about dudes who are outspoken feminists who get caught stalking and harassing women, so maybe not that weird.
- This may fall under my first bullet point, but Nashville was such a fantastic episode. I didn't think I'd want to watch 30 minutes of what was basically a cute, extended date, and kept waiting for Rachel to be put off by being taken on vacation for a first date (or, again, some other sitcommy trope disaster). The missed recital sort of was, but the way they played it felt organic and was nowhere near the catastrophe I was expecting it to be.
- The finale kinda caught me off guard. Dev is clearly very much based on Ansari, and figured it was pretty much a "my life as a comedian/actor in the city" type show, as has been done many times before. Then he gets cut from the movie and suddenly it becomes apparent Dev is not on the fast track to an analog to Aziz's show biz success.
- Leave it to this show to use over-Yelping taco joints and The Bell Jar as metaphors for the same thing.
- I am really on the fence on if this show would be well served by a second season or not. The show's point about switching paths in life not being a thing that can be done freely... Dev's New Routine-esque relocation and career shift certainly comes at the expense of a lot of the things that gave this show its distinguishing traits. Of course, if the reason we stay on the path we're on at the end of our 20's is because there's no getting off of it unscathed... that could certainly be territory to explore in another season.
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