Night Court revival
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I'm still very sad about the loss off India de Beaufort but Wendie fucking Malick is one hell of a replacement! I'll take her!
Stand by to stand by, Dan!
Stand by to stand by, Dan!
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Hmm, upping Wendie Malick to a regular is a good casting move, but ex-con to prosecutor is a pretty weird career move. Has her character been previously established as a lawyer?
Question, as someone who is a huge original Night Court fan: I've only seen the first few episodes of season one, and did not like what I saw. I had no interest or connection with any of the characters, didn't find them funny, and especially found Dan Fielding (who I was looking forward to the most) to be a quite unlikeable person, as if Larroquette was playing some other character with the same name but completely different from the Dan Fielding I know and love. My question: Does it get any better?
Yes. The writing and pacing got better IMO.
Definitely unexpected. It makes no sense except for in Night Court, where Wile E. Coyote was once a defendant. Malick is a great actress and her chemistry with Larroquette is terrific. Dan finally will have an adversary to work off of. Great hire.
I still will miss Olivia though.
I still will miss Olivia though.
Maybe Julianne's twin sister?
As long as we get moar Flobert, it's all good.
As long as we get moar Flobert, it's all good.
The Dan Yelp makes its return. I'm totally in. 
Needs more Big Bang Cameos.
Oh, you're getting a big one.
More Wendie Malick is always a genuine delight. I cannot wait. 
I could not possibly have said it better. Or as well. Or even nearly as well.
Did they change the writing staff? The season premiere was surprisingly terrible. Far too overdone, trying for crazy farce but just feeling like it's trying way too hard and not pulling it off. The only line I found funny was "if Connecticut was a person," although now that I think about it, I have no idea what it was supposed to mean about Julianne, since we didn't see any prior scenes establishing her interactions with anyone other than Dan.
Though I can understand why they wanted to bring Wendie Malick on board as a regular, I was hoping for a more coherent explanation of how a character previously depicted as a mentally ill criminal could actually be a qualified lawyer without anyone knowing -- like if maybe she'd been undercover for some reason and only faking being a criminal. Which would be silly, but less random than "Yeah, all that happened, but she's suddenly different now." It makes it a little too obvious that they just wanted the actress back and warped the storyline to make it happen.
Though I can understand why they wanted to bring Wendie Malick on board as a regular, I was hoping for a more coherent explanation of how a character previously depicted as a mentally ill criminal could actually be a qualified lawyer without anyone knowing -- like if maybe she'd been undercover for some reason and only faking being a criminal. Which would be silly, but less random than "Yeah, all that happened, but she's suddenly different now." It makes it a little too obvious that they just wanted the actress back and warped the storyline to make it happen.
Straight from the new Frasier season to the new Night Court season!
...and the premiere was a riot. I was fooled for a moment or two that the cold open was real but I figured the whole parentage issue wouldn't be resolve quite so easily. And then the closing credits just lets it out of the bag after all of the fun twisting and turning.
It's great to have Wendie Malick onboard as a full cast member and we've already gotten our first snort. Watching Juliana torture Dan is going to be a delight.
...and the premiere was a riot. I was fooled for a moment or two that the cold open was real but I figured the whole parentage issue wouldn't be resolve quite so easily. And then the closing credits just lets it out of the bag after all of the fun twisting and turning.
It's great to have Wendie Malick onboard as a full cast member and we've already gotten our first snort. Watching Juliana torture Dan is going to be a delight.
...you do realize this is Night Court we're talking about here, right?
Even farce has its standards. A throwaway gag with a defendant is one thing, but for the series regulars, you want them to have enough substance and grounding that the audience can buy into them and care about them as people. Not that they can't have funny backstories, but it should at least feel like that writers put some effort into building their characters. The argument "It's comedy so it's immune to criticism" is a fundamental misunderstanding of comedy, because comedy is harder to do well than drama. There's a difference between telling a silly story and telling a poorly constructed story. The funniest comedy is brilliantly, meticulously constructed. It's not just random nonsense, even if it seems that way on the surface.
I thought it was a little bumpy, but ok. Larroquette continues to be one of the funniest people ever put on TV.
The season premiere was worth it for the Dan yelp alone.
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