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Old 11-01-2021, 07:57 PM   #6911 (permalink)
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It's exactly based on that.
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Old 11-04-2021, 10:15 AM   #6912 (permalink)
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Breezed through the first season of Mr. Mayor. All right, but basically if you've seen 30 Rock you more or less have already seen this. Co-written by Tina Fey, but not different enough from 30 Rock to make it stand out. Kind of a mixture of that and Veep maybe? Danson gets to do some self-deprecatory humour based on his age and out-of-touchness, so that's good, but overall I'd say worth looking at, but don't expect too much. Some pretty cliched characters mostly carried over in spirit from 30 Rock. Sorry, you can't watch it without the name popping up in your head all the time.

On the other hand, if you haven't seen 30 Rock you may enjoy this on its own merits.
Interesting, this is the first I've heard of it. I liked 30 Rock well enough and then Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, I guess I'm signed up for the pilot now.

30 Rock was good but also annoying at times. I think that's just my relationship with Fey.
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Old 11-04-2021, 07:30 PM   #6913 (permalink)
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My verdict on Squid Game, with, er, spoilers:

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I thought this started well, but began to suffered from its own storyline: all the interesting characters got killed off, even the undercover cop who I was following with interest because he was revealing the set-up behind the scenes.
There was never much doubt about who would ultimately win, and when the winner made the completely out-of-character choice to not use his money, I completely lost interest; abandoned the series with about half of the last episode to go. Thus for me, it failed totally in that writers' dilemma: not the one about how to start a story, but the one about how to sustain interest when all the main action is clearly over. Give me a two-minute scene of James Bond, cracking a joke to some bikini-clad beauty as the camera pans away from the beach, please: that's how a movie should end
I guess you missed the last big reveal then?
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Old 11-04-2021, 09:31 PM   #6914 (permalink)
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Interesting, this is the first I've heard of it. I liked 30 Rock well enough and then Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, I guess I'm signed up for the pilot now.

30 Rock was good but also annoying at times. I think that's just my relationship with Fey.
30 Rock was the canonization of terrible comedy for a generation. **** all of that ****.
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Old 11-04-2021, 09:39 PM   #6915 (permalink)
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I loved 30 Rock. Definitely one of the better comedy shows in the last decade or so.
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Old 11-04-2021, 10:35 PM   #6916 (permalink)
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I guess if you like pseudo comedians hammering you over the head with terrible dialogue while not quite looking you in the eye as if you're supposed to take their non-jokes as brilliant commentary. I legitimately despise 30 Rock in a way I don't more mediocre sitcoms that don't try as hard.
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Old 11-05-2021, 12:25 AM   #6917 (permalink)
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No, I like actual comedians and funny jokes and memorable characters with zany dialogue that doesn't try at all to make some kind of commentary (unless Tina Fey farting into blankets is some kind of veiled comment on the vapidity of our consumeristic lives, which then went over my head), which is what 30 Rock gave me. I guess we watched 2 different shows, or have a very different sense of humour. :/
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Old 11-05-2021, 05:57 AM   #6918 (permalink)
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It's not zany it's just affected.
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Old 11-05-2021, 10:15 PM   #6919 (permalink)
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Tom's singing on The Boondocks is pretty much the best voice acting of all time. The way he fails to hit epic crescendos that he's clearly nailing in his head...genius.
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Old 11-06-2021, 09:27 AM   #6920 (permalink)
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Hate the protagonist from Squid Game.....
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