allenmullen

The portrayal of pervasive connectivity and technology corporation power, not too far removed from current reality, is splendidly realized, the series is greatly hampered by cardboard characters and family drama. It focuses in far too much on a handful of conveniently symbolic characters. The actors deliver their lines and decent performances, but the dialogues and plotting aren't all that great.

I'm all for realism but film/video amounts to artifice, not real life, and can work successfully on the fairy tale level, as with this show, as it does on the nitty gritty of reality. Either way, the best movies and television series, like the best of theater, can lift us out of our daily realities and transplant us in a new one where we can escape or gain perspective.. This show is funny, intelligent comedy. Not everything works for me - the Paris sideshow at the beginning of the 2nd season, for example - and upper-class people are not among my favorite subjects , but Marvelous is simply so enjoyable that this doesn't matter.

7.5. This show lets it all hang out, literally and figuratively. If you've ever wondered what kind of characters live in Brooklyn, or at least gentrified Brooklyn, this is the show to watch. It captures this in an amiable mumblecore manner that is often entertaining. The first season was really solid, but 2 and 3 somewhat less so.