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« on: June 08, 2016, 12:07:02 PM »
Jesus Christ. Mildly take this guy's favorite show down a notch and he has to stand up for it like it's a basic human right.
C'mon Erick, it's not dumb. Like porno, a buzzword is self-evident - you know it when you see it and yes, everyone uses them occasionally including myself, because they're easy and you don't have to actually describe what you're talking about to parrot them. The subtext I thought you could infer being these are armchair critic buzzwords. I said that I prefer one show to another. You went after my preference with canned language. "Obvious plot point" is the buzz, without the modifier it's just a word, no buzz. No one's suggesting you use a thesaurus or Finnegan's Wake anything.
You see what you did for Veep a few paragraphs back? You described it. As an exercise in fuckery, I'll go ahead and explain why I think the same broad strokes can be painted over the immaculate Veep. Gary's an obsequious lapdog to Selina who derives most of his humor from well-intentioned oversights/buffoon gags, thus a broadly drawn comic character. Show is rife with substandard dialogue, such as whenever Selina has a fit over some obscure allusion Mike makes. The show is in fact arguably laden with pop culture references, which registers pretty low on the brow barometer. And the whole show is an obvious plot point. Like nobody saw the veep's meteoric rise to POTUS, unless you've never seen a political show ever. This is all devil's advocacy because as I said, I watch and enjoy the show.
SV is better. It hit the ground running whereas Veep didn't hit its stride 'til halfway through season 2. It's one of the only shows where every character is funny, even the twerpy protagonist. Its plot constantly twists and turns and remains in a state of constant climax. It's wonkishly savvy about the tech world and start ups in general. It resists the common instinct to get the characters laid constantly. It propels forth inexorably through its plot at a brisk pace. Its main character's celibacy is as endearingly incongruous with his success as Sam Malone from Cheers' sobriety.
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