See, now, this is the kind of multicultural diversity this forum has been sorely lacking for the last several years.
Oh I'm keeping it tame .... we had one called Shampoo where guess what .... the girls would give you a nice soapy massage. Not that I ever went in or anything. The best part is all these places were like 2 -4 blocks from the central business district and one of the few neighborhoods in Manila where anyone had any money.
I started watching episode 2 on a Thursday and tried twice since and still haven't made it through the episode. This season is a pile of shit so far. No wonder Sudeikis didn't want to do a fourth season, he was checked out before they finished the second one. (the ending segment of TL season 2 was tragically bad.)
The Night Agent for anyone? Typical action show. Wrongly accused on the run with a love interest ala Shooter, Condor, Bodyguard and a couple others. Pretty good so far though don’t expect a deep story.
Season 2 just wrapped up. Didn’t hate it, didn’t love it. They dragged-out the storyline into about twice as many episodes as it needed. It COULD have been really good, if Hollywood writers didn’t suck so badly. My biggest issue with the series, though - it’s not Perry Mason. What’s the one thing you think of when you hear the name Perry Mason? A trial attorney and his team investigating a crime and then trouncing the prosecution in court by making some witness piss himself and reveal the truth. I won’t spoil it, but we don’t get that here. All they’re really doing is trading on the Mason name. They could have done the same series and called it anything else, you’d never watch and think, “Damn, this is a great prequel to Perry Mason.” The writers obviously wanted the Della Street character to be a major part of the story. Some of that’s cool. Most of it is forced. All of it takes the story further away from the title character. Fine. Then call it Attorney Phil Jones and his Lesbian Paralegal”. If they do a third season, I’m sure I’ll eventually watch it. Wouldn’t bother me at all if they didn’t, though. Every time I see a series like this, all I can think about is how these days HBO, Netflix, Amazon, etc. will pour money into a mediocre streaming series, but in 2006 HBO let Deadwood die after three seasons in favor of John from Cincinnati, supposedly because of production costs. Dickheads.
Thanks for reminding me, I knew there was a show I needed to get to before I shut HBOMax off again. I'm with you with the show trading on that name, I went into season 1 with a certain expectation and it didn't come close to meeting it. I would probably like it a lot more with Phil Jones. I watched season 1 and 2 of Euphoria. What the fuck.
Ted Lasso rebounded from a strangely awkward and slightly crappy first few episodes and is back on track, 1 episode left. Those first few episodes felt like a giant block of exposition.
Maybe the writers had like 3 years worth of stuff to say and only a few episodes to say it in? And don't we have a writer's strike on again?
