writetoamy
Joined Jun 2015
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I'm disappointed but not flat out shocked at the number of reviewers here who seem to view any treatment of end of life subjects played by actual oldsters as depressing.
This isn't -- not a bit. Instead, it's a very twisty take on the subject of assisted suicide with plenty of nuance and a lot of surprises you won't see coming.
One of the biggest surprises is someone actually turned out a script about old people that isn't solely comprised of patronizing stereotypes. These folk all feel very real -- the unique distillation of their own complicated (and often compromised) lives and careers.
It's fun to watch, despite the subject matter -- more police procedural in tone and content than dark night of the soul.
This isn't -- not a bit. Instead, it's a very twisty take on the subject of assisted suicide with plenty of nuance and a lot of surprises you won't see coming.
One of the biggest surprises is someone actually turned out a script about old people that isn't solely comprised of patronizing stereotypes. These folk all feel very real -- the unique distillation of their own complicated (and often compromised) lives and careers.
It's fun to watch, despite the subject matter -- more police procedural in tone and content than dark night of the soul.
All the other criticisms levelled by other reviewers are correct. Virtually all the candidates looking for romance are at least somewhat emotionally stunted, scarily narcissistic (although sub-clinically so) and xenophobic.
But that's what makes it great entertainment (if you watch it at at least 1.25 speed, avoiding the filler and repititions). These are anthropological/sociological case studies, not romances and as such they are as fascinating as they are cringe.
All of these humans have a script in their heads of what a relationship should look like as well as stereotyped, fetishized ideas of how their foreign dates look and behave. Watching them flail about and cluelessly try to impose their scripts on these (relatively) innocent strangers they just met is like watching a train-wreck.
Also, some of them grow up a little. Not nearly as neatly or completely as the show's producers would have you believe, but when they do, it's genuinely uplifting. The journey of Harold and Michaela reminds you that at least a small minority of humans are capable of growth (and that not all Americans are insufferable).
But that's what makes it great entertainment (if you watch it at at least 1.25 speed, avoiding the filler and repititions). These are anthropological/sociological case studies, not romances and as such they are as fascinating as they are cringe.
All of these humans have a script in their heads of what a relationship should look like as well as stereotyped, fetishized ideas of how their foreign dates look and behave. Watching them flail about and cluelessly try to impose their scripts on these (relatively) innocent strangers they just met is like watching a train-wreck.
Also, some of them grow up a little. Not nearly as neatly or completely as the show's producers would have you believe, but when they do, it's genuinely uplifting. The journey of Harold and Michaela reminds you that at least a small minority of humans are capable of growth (and that not all Americans are insufferable).
From the first two episodes I gather the newly separated dad is supposed to be endearingly tragicomic -- a lovable loser.
No love here -- the one-note script is one scenario after another demonstrating the weaponized incompetence that forced his wife to leave and causes him to be a source of embarrassment to his young son.
It isn't all that different in conception from Everybody Loves Raymond but without the razor sharp writing and authentic characters, there is really no reason to stay tuned!
You can't hate watch because Jonathan is as passive as a slug. He doesn't manifest a molecule of passion for anything -- not even the wife he is supposedly desperate to keep. The series title is apt, though: Avoidance is his modis operandi.
It seems a surprisingly retrograde programming choice for 2022, especially for the BBC.
News flash from 1990: Weaponized incompetence and the men who employ it -- expecting their mothers, sisters and wives to trail behind them picking up the slack -- isn't the fun creator Romesh Ranganathan thinks it is.
(Especially for those mothers, sisters and wives).
No love here -- the one-note script is one scenario after another demonstrating the weaponized incompetence that forced his wife to leave and causes him to be a source of embarrassment to his young son.
It isn't all that different in conception from Everybody Loves Raymond but without the razor sharp writing and authentic characters, there is really no reason to stay tuned!
You can't hate watch because Jonathan is as passive as a slug. He doesn't manifest a molecule of passion for anything -- not even the wife he is supposedly desperate to keep. The series title is apt, though: Avoidance is his modis operandi.
It seems a surprisingly retrograde programming choice for 2022, especially for the BBC.
News flash from 1990: Weaponized incompetence and the men who employ it -- expecting their mothers, sisters and wives to trail behind them picking up the slack -- isn't the fun creator Romesh Ranganathan thinks it is.
(Especially for those mothers, sisters and wives).