Had it on in the background while I was doing shit last night, laughed at Peeta saying something like “I’m sorry, I’m high and I know stuff”
Episode 2 is an improvement over the first one and if episode 3 turns out to be good then I'll carry on with the rest of the series
There is something very old school HBO about this because I simultaneously don't like this very much, but I am invested enough to keep watching. Felt the same way about Girls and Entourage.
I get that actually haha, well said. For me, I think there's just a tad too much forced dialogue that I don't really believe these characters are real people, also maybe I've lived in LA too long and am over critical of the LA references
I am waiting for the snarky late 30's millennial to pop up and be like "why are you people even famous? Influencers don't do anything"
Yeah there is something very late 2000's/early 2010's premium cable vibes about "I kinda don't like this but it's something to watch on Sunday nights I guess"
Which does make me wonder if it'll ultimately do well because people do watch TV as background a lot these days
I watched a few episodes of this and it seems like it’s made by and for the people it’s critiquing, rich and out of touch nepo babies and industry folks who cosplay as broke, not the rest of us. I feel like there was a time when people looked at those worlds with admiration and envy, like Entourage and Girls, but I don’t know that 2025’s vibes are as favorable to those kinds of characters and scenes.
I think it’s gotten better with each episode but still isn’t great. Adults is a much more enjoyable/funny/relatable show in a similar vein.
I thought the second one was a small step up, but I almost didn’t even finish the third episode. Besides finding the characters insufferable, with little to even find amusing about them or their performances, I don’t think the writing is particularly sharp either despite a handful of solid one liners. I am still surprised by just how “okay” this show is, although there’s still time for things to improve.
I like this enough to keep watching at ~30 minute episodes, found myself laughing out loud several times during ep3
Would have been better to have Rachel play a main character who is not in this very niche and privileged world who gets swept up in it with the viewer. I think making her low status but still very much part of this detached vacuous world was a misstep and kinda supports the vibe that, at its core, the show thinks this world is cool, that the audience surely wishes they could be part of this cool world, and that ‘NYU-baby struggling Hollywood talent manager’ is a relatable underdog position.
Based off the reactions here, I'm gonna wait for the season to finish and then I'll decide if I want to pull the trigger on this or not.