Avenue 5 - HBO - Season 1 - Premieres 1/19/2020

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feelosofer said:
This show has all the right cast members but the execution is not there. Hugh Laurie is a comedy veteran and Zach Woods has been a low key real funny dude since the Office but Josh Gadd doesn't work in live action and the jokes fall flat.

I think this is a one season show like the Brink and I think The Brink was the better show by some margin.
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Watching this on demand to kill time before my other shows tonight.
The most annoying thing is that this show seems to think that its smart, but its really stupid. It wants to be like a British Sci Fi comedy like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" miniseries (which I LOVED) or like "Red Dwarf" (which I admit I never got into). But its written by people that can't even come up with convincing Sci Fi TV technobabble.

So you have the "smart" characters trying to point out how stupid the people in charge are, but the writers aren't good enough to have the "smart" characters come up with anything smart themselves.

I mean, they're on a ship that apparently has the ability to turn magical artificial gravity on and off, but they're getting into constant trouble because there's "too much weight on the ship".
 
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KalKal said:
Watching this on demand to kill time before my other shows tonight.
The most annoying thing is that this show seems to think that its smart, but its really stupid. It wants to be like a British Sci Fi comedy like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" miniseries (which I LOVED) or like "Red Dwarf" (which I admit I never got into). But its written by people that can't even come up with convincing Sci Fi TV technobabble.

So you have the "smart" characters trying to point out how stupid the people in charge are, but the writers aren't good enough to have the "smart" characters come up with anything smart themselves.

I mean, they're on a ship that apparently has the ability to turn magical artificial gravity on and off, but they're getting into constant trouble because there's "too much weight on the ship".
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I agree with all of this.

Even down to the "reveal" that the whole flight crew are actors. It's already been revealed that the Captain is an actor, so for the whole final reveal in an episode to be that his crew are actors felt dumb. Not because it's repeating itself, but because it really shouldn't have been a surprise.

Even if they weren't actors, what were they supposed to do to remedy the situation, and why did it take 3 episodes for them to think to ask the flight crew what to do?

This show just ain't it, brehs

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steadyrighteous said:
I agree with all of this.

Even down to the "reveal" that the whole flight crew are actors. It's already been revealed that the Captain is an actor, so for the whole final reveal in an episode to be that his crew are actors felt dumb. Not because it's repeating itself, but because it really shouldn't have been a surprise.

Even if they weren't actors, what were they supposed to do to remedy the situation, and why did it take 3 episodes for them to think to ask the flight crew what to do?

This show just ain't it, brehs

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The joke here is that it's all actors talking to actors, and everyone is trying not to get found out. But there's no one in charge, I get it. It's kind of like the whole "fake it till you make it" idea.

There's humor in there somewhere, they're just doing a bad job bringing it out.

Huge Laurie is actually doing an OK job with what they're giving him, but I feel really bad for Jared from Silicon Valley. I'm wondering if his character might be bad enough to ruin his career.
 
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KalKal said:
The joke here is that it's all actors talking to actors, and everyone is trying not to get found out. But there's no one in charge, I get it. It's kind of like the whole "fake it till you make it" idea.

There's humor in there somewhere, they're just doing a bad job bringing it out.

Huge Laurie is actually doing an OK job with what they're giving him, but I feel really bad for Jared from Silicon Valley. I'm wondering if his character might be bad enough to ruin his career.
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No I got the joke. It’s just a bad one, or one that would have been better suited coming fresh off the heels of the reveal that The Captain was an actor.

For it to be a 3rd episode closer feels like something a kid would come up with, not the creator of Veep. I just found it strange that it closed the episode. Kinda how I found the Pilot strange when it cut to black before he addressed the passengers. It honestly felt like the Pilot was meant to be an hour but they said fukk it and split it it 2.

The whole thing feels unfinished in thought and in execution.
 
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Bryan Danielson said:
This is quirky.... but not terrible to me.

I like ol girl from Being Human, the British version:takedat:
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I probably won't pick it up next season (unless it gets REALLY funny all of a sudden the rest of the season), but even though I'm not laughing out loud it's enough to keep me entertained for 30 min. I let the 2nd and 3rd episodes build up, but since then I've actually been watching by the middle of week.
 
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I cut off episode six 15 minutes in and I’m officially done.

This just ain’t it and I genuinely feel like I’m wasting my time when I’m watching it.
 
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