Season One Conceptually may have worked, if perhaps 9 episodes 3 dedicated to each decade.
It's cast and stand out moments of comedy take away from the overplayed "comedic moments" to the non-dramatic borderline day time soap opera ridiculous "Dramatic" moments.
The most realistic decade to my viewing was the 1984 where the clothes and hair are completely over the top, which might be accurate for the 5% of the upper class at that period.
However bringing AIDS into it killed that story line Arc and trying to make that aspect into a "Dramady" was a stretched out total failure. The cougar story line also failed in drama and comedy being that the 18 yo looks 25-30.
One can argue that's the 1980s story line was "So Bad- it's good" but they killed it by bringing in AIDS.
The 2017 decade- was it mocking the current liberal socialist hedonism? Or just polyamory? Wasn't clear. Didn't find the marriage realistic, nor the very light decision to bring in #3 without knowing who she was. Nor was a successful young attorney staying with an addict (likely out of guilt for breaking all the unrealistic rules of an open marriage ergo they are 99% doomed to failure). The reason for the open marriage would only be if she was a true bisexual as opposed to a sexual narcissist. The bottom line is that the entire situation was politically motivated with an incredibly small minority of the Western modern world could relate to at all.
The 1960s decade was well acted but the "Mrs Beaver housewife" was definitely overplayed, the daughter aspect and long term infidelity was drastically underplayed perhaps to make her 180 decision to do away with spousal problems more natural, but the cohesiveness of ridding of the spouses was overly calculated, for a character with Naive "Cinderella Fatasies" who as probably the best character the Italian housewife put it & I'm paraphrasing "At first I thought it was funny, then I thought you were a bit daft, now I see you're a delusional psychopath"
Season 2 definitely plays to the dark comedy side, significantly better character development and not over-reaching with 3 separate individual stories whose only common denominator was the "cursed house". It flows well excellent and comical ironic plot points. Significantly better than the first season.
My only quibble with the second season is if this take place in 1949, there wouldn't be an Asian American living in white neighborhood four years after WWII. Secondly there wouldn't be a black man blending in a white public. So is Viacom concerned with a politically correct casting, or historical accuracy? The hypocrisy of the "Right" & "Left" of this country has become simply nauseating maybe that's why the majority of registered voters are not Democrats or Republicans, and because of primary laws we have a polarized country of lunatics. Whether it's "Socialist Democrats" or more accurate a slippery slide into communism or Religious and Racist Fanatics on the Right.
Had the show been cancelled after season one I would get it, but after season 2 not sure.
It's cast and stand out moments of comedy take away from the overplayed "comedic moments" to the non-dramatic borderline day time soap opera ridiculous "Dramatic" moments.
The most realistic decade to my viewing was the 1984 where the clothes and hair are completely over the top, which might be accurate for the 5% of the upper class at that period.
However bringing AIDS into it killed that story line Arc and trying to make that aspect into a "Dramady" was a stretched out total failure. The cougar story line also failed in drama and comedy being that the 18 yo looks 25-30.
One can argue that's the 1980s story line was "So Bad- it's good" but they killed it by bringing in AIDS.
The 2017 decade- was it mocking the current liberal socialist hedonism? Or just polyamory? Wasn't clear. Didn't find the marriage realistic, nor the very light decision to bring in #3 without knowing who she was. Nor was a successful young attorney staying with an addict (likely out of guilt for breaking all the unrealistic rules of an open marriage ergo they are 99% doomed to failure). The reason for the open marriage would only be if she was a true bisexual as opposed to a sexual narcissist. The bottom line is that the entire situation was politically motivated with an incredibly small minority of the Western modern world could relate to at all.
The 1960s decade was well acted but the "Mrs Beaver housewife" was definitely overplayed, the daughter aspect and long term infidelity was drastically underplayed perhaps to make her 180 decision to do away with spousal problems more natural, but the cohesiveness of ridding of the spouses was overly calculated, for a character with Naive "Cinderella Fatasies" who as probably the best character the Italian housewife put it & I'm paraphrasing "At first I thought it was funny, then I thought you were a bit daft, now I see you're a delusional psychopath"
Season 2 definitely plays to the dark comedy side, significantly better character development and not over-reaching with 3 separate individual stories whose only common denominator was the "cursed house". It flows well excellent and comical ironic plot points. Significantly better than the first season.
My only quibble with the second season is if this take place in 1949, there wouldn't be an Asian American living in white neighborhood four years after WWII. Secondly there wouldn't be a black man blending in a white public. So is Viacom concerned with a politically correct casting, or historical accuracy? The hypocrisy of the "Right" & "Left" of this country has become simply nauseating maybe that's why the majority of registered voters are not Democrats or Republicans, and because of primary laws we have a polarized country of lunatics. Whether it's "Socialist Democrats" or more accurate a slippery slide into communism or Religious and Racist Fanatics on the Right.
Had the show been cancelled after season one I would get it, but after season 2 not sure.