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Re: Is anyone else watching Avenue 5?

[personal profile] quaffanddoff 2020-04-07 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
So...I do adore Ryan and Matt, and there were definitely some good moments and solid jokes, but I have to say that overall, I was disappointed with the show. I didn't find it nearly as funny or entertaining as I expected based on all the massive talent and hype behind it. My expectations were probably way too high, but the whole thing seemed very uneven, jumbled, and meh to me. Did you finish the season? What did you think?
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Re: Is anyone else watching Avenue 5?

[personal profile] tremendousdetectivetheory 2020-04-11 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
I finished it and I agree--I missed the hype though. I thought it was just an okay show, uneven as you said, and worth watching for my precious Matt. :3 I feel like it came out in a weird time in history and in tv. I'm pointlessly digressing here, but I was thinking a story like this would have done better if it came out in another time, like in the 2000s. People in the US and England were bitter and cynical about pres GW Bush and PM Tony Blair and it was cool to poke fun at yuppies like the ones on Avenue 5 (and we *laughed* at Bush too). Nowadays we have real-life politicians who are worse than the characters who are supposed to be horrible & incompetent but in a *funny* way and in our present situation it's hard to laugh.