MrSaigon wrote:I've been thinking about tryinh Veep ever since Parks and Rec never really recovered from the written-by-a-Twilight-tween wedding episode (or three). The show is still okay, but it just hasn't hit old-age all that well. So many episodes end with a 'Leslie you're so wonderful' moment now you have to wonder what Amy Poehler thinks her own [expletive] smells like (no, I'm still very fond of her). Ron's moments would be a lot funnier if they hadn't revealed he's actually a teddy bear several times over (but what are they supposed to do, I guess). And everything else is just familiar and not nearly as potent anymore. Billy on the Street was super funny for a minute on PnR, but now is super not funny. Modern Family has aged much better, IMO--though I could entertain very similar arguments against that show.
Honestly, they really, really shouldn't have married Leslie. Think of all the funny dudes they could bring on for her to date to inject life. But that's what these guys do. As I said before Andy Samberg and that latina girl are going to be married by episode 3 of season 2. But if Friends fans can wait 10 years, surely this (and The Office's) audience could have eeked it out a bit more.
This pretty much sums up everything I've been thinking about Parks for a while, and I'm glad you said it. The show is too precious for it's own good anymore.
I'd say you're ripe for a plunge into Veep, which is as nasty and mean-spirited and delightfully vulgar a thing as you'll find and which is not at all interested in sentiment and which ends most weeks on a darkly funny down note.
The cast on this show, I mean, up top you have probably the best sitcom actress of the last 25 years. You have Tony Hale. You have Matt Walsh. You have the cute little girl from My Girl dishing out the vulgarity with the best of them. I don't know the connection to the casting director, but there's this odd, streaming cast of legendary Chicago improvisors like Dan Bakkedahl as the vulgar congressman and Pete Grosz as the vulgar lobbyist and Sam Richardson as the inept Iowa-based Gary-lite flunky and David Pasquesi as Selina's vulgar opportunistic ex-husband. This show hit the ground running, full-speed and fully-formed on episode one, and it has just gotten better since.
