On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 2:07 PM Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote:
> The writing and acting on this show continue to be one step below that of > a Sunday School pageant: everything's declamatory, there's no subtext, and > people don't exist unless they are speaking. I watched last night to see > Charles Kimbrough, and came away feeling sorry for Faith Ford and Grant > Shaud, who were especially betrayed by the writers. Might come back for the > stunt casting, but am prepared to keep my index finger on the FF button > otherwise. > I'm only caught up through last week (the #metoo episode) and my impression of the first two acts was that they resembled a parody of a sitcom written as a sketch in a hipper show. The setups are hackneyed, the punch lines are duds, and the audience or laugh track laugh uproariously. I don't hate watch shows and I am preparing to drop this one from the DVR. In the original series (although IMDB calls this Season 11 of the series) they went as far as they could to establish that FYI existed in the real news world. They had no trouble naming competitors like 60 Minutes and Nightline and their peers. So it bugs me greatly that they won't refer to Fox News Channel or any of their shows or hosts by name. I feel sad that they are missing a great story arc for Corky. In the original series she was the beauty queen who symbolized the descent of the TV news business to tabloid status. Over time she had to prove herself as a journalist and be accepted in the group. In the current series she should be going through the process of a middle aged person becoming invisible as younger women replace them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
