First episode. Decently funny, a lot of naughty words, yay HBO!
Juicy Lucy Dreyfus and Buster from Arrested Development.
Juicy Lucy Dreyfus and Buster from Arrested Development.
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Typical HBO then.
I'll give this a go, seeing as they cancelled Hung and Eastbound & Down looks to be over, they need a new comedy.
Lot of naughty words that should seem out of place....is more because it's Ianucci than because it's HBO really, though that's why ABC didn't work. It's his American Thick Of It brother show, or however you want to say it.
HBO encourage bad language and tits and violence, they love it because none of the normal networks can do it. Danny Mc Bride did an interview recently about EB&D, they asked him if HBO care what they put in, and he said no. They constantly tried to put in ridiculous and over the top content and HBO never asked them to edit out anything!
Anyone know when it airs in the UK?
And A Song of Ice and Fire had to be changed all the same
Did it? You mean the characters ages? That's understandable given child porn isn't allowed and all!And A Song of Ice and Fire had to be changed all the same
Well yeah 
EB&D and GoT aren't remotely explicit even for HBO.....they showing male rape and someone taking a dump in another guys face on Oz. Should be noted, Channel 4 didn't cut these either....
btw, I tweeted Sky Atlantic a few months back, they have the rights to this and all future HBO stuff, but unlike GoT....aren't showing this a day after, more like June. Same for Girls, and The Newsroom in September which starts in June on HBO. Is a shame, as I prefer watching on SkyHD....better quality than 720p MKV's by far.
btw, I tweeted Sky Atlantic a few months back, they have the rights to this and all future HBO stuff, but unlike GoT....aren't showing this a day after, more like June. Same for Girls, and The Newsroom in September which starts in June on HBO. Is a shame, as I prefer watching on SkyHD....better quality than 720p MKV's by far.
In the books, Daenerys is 14.
Among other things, that haven't happened yet and will still shock people even as it is.
So is it the the Americanized version of The Thick of It?
Yes. But no.
Wasn't all that bad. Has potential.
Liked it
Better than the other show called "girls".
Although I guess that shows supposed to appeal to young adult women and not so much for the men.
Although I guess that shows supposed to appeal to young adult women and not so much for the men.
Looks intersting, when's it on in the uk?
June on Sky Atlantic.
Feels a little dumbed down but it's enjoyable overall, I think.
I really wanted to like it but couldn't even make it through the first episode
This is really good.
So after 6 episodes what's the verdict? I've downloaded them all and tried to watch the first ten minutes of the first ep the other night, but I thought it was really poor. Then again I was falling asleep and might not have been in the mood for watching it. I've always disliked Dryfus.
It's not too bad. I don't think it's as clever as The Thick Of It but I have laughed out loud a few times and I think it's enjoyable all the same and it's got a second season so HBO think it's good enough. I'd like to see a crossover special to see where they could take that, I think that would probably be better.
I'm actually quite enjoying this, Ianucci strikes again. Plus I never thought I would fantasise about a 51 year old woman but Julia Louis-Dreyfus is still a walking nocturnal emission.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is very good in the lead role, however I didn't think the series was that great. To me it just seemed too small-time. I know the point was that the veep had no real power, but it all just seemed so inconsequential that I ended up not caring what happened.
I liked Tony Hale in it though.
I liked Tony Hale in it though.
I've been watching it on SKy Atlantic. I've only seen the first three episodes and I think it's quite good. Some very funny insults/one liners. I agree with Mike about it generally all being a bit trifling, but there is a seemingly larger issue about keeping The environmentalists and Oil Companies happy at the same time which reflects on the influence business has over politics etc.
I watched it in a couple of nights. It was alright. Far from Ianucci's best work. Though I agree that Dreyfus was excellent.
Some of it was far too slapstick-y, though.
Some of it was far too slapstick-y, though.
I quite like this.
Just binged watch both seasons in two days, very good. It's no Thick of It, which is quite frankly the best comedy of any kind I have seen, and the first season missed a Malcolm Tucker character, but the inclusion of Furlong in Season 2 and the overall cnuty attitude of Meyer made up for that in Season 2... Looking forward to Season 3 next week! :-)
Season 3 has been very funny.
Laughing hard with each new episode. Bunch of assholes there, but funny ones.
Glad they kept Richard and paired him with Jonah. Hugh Laurie is excellent new addition too.
Glad they kept Richard and paired him with Jonah. Hugh Laurie is excellent new addition too.
When I first saw it my opinion was close to @MikeUpNorth and @Brophs ...Dreyfus excellent, show okay...but ploughing through the second season catch up on Amazon Prime and I'm beginning to love it. Most of the eps are written or directed by a Thick Of It alum and an American co-writer, which has helped create a familiar tone, with a still US specific cultural punch.
Definitely grown into itself.
Definitely grown into itself.
Well Iannucci has just announced he's leaving the show and they've sacked most the British writers to replace them with an American writers room, so it will be interesting to see how it changes in future seasons.
Interesing. Any word on why? Behind the scenes tensions or a good ol fashioned ratings grab?
I'm only just done with S2, so I've at least got a season left of the Iannuci model. It's always amazing to me how any prod company, however coked up and cartoonishly evil can think sacking the creator from their own show is a good move. It happened with Dan Harmon on Community, and they had to come groveling back within a year.
Iannucci wasn't sacked - I think he just wanted to come home. The new showrunner gets to select his own writers I think, like when the manager leaves and they let all of the coaching staff go.
Fair enough. Though a show and its characters who you've created from scratch is a slightly different beast. It must be odd to hand it over in such a way. And severing all connections to the original seems an instinctively bad idea to me. Morris, Addison and Smith were all involved on the direction side as well.
I'd only read Iannucci was leaving, that's very disappointing to hear that the others are going too.
It's been a very enjoyable season so far, Hugh Laurie was a great surprise. Mike is possibly one of my favourite characters ever at this point.
It's been a very enjoyable season so far, Hugh Laurie was a great surprise. Mike is possibly one of my favourite characters ever at this point.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. With the end of the first season and particularly the second and third seasons they have really found their stride. I wonder
did they pull the pin on here becoming President a bit soon, though. Unless they manufacture some means by which Laurie ends up running for President and she ends up back as Veep.
It's been good this season. Still no TToI but I do enjoy it.
Will probably bomb in quality next season given the news .. I hope we get some new UK Ianucci projects out of it though.
Will probably bomb in quality next season given the news .. I hope we get some new UK Ianucci projects out of it though.
Those Jonah nicknames!I love Mike McClintock.