A lot of the charm disappeared in this episode of the show which has operated much better when in Spanish than English and unfortunately an excursion to America made the show 60%+ English making for some very clunky dialogue. Was initially interested in a Spanish/European eye/critique of America but unfortunately it boiled down to trite hurrdurr aMeRiCa LoVeS gUnS And Is AlL dUmBaSsEs wHo ThInKs AlL FoReIgNeRs CoMe FrOm SoUtH aMeRiCa which, alright, might not necessarily be wrong but was delivered with such clunky heavy-handedness as to come off as reductive. Courtroom scenes were equally bad, falling into nearly all the trappings and cliches of courtroom dramas that are overwritten to overcompensate for typically staid and dry proceedings but with the effect of coming off as hyperbolic and soap operative: cue murmuring court audience, dramatic confrontation between the opposing sides when they just happen to run into each other after trial, big ass speechifying from a lawyer that would've been halted not even a quarter of the way through by a judge in real life, just eye-rolling stuff. The teenage daughter was (and has been) also very annoying as are 99% of teenage children characters, hope she's off to college and never to return for the rest of the series.
Review by BobDole12BlockedParent2022-07-18T03:51:12Z
A lot of the charm disappeared in this episode of the show which has operated much better when in Spanish than English and unfortunately an excursion to America made the show 60%+ English making for some very clunky dialogue.
Was initially interested in a Spanish/European eye/critique of America but unfortunately it boiled down to trite hurrdurr aMeRiCa LoVeS gUnS And Is AlL dUmBaSsEs wHo ThInKs AlL FoReIgNeRs CoMe FrOm SoUtH aMeRiCa which, alright, might not necessarily be wrong but was delivered with such clunky heavy-handedness as to come off as reductive.
Courtroom scenes were equally bad, falling into nearly all the trappings and cliches of courtroom dramas that are overwritten to overcompensate for typically staid and dry proceedings but with the effect of coming off as hyperbolic and soap operative: cue murmuring court audience, dramatic confrontation between the opposing sides when they just happen to run into each other after trial, big ass speechifying from a lawyer that would've been halted not even a quarter of the way through by a judge in real life, just eye-rolling stuff.
The teenage daughter was (and has been) also very annoying as are 99% of teenage children characters, hope she's off to college and never to return for the rest of the series.