The show has grown on me. I’m laughing quite a bit while I watch it on the bike.
Good:
- Ava. Janelle James should kill her reps for not getting her on SNL. She could have been a huge star. Not sure why she’s not now. She’s great in every scene.
- Melissa really has her moments when she leans into the wop thing. Her being from South and having a guy for everything is hilarious.
- Mr Johnson does so much with the little he’s given. Terrific performer.
- Mr C. It’s hard to get high strung, gay man right, but he knocks it out of the park. The blacks kids destroying him for being corny is so damned funny.
- Interesting episode premises. The desking mystery, Baby Thanos, Story Samurais. Jokes within jokes with a lot of funny stuff going on in the background.
- Tariq. Gone too soon. He would great in his show about a struggling rapper. Too bad FX has driven the genre into the fucking ground.
Bad:
- The Janine and Gregory romance being a page by page copy of Jim and Pam. I understand Brunson probably had to do it to sell the show, but it diminishes their performances. Gregory is probably a pretty funny update on Jim if it wasn’t so deliberate. The eye rolls, reclining the seat like Jim, his disinterest in his job. Props for dating Amber. She is indeed a bad bitch. Even Jim nailed Amy Adams.
- Janine is a good straight man, but I can’t remember a single good one liner from her. No great for the creator, showrunner, head writer and star in your own show. Her funniest scenes are with Tariq and he didn’t make it out of Season 1. I know Pam has to break up with Roy eventually, but I would have liked to see more of them together.