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why all the hate?

posted 8 years ago by mehrjadidi
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all I read in the threads was this show is boring or slow, and the acting is silted. first it's a show that takes it time to get to where it needs to go. second there is a difference between being boring and being a slow burn. And third I'm about done the series and the acting seems great, so I would like to hear examples of scenes of where they go wrong on that front.

I just think it's stupid when people calling *beep* boring when it's about a old married couple, it's like what did you expect a transformer running into the living room and *beep* to blow up. If it isn't your type of show that's one thing but if it fails to be it's own thing that's another.

[–] linja93 8 years ago

Well... I think that all this hatred comes from the fact that people judge the entire show after watching just first episode. And I can understand that you didn't like the episode, but it's not fair to say that the entire show's bad, cause this just isn't the kind of show that you can judge by looking just episode 1.

I personally liked it because every episode is a different story and it's about different kinds of couples (and a different phases in life) but who are all slightly connected. And I thought that it has this great indie kinda feeling to it.

It would be great if we went a little deeper and ask ourselves what was it trying to say to us and what's representing instead of just being all judgmental. For instance this particular '*beep* boring first episode' is about a couple who has two kids, and yes - their roles are reversed - mommy works and daddy takes care of the children. But the episode is also about two people who are together for long period of time and they love each other and they are there for each other but the sex isn't so great cause you now - twenty years is a lot of time. They are also struggling to have a time just for them, a small amount of time that isn't interrupted by co-workers, kids or something else. And those are the things that anyone could relate to, you don't have to be married and have kids to understand what's like losing the attraction but still loving your partner or not having time just for yourselves.

Then again I can understand that this too could also seem boring to many of you, but that just shows that this isn't really your cup of tea.

[–] meemee_7 8 years ago

It's funny; I watched 2.5 episodes before giving up, because the characters were all people with which I had nothing in common...their concerns were meaningless to me.

The first couple for example...if they wanted time together uninterrupted, all they had to do was turn off their friggin phones, right? So what if the kid skinned her knee while out, a (supposedly) competent adult is there to deal with her! And must she take work calls once mom is home? I was amazed that they were interrupted by calls, not once but continually. Turn off your phones! Problem solved!

And this was by far the most interesting episode I saw, because we witnessed their sexual dynamic, and it was the absolute opposite of their public gender-reversed roles: he wanted sex when she clearly did not, she played along anyway, she feigned arousal and interest until he was done, then let him sleep in and made breakfast and told him he "earned it" and seemingly did all of this without bitterness...all this most definitely a woman's role, at least to our grandmothers.

Otherwise, I couldn't get into it, mostly because the characters were like a huge group of pretentious liberal arts students, with their concerns regarding quality beer, militant feminism, indie music, etc.

"...if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!" Roy Batty

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