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

In article <[email protected]>,
Dimensional Traveler  <[email protected]> wrote:
>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.

Oh, dear.  Don't they have a showrunner?  Don't they have a
"bible"?

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