Embarrassing and pretentious
I will say it was difficult getting through the first episode. I usually give a show a try with 2-3 episodes but episode 1 was so bad that I won't continue. It's THAT bad.
It can be laugh out loud hypocrisy (and cluelessness) as the dialogue, seemingly obsessed with America, while they spew pretentious and often embarrassing lines as if they are clever and superior - all the while trashing America and Americans in this manner. Mirrors do exist. Please look in them. That is some comedy gold there. And as others have mentioned, they jump into the way-back machine to old historical US elections about a bag lady, a grifter who lost. Who cares? Get over it. A show of British actors set in a French city, yet overly obsessed with the United States of America? LOL Comedy Gold.
The pauses, as if one of the main actors continually forgets his lines are equally embarrassing. The entire cast is British set in a French city. Have you ever been there? This is so unrealistic, again, embarrassing. LOL Where are the "Merci's?" The stereotyping of the French -the foods, the setting, the mannerisms. Embarrassing.
This show feels like the writers used a Travel Guide to Paris for all of their information. And the acting is awful on top of that. Everyone sounds utterly ridiculous, physically basking in French culture yet no French culture to be found.
Same ole topics. Same ole concepts. Same ole dummied down scripts. Where are the good, intelligent writers of old, with depth and wisdom or a modicum of knowledge of what they pretend to be writing about?
What is this?
Like someone else wrote in these comments, it's a checklist. Hollywood and its extension have become a checklist cult. No originality, no creativity, no critical thinking, zero entertainment. Pure propaganda dressed up as - well, who knows what, but it's not worth watching.
2 stars for scenery.
It can be laugh out loud hypocrisy (and cluelessness) as the dialogue, seemingly obsessed with America, while they spew pretentious and often embarrassing lines as if they are clever and superior - all the while trashing America and Americans in this manner. Mirrors do exist. Please look in them. That is some comedy gold there. And as others have mentioned, they jump into the way-back machine to old historical US elections about a bag lady, a grifter who lost. Who cares? Get over it. A show of British actors set in a French city, yet overly obsessed with the United States of America? LOL Comedy Gold.
The pauses, as if one of the main actors continually forgets his lines are equally embarrassing. The entire cast is British set in a French city. Have you ever been there? This is so unrealistic, again, embarrassing. LOL Where are the "Merci's?" The stereotyping of the French -the foods, the setting, the mannerisms. Embarrassing.
This show feels like the writers used a Travel Guide to Paris for all of their information. And the acting is awful on top of that. Everyone sounds utterly ridiculous, physically basking in French culture yet no French culture to be found.
Same ole topics. Same ole concepts. Same ole dummied down scripts. Where are the good, intelligent writers of old, with depth and wisdom or a modicum of knowledge of what they pretend to be writing about?
What is this?
Like someone else wrote in these comments, it's a checklist. Hollywood and its extension have become a checklist cult. No originality, no creativity, no critical thinking, zero entertainment. Pure propaganda dressed up as - well, who knows what, but it's not worth watching.
2 stars for scenery.
- M0vieL0ver
- Mar 10, 2022