I'm out of the loop. Is this a spin off of the kids who appeared for a few episodes in the last season of Doom Patrol?
This is shaping up to be a very good show, with some issues through the first season. The Mooners, with their hippie aesthetic and lovely language flourishes, have created some delightful characters and there are some very good performances from the actors who brought them to life. Arlo, Blu, and especially little Elna have made the most of these roles and hopefully we will see them go on from here.
I started watching this because everyone talked about how excellent the source material was. As I'm not a comic book fan, I will have to take their word for it, but this show just didn't work, with simple characters and it's endless MacGuffin hunts. It reminds me of the second season of The Walking Dead, when it was still teetering with possibilities from the electric first season and the endless slog of every season afterwards. Like that show, I don't see any sign of improvement, so I'm bailing before getting invested.
A brilliant format for Netflix; it's cheap and easy to air, and it's nice to have an easy to digest half hour of young comedians to watch. We buffer them up and watch them when we haven't got anything else on deck.
Very soft sci-fi show, while it has a neat premise, the execution is just not there. I only made it to the third episode before bailing. Maybe it's not that bad, but there are so many better things on my watchlist, this show doesn't make the cut.
Has anyone else noticed that this is like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia played straight?
Can I give my one big (spoiler free) pet peeve about this show? I mean, they've been demonstrating how superior the German technology would be, with supersonic jets and more efficient subways scooting across Brooklyn, but why is everyone able to dial long-distance calls so easily? It is still the 1960's, and I cringe when someone in New York picks up the phone and dials directly to what is basically another country in San Francisco, across the entire Neutral Zone.
As good as the show is, I'd originally thought that the storytellers were actual historians and college professors who were trying to give their lessons while drunk. It loses a bit to find out that they are just comedians reading from a script. Still, the reenactments are consistently hysterical, and I love to watch the actors trying to time their lines.
Every week, the show (set in 2010) clumsily incorporates some real life news into the episode, and they always seem to get the tough calls right because they can benefit from the gift of hindsight. It's a neat gimmick, but on the screen it's handled so poorly as to be a distraction.
Wow, what a disappointment. HBO and Sorkin, it should be out of the park. In reality, there is no one likable or interesting. I'm watching Sports Night at the same time, and it is so much better. They could have just taken all the scripts from that show, made them about news, and it would have just worked. This is awful.
This show is entertaining because you get to see Courtney Cox ruin her face through liberal amounts of plastic surgery.
