Anyone here watch South Side? I just finished season 3. It’s also quite funny. I think it and The Other Two must’ve started on Comedy Central around the same time because I always link them in my head.
I'm so happy to have this show back and happy that you are reviewing it.
I like Brooke and Cary, but I perhaps little less sympathetic to their unhappiness than you are. If you can't be content when you have plenty of money and free time, that's kinda on you. Which is not to say I'm not empathetic when it comes to lots of their neuroses, just that there is a ceiling to how sympathetic I can be to people who have achieved a lot of material success.
So many good jokes. As an avid consumer of queer teen TV dramas, the Love, Victor twist hit particularly hard. But it was all gold. I don't quite have the same relationship with teen armpit photos that the characters in the show have, but there was still something uncomfortably true about that whole thing.
Speaking of uncomfortable, I hate to admit I don't know what B is.
Kelly and Schneider have expressed some uncertainty about whether they want to continue The Other Two after this season. I can only assume that that depends on how successful they are in shopping around the Barbacado spin-off.
My wife can't watch the show because she finds the characters so unsympathetic/unlikable particularly Brooke. I have a higher tolerance for shows filled with unsympathetic characters than she does but still far lower than that of most TV critics. I watch this show for the absurdist humor and super specific pop cultural referencesmoreso than the character development of Brooke and Cary. It just seems like they're always going to be miserable and it's mostly their fault
This and Taskmaster are the only two shows that make me laugh out loud while watching. So happy it’s back, and that you’re reviewing it here.
The core of the show - simple but effective -- is that the family still loves each other, even around the craziness. Crucial when the show was about them in relationship to Chase, crucial in expanding it to what it is now.
I do miss The Other Show, didn’t see it in the extras this season.
It was very weird to me that Carey and Brooke both wore the same outfit to the premiere, seemingly on accident, but then... both continued to wear the same outfit for three consecutive days to events where they knew the other one would be?
I noticed that too, but I kind of liked it. We as an audience get the reveal moment when we see them both wearing the same thing, but we don't see when they realize it, when they first see each other in the same outfit. Leaving it unspoken, but continuing with the outfits, makes me think that either they decided it worked, or they decided they both wanted to do it and didn't back down, or they simply didn't notice that the outfits were the same.
It was mostly just weird in that it was supposed to be three separate days, but them having the same outfits the whole time made it feel like it was the all filmed the same day but they forgot to have the actors change outfits.
Also, that they'd both go with this open-blazer-with-no-shirt look for the third consecutive day for a "premiere" that's just at their mom's house where there's no red carpet or anything.
My read was that they were continually trying to recreate the premiere that kept getting disrupted in some way, and the outfits were the best way to achieve this in their minds. It worked for me, but did create some continuity confusion in terms of the passage of time, so I get your point.
Yeah, that's what I figured as well, mostly just odd that they didn't comment on it at all, even just to have Streeter or somebody go "same outfit again, huh?"
The "VOD"/Hulu thing confused me, too, but then I thought maybe it was Cary who was confused, and the reason he didn't find it on Hulu when he finally got in was that it wasn't streaming yet. But that's a stretch.
Is this the funniest scripted show on TV? Maybe!
Anyone here watch South Side? I just finished season 3. It’s also quite funny. I think it and The Other Two must’ve started on Comedy Central around the same time because I always link them in my head.
I'm so happy to have this show back and happy that you are reviewing it.
I like Brooke and Cary, but I perhaps little less sympathetic to their unhappiness than you are. If you can't be content when you have plenty of money and free time, that's kinda on you. Which is not to say I'm not empathetic when it comes to lots of their neuroses, just that there is a ceiling to how sympathetic I can be to people who have achieved a lot of material success.
So many good jokes. As an avid consumer of queer teen TV dramas, the Love, Victor twist hit particularly hard. But it was all gold. I don't quite have the same relationship with teen armpit photos that the characters in the show have, but there was still something uncomfortably true about that whole thing.
Speaking of uncomfortable, I hate to admit I don't know what B is.
Kelly and Schneider have expressed some uncertainty about whether they want to continue The Other Two after this season. I can only assume that that depends on how successful they are in shopping around the Barbacado spin-off.
My wife can't watch the show because she finds the characters so unsympathetic/unlikable particularly Brooke. I have a higher tolerance for shows filled with unsympathetic characters than she does but still far lower than that of most TV critics. I watch this show for the absurdist humor and super specific pop cultural referencesmoreso than the character development of Brooke and Cary. It just seems like they're always going to be miserable and it's mostly their fault
“I finally got the Barbacados to sleep, they wanted 4 stories!”
This and Taskmaster are the only two shows that make me laugh out loud while watching. So happy it’s back, and that you’re reviewing it here.
The core of the show - simple but effective -- is that the family still loves each other, even around the craziness. Crucial when the show was about them in relationship to Chase, crucial in expanding it to what it is now.
I do miss The Other Show, didn’t see it in the extras this season.
the recurring vampire teeth gag that appeared whenever anyone asked how old Chase was and he said, "18" made me choke on my lemon-lime seltzer.
"this fuckin' town, man..."
It was very weird to me that Carey and Brooke both wore the same outfit to the premiere, seemingly on accident, but then... both continued to wear the same outfit for three consecutive days to events where they knew the other one would be?
I noticed that too, but I kind of liked it. We as an audience get the reveal moment when we see them both wearing the same thing, but we don't see when they realize it, when they first see each other in the same outfit. Leaving it unspoken, but continuing with the outfits, makes me think that either they decided it worked, or they decided they both wanted to do it and didn't back down, or they simply didn't notice that the outfits were the same.
It was mostly just weird in that it was supposed to be three separate days, but them having the same outfits the whole time made it feel like it was the all filmed the same day but they forgot to have the actors change outfits.
Also, that they'd both go with this open-blazer-with-no-shirt look for the third consecutive day for a "premiere" that's just at their mom's house where there's no red carpet or anything.
My read was that they were continually trying to recreate the premiere that kept getting disrupted in some way, and the outfits were the best way to achieve this in their minds. It worked for me, but did create some continuity confusion in terms of the passage of time, so I get your point.
Yeah, that's what I figured as well, mostly just odd that they didn't comment on it at all, even just to have Streeter or somebody go "same outfit again, huh?"
And the coincidence wasn't noted at all in any way at the premiere
The "VOD"/Hulu thing confused me, too, but then I thought maybe it was Cary who was confused, and the reason he didn't find it on Hulu when he finally got in was that it wasn't streaming yet. But that's a stretch.
Great eps, great review. Laughed out loud repeatedly. Not everything worked, but the writers are absolutely going for it this season. Can't wait.