I started watching this because basically everyone else in my office either watched it and I felt like I should step away from the "office weirdo" role who brings up Uncut Gems and Punch-Drunk Love when Adam Sandler is brought up.
You should've seen the look on my coworkers face when I told her this was meant to be a parody. She had no idea! Crazy!
Anyway, I can almost see how someone doesn't get this is a parody as its maybe one of the most subdued parodies I've ever seen. I understand that was the central idea behind this, and I think it makes for a fairly interesting product in that way. The downside is that the central mystery isn't interesting enough to carry this as a serious work and the parody elements are often too infrequent to make this something you watch as a comedy.
Kristen Bell is truly excellent and she's basically what makes this remotely worth watching. At eight 25-minute long episodes, it goes on for way too long and it's a perfect example of why so many new shows should be movies instead.
Basically, this is a mostly unfunny comedy that goes on for way too long. I liked the GoodFellas sequence though!
Review by ChurdBlockedParent2022-02-13T15:47:29Z
I started watching this because basically everyone else in my office either watched it and I felt like I should step away from the "office weirdo" role who brings up Uncut Gems and Punch-Drunk Love when Adam Sandler is brought up.
You should've seen the look on my coworkers face when I told her this was meant to be a parody. She had no idea! Crazy!
Anyway, I can almost see how someone doesn't get this is a parody as its maybe one of the most subdued parodies I've ever seen. I understand that was the central idea behind this, and I think it makes for a fairly interesting product in that way. The downside is that the central mystery isn't interesting enough to carry this as a serious work and the parody elements are often too infrequent to make this something you watch as a comedy.
Kristen Bell is truly excellent and she's basically what makes this remotely worth watching. At eight 25-minute long episodes, it goes on for way too long and it's a perfect example of why so many new shows should be movies instead.
Basically, this is a mostly unfunny comedy that goes on for way too long. I liked the GoodFellas sequence though!