Feb 23, 2021 Anthony Jeselnik was the last great misdirection shock humor comic (which is my favorite type of humor) he definitely doesn't get his credit due. Really enjoyed him before the 2016 comedy collapse. The only time Amy Schumer was funny was when he wrote the jokes she didn't steal from somebody else.
Feb 23, 2021 Arrested Development is The Wire of sitcoms... just no other comedy show was as well written and executed and encapsulated the time and place. The incredible foreshadowing always with payoffs and dozens of inside jokes, self and cultural references per scene was astounding What is lost on people watching it now is just how fast they would be able put current events into the show... at the time episodes of sitcoms were wrote then workedshoped and shot and wouldn't premiere for months after they were conceptualized... I remember Arrested Development satirizing Saddam Hussein being pulled out of his spider hole mere weeks (felt like days) after it happened in real life... they would have shot that scene the day it happened and wrote the script around it to be seamless... like they were writing real life at the time. No one was able to do this st the time.
Feb 23, 2021 Yeah it's so extremely well written it's wild although I haven't watched the newest season was it any good?
Feb 23, 2021 It was different. I haven't watched it since the day it premiered on Netflix which was years ago... it was ambitious... if I remember right it was just the same day told over and over again from every main characters perspective. It was good but disappointing.
Feb 23, 2021 I haven't watched the last two seasons of Arrested Development and from what I've read I don't plan on it
Feb 23, 2021 I rewatched Community recently. Still made me laugh... almost on Arrested Development's tier... a perfect meta comedy that rewards you for paying attention.
Feb 24, 2021 i think it rly jumps the shark in s4 tbh. lmk what u think. alot of great stuff there. i watched both seasons of barry it..... is good/ok. im curious if they will switch it up in s3 or something. feels like second tier material, a 'comedy where jokes dont matter' kinda thing. similar to search party
Feb 24, 2021 Yeah I could definitely see people not enjoying barry as much as other people it's also a particular kind of humor that scratches an itch for me with that show but I'm definitely more interested in where the plot goes more than the jokes with barry and search party
Feb 24, 2021 ya i think in both cases its like, the story has to evolve. like they just cant keep getting away with it, or else things stagnant. like the model here is actually Breaking Bad where its funny but its also this crime evolution, and becomes a mini movie or something so i am hoping barry doesnt just skate by, we've seen that happen twice now
Feb 24, 2021 Yeah and with the pandemic maybe the writers might have more time to figure out where they want to go with Barry
Feb 24, 2021 They're definitely not anywhere close to as good as the original run but I thought they were solidly funny and entertaining. Worth a watch imo, but not endlessly rewatchable like S1-3.
Feb 24, 2021 I remember that too—same with the South Park ep where they used those saddam pics literally like three days after it happened, I think it's the Christmas in Canada ep if I remember right. I was pretty young when AD premiered but I was a day-one watcher and even at 13 I knew I was watching something special—it was almost like I knew I was too young and dumb to fully get it but there was something so magnetizing about it still. I loved rewatching it every few years and getting more and more jokes both because I got older and because you notice new little bits and references every time.
Feb 24, 2021 I'm torn, because I actually really did like Barry while watching, but it was almost in spite of it's humor.
Feb 24, 2021 the two newer seasons of Arrested Development were really dense and smart but something about it just felt forced. It isn't as naturally funny, I'd compare it to running into an old friend and realizing you don't really have that much in common anymore? You're saying all the right things but it just doesn't matter. If you're a big fan of the original three seasons, you might as well watch. You'll definitely enjoy individual scenes here and there. But overall it's very forgettable and I hope they are done trying to bring it back
Feb 24, 2021 Joe writes some really funny situations and joke ideas but he has a problem delivering them, it's like his tourettes gets in the way of the joke
Feb 24, 2021 It's been 2+ years since I've seen either season but I appreciated it for both its humor (esp Noho Hank) and storyline—as well as the more creative narrative structure they were doing with some of season 2.
Feb 24, 2021 I'd only seen the first three seasons until I (re)watched the whole thing last year and it held up great up til the third or fourth episode of season 5 when Donald Glover leaves. Everyone said season 4 sucks because Dan Harmon wasn't involved but I honestly thought it was way better than season 5-6, the latter of which I couldn't even finish. The only thing that s----d about season 4 was the chang storyline cuz they really ran out of stuff to do with that character. Definitely a less is more character that only affected the show for the worse when he became a main cast member. It's really an ensemble cast and as soon as both chevy chase and donald glover were gone it was never the same. Jonathan Banks + more Dean were an OK replacement for the rest of season 5 but once yvette nicole brown left too prior to season 6 it was just pitiful.
Feb 24, 2021 South Park is topical because they have a 6 day turn around from initial writing to finish product that starts a week before the premiere episode. Which is all but impossible for a live action and completely impossible for traditionally drawn cartoons.