Adam Lenhardt
Senior HTF Member
Having plowed through all of the exposition last week, they were able to just hop into the meat and potatoes of things this week. I thought the pacing was a lot better and the humor hit more often. I think this show would perhaps work better as an hour long comedy, but I'm digging it the way it is, too.
I loved all of the parallelism, as seemingly unrelating things click together from one storyline to the next in surprising ways.
I also get a kick out of George Micheal's reactions to the rest of the family's comments about him and Maeby; the innocent comments that sound horribly vulgar and perverse from his point of view.
Most of all, though, I loved the outright cluelessness of them all; from Maeby doubling their losses in an attempt to balance out the cash register, to Lindsey sleeping through her acting part, to Gob's inability to dispose of the letter into the ocean.
The only danger is that with all of the satirical elements, there is very little to like about these characters coming out of tonight's episode. I think the little family moments, like them all playing monopoly in the pilot, need to be there to balance it out.
I loved all of the parallelism, as seemingly unrelating things click together from one storyline to the next in surprising ways.
I also get a kick out of George Micheal's reactions to the rest of the family's comments about him and Maeby; the innocent comments that sound horribly vulgar and perverse from his point of view.
Most of all, though, I loved the outright cluelessness of them all; from Maeby doubling their losses in an attempt to balance out the cash register, to Lindsey sleeping through her acting part, to Gob's inability to dispose of the letter into the ocean.
The only danger is that with all of the satirical elements, there is very little to like about these characters coming out of tonight's episode. I think the little family moments, like them all playing monopoly in the pilot, need to be there to balance it out.