What I really like about this show is that it just doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to being a truly ‘feel-good’ show. I’m not a very high brow film critic or anything, but I generally don’t...
What I really like about this show is that it just doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to being a truly ‘feel-good’ show.
I’m not a very high brow film critic or anything, but I generally don’t like it when movies or TV shows overuse dramatic irony when introducing a viewer to a new conflict, it just feels overdone and a formulaic way to setup the plot. Ted Lasso would frequently set these kind of sequences up in the same way, and then just blaze right through them, resolving the conflict very quickly or fizzling it entirely and felt… kind of nice? Not sure if that makes sense or anyone else noticed something similar but those were my thoughts while watching season 1 and 2 recently.
I noticed the show repeatedly set up traditional sitcom relationships where we'd normally expect conflict and instead it handled them in subversive, yet reasonable and realistic, ways. I'm glad to...
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I noticed the show repeatedly set up traditional sitcom relationships where we'd normally expect conflict and instead it handled them in subversive, yet reasonable and realistic, ways. I'm glad to see that every time I felt the "oh no" of yet another miscommunication or forced animosity between characters, it instead got twisted into a whole new relationship that I really liked.
I don't think it blazes right by it so much as it skips the whole dance of comedy via misunderstanding and miscommunication and goes right to how a relationship grows and changes over time as new information, feelings, or even other people get introduced as people remain open, honest, and vulnerable with each other.
Yea, exactly what I was trying to convey, thanks for putting it more succinctly. It was a refreshing break from classic sitcom tropes. I finds these scenes painful to endure, so skipping them...
I noticed the show repeatedly set up traditional sitcom relationships where we'd normally expect conflict and instead it handled them in subversive, yet reasonable and realistic, ways. I'm glad to see that every time I felt the "oh no" of yet another miscommunication or forced animosity between characters, it instead got twisted into a whole new relationship that I really liked.
Yea, exactly what I was trying to convey, thanks for putting it more succinctly. It was a refreshing break from classic sitcom tropes.
I don't think it blazes right by it so much as it skips the whole dance of comedy via misunderstanding and miscommunication
I finds these scenes painful to endure, so skipping them feels emphasized to me but yea, agree with your point.
I hear you. Thinking about it a bit more, I think the whole reason the show accomplishes this is because they don't try for comedy at all during these moments but instead make the characters have...
I finds these scenes painful to endure, so skipping them feels emphasized to me but yea, agree with your point.
I hear you. Thinking about it a bit more, I think the whole reason the show accomplishes this is because they don't try for comedy at all during these moments but instead make the characters have those hard conversations, and have all the other characters listen, understand, emote, and respond honestly and fairly, and then the relationship grows. The one that sticks in my mind most is
spolier
The one that sticks in my mind most is ||when Rebecca's father dies and her mom asks Rebecca to give the eulogy, and Rebecca rants about her father only to have her mother dress her down
This feels like such a stark contrast to most sitcoms where two or more characters basically talk and act past each other and learn nothing at the end.
Only when typing this did I put together that one of the co-creators of this show is Bill Lawrence, the guy who gave us Scrubs. That was another show that handled the sitcom format in a uniquely personal and emotional way, and balanced that knife edge of hilarious comedy and serious, sincere emotion very well.
Just a heads up, I think your spoiler tag is messed up. Yea I enjoyed that as well. The one that I remember first tripping me up was spoiler Rebecca hires the paparazzi to take a photo of Ted and...
Just a heads up, I think your spoiler tag is messed up.
spolier
The one that sticks in my mind most is ||when Rebecca's father dies and her mom asks Rebecca to give the eulogy, and Rebecca rants about her father only to have her mother dress her down||
Yea I enjoyed that as well. The one that I remember first tripping me up was
spoiler
Rebecca hires the paparazzi to take a photo of Ted and Keeley and I remember thinking I knew how it was going to play out and you the viewer kind of groan because now we're dealing with this silly misunderstanding for the next few episodes and then it just gets binned (admittedly with a little bit of convenient plot help) only to again become relevant in a different way in the following season.
Ah crap, I wrote that and then went somewhere without internet for a week. I was using the Discord spoiler formatting out of habit. Really sorry about that, everyone.
Ah crap, I wrote that and then went somewhere without internet for a week. I was using the Discord spoiler formatting out of habit.
What I really like about this show is that it just doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to being a truly ‘feel-good’ show.
I’m not a very high brow film critic or anything, but I generally don’t like it when movies or TV shows overuse dramatic irony when introducing a viewer to a new conflict, it just feels overdone and a formulaic way to setup the plot. Ted Lasso would frequently set these kind of sequences up in the same way, and then just blaze right through them, resolving the conflict very quickly or fizzling it entirely and felt… kind of nice? Not sure if that makes sense or anyone else noticed something similar but those were my thoughts while watching season 1 and 2 recently.
I noticed the show repeatedly set up traditional sitcom relationships where we'd normally expect conflict and instead it handled them in subversive, yet reasonable and realistic, ways. I'm glad to see that every time I felt the "oh no" of yet another miscommunication or forced animosity between characters, it instead got twisted into a whole new relationship that I really liked.
I don't think it blazes right by it so much as it skips the whole dance of comedy via misunderstanding and miscommunication and goes right to how a relationship grows and changes over time as new information, feelings, or even other people get introduced as people remain open, honest, and vulnerable with each other.
Yea, exactly what I was trying to convey, thanks for putting it more succinctly. It was a refreshing break from classic sitcom tropes.
I finds these scenes painful to endure, so skipping them feels emphasized to me but yea, agree with your point.
I hear you. Thinking about it a bit more, I think the whole reason the show accomplishes this is because they don't try for comedy at all during these moments but instead make the characters have those hard conversations, and have all the other characters listen, understand, emote, and respond honestly and fairly, and then the relationship grows. The one that sticks in my mind most is
spolier
The one that sticks in my mind most is ||when Rebecca's father dies and her mom asks Rebecca to give the eulogy, and Rebecca rants about her father only to have her mother dress her down
This feels like such a stark contrast to most sitcoms where two or more characters basically talk and act past each other and learn nothing at the end.
Only when typing this did I put together that one of the co-creators of this show is Bill Lawrence, the guy who gave us Scrubs. That was another show that handled the sitcom format in a uniquely personal and emotional way, and balanced that knife edge of hilarious comedy and serious, sincere emotion very well.
Just a heads up, I think your spoiler tag is messed up.
Yea I enjoyed that as well. The one that I remember first tripping me up was
spoiler
Rebecca hires the paparazzi to take a photo of Ted and Keeley and I remember thinking I knew how it was going to play out and you the viewer kind of groan because now we're dealing with this silly misunderstanding for the next few episodes and then it just gets binned (admittedly with a little bit of convenient plot help) only to again become relevant in a different way in the following season.Ah crap, I wrote that and then went somewhere without internet for a week. I was using the Discord spoiler formatting out of habit.
Really sorry about that, everyone.