True. Cajole wrote some good stuff about Terriers on his blog, so go check that out if you're on the fence about the show.CajoleJuice said:You should have linked my blog post, too!
But really, everyone watch, please. Give it some dignity before it's cancelled.
CJ's new role is quite a stretch. I remember scoffing at it as well. It was an obvious ploy to give Allison Janney some more meaty material worthy of an "emmy nominated" lead actress. They do raise the question of whether she is fit for the position and there are a few times where she is a bit out of her depth. The trade-off in realism for CJ's character development is ultimately worth it. The fourth episode was so damn entertaining, though, that i honestly didn't care how contrived it was. Kristin Chenoweth's introduction is an absolute hoot too.StuBurns said:
I think Janney is awesome in the show, amazing actually, although so far all the episodes that have focused on her primarily I've been let down by. The new girl I'm a little concerned about, I had flashes of the Blonde republican they had in an earlier season who I never liked, but I'm looking forward to seeing what her role exactly will be, I wasn't clear on it from the episode. And I look forward to seeing the fate of Josh, it's an ensemble cast of course, but he is who the audience is paired with when the show begins, and I knew the actor from Studio 60 so at first I kind of assumed he was the lead. I'm a little confused how the show can really sustain a long term fractured setting if he and others literally go elsewhere. Will and the VP pop into the show, but they're never really key at the moment, and Sam was still in a little after he went elsewhere, but it always felt desperate to get back. If the show kind of splits, and spends it's time between the current administration in the West Wing and what I can imagine would be a new democrat running for office, I can't really imagine how that's going to work at all, but I look forward to seeing if that's the case, and if so, how it works out.Spotless Mind said:
I'm interested to see how you react over the course of the season. They introduce quite a few story threads that last for what's left of the shows run. Some characters, most notably President Bartlett, become a little underused as a side effect, but ultimately i found the juggling of the ensemble and shifting perspectives to be handled quite well.StuBurns said:
I'm still catching up too, so i've been avoiding the official thread. I'm around episode 7 now and i couldn't agree more with what you said. Brilliant show.anaron said:
Her voice irritated me. Which oddly, I've just heard the new blonde talk again, and it's Karen from Will and Grace level brain poking.Salazar said:
I believe Ainsley just disappeared. I didn't even notice till Josh said Matt Perry would need to look like her to be a Republican they'd hire.Spotless Mind said:
She made an appearance in the last episode. I think she wanted the job of White House Chief Counsel or something like that.Spotless Mind said:
Indeed. They were able to steamroll it until the very end. I mean, some of the character were duds, but the great characters that came along more than made up for it. When I read your paragraph, the quote about a certain character came into mind: "Is it possible to be shocked but not surprised?"
You're one episode away from where things start to kick off.StuBurns said:
Yeah, at least watch the first 3 episodes of Terriers, though episode 4 steps it up another notch.gdt5016 said:
y2dvd said:
I've only seen series 1 and 2 so I've never watched the specialbeelzebozo said:
y2dvd said:
beelzebozo said:
big ander said:I've only seen series 1 and 2 so I've never watched the special
But yeah, I didn't love the UK version. It just made you hate like 7 different people. I don't remember thinking "well this character's a douche because of this, but they also did this." All that went through my head was "this guy's a jackass with zero redeeming qualities. So's that guy. and that girl. and that guy." Just got tiring.
Funnily enough, I loved Series 1 of Extras, though. Still need to see the rest of that.
Anasui Kishibe said:
Tim the Wiz said:
People being totally unlikeable? :lolAnasui Kishibe said:
CajoleJuice said:
There's definitely a difference, because I even stopped watching Peep Show for a while because it was just so awkward and painful to watch. When I picked it back up a year or two later, I wondered what the hell I was thinking originally. Maybe a flip switched in meAnasui Kishibe said:
I'm pretty sure it's a universal thing, for the same reasons that I have personally: if nobody is likable there's not much going on. If, like in the Office UK, you hate every character on screen, you don't care too much what happens to them. And that's how I remember feeling. Granted, I sped through the 12 episodes and revisiting them could change my opinion. But saying zero likability is a good thing on a show is ridiculous. You just like the characters for different reasons.Tim the Wiz said:
:lol I dunno, everyone says they hate Jim and Pam. But in the early seasons, I loved Jim and Pam. In the UK version, I feel like the jerkiness in both Tim and Dawn comes out a lot more easily and I couldn't make myself like themSalazar said:
StuBurns said:
I certainly wasn't going to give up on it after the first episode, but I was pretty surprised, the pilot of the West Wing and Studio 60 are both pretty awesome. The laugh track is irritating, it feels like it should be like the other two shows, it has that dryness to it, but the laugh track implies it should be a more traditional comedy. The only time I really laughed was when one guy (he played Will in the West Wing, and was in the the American President too) went to sit down and there wasn't a chair.Cosmic Bus said:
