Frankly, I don't care if you like "Love" or not. I'm targeting your mentality, which is pointless and toxic. This series is one I know well so it serves as a good proxy argument, for your post presents a direct application of the same attitudes that fuel hatred and bigotry.
You come here and proclaim judgment as if you're a supreme authority, yet, your feelings for the show aside, your actual arguments aren't valid or logically sound, and, once broken down, highlight your limitations and prejudices rather than say anything objectively meaningful about the show.
Your main complaint, your obsession over comedy, is comparable to going to an Indian restaurant because you heard they had good Asian food then promulgating the restaurant as complete Asian-less crap devoid of value because there's no Chinese or Japanese food on the menu, and so eating there feels like licking paint off a wall.
Well, if you can't see that you had the wrong impression and that India is part of Asia, then adjust your taste buds appropriately and judge the restaurant for what it offers, how can you possibly qualify the restaurant as crap when you're the one being crappy?
You're so limited by labels you're letting that dictate the value of content rather than weighing the content directly and appreciating and discussing the fact that the labels may be misleading as the show doesn't present something easily classifiable, albeit anyone with half a brain should be able to tell real fast that it's not a sitcom and just won't deliver that type of comedy you obstinately complain it lacks.
But no, obviously, if you didn't laugh like x, y, z shows, it's a total piece of crap!
And not once do you consider that the humour presented doesn't speak to you; everyone else is wrong and over-hyping the show. No, maybe the hype is genuine and your perspective is wrong or you just aren't equipped to see or enjoy what it offers?
This: "Seinfeld's bottle episodes were perfectly executed and were actually funny - give me one example of a funny moment when Mickie was looking for her cat?"
Talk about single-minded and stuck on seeing "Love" as a sitcom and expecting comedy that just isn't there. Ridiculous! The cat bit was important as it revealed much about Mickey's character, especially when the cat came back. This show doesn't tell us anything, it subtly shows us details and provides bits of conversation which allow us to piece together the flesh and bones of these characters, and the humour arises through this exploration and through highly relate-able moments as well as in the way the series totally subverts the usual relationship paradigms and story lines that are ploughed into us by mainstream culture and by which we’ve come to judge real-world relationships. Did you actually take the time to understand what people like about it? Here we’re shown something very real and plausible while people are trying to apply the usual fantasy-driven love-story structure; the more astute viewer realizes it doesn’t fit here and there’s more at play, the less astute viewer calls the show crap because it doesn’t fit that fantasy.
Do you not realize what we saw? How unstable and manipulative Mickey became in the short time she knew Gus? She’s damaged goods and the show is rich with details that point to severe abandonment issues and dormant sociopathic-type impulses. In real life, girls like Mickey often end up dating guys like Gus because good-looking guys who have dated quite a bit and don’t have problem meeting women will quickly see her as a “crazy chick” and run away. As a seemingly stable non-party guy, Gus presents a good option to Mickey who just wants desperately to be loved so she can straighten her life... But Gus has his own problems making him run towards rather than away from her; these two should not be together and their relationship can only be destructive.
Yet you seem to miss this aspect entirely and discard the show as a banal formula that doesn’t even apply, and classify it as absolute crap because it doesn’t present the usual forms it in fact subverts. So, despite being praised for its realism, everyone is wrong because per your naïve view the whole premise is unrealistic. That’s even more ridiculous. I’m guessing you’re fairly young and don’t have much dating experience?
So, in the end, your reasons are personal and meaningless but nowhere do you include yourself in your assessment. You situate yourself over and above all to judge, so it’s the show that’s crap ‘cause you’re smarter than all and understand everything better than all. This kind of close-mindedness isn’t interesting, on forums or otherwise.
Re: “Community”. It’s oft regarded as a very ingenious show, but also one filled with problems and far from being the funniest one. Good article in The Atlantic you should read, just search “The Atlantic Community TV” or similar. It also discusses relationship expectations and should help you see the contradiction in what you’re saying. However, the ingenuity was nothing new to me (people are forgetting shows like “Moonlighting” and others considered too avant-garde at the time to reach mainstream) and not enough to surmount the ridiculousness of Mr. Chen, the doofus dean, and others, and the childish premises presented, like the one by the carpe diem-obsessed teacher or Duncan’s Theorem or whatever… Not much of it was realistic there, yet you falsely complain about “Love” being unrealistic??? No rhyme or reason to your logic. In that sense, the show didn’t reach me; gimmick isn’t enough (“30 Rock” is a comparable show that spoke to me albeit the last 2 seasons were uneven), but I also take this aspect and myself into account when considering the worth of the show rather than automatically decry it as crap, and I nonetheless, extrapolating on what I did see, gave it a fairly good rating, as my own tastes and limitations have nothing to do with the actual product.
And therein lies your problem: You pass quick and unqualified judgments based wholly on flawed, naïve, and prejudicial thinking and indirectly insult a whole group of viewers, yet you’re so full of yourself that if you don’t like it and can’t see what others are seeing, then it’s crap and the world is wrong…
Gimme a break.
And it’s fine if you don’t like “Love”, but realize that your conclusion and the reasons you give don’t constitute valid points or a meaningful review and barely even qualifies as an opinion. So why not get off your high horse and take a humbler approach that allows for a positive exchange and leaves room for understanding rather than antagonistic & entitled superiority destined to be met with hostile refutation?
And no. I’m a very cerebral fellow, hence, not a usual fan of Judd Apatow; I’m judging “Love” for what it is (It's a collaboration), not for my opinion of him and past projects.
More I could say, but I’ll leave it at that…
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