Re: OT - anybody here watching the TV pilot & series "Debris" ?

On 3/12/2021 5:24 PM, David Lesher wrote:
> a425couple <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> On 3/11/2021 9:40 AM, David Lesher wrote:
>>> Watched the first 2 episodes via the NBC streaming app.
>>> I can't say I am enthralled with it. The overblown
>>> buddy aspect, the piled-on drama over her family, etc. don't
>>> help. I may watch next week's episode...but "may"....
>>>
>> Yeah.  I understand you.
>> I saw the 'pilot', and I've now seen about half
>> of the 2nd.  "may" is right.
> 
>> Total ridiculous,  they (some authority/supervisor)
>> tell him her father is somehow alive, while she is deeply
>> grieving him, but not tell her, and not want him to tell
>> her.....
>> WTF?
> 
> "We don't know how to write well, and/or our actors suck
> So
> Dredge up the old tropes, lay on in thick layers, let dry,"
> 
Its more likely to be "We can't write well" AND "Someone different 
writes each episode without knowing what anyone else is writing until we 
see it on TV".  Not only does the production NOT care about continuity, 
their methods are actively _hostile_ to continuity.

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