Gonna have to defend The Office here as it’s my favorite comedy ever.
First off, season 1 is only 6 episodes. I.e. not even a real season.
Second, they put out 2 classic episodes out of 6 with basketball and diversity day. And it’s not like the other 4 are crap, they’re very good, health care and hot girl are quality.
It’s fair to say it was mostly trash after Michael left, he was The Office, but S1 is a better watch than 95% of comedic TV.
Yeah diversity day, which was s1e2 is my favorite episode of the office ever.
Will add s3 of parks and rec (shortened season pushed because of strike) is my favorite sitcom season ever (although it did stumble s1)
Office is phenomenal all the way up to Michael leaving imo. Really high quality but trash after
Brian Baumgarter, the actor who played Kevin, has a great podcast called The Office Deep Dive where he interviews basically everyone involved with the show. Lots of really cool insights. Diversity Day is his favorite episode, as far as I can tell. He talks about it with everyone.
I’m on an episode where his guest is one of the cameramen. The camerawork is one of the more fascinating aspects of the show.
The Office was the 4th best NBC comedy on Thursdays when it aired
Generally agree but the consensus view is that they were still working out Michael’s character. Season 2+ Michael is cringey but with occasional “loveable buffoon” moments. Season 1 Michael is just an asshole.
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One thing that bugged me is that I felt like so many of the characters were over-acting, like they were performing in a 90’s sitcom or something (wildly gesticulating as if to emphasize their mood or whatever). I’ve watched other Korean shows/films that didn’t suffer from this, but maybe it was something about the dubbing that skewed my perception?
The real surprise here is The Witcher doing so well. It’s an A+ show, but it didn’t seem like it was getting a lot of buzz. Would have never guessed it was a top 3-4 Netflix show.
I’ve never even heard of Sweet Tooth.
I would have assumed I would have at least heard of the titles of all of the top 10.
Witcher is actually a better metaphor for modern capitalism than Squid Game.
Sweet tooth was a lovely and sad graphic novel. I’m glad to see it got that many viewers. we haven’t gotten around to it yet though, so I have no idea how good the show is however.
are we going to need to cancel dave chappelle? i feel like we are just overlooking a bunch of his current comedy because of how great he was early on. like, it was refreshing when he spoke truth about racism to white people, and refused the network executives when they asked him to moderate. and i guess it is still refreshing that he can tell netflix to shut up and continue to do what he wants to do, but it’s coming off really bad once it’s no longer “truth to power” and just an exercise of his own bad opinions.
Yeah, it’s sad to see Dave turning into a Boomer.
what’s it like to watch a tv comedy and not even crack a smile once?
the simpsons treehouse of horror 32
Hasan said it best when he was watching clips imo. “Jesus Christ he’s gotten so old.” Paraphrased quote.
Honestly it so much reminded me of Oldboy 2004, same delivery of lines, lots of the same shots (elevators, overheads, umbrellas), I mean I get that that was a huge movie but it seemed super derivative. Which is fine since I loved Oldboy but yeah seems like they have one note.
Witcher being above Queen’s Gambit blows my mind. Queens Gambit was everywhere and nobody had any excuse to be out of their home.
I’ve literally never spoken to a single person who has seen the witcher.
I’ve only seen two of these.
