I've not watched the latest season but I'm fucking gutted about this, it's my favourite sitcom atm. I'm surprised they've cancelled it but it seems a lot of people don't see it the way I do
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The last season was complete garbage, it’s not surprising it got cancelled. They’d run out of ideas and were just circling the drain. The entire last season could have been one episode and lost nothing.
Ahhhh...that changes it. I wish shows would just quit when they ran out of ideas
Not surprising given how bad this last season was.
They made most of the characters, especially Dana and Rachel, insufferable. They made Brad even more of a comic book villain but just pathetic, and the whole thing with the new testers and carol just went nowhere and was stupid.
The poppy/Ian/Storm thing was just dumb.
The whole season was a dumpster fire.
Never get a main character pregnant, it usually kills the show.
Dang, I just got to episode five last week too. Although, I had a feeling they would cancel this even from the first episode, so I’m not too surprised.
I feel it was decent, but it’s a hard premise to pull off imo. Most notably I feel this show would have landed better a few years ago. Some of the bits were cheesy in ways that don’t necessarily land as much these days.
Maybe the issue it had was that it was trying to write to too broad of an audience? It’s going for a niche of nerds that maybe want to learn a bit more about what things are actually like inside these gaming companies, but then I feel some of the humor is washed down to be more palatable for even kids to watch. It had Rob McElhenney and David Hornsby from It’s Always Sunny which were great casting picks, but the writing humor they were delivering was very PG in comparison to It’s Always Sunny.
I can see producers and writers wanting to avoid a comparison to Silicon Valley for instance. I feel this is probably why they went at it from the angle which they did, but the show a much harder time landing with its PG writing. They didn’t give themselves a ton of wiggle room either by writing it to be geared towards WoW and maybe some other MMO fans specifically. As I feel having other game projects the big studio is working on could at least have let them pivot the narrative. I feel at times some of the material could even have been applied to say Riot or Mihoyo, but from what I saw it felt very WoW based mixed with some Big Bang Theory level of humor.
Of all the shows recommended to me, this one was the most confusing from the trailers … it just did not seem good. I even watched other trailers of comedy shows to test my perception.
Was I wrong?
the first season i saw clips of was bad, and it was clear Ubisoft was just use the show to promote its propaganda as a good company, plus ROB machelenny was in it for the money grab, outside of shows rob and his wife are very thirsty and desperate to stay in the hollywood spotlight (look into all the side projects he has been in, wierd relation ship with brady and RYAN reynolds around football). it dint have the draw that ISAIP had for 1-12 seasons, 13+ is considered terrible.
It's got its ups and downs. I overall like it
Ashley Burch was in it and was a writer (Tiny Tina from borderlands)
Also Aloy.
This is where I landed on it. Better than Big Bang Theory, worse than Silicon Valley. I found it to be a pretty watchable workplace comedy, and if it didn't capture game dev well, it did capture a certain funhouse reflection of what people think game dev might be, and that's what it needed to set the characters into motion, letting the actors cook. I know people giving it shit for its two best episodes not starring anyone from the main cast, and while true, they were two really good episodes and the floor of the main show is adequately high.
Now, in fairness, I'm not in love with IASIP and sort of checked out a long time ago, after they "died" on the cruise ship, so Rob and David Hornsby acting "similar but different" was no problem for me. I do think we were just about at the point where ending MQ makes sense, though. The show didn't really have the bones for the characters to withstand a lot of growth, and the comedic situations for them as-is had sort of played themselves out. Obviously, for a sitcom, that's the time to bow out. Going forward, I would love to see Charlotte Nicdao in something produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.
I’m caught up, and not at all upset or surprised that it was canceled. It was struggling for a very long time, but it had a few actors and characters I liked. They ended up watering those down, too, though.
With the difficult characters being annoying for no reason, and over playing the shtick of others, it just dragged on.
It was… OK… I guess. It wasn’t IASIP, which is fine. But, the characters were unlikable in a not terribly funny way. The tech aspects were all off enough that the audience that would be drawn to a WoW developer drama should cringe.
I haven’t gotten through the first two seasons, even. There were some interesting storylines but it didn’t seem well thought out.
It was pretty bad, in my opinion, but still watchable. Mac just plays Mac but in a different universe.
had a few really good bottle episodes, but i guess i get it. wish they’d give a 2hr special to close out the story though.