people were creating episode specific threads for every single episode.
2 Broke Girls: Season One Thread **spoilers**
[I know some of you don't like these season threads, but with no one creating episode threads, we need a place to talk. Thanks for understanding.]
I like this show, it's one of the few sitcom keepers from this year's batch. Some general thoughts...
I don't understand why Max doesn't jump all over Caroline's cupcake ideas. Max is tired of her sh*tty life; she comments on it all the time. Yet every time Caroline comes up with an idea for making money, Max runs away. Is this going to be one of their ongoing themes--Max really doesn't want to improve? If so, that's kinda depressing.
What's with the horse? They can't afford it, and I don't care how attached Caroline is to him. They talk about ten dollars being a big deal, yet they keep a horse that costs far more. It's jarring.
Something that hit me watching this week's episode (cake decorating class). With most sitcoms, the longer you watch, the more the characters feel like family. You get to know their foibles. The writers get a feel for them, and it all starts to rock & roll. This is why you have to give sitcoms a few episodes, and not delete the SP after the pilot. With this show, I'm *not* getting that feeling. It's still funny, but I don't get that warm fuzzy I get from watching most sitcoms. Maybe it's taking the writers longer to get a feel for the characters, or they just don't know where they want to go with it. Or maybe it's just me.
I know, I've done nothing but complain in this first post. Yet I really do like this show, and want to see it get better and stick around.
I like this show, it's one of the few sitcom keepers from this year's batch. Some general thoughts...
I don't understand why Max doesn't jump all over Caroline's cupcake ideas. Max is tired of her sh*tty life; she comments on it all the time. Yet every time Caroline comes up with an idea for making money, Max runs away. Is this going to be one of their ongoing themes--Max really doesn't want to improve? If so, that's kinda depressing.
What's with the horse? They can't afford it, and I don't care how attached Caroline is to him. They talk about ten dollars being a big deal, yet they keep a horse that costs far more. It's jarring.
Something that hit me watching this week's episode (cake decorating class). With most sitcoms, the longer you watch, the more the characters feel like family. You get to know their foibles. The writers get a feel for them, and it all starts to rock & roll. This is why you have to give sitcoms a few episodes, and not delete the SP after the pilot. With this show, I'm *not* getting that feeling. It's still funny, but I don't get that warm fuzzy I get from watching most sitcoms. Maybe it's taking the writers longer to get a feel for the characters, or they just don't know where they want to go with it. Or maybe it's just me.
I know, I've done nothing but complain in this first post. Yet I really do like this show, and want to see it get better and stick around.
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Whitney Cummings is a co-creator or writer or something. I just watched her recent appearance on David Letterman. I think she said vagina about 20 times during the interview. The last thing said was Dave asking her why she smelled so good. She said it was her vagina.
Yea, her comedy style is pretty evident in this show. She was on a show on Showtime called "Dave's Old Porn" a week or so ago watching and discussing porn from the 70's. She's not exactly the prudish, family friendly type.Whitney Cummings is a co-creator or writer or something. I just watched her recent appearance on David Letterman. I think she said vagina about 20 times during the interview. The last thing said was Dave asking her why she smelled so good. She said it was her vagina.
good thing she isn't actully IN this show.
I should have explained it better. The pilot had a thread started the same night. Then no thread for #2 & #3. #4 had one the same night, #5 was the next day, #6 was started three days later and only had eight posts. It was hit & miss, and rather clear there would be no sustained long discussions in each thread. Reply trend was 60-0-0-39-41-7.
A concern is that people won't know "when" to join in, or how far to read, since a season thread can cross episodes. But with the exception of the pilot, not a single post was made more than four days after the show aired. Maybe people read it at a later date, but they sure didn't contribute. And if you look at the Pilot thread, people started posting about episode #2 towards the end of it. They needed a place to talk!
(Yes, I actually researched all this *before* I created this thread. I just wanted a place to vent about this show, and that started me looking for threads.)
It's a light comedy, with not much in the way of spoilers, and a perfect candidate for a season thread. Gives us a place to keep the talk going.
That's really it for me. I just wanna place to talk, dammit!
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