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t1_je58miu wrote

I liked the first one, not too high stakes but the characters seem interesting, I like Chris O'Dowd and it's weirdly refreshing to have an Apple show that isn't stuffed to the brims with big names.

However it seems like a pattern is starting to emerge from these half hour Apple shows. Main Guy is existentially sad, there's a trauma from before the show started that everyone's dealing with that slowly gets unfurled throughout the show and is making everybody like 20% weirder than they should be and making them act like they're in an early 2010 mumblecore indie movie.

I don't dislike it but there's at least three of them on right now (this, Shrinking and Ted Lasso, maybe Hello Tomorrow too) so it's a little odd. Like does that say more about where people are at in general that so many of this type of show gets greenlight or does it say something specifically about Tim Apple?

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t1_je8n8bc wrote

You’ve just described the classic single-camera dramedy formula for like the past 20 years.

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t1_je62rdi wrote

It says Apple realises the only show folks watch on the platform is Ted Lasso so they are trying to replicate that with the other shows.

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t1_je8n9av wrote

People watch more than Ted Lasso. Severance was a huge hit last year.

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t1_jeh2l76 wrote

Severance main character also is dealing with the after effects of personal trauma lol

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t1_jea5369 wrote

On Reddit, maybe. In reality it missed the Nielsen viewership charts just like every single Apple TV+ show not named Ted Lasso.

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