Why the acting was so bad???

Talk show guests, or behind the scenes crew, so not meant to look professional on screen?

I rarely see actual bad acting in films. What I saw here seemed good to me. The characters all came across as believable, with the transition from "on air" to "off air" seeming real. People often complain about acting when what they mean is that "the dialog was poorly written" or "the characters didn't behave the way I would expect".

I hear ya...I seen better acting out of the extras in Matthew Broderick's Godzilla than what I saw in the main cast here!

I was going to start a topic about this exact thing. David Dastmalchian was great, but everyone else acted like it was a mockumentary.

It wasn't.

Ian Bliss, Rhys Auteri and Fayssal Bassi were acting like they were in a play. Works in a theater, but not on film.

The acting was fine.

I didn't have a problem with anyone but the wife. I thought she was noticeably bad.