Just a couple of weeks ago, I remembered this short little series and wondered if it would ever be shown again or continued. Well, yesterday I found out that Season 2 begins tonight at 8 eastern on ABC. YAY!
I loved this show - it was supremely silly, but the music was really great - clever and well-performed. The doggone theme song has been an earworm since I watched the mini-marathon last night, then watched the rest of the episodes on IMDB this morning.
Anyone else a fan? How can you not be? Ricky Gervaise as Xanax? Weird Al as a singing monk doing jazz hands? Hugh Bonneville as the Pirate King? And others I’ve forgotten or never heard of. Pure fun and escapism! Who’ll be watching?
The very first episode was funny. The rest of the season was somewhat humorous. I’ll watch the new season simply because it’s different and I like the characters.
they ended the season by just having the story line peter out into nothing. I realize it’s a comedy/musical, but what’s the point of telling a story if there’s no story there? None of the characters really succeeded or failed, they just got reset to their initial positions again.
The creators of the show burned all of my goodwill in the last ten minutes, especially because now I’m assuming they’ll just do it again. Maybe I’ll give it a try after it ends, if there’s actually any sort of a conclusion this year.
(ETA spoiler tags for first season, in case people care.)
I wanted to like the first season of Galavant a lot more than I actually did. The premise could have been designed to appeal to me, but IMHO the execution left a lot to be desired. The storylines involving King Richard and goings on at the castle were pretty funny, but there were a bunch of guest stars who weren’t put to good use, a lot of the jokes fell flat for me (I like anachronistic humor fine, but the writers seemed to think that just dropping an anachronism into the dialogue was inherently funny), and the half hour format with at least three songs per episode meant that very little actually happened in each episode.
I’m glad the show is returning and I plan to give the second season a chance, but I hope to see improvement.
I liked it . . . it had hilarious moments and some lame moments (including the end of the ‘season’ as TimeWinder says, though I think part of that was because they wanted to put an ending on the show expecting it wasn’t going to go beyond the six episodes).
I can take or leave the guest stars; I find the cast strong enough to hold its own (in a genre musical spoof, anyway), and nothing the guests do is as funny as the funniest bits that the leads have.
I’ll be watching this evening. There is almost nothing on television that gets me excited these days; this show is not perfect, but it’s new and different, with a new and different cast, and Alan Menken whose music I generally love. So, I’m making the time to watch.
I like everything last year except Weird Al’s episode, which is amazing since I like him a lot. Still, he isn’t in charge of the show and did not write his own music. It was more than silly; it was annoying and stupid. It’s how I think people who dislike Galavant view the whole show.
Same here. Still, they get about a million goodwill points from me just for even TRYING something so different from the usual recycled run of the mill crap.
The one case where I think a guest star was really used well was Sophie McShera as the kitchen maid who wanted to poison all the nobles. She plays the wide-eyed innocent kitchen maid Daisy on Downton Abbey, so seeing her sing about how happy the servants would be if they killed their masters was funnier than if the role had been played by some other actress.
Otherwise I think any of the guest stars could just as easily have been played by someone else. The John Stamos character actually seemed to have been intended for someone else – he was named Sir Jean Hamm.
While I still have some criticisms, I think the two episodes tonight were better than many last season. The big opening number was very funny, everyone in the main cast actually had something to do (and is Sophie McShera a regular now?), and the guest stars were basically just cameos which is fine with me. I’m not a Kylie Minogue fan, but I appreciated that there was at least some logic and humor to having her performing in Ye Olde Gaye Bar.
Speaking of the Minogue character, was she supposed to be dressed like Daenerys Targaryen? I’ve actually never read or watched Game of Thrones and know nothing about the character (I had to Google who on GoT the blonde woman who wears a light blue dress is) so if this was a deliberate reference I didn’t really get it, but Minogue looked like either her or Princess Elsa from Frozen.
ETA: The running bit about the unicorn was goofy but I liked it. I’d enjoy seeing more jokes based on the pseudo-medieval setting and not just “Here’s an anachronism, ha ha.” That seemed better to me in these episode too though; the magical cellphone had a role in the plot and wasn’t just a throwaway gag. I also liked the lampshade joke about how Princess Isabella “always” wore her never-before-seen amulet.
