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It’s a cringe-people show but unlike most cringe-people shows it’s about cringe people living through the mild karmic justice effects of being cringe rather than just happy-go-lucky carrying on being cringe without consequences
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It’s an effective mashup of cringe and the older we-lost-everything genre where city people lose everything and go rural (like the Tim Allen one where they become Amish or something). Good combo.
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This is right
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we are on s3 now. My wife’s analysis is that although all the characters are cringe/selfish, none of them harbor any malice, so eventually all of them become lovable. Also Catherine Ohara’s accent surfing is amazing.
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Interesting that people find this dumber than Arrested Development. Not sure what that means. I found AS to be a bit overwrought tbh, like a caper movie. Like the writers were showing off to each other. I think I prefer the cleaner lines of SC. The story doesn’t trip over itself.
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SC is like cotton candy comedy. It’s good, not super mean and the lack of psychological depth is refreshing after The Wire, The Shield, GOT, Sopranos lol like how Boardwalk Empire is Sopranos without the psych. “Oh I basically understand this character. Let’s see what he does.”
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Those are... odd comparisons. Drama and comedy are not comparable for me since they plumb different kinds of psychological depth.
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Well, like compared to Barry or East Bound and Down. There are points in EBD where Kenny Powers betrays some deep suffering. I’m on Season 2 of SC but I don’t anticipate the characters will ever reveal some underlying “truth” about who they are.
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I think the emotional palette of SC is pastel, is what I’m getting at. Nothing tragic happens, everything sorta works out. And that’s ok! That thought was sort of in response to you mentioning people think SC is dumber than AD lol
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