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The Italian has to go. I couldn't get past how she offsets the entire show. You could remove her from the entire first season and it would be excellent. To me it seemed that she is setup as a nemesis but it doesn't work. She's not Toby. She is just annoying and does nothing to help us care about other characters.

It's not great. At all. First, have they been to Toledo? The most egregious casting is the Italian actress from White Lotus. What in the actual F. It's a literal cartoon character and it's portrayed so badly over the top that it is NOT enjoyable as a viewer. It's either going to morph into place ( they will have to exit the Italian actress) otherwise it will not work or it's going to turn into a poorly made high school production parody. I'll watch, until I can't. Thus far, not so great, not polished at all.

I'm enjoying the fresh take with a refreshing blend of old charter traits. Esmeralda though, absolutely insufferable. Please tone her down or something. She like all of the worst traits of the original casts characters all bound up into one incredibly annoying person. I want to like her but I just cannot.

The show on it's own not comparing it to the Office is fine. It needs time to grow I guess, hopefully it will find it's legs in the second season. The "Me Too" joke on the first episode was distasteful and there is some cringe through the season. My biggest criticism is that the character Esmerelda is complete garbage and not in a way that you love to hate a character, she just is jarring to the entire growth of the entire cast. She tries to ruin everything in a sense that makes me want to go away from the screen or turn it off everytime she's on. Get rid of or change Esmerelda and the potential will grow.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with the masses. 15mins into the show, irritated by Esmeralda. Kinda reached a stage I am skipping all her parts. I like the tempo of the show, there are some good potential characters for further development. Nice to see an OG Oscar, still brings delight to the TV screen.