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My first issue with this show is that is is listed as both a comedy and drama. Drama, yes; comedy, no... a hard "NO". I didn't find any humour in this show.
My second issue is the unrealistic portrayal of New York. I understand that this is not a documentary but come on, are you telling me that there were zero people of colour in New York in the 1950s? The most diverse this show got in the pilot was when they talked about ordering Chinese food or having curry... I wonder who was going to cook that food and in what restaurant?

While I am not one of those people who demands token representation, I do expect REALISTIC representation. Unless the show is only about a family who stays at home all day, then I would not expect to see diversity, but they do leave the house several times, for work and social events yet everyone is 100% white? Not even a background actor. It's set in 1950 not 1900. In 2017 when the show was made one would think that they would have been more self aware.

Well hot sh#$, as I'm typing this a black woman showed up in the pilot. Unnatural and clearly a token rather than being actually reflective of the demographics at the time.

I so wanted to love this show. What's not to like... its a sketch comedy, talented female comedians and filmed in the city I was born in, so what's wrong with it? Well, I've laughed once in the entire third season (I haven't seen the first two as yet). Unfortunately that laugh was the same bit from the season three trailer, so they obviously let with their only funny sketch in the trailer.

Where do I start? I really hated this show. Was it trying to be cool? It is really hard to believe this is from the same man who created Lucifer. Then again, Neil Gaiman does seem to have a fixation with writing about heaven and hell but that is where the similarity stops. The lead actors Tenant and Sheen are well seasoned actors who are highly respected so it makes me scratch my head at what they were trying to achieve by overacting so much that they both had hands in making this unwatchable for me. Simply because I enjoy Lucifer so much I continued watching the entire six episodes and I was disgusted with myself that I wasted my time as my opinion of the show and actors never changed.

When it comes to sketch comedy shows I use Chappelle's Show as the show all others are compared to, as there was nothing that made me laugh harder to date. This show is pretty "meh" in that I think I may have laughed once in the entire series and chuckled once. I do miss comedy that makes me laugh until my belly hurts and that is the only reason I watched all six episodes... just hoping for better humour. I can't really recommend it but humour is quite subjective which I why I mentioned that my top standard is Dave Chappelle's sketch show. Geez, even Saturday Night Live has more funny moments than this show.

Decent filler show to watch during the summer on Netflix. Not great, not horrible, just ok.

I hate reality TV shows because they by no means represent "reality". This show is an interesting dark portrayal of the fake behind the scenes that I fear may not be fake enough. Definitely interesting and worth a watch.
UPDATE July 2018: My description above doesn't give this show enough credit. The show is ridiculously absurd but in the best way possible... watch it!

Tracey Ullman is back!!!I'm not sure if it is simply the nostalgia of remembering her earlier show when I was a kid, but I still think she's hilarious.

TV viewing requires suspension of disbelief in order to not be taken out of how unrealistic a plot may be... well come on, this show just asked too much. Sure, I can believe that Thomas Jane's character is "hung" but he is absolutely not believable as a high-end prostitute, he's just not that attractive. And the assumption that women will sleep with a man because he's hung is also asking for too much suspension of disbelief. Average size, definitely...above average...of course... but so big that you have physical pain adjusting and then will never be able to be with anyone else if you manage to adjust, NO. I say this as a woman who has had this conversation with my close female friends over the years and we laugh at the thought that men think we want some gigantic monstrosity. So yeah, I couldn't trick my mind into believing what the writers of this show were trying to sell. Don't get me started about how unlikable every character in this show is.... But I nevertheless watched it straight through because it was a bleak period for quality TV shows.

Meh. Oh, there's a ten character limit, eh? Well all I want to say about this is "meh" after watching the first two episodes.
UPDATE: I made it to episode 3, untracking...

I wish that the writers thought that "F" was for "Funny" instead. I watched the first two episodes and I didn't laugh once. I blame the writers, but equal blame goes to the producers and Netflix for green-lighting this mess.