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Just finished up this show last night and loved it. The whole time I kept trying to figure out what felt so refreshing about the show and it finally hit me in episode 6 or 7. Outside of Ruth loving Debbie's husband, none of the drama of the show is really derived from the characters in it being horrible to each other. They're mostly all flawed people in their own ways, but there's not this horrible character to character drama that so many shows these days focus on. Rhonda and Sam's relationship is never a real focus and even ends without any sort of real fall out (it was also great to see her character having a great understanding of that relationship), Bash turns out to be a genuinely caring person, Cherry's marriage is basically perfect, and hell even Ruth basically does everything right in terms of navigating her relationship with Debbie after the affair. It was just cool as hell to watch 10 episodes of a show where people aren't just constantly being poo poo to each other in order to create drama.
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Hakkesshu posted:I dunno, people are constantly being lovely towards each other, they just sort of get over it and move on, though, like adults. The best part is when they cliffhanger the stolen camera as some major dramatic moment and absolutely nothing comes of it other than "well that was a dumb thing to do". Yeah, I didn't mean to say no one was lovely, because they were. Just that those events weren't treated as main plot points for the most part and were resolved without much issue/screen time. In other shows stuff lie the camera being stolen would have been a whole episode, or Ruth would have done some really dumb poo poo like putting herself in the middle of Debbie and her husband trying to mend things (or decided to keep the baby). There were several points where I figured they'd have the characters do something dumb to create tension/drama but the person went for the more adult/mature action.
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Jul 16, 2017 21:45
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