Excessive smoking. Which distracts from the plot.
Product placement: Marlboro clearly visible in first episode. Seems like cigarette companies must have paid for the show. If true, then there should be a disclaimer to that effect at the beginning.
"Excessive smoking. Which distracts from the plot."
Get a life.
Tobacco companies and some distilleries... He wakes up, walks to a bar, starts pounding down straight whiskey, then starts driving on a highway completely unimpaired. Sure.... Lovely.
Some people still smoke cigarettes. Look around. Get over it. Stop being an asshat. I stopped smoking years ago, but I don't wear it on my shoulder.
shareIt's realistic. A lot of people smoke.
You may be sensitive to it. I didn't see that many people smoked. Thornton does, and his female partner Patty. The two female partners at the big law firm smoke A BIT...they go outside occasionally to puff.
That's a small fraction of the characters in the program.
I find that more and more in TV and movies.
It's not just "realism" as:
1. They only show the ciggies in pristine, just-lighted condition, no long ashes, no wrinkled, stubbed out ones and no filled ashtrays... in fact, no ashtrays at all. They stub out the cigs on any floor, but out of sight of the camera.
2. Only the powerful, smart characters smoke.
3. They show only one "house" of cigs, in this case, PM.
4. No bystanders complain to the smokers.
5. At least one smoker persuades a cool, non-smoker to try one, with a slick catchphrase. In this case, Callie (winner) persuades Lucy (loser) to try one as a consolation prize, and a daring act to break out of her strait-jacket of inhibitions.
6. No one, including Lucy trying her first one, coughs, waves away smoke or blinks irritated eyes.