After a roundtable discussion with my close associates, this is what we came up with......
It's just not a great show.
It's a very creative show and at times a funny show.
It's a very clever show and at times can make you laugh.
BUT...
It's one gag after the other. And the show has no basis AT ALL in reality so it's hard to care.
It's over the top and over the top and over the top and gag, gag, gag.
You watch and you just don't care. Maybe you laugh a couple times here and there, but you just don't care.
No family behaves like that and it just makes it hard to watch eventually.
Comedy, to work long term, has to have some basis in reality.
Seinfeld, Honeymooners, Cheers, Curb your Enthusiasm etc.... all have some piece of reality that you could relate to.
There is no family that behaves like that. It's TOO MUCH. IT'S TOOOO OVER THE TOP to the point where you're like "give me a break already."
If they toned down some of the gags and brought it back down to reality a bit, then they may have something.
People need to connect with a show. And the show, as funny and clever as it may be, is just not connecting. It's too bad because the writers and everyone connected with the show are obviously very talented. They haven't hit on the write mixture of ingredients yet though, to keep people coming back. I think the Emmy emboldened them to push the envelope even furthur which I think is killing them.
We shall see.
It's just not a great show.
It's a very creative show and at times a funny show.
It's a very clever show and at times can make you laugh.
BUT...
It's one gag after the other. And the show has no basis AT ALL in reality so it's hard to care.
It's over the top and over the top and over the top and gag, gag, gag.
You watch and you just don't care. Maybe you laugh a couple times here and there, but you just don't care.
No family behaves like that and it just makes it hard to watch eventually.
Comedy, to work long term, has to have some basis in reality.
Seinfeld, Honeymooners, Cheers, Curb your Enthusiasm etc.... all have some piece of reality that you could relate to.
There is no family that behaves like that. It's TOO MUCH. IT'S TOOOO OVER THE TOP to the point where you're like "give me a break already."
If they toned down some of the gags and brought it back down to reality a bit, then they may have something.
People need to connect with a show. And the show, as funny and clever as it may be, is just not connecting. It's too bad because the writers and everyone connected with the show are obviously very talented. They haven't hit on the write mixture of ingredients yet though, to keep people coming back. I think the Emmy emboldened them to push the envelope even furthur which I think is killing them.
We shall see.
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