That’s good to know.
I saw the first three episodes and wasn’t sure if I was going to continue. Her character was just too much and almost everyone else was just too stupid.
It’s funny I actually thought the two episodes leading up to the finale were the weakest ones.
But I thought they really nailed that last episode with one mistake (Esmeralda’s in-memoriam song was a bit too far, she would have been removed the event. They should have just had it that she talked her way into doing a song and it was part of the program to explain why no one stopped her).
I look forward to a second season. I really want to see if they do anything with Oscar now embracing the documentary. I’d like to see him for awhile just kind of assume he’s the main character and try inserting himself into everything until he has a “I’m not Michael Scott” moment.
As often before, I am interested in how people decide how much time to dedicate to a show in the hopes it improves.
We watched the first 2 eps of Grey’s Anatomy yesterday. Right off the bat, the characters, dialog, plots are more to our tastes than our initial impression of The Paper. I WANTED to like Stick (being a somewhat avid golfer.) So I gave it 4 eps, then decided “no more!”
One or two for me. I can usually tell within that timeframe whether it’s something I like that I think will improve or not. I watch very, very little TV these days. My brain is so fried from watching short-form videos of under 15 minutes on YouTube. Like I said, it’s kept my attention enough that I’ll finish out the season, something a sitcom hasn’t done in almost a decade for me. Not to say that it’s great – it’s not among the best sitcoms I’ve watched – but it’s somehow held my interest and so far is a solid 7/10.
This is pretty much how I feel. It’s good enough that I keep watching it, but I’m not going nuts to consume every episode. It’s not my favorite current show, but it’s likable and I’ll continue to watch it until it gets boring or takes a bad turn or gets canceled.
(That probably won’t be for a while though, as it was renewed for a second season even before the first premiere.)
I just saw the second episode, and I have a little trouble having confidence in a writer that thinks “SHEPARD ORBITS THE EARTH” is a major headline, given that the only time he orbited the Earth was as part of the Apollo 14 crew on its way to the moon. (Alan Shepard was the first American in space, but he didn’t come close to a full orbit.)
Having spent time at one newspaper or another for the overwhelming majority of my working life, I have to say that my feelings about this show are definitely mixed. I mean, on the one hand, I’m pretty grateful to have that life behind me, especially the constant worry about surviving one more day in a dying profession, so I don’t know how eager I am to go and relive it. On the other hand, it seemed like we all kind of imagined that our experiences would make great sitcom material. Maybe I’ll catch a stray episode at some point.