I came to really like Get Shorty. Yeah, it's not the movie. Yeah, it's kind of cliche. Yeah, there's gang-related violence. (This is a complaint imdb's reviews a bunch.) BUT I'm a fan anyway. I like the two side characters of Louis the Mormon and Ray Romano, the latter of whom shows he's good at this kind of dramedy again after Men of a Certain Age. The main character is sort of hit and miss and while I didn't ENJOY it I intellectually liked that they kept him from changing and learning his lesson about the life of violence. I liked that the women characters weren't one-note but all four were shown to have varying levels of tolerance of the different aspects of the worlds they didn't understand or like. Usually shows only do that for whoever the male main characters happen to be in relationships with at the time.
Also three of the main character women all get naked and that was kind of hot even when it could have been cringe. Was something I didn't expect, until after the first one, only because I just assume that cutting up dudes while they're alive is fine but showing some tits is a no-no even on "unrated" cable or whatever this used to be on. Then I was kind of like "oh, just this one chick is gonna get naked" and they surprise me twice again. The last show I remember actually doing that was Boss where you thought the one actress was only on the show because she agreed to get naked every other episode and then the more famous one must have felt like she had to show everybody she could too. Unlike Boss, this show doesn't get cringe about it and keep setting up situations for the women to take their tops off. (Although Boss also has the best plot relevant fake out about using this trope maybe ever.) I was surprised none of the imdb reviews seemed to mention this considering how much they complained about the violence, also because the episode warnings don't even mention it. I'm probably overawed because the women are actually good actors too. Anyway, I came to like this more for the movie industry stuff than the gang stuff, but I thought the show actually got better about the latter as it went on.
I've still got more Flack to watch but this is lame. No idea why it has praise except that media people love watching other media people in shows. The side characters are all the good characters, with Anna Paquin's character seeming more like some kind of psychopath who could probably take Super Hannibal. But don't worry, she shows her secret good side when she betrays a possible pedophile because that's just a line too far. Eve and the intern might be the best characters, the boss is written exactly as you would expect. In fact, the bulk of show is entirely written that way and is clearly trying to show how edgy everything is at all moments in all ways except for the episode about how bad transphobia is. (Ironically starring the trans voice actor for Hogwart's Legacy and the Harry Potter audiobooks.) If a character can have casual sex and do drugs while drinking they definitely will. And if they can say some snarky thing about anything that someone could have any kind of moral or ethical concerns about they will definitely lecture you. How about some kind of speech about how hard it is to act human? Maybe some poorly setup conflict between their job and life or maybe lying and one of these?
It could change as it finishes but I think the show is kind of hilarious with the way it handles lying, like its doing this thing where it's trying to play with how lying is considered essential by the characters even though it almost always goes bad for the main characters (and only works for the guest actors) but the show seems to only understand how to extend conflicts by having no one be receptive to the truth ever. The character who is supposed to be our sympathetic outsider lectures the others about how they should never lie to HER, then upon learning the truth about a situation kept from her seems to upend her life and refuse to allow forgiveness of any kind for others being truthful with her. The boss character is supposed to be this blunt truth-telling harsh taskmasker, but it never applies to the main characters because she can't actually punish them but the scenes are written as if nobody realizes this.
Also, I'm getting exhausted from standing to clap at all the GIRL BOSS MIC DROP moments.
Also three of the main character women all get naked and that was kind of hot even when it could have been cringe. Was something I didn't expect, until after the first one, only because I just assume that cutting up dudes while they're alive is fine but showing some tits is a no-no even on "unrated" cable or whatever this used to be on. Then I was kind of like "oh, just this one chick is gonna get naked" and they surprise me twice again. The last show I remember actually doing that was Boss where you thought the one actress was only on the show because she agreed to get naked every other episode and then the more famous one must have felt like she had to show everybody she could too. Unlike Boss, this show doesn't get cringe about it and keep setting up situations for the women to take their tops off. (Although Boss also has the best plot relevant fake out about using this trope maybe ever.) I was surprised none of the imdb reviews seemed to mention this considering how much they complained about the violence, also because the episode warnings don't even mention it. I'm probably overawed because the women are actually good actors too. Anyway, I came to like this more for the movie industry stuff than the gang stuff, but I thought the show actually got better about the latter as it went on.
I've still got more Flack to watch but this is lame. No idea why it has praise except that media people love watching other media people in shows. The side characters are all the good characters, with Anna Paquin's character seeming more like some kind of psychopath who could probably take Super Hannibal. But don't worry, she shows her secret good side when she betrays a possible pedophile because that's just a line too far. Eve and the intern might be the best characters, the boss is written exactly as you would expect. In fact, the bulk of show is entirely written that way and is clearly trying to show how edgy everything is at all moments in all ways except for the episode about how bad transphobia is. (Ironically starring the trans voice actor for Hogwart's Legacy and the Harry Potter audiobooks.) If a character can have casual sex and do drugs while drinking they definitely will. And if they can say some snarky thing about anything that someone could have any kind of moral or ethical concerns about they will definitely lecture you. How about some kind of speech about how hard it is to act human? Maybe some poorly setup conflict between their job and life or maybe lying and one of these?
It could change as it finishes but I think the show is kind of hilarious with the way it handles lying, like its doing this thing where it's trying to play with how lying is considered essential by the characters even though it almost always goes bad for the main characters (and only works for the guest actors) but the show seems to only understand how to extend conflicts by having no one be receptive to the truth ever. The character who is supposed to be our sympathetic outsider lectures the others about how they should never lie to HER, then upon learning the truth about a situation kept from her seems to upend her life and refuse to allow forgiveness of any kind for others being truthful with her. The boss character is supposed to be this blunt truth-telling harsh taskmasker, but it never applies to the main characters because she can't actually punish them but the scenes are written as if nobody realizes this.
Also, I'm getting exhausted from standing to clap at all the GIRL BOSS MIC DROP moments.