doktorf

This movie is full of beautiful shots, interesting set dressing and beautiful girls. Lots of eye candy. It's really unfortunate that it has a terrible script and some rather poor acting. Some of the actors are passable, but others can't speak a single line convincingly. Also I have to disagree with another reviewer about this, it does not project the period very well at all. The early 20th century had women who wore layers of underwear and foundation garments. You would never see a woman in public in the nigh-diaphanous little nothings the leading lady favored.

All that being said, this film is a forgettable little bit of inoffensive fun, but with a stronger script and better acting it would look a lot less like a high school play.

I discovered this show recently because I had wondered what had happened to the "Fuck Me Ray Bradbury" girl and learned that she was now something of a big deal because of this show! So I go and binge the first season. Very pleasantly surprised. Given that Ms. Bloom was the force behind it I expected laughs. The laughs are there for sure but there is more.

If I had been pitching this show I would have said it was The Mindy Project meets Curb Your Enthusiasm.

One thing I like is that Rebecca, train wreck though she may be, is also the smartest person on the show. She is a *very* good lawyer. We are given the impression that she is way sharper than anyone in town. Her big failing is her various traumas from her upbringing and certain unrealistic romantic expectations. The whole thing is blown further out of proportion by her overbearing enabler, Paula, who is enraptured with her quest for perfect love.

There are also tons of other fascinating characters. I notice an interesting pattern in that all of the female characters are pretty smart except for one and all of the male characters are on the dumb side except for one. There is a whole lot about intellectual differences going on here. Rebecca's quest for Josh is odd considering that she is an academic overachiever hand he has likely never cracked a book in his life. In the show that say he has been to college, but we get the sense he spent it mostly going to parties.

The songs are not always great, but they are mostly apropos and advance the plot or character like the songs in a good musical should. I am impressed that they were able to stage two or three numbers per episode. That must be pretty hard to keep up.

The characters evolve nicely and mostly credibly.

A lot of guys might not think this is the kind of thing they could get into, might see it as strictly a "chick show", but let me tell you guys, it would be a shame to deprive yourself of this inspired madness.