Television
Sep. 27th, 2020 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI found a show that makes me laugh --- how long it will is anybody's guess. It's anthology entitled The Goes Wrong Show - based on The Play That Goes Wrong. An amateur dramatic society performs a series of half-hour plays for television, all of which go terribly wrong.
It's hilarious. Or I find it hilarious - reminds me of Noises Off. I've a background in theater - so that helps, I guess. Also I love absurdist comedy or when things go wrong and people kind of just deal with it.
That's how I'm getting through this year - laughing at the craziness.
Also been binge-watching Teen Wolf - the first season was better than expected. Humorous in places - kind of satiric, and what it does right that a lot of series in this genre do wrong - is it gives the adults agency and a role in the proceedings. Also not everybody is beautiful. Stiles or the actor who plays Stiles comes across as a nerdy, struggling teenage geek - he looks like a teenager. The actors on Buffy and Vamp Diaries didn't. They were all too pretty for words. These actors are a little less pretty, a little more awkward and look like teenagers.
Both are on Amazon Prime.
But, it's nowhere near as well written as Buffy was. But I haven't found a paranormal series that is - say what you will about Whedon and his writers, they were aces at dialogue. They even created their own slang.
That said, Teen Wolf surprised me - it's much better than the films it was adapted from, and it has an interesting lead in Tyler Posey. Does need to work on the female characters a bit, also it's a bit on the cheesy side at the moment. But I understand it gets better as it goes - and it held my attention. There's six seasons apparently, with 12 episodes each in the first three before it jumps to 20 episodes each in the later seasons - which may have resulted in its cancellation after season 6 - I'm guessing money issues.
It's hilarious. Or I find it hilarious - reminds me of Noises Off. I've a background in theater - so that helps, I guess. Also I love absurdist comedy or when things go wrong and people kind of just deal with it.
That's how I'm getting through this year - laughing at the craziness.
Also been binge-watching Teen Wolf - the first season was better than expected. Humorous in places - kind of satiric, and what it does right that a lot of series in this genre do wrong - is it gives the adults agency and a role in the proceedings. Also not everybody is beautiful. Stiles or the actor who plays Stiles comes across as a nerdy, struggling teenage geek - he looks like a teenager. The actors on Buffy and Vamp Diaries didn't. They were all too pretty for words. These actors are a little less pretty, a little more awkward and look like teenagers.
Both are on Amazon Prime.
But, it's nowhere near as well written as Buffy was. But I haven't found a paranormal series that is - say what you will about Whedon and his writers, they were aces at dialogue. They even created their own slang.
That said, Teen Wolf surprised me - it's much better than the films it was adapted from, and it has an interesting lead in Tyler Posey. Does need to work on the female characters a bit, also it's a bit on the cheesy side at the moment. But I understand it gets better as it goes - and it held my attention. There's six seasons apparently, with 12 episodes each in the first three before it jumps to 20 episodes each in the later seasons - which may have resulted in its cancellation after season 6 - I'm guessing money issues.
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