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kathleen_dailey) wrote2023-03-20 06:40 pm
kathleen_dailey) wrote2023-03-20 06:40 pm
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Lucky Hank premiere
No spoilers, just generalities, but for safety I'll cut this.
It was good to see Diedrich Bader, Oscar Nunez, and Nancy Robertson (though evidently Robertson is there for the pilot only? Can that be right?). I've liked Mireille Enos in other things, so I'm hoping that her character will evolve in a hurry.
I liked the way that the pop-culture scholar Emma (Shannon DeVido) was written and directed, and I thought that some (not all) of the potshots at academe were well-aimed. That said, overall the writing was pretty broad--for example, the student who thought himself a writer was more caricature than character. And it looks like we can expect a surfeit of man pain and daddy issues. I hope not. I've had enough of those in my TV viewing to last me a long, long time, especially recently.
Still, it's got Odenkirk, so I'll stay with it, at least for a while. If the writers can season the midlife white-man angst with some real pith and snark, it could work.
I bet every editor in the audience was shouting, "Fix the tenses! Pick a POV!" at the self-satisfied student way before Hank got around to delivering his critique.
It was good to see Diedrich Bader, Oscar Nunez, and Nancy Robertson (though evidently Robertson is there for the pilot only? Can that be right?). I've liked Mireille Enos in other things, so I'm hoping that her character will evolve in a hurry.
I liked the way that the pop-culture scholar Emma (Shannon DeVido) was written and directed, and I thought that some (not all) of the potshots at academe were well-aimed. That said, overall the writing was pretty broad--for example, the student who thought himself a writer was more caricature than character. And it looks like we can expect a surfeit of man pain and daddy issues. I hope not. I've had enough of those in my TV viewing to last me a long, long time, especially recently.
Still, it's got Odenkirk, so I'll stay with it, at least for a while. If the writers can season the midlife white-man angst with some real pith and snark, it could work.
I bet every editor in the audience was shouting, "Fix the tenses! Pick a POV!" at the self-satisfied student way before Hank got around to delivering his critique.