So, I started watching this show towards the end of last week and for some reason was instantly drawn in. It made me laugh and had me wondering what was really up with this characters; it kept me interested. Now i have this to say about it. While it is the formula to many great shows, it is the same generic TV show.
This isnt bad, of course, we obviously love these shows. TV ratings might be the one thing that really gives a good idea what the audience likes and thats why the best TV shows are never really things fought about when it comes to extremes. Meaning, everyone knows Friends was a better show than the Cleveland show. Thats not an argument. What could be an argument is, is Friends or Seinfeld better? But thats talking about close lvls. Everyone knows for sure which showed are atleast deemed good. Most people (personally i think the only time that saying "most people" actually gives a good representation) like, and the things it lists ARE actually good.
(Unlike music where the top 40s music is shit. However, they are alike in that both TV and music have a formula for what catches the masses attention and to financially succeed. However i think the mass populous is just retarded when it comes to music for reasons ill probably explain in a different note using much more refined language than retarded, but thats just a sum of the very complicated thought that gives that word more depth in a way that isnt so hurtful or idiotic sounding.)
So now, this show follows the TV formula to the period. We have the ladies man, the weird guy whos emotionally unstable, we have the the dumb and passionate guy, the girl who is way to hot to hang with these guys but is totally a bro, and the older guy who tries to be cool with the younger folk but is kinda cynical Do you see any similarities there to other shows? Friends is there, HIMYM is also etc. Then it opens with the also generic formula. "Oh, hey im doing this thing here.", "oh hey my dog bit my finger" etc etc until "HEY GUYS! did you hear this?!?!" and they all rush over....
This is ridiculous. They fact that this simple, repetitive pattern (that really doesnt demonstrate any one actual social scene, considering that it seems like each one of the characters was plucked out of his actual scene and placed awkwardly together with these people, bc no social grps ever look like this) keeps our attention over and over again is crazy. Im not sure if its more of an attribute to the simplicity of man, or his ingenious to understand how to trap the human mind.
I got bored at this point but then later that night...
This just hit me.
"This just hit me" will not be a new thing in my blogs. When something comes back into my head about a previous thought i was having, if its within 2 days, i will throw in a edit simply saying in bold "This jsut hit me". That will alievate the need to specify that i came back later, and its a cool new thing and qwerk of my blog that im having much fun with.
An extra humor for this show is a 4th wall breaker. In all those other TV shows i mentioned, there is another part to the formula. The main characters have all these long, drawn out conversations, while the side ppl are just there listening and it never seems weird when the mains go off on a conversation that tangents off into eternity, and the then respond normally, and these ppl are able to get away with the kookiness of this. Obviously its not real.
The funny part about this show is that it doesnt let them get away with that. If they are on some weird train of though, the ppl onlooking will be like "um, hello? what the fuck are yall talking about". They dont play along with the act. It brings the show back down in a slight realism. That weird coincidences in your favor, as dramatically show in HIMYM, for instance, do not happen, and rather they show crazy coincidences that are not in your favor and put you in the worst spot at the end of each episode.
Seriously, no one ends up in a situation better at the end then what they were at the beginning. And its just a screwed up process of how they ended up in these unsolvable situation. This show has barely any underlining theme or story. There a slight veil of one, but it doesnt affect the story enough to make it really matter. The point is, these 5 ppl, get in the most awful situations on a constant basis and then they are fine, and do it again tomorrow. Not even a shred of something that happened in a previous episode really matters when it comes to what will happen in a future episode.
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