So, anyone see this new show? I saw previews for it months ago and thought it looked pretty interesting. After seeing it, I have extremely polar mixed feelings.
The first half, IMO, is spectacularly awesome. After some virus wipes out almost of humanity, there's one guy who survives and does the wacky stupid shit all of us want to do in our lives at one point or other, but those pesky laws get in the way. He blows up cars just for fun, moves into a multi-million dollar mansion (and trashes it), steals priceless art and hangs it on the wall of said mansion, as well as movie artifacts (he walks around in the original boxing robe from "Rocky" and he has an original Stormtrooper helmet next to the front door), bathes in a margarita-filled wading pool, holds conversations with mannequins and various balls in a bar (yes, Cast Away is referred to heavily) and when the toilet is no longer accessible, he cuts a hole in a diving board over a swimming pool and...well... I cannot stop thinking how fantastic the first half was. But just when he starts to lose hope, give up and plow his vehicle into a boulder out of loneliness, he sees smoke off in the distance and drives to a campsite.
And that's where the first half ends and the less-than-spectacularly awesome second half begins.
He meets the only woman left alive, played by Kristen Schaal from the Daily Show. Not a big fan of hers, really. She's quirky and sometimes funny, but something in her delivery feels off, but maybe that's her thing. She winds up being a bossy nag, constantly correcting the main character's grammar, forcing him to stop at stop signs, park in non-handicapped parking spaces and generally continue to follow the rules of society which no longer exists. He, understandably, starts to feel like even in a world with no people, life would be better if she weren't around. I concur. Then little things predictably start to happen and they begin to warm up to each other.
The second half really didn't hold it for me as much as the first half. My wife and I were rolling in laughter in the beginning, but constantly wondering, how can they keep up the last man on earth thing without getting tired and repetitive?
So, I'm still going to give it a go. There are 10 eps listed in IMDB - if it fails, there won't have been as much time invested in it. And if it succeeds, then awesome! It's just interesting and different enough from all the other stuff out there that I would continue to give it a chance.
Anyone else?
The first half, IMO, is spectacularly awesome. After some virus wipes out almost of humanity, there's one guy who survives and does the wacky stupid shit all of us want to do in our lives at one point or other, but those pesky laws get in the way. He blows up cars just for fun, moves into a multi-million dollar mansion (and trashes it), steals priceless art and hangs it on the wall of said mansion, as well as movie artifacts (he walks around in the original boxing robe from "Rocky" and he has an original Stormtrooper helmet next to the front door), bathes in a margarita-filled wading pool, holds conversations with mannequins and various balls in a bar (yes, Cast Away is referred to heavily) and when the toilet is no longer accessible, he cuts a hole in a diving board over a swimming pool and...well... I cannot stop thinking how fantastic the first half was. But just when he starts to lose hope, give up and plow his vehicle into a boulder out of loneliness, he sees smoke off in the distance and drives to a campsite.
And that's where the first half ends and the less-than-spectacularly awesome second half begins.
He meets the only woman left alive, played by Kristen Schaal from the Daily Show. Not a big fan of hers, really. She's quirky and sometimes funny, but something in her delivery feels off, but maybe that's her thing. She winds up being a bossy nag, constantly correcting the main character's grammar, forcing him to stop at stop signs, park in non-handicapped parking spaces and generally continue to follow the rules of society which no longer exists. He, understandably, starts to feel like even in a world with no people, life would be better if she weren't around. I concur. Then little things predictably start to happen and they begin to warm up to each other.
The second half really didn't hold it for me as much as the first half. My wife and I were rolling in laughter in the beginning, but constantly wondering, how can they keep up the last man on earth thing without getting tired and repetitive?
So, I'm still going to give it a go. There are 10 eps listed in IMDB - if it fails, there won't have been as much time invested in it. And if it succeeds, then awesome! It's just interesting and different enough from all the other stuff out there that I would continue to give it a chance.
Anyone else?
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