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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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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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Gotta say though, in 2020 context, the whole premise feels like elites letting themselves off too easy. A real-life version would have some tawdry Wall Street corruption for the rich family and an opioid epidemic in the small town.
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The David subplot with the Rose Apothecary is bugging me randomly because I don’t think stores like that even work in upscale downtowns, let alone shitty towns. Weird glitch in the escapism.
Just realizing this is a progressive version of hallmark channel little towns or shows like Hart of Dixie which present a conservative nostalgia idea of a small town.
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Ok did Moira start doing a completely weird cartoon elite accent in season 6 or did I just not notice it before.
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I've always attributed the Apothecary to being some sort of, I dunno, "inside joke?" On a par with the size of the menus at Tropical Cafe...or indeed..."Tropical" Cafe to begin with.
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