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Escobarbarian posted:So happy with that episode. Is this the only show that can take such a long break and come back the exact same? Nasim Pedrad from SNL
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Am I the only one who thinks that this episode was kinda bad and a little bit TOO tonally off? The fact that you're having a lot of this take place at a funeral of an 18 year old kid is extremely morbid....which is OK with me, but you need to be willing to commit to the dark comedy of it all completely if you want to go there. Just having it set there and then having random unrelated wacky hijinks ensue was a little unsatisfactory. It just feels like there was a lot more they could have done with it, especially since Larry was indirectly responsible by introducing the kid to the prostitute, and then at one point expressed that he thought the kid brought it on himself by deciding to run with the bulls. Something could have been done there. Another thing that was weird was the fact that the way the funeral was set up, it seemed like Marty was his closest relative. (he was seated in the very front, the first person called up to speak, etc). Where are his parents? There was no indication previously that his parents were out of the picture and Marty was the one raising him or anything like that. Wouldn't it be funnier and more dark comedy boundary-pushing to go all the way and have Larry's hijinks juxtaposed against parents grieving for their dead teenage son? It seemed like a half-measure to ignore the parent question entirely. Also it made absolutely no sense why the psychiatrist was so incredibly protective of stupid superficial conversational details not being shared (like the fact that he and his wife loved truffles, or that he mentioned that there was a department store sale). Why on earth would he care if Larry told others about superficial stuff like that? That just rang completely hollow. The show works much better if A) Larry is being ridiculous about something and the person he's talking to is a straight man, or B) The "straight man" in question is behaving in a manner that actually resembles what people do in real life, and Larry is calling them out on the inherent silliness/hypocrisy of it. But it doesn't make any sense if the straight man does something ridiculous or has ridiculous standards that no real person would ever have. bbf2 fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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