Arrested Development (Netflix) TV Show • Page 46

More like Unwatchable Kimmy Schmidt. Shit bored me to tears.

 

Kimmy Schmidt is so bad.

 

I laughed twice as much at the first episode of the new Kimmy Schmidt season than I did at all of these eight episodes combined

 

I think I gave it two episodes before I was like nah not my thing.

 

I’d say “look it got cancelled” but we’re currently in the Arrested Development thread haha

 

I love every season of this show.

 

It’s funny, I really liked this season but also agree with every bit of criticism I see here.

 

Kimmy Schmidt being bad is an awful take

 

Does it get better? I watched like half the first season because everyone said it was awesome and it was painful for me to watch.

 

The recapping is definitely a huge issue. Someone else mentioned the timeline being problematic and I completely agree. Season four spent so much time covering the intervening years between seasons that I was relieved when all the stories were finally caught up to speed and began to converge. Season five at least graciously restricts that same issue to the first few episodes before sticking with 2015, but who knows if that will change in the second half. I wish Hurwitz would just drop us right into the current storyline, tell a smaller, tighter story, and allow us to fill in the gaps over time with cutaway gags like he used to.

It’s also incredibly distracting pretty much every time Portia de Rossi is on screen this season because she’s clearly never in the same room as everyone else and they keep jumping back to these awkward cutaway shots where she’s apparently supposed to be reacting to whatever’s happening.

 

Its probably just not for you then to be honest.

 

It drives me crazy that Portia isn’t in the scenes with everyone else. She retired from acting and solely came back for this. You think she could show up on the days when everyone else was there

 

idk this has major problems with the timeline and the overall story but the idea that its worse than s4 baffles me

 

Seasons two and three of Kimmy were boring to me. Not sure I'd watch season 4.

 

It’s definitely strange. Like, okay I get it that she was gracious enough to return from retirement to do this for Mitch, but her schedule just also happened to fall out of sync with the rest of the cast so he’s forced to work around it yet again and bless him he tries.

But man it just never works and always takes me out of the moment. It’s like she’s there, she’s just - y’know - she’s just over there somewhere. She’s just hanging out over there in the ether where no one can really touch her or maybe even see her. It’s like she’s in a parallel universe watching what’s happening in ours through a wormhole and smiling every once in a while and then responding to a stand-in wearing a Jessica Walter wig in an over the shoulder shot.

 

Sitting down to watch one episode of S4 vs one episode of S5, season 5 is almost always going to win.

But overall story telling? S4 is superior. S4 rewards patience and focus, things you initially think are really awkward and nonsensical always pay off huge later. S5 never has those huge payoffs.

If I just want to throw on a random episode before bed or something, I would probably favor a season 5 episode over a season 4 episode, but I still think S4 works better overall. Of course, this argument currently means nothing since Netflix split season 5 in two, which I think is a huge mistake.

 

If there’s a s6, they just need to abandon all the plot threads they spun up in S4 and do something completely new. Everything is so convuluted right now it’s just tedious to watch.

 

There's still 9 more episodes this season to worry about.

I genuinely doubt we'll get more than that.

 

Idk season 4 at least had whole episodes focused on Buster, Tobias, and Gob that I loved. There were just more dud episodes with George/Oscar/ Lindsay, etc...

I think I’d be okay with AD being done, but if they continue, I agree with @kbeef2 that they just need to start a new story. This Lucille 2 mystery/election/movie about the family doesn’t interest me at all

 

Michael still comes off as pathetic this season, which was the biggest mistake IMO from season 4.

 

Michael has always been kinda pathetic, so that doesn’t bother me.

Also, I’ve never really cared about storylines or plot development in most comedies,the first three seasons of AD included, so that doesn’t bother me either.

 

I actually really like this season, laughing at a lot of stuff and even though the plot doesn't interest me like it used to I'm having a good time. Wish we had the rest of the season

 

Oh dang! I’d say season 3 is easily better than the first two, and this season is great so far.

 

I just know I watched all of the season 4 remix before season 5 and thought the majority of that was better than this. I've only seen the first 5 episodes but I've laughed maybe twice?