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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
Watched Friends from College this weekend. Pretty meh, only characters I really liked were Fred Savage and some of the peripheral characters. My favorite character was the guy from Ally McBeal, Greg German I think, playing a douchy wall street guy.
"I don't have time for fiction. I'm more of a non fiction guy, my favorite books are Liar's Poker, Moneyball, and The Big Short"
"Oh, so you're a big Michael Lewis fan"
(taken aback) "Who's that?"
And I know I'm not supposed to like Peele's character but man I really didn't like him, or find him interesting. I think the main guy you have to either like or find interesting (preferably both) or the show is just a disaster. His character made zero sense, and the girls he was doing sex to made no sense either. It's like the show couldn't decide if it wanted to be a breezy show about bad people behaving ridiculously or a srs bsns character study show about these narcissistic *******s and just split the difference, doing a half assed job of either.
But I will say I found it weirdly watchable even though I kind of hated it. But I wasn't exactly hate watching it either. So that says something, but I'm not sure what. Like I wouldn't recommend it to anyone but if a new season showed up tomorrow I'd probably watch it.
I agree with this. I watched this week and some of the individual bits are hilarious, but the overall flow and tone feels so disjointed. It's like that they wanted to do a mature version of a network comedy, where the comedy is 90% and the drama is 10% and the comedy makes a good counter point to the drama, but instead be 50% drama while still having the show be 90% comedy. I still watched the whole thing and enjoyed parts of it, but I wouldn't recommend anyone else watch it in the same way I'd recommend Friends, How I Met Your Mother (early seasons), Silicon Valley, etc.
Last edited by Huehuecoyotl; 07-20-2017 at 12:03 PM.