Cute but needed stronger writing
My hubby and I started watching about 4 weeks ago, so we watched several episodes in a row to catch up. While we enjoyed "some" parts, we both felt the writing was uneven and the acting was decent but not great. After watching all the episodes over a more compact timeframe, we're really not a bit surprised this series is not going forward -- it seems confused and very weak overall.
I think ALL the cable/streaming content providers have become a bit lost in their efforts to continue to find strong concepts that actually work well and have a story arc that can truly build viewer commitment as well as attract an increasing audience.
We keep stumbling onto shows that are in there second or even third season and often find the same problems with many of them. They're just not very well written and most just don't survive past about 16 - 20 episodes, if that. They're throwing big bucks at putting these shows out there but, at the end of the day, very few seem to gain the viewership they need to thrive.
We deeply miss the real successful, knock-em-out-of-the-park shows like "The Sopranos", "The
Wire", "The Tudors", and a handful of others, that really laid the foundation for all these other series.
Obviously, great shows demand strong concepts brought to the screen by great writers, excellent directors and a superb cast, as well as all the rest of the necessary components -- especially appropriate budget and a good time slot.
There certainly seems to be
something for everyone on the tube (or whatever device you use), now and again. But, it just seems like there aren't enough core creative teams capable of making great series/shows come to successful fruition. We'll just have to cross our fingers and keep holding out for the truly deserving shows to
to evolve out of the creative talent pool. We know there out there. It's just awfully hard to have enough patience at times.
As for "Togetherness", it just didn't make the mark, but that does not mean a similarly 'sensitive, rom-com' series won't come along again soon. We'll just have to sit tight -- and, watch great movies on TCM, HBO, NETFLIX and Amazon in the meantime . . .
We suffer so terribly!