mldardar

I saw this with my father, one cousin a little older than me & an older cousin, who talked Daddy into coming along, him being a guitar player & music lover. But... My father like most people his age, liked Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry etc most Rock & Rockabilly singers, but he liked everything Country & Western, Hillbilly & Bluegrass. The only black singers he liked were Nat King Cole, The Platters, The Ink Spots, etc, & growing up in the rural South, he learned to play the guitar from a old black man who played Blues. He wasn't familiar with much Soul.

My main memories of this show were Lesley Gore, who us young boys loves, Rolling Stones & James Brown. My older cousin pointed out that Bill Wyman looked like his mom. He really did, & kept saying, "Just like Momma, huh?! Just like Momma!" When James Brown sang/acted out "Prisoner of Love", that's when things really got funny, with my father's reaction to him dropping to the floor & being escorted by the band, only to throw-off the cape they put around him, & return to the microphone. I guess it was after the 3rd time, Daddy was losing his patience. And said, "If he does that one more time, I'm leaving!" But he made it the rest to see our aunt's lookalike playing guitar.

Were Justin Long's lines written? It seemed to me that the director told him to just improvise in response to Kate Bosworth's lines for about what felt like 30 minutes! I must agree with another reviewer that this would have worked better as a short. But I disagree that Long's acting as Hap, the womanizing lying nerd was the only good acting. The most annoying acting, is more like it. I've never been a fan of Long, as his characters or characterisations always are difficult to like. He does manage to make one hate Hap, who couldn't be sincere if his life depended on it. Since the writers had no more of the story line to fill in that long (Long) drawn-out dialogue, a 25 minute short would have gotten a 7/10 from me, if it only contained 10 minutes of the beginning & the last 15 minutes. My suggestion is to watch as much of the beginning as you can stomach, then skip to the last 20 or 15. The is a spooky sequence somewhere prior to the satisfying ending, whcich made the pain of watching the whole thing sort of worth it.

I was pulling for this, but bad acting, unbelievable characters, plus waste of a good actor given a ridiculous character ruined it for me. Even trying to like the unlikable characters didn't work, as they were written thinking they would come across impressive, and maybe some of the youngest members of the target audience were impressed or "inspired"(?).

The very likable young Erin deserved an older self that at least could act! Ali Wong was terribly disappointing. Tiffany's older self was likable, unlike young know-it-all smart as(s) any scientist Tiffany.

Mac became more likable in the last episodes, when she actually acted her age, instead of oh-so-exaggerated streetwise white trash loner, which was totally unbelievable. JK was my favorite character played by the best of these young actresses Fina Strazza. Looking forward to see what other projects she'll take on. But sadly, her future self was made the designated LGBQT etc character. Larry's character is mostly believable, and one of the likable ones. Having never read the comic book, I have no idea what the Grand Father.was supposed to be like, so I don't know if Jason Mantzoukas plays him accurately or not. Whatever the case, I was disappointed seeing such a good actor in such a ridiculous role.

Yeah, the cliffhanger season end didn't work on me. This is another series I won't be following. Someone compared Paper Girls to Stranger Things and Yellow Jackets. Too bad PG didn't have the some directors, writers and casting directors.