Obliterated is another Netflix show that was canceled after one season. I'm absolutely with Netflix on this one. It was bad. I did enjoy it to some degree or maybe I did just get used to how bad it was.
Why did I watch it or rather continued watching it? I went to Las Vegas last year and this show is entirely set in the city/area. There is also the rather interesting idea that the entire (8 episode) season takes place in one day (well, mainly one night). I liked Nick Zano on Legends of Tomorrow, so it's funny to me that this is the project he did right afterwards. There's also Costa Ronin playing your typical Russian arms dealer which was an "interesting" contrast to previously only seeing him on The Americans or Homeland.
These were the good(-ish) things! Everything else is just bad. If I didn't know that the entire show was set in Las Vegas, I would have turned it off halfway through the first episode. That one was particularly rough.
There is nudity, lots of it, including a bunch of (prosthetic) penises. According to IMDB, more male than female nudity, so there's a win!? At times there is some very vulgar humor that I don't find funny and seems outdated for the 2020s. I'm also not a fan of all the drugs and alcohol which is meant to be a comedic device, but comes across as pretty awful to me. Overall I'm not even sure if it is supposed to be a comedy or just a dumb action show. There are plenty of dumb actions shows, this one was just...dumber. The only gag that really worked for me was Trunk's (never-ending) quest to find food. There were some clumsy attempts to add depth, but that just felt tacked on with how mediocre the writing in general was. The only good episode was the finale. If the whole season had that quality of writing, it would have been fine, but it does absolutely not redeem the rest of the season.
In opposite to that, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window was imo dragged down by its last episode. The conclusion to the main mystery is so absurd that it makes me a bit angry. Right from the start I expected something a lot lighter and funnier from the title. I mean yes, it's satire, but played far too seriously, at least for the majority of the series. There are some running gags and attempts to inject humor via the dialogue, but overall the tone is weirdly serious. I feel like Michael Ealy was in a different show at times, the one that I expected from the title. Maybe I would like the finale more if the whole show was that absurd, but it simply wasn't. It felt like a murder mystery drama that was slightly off. This is a limited series and it was always meant to be one, but I can't help but think that it was absolutely set up in a way that if it was a huge success, Netflix could have ordered a second season. On the plus side, it was an extremely quick watch. I also can't rule out that maybe this is someone's thing, because it wasn't a bad series.
I'm still really enjoying Paradise and Ghosts is always delightful.
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Why did I watch it or rather continued watching it? I went to Las Vegas last year and this show is entirely set in the city/area. There is also the rather interesting idea that the entire (8 episode) season takes place in one day (well, mainly one night). I liked Nick Zano on Legends of Tomorrow, so it's funny to me that this is the project he did right afterwards. There's also Costa Ronin playing your typical Russian arms dealer which was an "interesting" contrast to previously only seeing him on The Americans or Homeland.
These were the good(-ish) things! Everything else is just bad. If I didn't know that the entire show was set in Las Vegas, I would have turned it off halfway through the first episode. That one was particularly rough.
There is nudity, lots of it, including a bunch of (prosthetic) penises. According to IMDB, more male than female nudity, so there's a win!?
At times there is some very vulgar humor that I don't find funny and seems outdated for the 2020s. I'm also not a fan of all the drugs and alcohol which is meant to be a comedic device, but comes across as pretty awful to me. Overall I'm not even sure if it is supposed to be a comedy or just a dumb action show. There are plenty of dumb actions shows, this one was just...dumber. The only gag that really worked for me was Trunk's (never-ending) quest to find food. There were some clumsy attempts to add depth, but that just felt tacked on with how mediocre the writing in general was. The only good episode was the finale. If the whole season had that quality of writing, it would have been fine, but it does absolutely not redeem the rest of the season.
In opposite to that, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window was imo dragged down by its last episode. The conclusion to the main mystery is so absurd that it makes me a bit angry. Right from the start I expected something a lot lighter and funnier from the title. I mean yes, it's satire, but played far too seriously, at least for the majority of the series. There are some running gags and attempts to inject humor via the dialogue, but overall the tone is weirdly serious. I feel like Michael Ealy was in a different show at times, the one that I expected from the title. Maybe I would like the finale more if the whole show was that absurd, but it simply wasn't. It felt like a murder mystery drama that was slightly off. This is a limited series and it was always meant to be one, but I can't help but think that it was absolutely set up in a way that if it was a huge success, Netflix could have ordered a second season. On the plus side, it was an extremely quick watch. I also can't rule out that maybe this is someone's thing, because it wasn't a bad series.
I'm still really enjoying Paradise and Ghosts is always delightful.