Twitter post from one of the writers confirming that this week’s episodes were supposed to be the second and third ones.
you can figure it out from context a few mins in. not a total dealbreaker. i’m starting to like it more and more. it has a certain HIMYM early seasons-feel to it, but not quite.
I was pretty annoyed by the switch-up too, but I guess that shows I’ve developed interest enough to think those two episodes were completely pointless and should have been tossed instead of shown later. And I hated the old overdone “girl hooks up with rock star. . . years later he pretends he doesn’t know her” thing.
I hate when they air eps of a show out of order like that. Maybe it was okay 30 years ago, but it’s not anymore. Stopit stopit stopit
Well, I think these were pretty weak episodes, very much the “Dave & Alex show,” & the writers still finding their footing. So delaying them & showing later episodes instead may have helped the series’s ratings. Also, clearly the one with all the ridiculous The Bachelor plugs had to be delayed to right before the premiere of the current cycle of The Bachelorette. :rolleyes:
I agree with you a lot in your post…but having to figure out the context in a mid season replacement show with eps 2 & 3 running in positions 10 & 11 (or 12 & 13) shows that someone in the network wants to see it fail…but the marketing people at the network are behind it ( see the ridiclous amount of promos that run for it). I would like to find out what was the intended order of the shows and watch them in that order.
I also like you comparison to HIMYM in the early season. I think that was what the network was aiming for. It has a lot of the quickcuts and parralell storyline set ups that HIMYM does really well. I have seen that it was picked up for the fall. Here is to hoping it still does well next year!
Personally, I liked both Happy Endings and Cougar Town; but lately I’ve found my self fast forwarding though large chunks of the show. I will give Happy Endings another chance; because one of the eps I FF’d through a lot of was the skater episode.