Not a single laugh - not even a smile. Just obnoxious dialogs that make no sense. I don't even know what they are talking about and to make it worse, I don't even care.

I feel this very British show has gone completely over the head of the US commentators here. It's not a sitcom with laughs and pratfalls every 2.5 minutes. It's about how life is shıt and everyone is depressed and overworked... not how hilarious Hollywood is.

Let's try to add some meat to why this isn't a good show. It doesn't move in a direction, it moves in all directions. You get the feeling it wants to be both an "Aaron Sorkin show" and yet Studio 60 at the same time. The characters seem to have been given the direction that they are both caricatured versions of themselves, but also should be trying to genuinely act here and there, which is weirdly almost impressive if it didn't obliterate any kind of tone the show was after. Nick Kroll shows up to play a kind of "extra" heel, and you don't distinguish his overt better-sense about what the show wishes it could be from the milky waters of where the rest of the cast resides. You don't believe anyone actually occupies their role, either of authority, in their silliness, pretensions, neuroticism, or nerdiness. It's flat, somehow ironically self-involved but in an extremely tired and cliche way, and stinks of the same pallid meandering of every show that's spun-off as low-rent Entourage-escs. Ballers comes to mind, but at least Ballers had believable athletes. This falls solidly in the category of show that got created because a rich-kid who's watched the industry from the outside for too long got coked-up and said, "NO MAN, THIS WILL BE AWESOME, it's like Extras mixed with Blunt Talk OH MAN I LOVE PATRICK STEWART and they'll be like on a SCI FI SHOW!" 2 people replied with the same comment. Aaron Sorkin wrote studio 60. I see you. I hear you. I poorly articulated how "Aaron Sorkin show" and "Studio 60 in its plot and characters" differ in "feeling" to me. If it was *just* rapid fire dialogue and single-shot long walks with an overt message, the idea would be a nonsense overlap, for sure. I think Studio 60 had a vibe The Franchise aspires to and fails to achieve. I think Aaron Sorkin story-telling means wax and wane depending on the series. The West Wing doesn't remind me of Studio 60. Why? That story of that difference is what I was, admittedly confusingly, alluding to

This show is not a comedy, it's a documentary. It is hilarious. You watch the proverbial frog boil, a continuous escalation of everything going wrong. If you didn't get Silicon Valley, Avenue 5, or The (literal) Goes Wrong Show, it won't be for you.

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