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Hard not to draw a connection to succession for me and this show comes up lacking in every single way possible.

The main characters dominating quality is the amount of cash, and how it warps reality.

So to me the writers started off making it a similar setting as Succession yet they want to force this story to be Ted Lasso. A feel-good comfort watch.

Everything would is forgiven in a comedy if its funny. Funny is ofcourse subjective but some comedies catch on a kind of culture wave and almost everyone at that time finds it funny. This is not that perfectly timed comedy show the Seinfeld of its year.

Think its the feel-good nature of it that makes it so incredible boring for me. When the comedy did not land it becomes incredible boring.

I blame Ted Lasso for a lot of bad tv shows, there is a large demand for Feel-Good tv shows. But most copy the successful tv shows without understanding how it works. Its a shame as think there is to little feel-good comedy shows. Its one of those genres you think would be hard to fail but then when you go over the success rate you realize most fail, its deceptive like most comedy it "looks" easy.

This is like a single happy Twillight zone episode stretched out over 3 seasons.

There are hints at a big magical mystery happening but its never revealed this season whats its its all about.

It has this weird two drugged/medicated psychologist talking to each other vibe to it, everyone in the small town do it example:

-"im feeling very mad right now you need to respect my feelings" -"oh your mad, im so very sorry. Was just running around naked here as a new years promise for my dead wife" -"oh your have a dead wife im so very sorry, should have known running around naked had a deep meaning for you" -"oh its fine, many years ago she died. Still wake up crying but its fine. Still wake up crying every day for the last 19 years but its "fine"" -"Im also the same "fine", maybe the whole town should go run around naked and we would all get over our life long trauma" -"yes that makes perfect sense and is not weird at all"

And the weird thing is most of the people who do these weird things are very boring characters. Deadly boring characters.

Im very split on this tv show.

Think the lighting clothes and mood of the show pulls of different time periods, a non trivial task.

Acting is good and on the whole its engaging if slow and at the same time rushed since it uses so many characters.

But at the same time cant help feeling as a logic puzzle this is a disappointment.

So im left hanging is this MUCH better then most similar tv shows true or is it very far from the peak of shows like Dark.

Gave it a high grade since its a limited tv show so it does offer resolution and a end in a fair amount of time. If there were a LOT of time travel puzzels id skoff at this, but there isnt to reach this level is actually rare. Most are a lot worse and id like a lot more of similar quality if it offered.