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I've been watching the US version of Free Agents, though it seems to be the show I don't remember when I think of new shows I watch. I had no idea it was inspired by a British show. It seems very American.
There's a rumour NBC is canceling it. I don't think this is a good point in the season for NBC to ditch a show like this, honestly. What would be the use? Are they really going to start running a midseason replacement three weeks into the new season? Run an extra showing of Community? What?
I like Free Agents more than I expected to, and I think starting a week early was smart, as it got some people to try it that might have passed on it in a crowd of new shows. Just wait for the overly broad and bizarre Suburgatory to die, and this show will be fine. Although I think this is the kind of show that would be fine with just the 13 initial eps, I think it has a premise that could work for multiple seasons (but won't as the initial creative team will leave).
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I did in fact watch the first episode of Suburgatory, and while I am willing to give it another chance; judging from the pilot that thing is utterly bizarre. Seriously? You think the 'burbs are full of boob jobs and pink? And no goths or emo kids? Ri-ight. I mean, I am in favor of Jeremy Sisto and Arden Myrin (who appears not to be a regular anyway) getting work--in a show that is not this set of imaginary stereotypes.
Want a better take on suburbia, try Suburbia (the punk one). Or pretty much any other sitcom on tv.
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Heck, the highly urban 2 Broke Girls might be closer to an accurate portrait of suburbia than Suburgatory, and the closest it gets to suburbanness is that Max lives in a house with a yard. Which is my way of saying watch 2 Broke Girls: It has a zaftig chick, a skinny chick, and a horse, which really, what else do you need? It passes Bechdel without even once looking in the direction of the constructed femininity that overwhelms Suburgatory's pilot. Well, except for the high heels, maybe, but those are lampshaded in the third episode's plot as a dig at upper-class lifestyle.
There's a rumour NBC is canceling it. I don't think this is a good point in the season for NBC to ditch a show like this, honestly. What would be the use? Are they really going to start running a midseason replacement three weeks into the new season? Run an extra showing of Community? What?
I like Free Agents more than I expected to, and I think starting a week early was smart, as it got some people to try it that might have passed on it in a crowd of new shows. Just wait for the overly broad and bizarre Suburgatory to die, and this show will be fine. Although I think this is the kind of show that would be fine with just the 13 initial eps, I think it has a premise that could work for multiple seasons (but won't as the initial creative team will leave).
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I did in fact watch the first episode of Suburgatory, and while I am willing to give it another chance; judging from the pilot that thing is utterly bizarre. Seriously? You think the 'burbs are full of boob jobs and pink? And no goths or emo kids? Ri-ight. I mean, I am in favor of Jeremy Sisto and Arden Myrin (who appears not to be a regular anyway) getting work--in a show that is not this set of imaginary stereotypes.
Want a better take on suburbia, try Suburbia (the punk one). Or pretty much any other sitcom on tv.
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Heck, the highly urban 2 Broke Girls might be closer to an accurate portrait of suburbia than Suburgatory, and the closest it gets to suburbanness is that Max lives in a house with a yard. Which is my way of saying watch 2 Broke Girls: It has a zaftig chick, a skinny chick, and a horse, which really, what else do you need? It passes Bechdel without even once looking in the direction of the constructed femininity that overwhelms Suburgatory's pilot. Well, except for the high heels, maybe, but those are lampshaded in the third episode's plot as a dig at upper-class lifestyle.
