In the hilarious, short-lived sitcom The Grinder, the idea of a TV lawyer deciding to be a real lawyer is played for laughs. This is naturally what you would expect in any series in which an actor decides to be a real-life version of his role. So the first surprise is Carter plays it straight. This actor isn't an egomaniac out of his death; he's a smart guy with some skills.
The script of the first episode is an obscene collection of ridiculous coincidences and random incidents stacked up randomly. It makes no real sense. Meanwhile, the tone of the series is shaky and the series can't quite figure out how to keep it's light banter going smoothly while making you care about the characters. The acting is tolerable, but the actors are required to do things like all laugh awkwardly together to indicate camaraderie.
It's like someone fed a bunch of cliched detective series into a computer and it spat out this script.
Look, I understand that not everything on TV can be good, but it seems reasonable to ask writers to at least attempt to not be bad. But there is an alarming lack of effort put into crafting the show. It's clearly designed to float on charm and banter, but neither is that strong.
I can take a certain amount of stupid (I watched the whole first season of Deception, after all), but here the stupidity isn't balanced out with any redeeming features.
The script of the first episode is an obscene collection of ridiculous coincidences and random incidents stacked up randomly. It makes no real sense. Meanwhile, the tone of the series is shaky and the series can't quite figure out how to keep it's light banter going smoothly while making you care about the characters. The acting is tolerable, but the actors are required to do things like all laugh awkwardly together to indicate camaraderie.
It's like someone fed a bunch of cliched detective series into a computer and it spat out this script.
Look, I understand that not everything on TV can be good, but it seems reasonable to ask writers to at least attempt to not be bad. But there is an alarming lack of effort put into crafting the show. It's clearly designed to float on charm and banter, but neither is that strong.
I can take a certain amount of stupid (I watched the whole first season of Deception, after all), but here the stupidity isn't balanced out with any redeeming features.