It Was and Then It Wasn't

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Let's get one thing straight. I don't hate the show. I grew to hate the characters in the show. And it was not an instant hate where I began to watch the show and mindlessly decided to hate the characters without reason or to judge them unfairly. I enjoyed season 1. It was not spectacular but it was good enough for me. Come season 2, I started to notice that nothing much was happening. Season 2 episode 5 and I was totally over the show. Why? Because the main characters - Izzy, Jack and Emma, are very boring. They are boring because they do not develop as characters.

***SPOILERS AHEAD***

I really got that in the beginning Jack attempted to cheat on Emma. That was okay because it made way for other things to happen to push the story along. It did exactly that by introducing Izzy and therefore the couple Jack and Emma turned into a throuple with Jack, Emma and Izzy. Good! I was fine with that.

Now I know that the story line is predictable - yes, someone will get hurt. Who? And how? That's all we were waiting for. No proper back story; only the neighbour trying to out them as a throuple. It was okay to start but that is all over now. Some issues with Jack's job and then Emma's job made for very boring back stories which didn't hold my interest at all.

But I liked the idea of a throuple. So I tuned in week after week of not really much happening - Jack feeling insecure mostly because he starts to think his wife is a lesbian. I mean of course you would think that but how is it such a big issue when everyone gets the best of both worlds? He begins to feel like a third wheel. It is so predictable yes but i did not expect for the show to be entirely about that part. I expected more.

So I sat down week after week and then in Season 2 episode 5 I was like "What am I doing? Why am I still watching this?" The 14 year old boy who was acting like he was 40 did it for me he was so boring. I realised week after week all I heard was Jack whining, Emma just sort of hanging around (her foul mouth made me chuckle) and Izzy being very annoying and whining about nothing in particular. Nothing important. On top of that, week after week the supporting characters continue to treat the throuple as though their relationship is so taboo and how strange it is and how wrong and oh someone's going to get hurt and blah blah blah. I think the audience already got that and understood that throughout season 1 and it is still a thing in season 2. It just got really old.

IN CONCLUSION It was good at the start then it wasn't. It was exciting, I couldn't wait to see what would happen but nothing really happened. It's not exciting. I'm thinking they should have just made it into a funny little sitcom for everyone to be able to view and maybe the audience would think how strange and how abnormal it is and whatever without the characters constantly throwing that around. This show has failed. The characters are boring and they have nothing about them to really care about.

score 5/10

sm-02022 23 March 2017

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3669262/