Ya know, I'm kinda feeling like a season 4 is a bad idea, and that next season better be the last. The show's kinda been spinning its wheels this season. Harrison is getting older, and his character is moving away. How do you do this thing without him? Don't get me wrong, it is still better than most other shows, even if this is probably its worst season. Its lows are still higher than Ted Lasso's. I just don't want it to overstay its welcome.
I agree! I just don't want it to peter out. Love everyone involved and just don't want to see it end in a disappointing way due to Apple continuing to throw money at it. I still am not sold on them restarting Ted Lasso, either. ....but Bill Lawrence hasn't really let me down yet considering he wasn't involved in s9 of Scrubs. So, I will still watch.
The first season was the best. It has become far too saccharine and gooey for me. Still keeping up with it but yeah, not the same.
Like virtually every sitcom ever, the tone isn’t as good as when the show started but the characters and how they have been fleshed out over the seasons makes it worth it
It used to be a step above other sitcoms—there was an emotional drive pushing the narrative forward with actual stakes. Now it’s a hangout show where the interactions increasingly feel contrived and unnatural, with the whole cast bonding in this alien-like, hyper-scripted way—as if it’s normal for coworkers to be besties with their colleagues’ neighbors, and their kids too, and the generations above them. Every conflict is neatly resolved with little change in the overall arc from episode to episode. The cheerful artificiality of it all is amusing enough, but I cannot say it works on an emotional level at all for me anymore
I loved the first season but found the rest really cringe, for lack of a better word. Went from sincere to campy. Stopped watching. Haven't found a reason to go back, kind of just reading through here to see if I should and my feeling is that I'll have the same yuck feeling about it. Not trying to be rainy downer, I'm sure it's still a good watch just not for me. Also many really good sitcoms have weak first seasons then find their footing.
Genuine question for those not connecting emotionally anymore: have you had anyone you deeply care for slowly die from Parkinson’s in front of you? Because they’re nailing that particular journey on almost every level and it’s a weekly devastation reliving that.