I agree. About halfway through, I thought to myself that I really hadn’t laughed at anything yet. By the time the show ended, there were a couple of chuckles, but no laughs. The show has apparently run its course.
I’ll admit feeling the same way about Modern Family. For the first several years, I thought MF was exceptionally well written, expertly acted, and very funny. Now, it doesn’t get a quarter of the laughs from me that it used to, and I’m actually annoyed by many of the characters.
The vanity card defended the “laugh track”. He seems to miss the point that it doesn’t matter if it is genuine laughter or canned, it is still distracting.
I think the real disappointment there is actually probably among *married *male viewers. Speaking for myself, the BBT male buddy gang was, for a TV show, unusually reflective of how me and my buddies were before some of us got married/had children.
Not necessarily in the details of what they actually did together, but in how they treated each other- jokes, pranks, put-downs, etc…
Having that go away is kind of disheartening; rather than being a buddy comedy that was relatable, now it’s a chick show that’s relatable.
So in a sense, the disappointment is in the demise of the old gang, because it was sort of a nostalgic look back in time to my college/post-college days when I was single and had a gang of male friends I hung out with.
I miss Leslie Winkel, who fit quite nicely into the guys’ “buddy gang.” But then, I’m one of those women who don’t like “relationship shows.” I liked the nerdy stuff, but was glad to see they included a proper female nerd too.
Bernadette and Amy, even though they’re both card-carrying nerds, have gravitated away from nerdity and into the more traditional female relationships. Not fond of that on the show. I hate that it’s always the guys doing something and the girls doing something else.
Anybody want odds on the sprog being a girl and them naming her “Debbie?”
Especially if she weighs 15 lbs.