Some good jokes but a little too smarmy with characters wisecracking at ridiculous situations their own writers made up
Falls completely flat whenever it tries to have a heart
Pierce is the best character despite on paper being a by the numbers politically incorrect grandpa, Chang is the worst despite theoretically having more to his character
None of the chicks can get it
I got through like three episodes and yeah this is it.
You gotta stick with it for a while at the beginning, I think it takes like 7 episodes or so to find its footing. IIRC the first Halloween one is where it starts coming together
It has the same problem as Arrested Development. When they came out they were a novelty, pretty different from other TV shows. But an entire generation of redditors decided to try to do the same kind of humor, which resulted in le quirky meta epidemic. If you watch it now, you won't like it because it has been copyraped many times in the last years.
Almost nothing is like or as good as AD 1-3. It's novelty hasn't been replicated. Maybe with Succession it was, but it's too much of a drama. Not even in the same convo as Community, which has been ripped off and made to feel lackluster.
>Arrested Development
I actually hated AD season 3 the first time around.
I love it now, and I even enjoy more and more of nu-AD through rewatching.
Community was meh + Alison Brie's beauty + Troy and Abed's crazy.
It's dated horribly by its constant pop culture references (although most modern American comedies suffer from this because they cannot poke fun at so many topics and issues), the constant, unceasing 4th wall breaking meta humour which gets stale even by the middle of season 1, not to mention being of an era where you still had to pop out 20+ episode seasons on a shit budget. There is definitely some creativity and interesting topics explored but overall it has aged poorly and isn't worth watching over its other contemporaries.
>It's dated horribly by its constant pop culture references
Huh? I mean sometimes but I definitely would not say it's distracting in the least bit or gets in the way. Abed is really the only one who spouts pop culture references but typically it's "timeless" things like star wars or stuff much older that people generally might know (i've never seen Who's the Boss and still found the episode centered around it to be funny)
The show never once breaks the 4th wall, specifically because Abed, ironically, keeps the show grounded by anchoring every impulse toward 4th wall breaking and keeping it safely contained in the autism box.
First 2 or 3 seasons are pretty good but then they just kind of don't know what to do with the characters or stories so it gets really rocky and can feel like it's trying too hard to subvert itself, when it was originally trying to be a subversion of sitcoms in the first place
its certified comfykino that was made before the great pozzing of media post-2016 so its actually funny at times.
also harmon might be a homosexual but he understands story structure.
Some good jokes but a little too smarmy with characters wisecracking at ridiculous situations their own writers made up
Falls completely flat whenever it tries to have a heart
Pierce is the best character despite on paper being a by the numbers politically incorrect grandpa, Chang is the worst despite theoretically having more to his character
None of the chicks can get it
You are gay. The show is worth watching op.
Hell yeah, even the worst season (4) it's kino
Reddit
Not really
They never figure out what to do with Shirley and that gets awkward.
Better than most shitcoms
American comedies on mainstream networks are not funny.
I tried to watch it. Honestly nearly turned it off during the opening credits. But I didn't want to give in so easy, I wanted to give it a proper try.
Made it to 02:42
It thought it was a lot smarter and cleverer than it really was. In reality was just tiring.
I got through like three episodes and yeah this is it.
You gotta stick with it for a while at the beginning, I think it takes like 7 episodes or so to find its footing. IIRC the first Halloween one is where it starts coming together
It's better than big bang theory or 2.5 men. That's not much of a compliment though
Nope
It has the same problem as Arrested Development. When they came out they were a novelty, pretty different from other TV shows. But an entire generation of redditors decided to try to do the same kind of humor, which resulted in le quirky meta epidemic. If you watch it now, you won't like it because it has been copyraped many times in the last years.
Almost nothing is like or as good as AD 1-3. It's novelty hasn't been replicated. Maybe with Succession it was, but it's too much of a drama. Not even in the same convo as Community, which has been ripped off and made to feel lackluster.
Based Succession is the spiritual successor to Arrested Development understander.
>Arrested Development
I actually hated AD season 3 the first time around.
I love it now, and I even enjoy more and more of nu-AD through rewatching.
Community was meh + Alison Brie's beauty + Troy and Abed's crazy.
Peak 2014 reddit.
I feel like this show was very of-it’s-era and I have absolutely no desire to revisit it.
Season 1 is pure comfy kino. season 2 - 6 loses that rather quickly and becomes red*t: the show
>all these smug, grumpy, dorks
Worth watching for Abed, he's cool.
It's dated horribly by its constant pop culture references (although most modern American comedies suffer from this because they cannot poke fun at so many topics and issues), the constant, unceasing 4th wall breaking meta humour which gets stale even by the middle of season 1, not to mention being of an era where you still had to pop out 20+ episode seasons on a shit budget. There is definitely some creativity and interesting topics explored but overall it has aged poorly and isn't worth watching over its other contemporaries.
>It's dated horribly by its constant pop culture references
Huh? I mean sometimes but I definitely would not say it's distracting in the least bit or gets in the way. Abed is really the only one who spouts pop culture references but typically it's "timeless" things like star wars or stuff much older that people generally might know (i've never seen Who's the Boss and still found the episode centered around it to be funny)
>unceasing 4th wall breaking meta humour
The show never once breaks the 4th wall, specifically because Abed, ironically, keeps the show grounded by anchoring every impulse toward 4th wall breaking and keeping it safely contained in the autism box.
First 2 or 3 seasons are pretty good but then they just kind of don't know what to do with the characters or stories so it gets really rocky and can feel like it's trying too hard to subvert itself, when it was originally trying to be a subversion of sitcoms in the first place
Hot take: It's never actually ever been good but it has some likeable characters and occasionally an original storyline.
its certified comfykino that was made before the great pozzing of media post-2016 so its actually funny at times.
also harmon might be a homosexual but he understands story structure.
first two seasons are
just pretend season 2 finale is the end of the show