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I don't find most of the jokes particularly funny, so the laugh track stuck out to me because it was the only laughing in the room. My wife likes it well enough, so she's watching while I'm sitting in the room. I took the opportunity to put a counter on the number of times the laugh track was employed in one of the episodes.

In the first act, about 8 minutes, it was used 49 times. That's an average of once every 10 seconds. Even more, it's virtually the same laugh, adjusted only for length and volume. I couldn't imagine sitting through 150 uses of a laugh track in one 24-minute episode. I left and won't be sitting in the room for any further episodes.

This movie was a walk down childhood memory lane for a lot of people, most probably Jerry Seinfeld himself. The references were spot on, the makeup of some of the historical characters was very good. Though, know that all of the depictions were unflattering caricatures. Examples, naming the Kellogg guy "Edsel" and the depiction of Marjorie Post who was a giant of positive women corporate leadership and philanthropy. The movie did pay some homage to her at the end.

Many people in these reviews are clearly too young to remember the 1960s. They have the flattops mentioned in the movies from so many of the jokes and references going over their head. That's why they say it was not funny.

The depictions of Kennedy, Khrushchev, Cronkite, LaLanne, von Braun, and Boiardi highlighted some true aspects of them, if you knew them. I laughed at one review here that said the "German guy" was "supposed to hint as being some Nazi", because he didn't know that von Braun was virtually kidnapped from Germany by the US after he led the Nazi rocket program and later led the US space rocketry program.

I laughed a number of times, not every time, and some of the jokes were pointless. But this is a fun romp with nearly the real timeline behind the Post-Kellogg toaster pastry war. Blending some current events into the scenes was pretty smart. But if you don't know any of the history of the 1960s, the gags and characters will blow past you as a mist in the dark.

I read this fantastic n book in three sittings. Compelling, real, accurately structured.

I watched the first 20 minutes of the first episode and rolled my eyes four times.

For some reason, the writer thought we needed to see each assassin examine their gun on camera when we first meet them. The telegraph office didn't have a separate office for the Secretary of War with Lincoln sitting in the outer telegraph room. Having Lewis Powell not know why he was killing the Secretary of State was ridiculous. They'd been plotting and meeting for weeks. Then they felt the need to illustrate his boorish stupidity by asking David Herold "which state?" Just terrible writing. Finally, they went to the trouble to have a pretty good representation of Seward's wounds and Lincoln is in a reasonably accurate beard and high pitched voice. But if Tobias Menzies was going to refuse to wear a beard and a stomach pack to attempt to resemble Stanton, they should have cast someone else. I was looking forward to this series. I turned it off after 20 minutes, I may go back, but I'm not in any hurry about it.