...my advice is to STOP at the end of season 2. You will have 2 series of quality drama that will refresh your faith in humanity.
Only proceed further if you like soap operas.
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I have only purchased seasons one and two and won't be buying further seasons. It's definitely jumped the shark. I agree it's descended into soap with bad language which did not happen in the first two seasons. It started out for me, as a gentle comedy drama and has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous.Yes.
As odd as it is to see Caroline conversing with a ghost AT LEAST I an spared having to watch those two kiss.
It seemed like they just kept piling the kissing scenes on - I suppose it was to help dramatize the loss once Kate was dead. But it was over the top.
It's also like the clueless writers around the table critiquing Wainwright's script on a first read through with producers...and they had a poo-inducing moment when they realized they had killed off "the double-minority demographic" so important in BBC box ticking for pro[er modern casting (and their Demo was a two-fer..of color AND a lesbian and they offed her in a cack handed move). Oops.
So they panicked and some bright spark raised his hand like had to go to the loo, and went oooo ooooo oooo...hey!!!!! Let's bring her back as....a ghost....talking to Caroline from the back seat of the car! Yeah! Brill! Brill, I tell ya!
Then a collective sigh of relief passed around the table as the oh-so proper little demographic casting drones realized they had solved their self-induced problem of killing off the new wife in a frenzy of demographics stupidity!
Sigh.
Yeah, series 3 was atrocious wasn't it?
(Well, except for any scene Reid and Derek were in, even when their given lines were awful and they were put in unpleasant situations where they couldn't shine as a loving couple.)
BTW: Totally agree with you on writer supidity in killing off Kate for all the reasons you stated and also because I simply wanted them to be happy. These shows should stop hiring infantile, clueless minds to write these shows.
shareI noticed that. You don't see ANY of the heterosexual pairings doing this. What is this show trying to say?
As odd as it is to see Caroline conversing with a ghost AT LEAST I an spared having to watch those two kiss.share
It seemed like they just kept piling the kissing scenes on - I suppose it was to help dramatize the loss once Kate was dead. But it was over the top.
I kept watching in hopes that someone -- anyone -- would (a) finally slap the *beep* out of Gillian as 'encouragement' to deal with her (very considerable) problems instead of whining like a baby with diaper rash all the time. After seriously slapping Gillian, I also would like to give John (also a whiner) a swift kick out the front door.
It hasn't happened yet.
That's one thing that I have noticed about Sally Wainwright's writing. Is that it deteriorates in the third and fourth series of her TV shows like when At Home with the Braithwaites (2000) aired 15 years ago. Also she seems to repeat the same themes in both shows such as teenage pregnancy.
shareSo that's like real life isn't it?
When was a time and where was the place that they didn't have teenage pregnancy?
I tried and couldn't ...
Eternal whining and pleading/victimization, enough of Gilian and John! Returned S3 to the library today, not interested in S4.
Already saw season 3. I binge-watched on Netflix over Thanksgiving and I think you're right; I don't have high hopes for season 4, though I'll probably watch it. Sort of like the Star Wars prequels; I knew they were going to be crap, but they were part of the Star Wars saga - I couldn't help but look!
Fortunately, our PBS station aired an "Are You Being Served" marathon last night; it took some of the taste of season 3 out of my mouth.