[Common Side Effects’ premiere]
Feb. 3rd, 2025 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
classicswimI’ve only watched the pilot as of yet, although the 2nd episode’s out there.
I guess I nuked my initial posting of the preview when I was doing a cleanse, and I do remember bits and pieces of what I said.
Admittedly, I was dismissive before. But I also think the preview we got (or the one I saw anyway) was premature for what they’re trying to go for. It’s not a series you can dumb down to a six minute clip simply because the network has nothing else as notable going on. The single only PR this fucking show had was articles with Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ namesake on them to jingle the right notoriety keys.
I don’t think it’s just that I wasn’t paying much attention to the first preview, and the whole Luigi Mangione month we had suddenly changes things. To be honest, I was expecting artistic shots taken at the man to be relatively half-assed. And even if not the case... you shouldn’t need an [adult swim] cartoon with Mike Judge’s name on it to say “fuck the government and our insurance companies.” You should be the one saying that.
That’s something I *kinda* posted about the series before and still stand by that much.
I can be a moody prick about a lot of things, in all fairness. I probably wasn’t in the right spirit during the preview, and this is still entertainment that’s soaringly political. I know a certain online clique that’s gonna be walking on eggshells trying to talk about this show lol. Or maybe not even try at all.
Wasn’t expecting Judge to be hands on with the voice acting, let alone playing the antagonist. When I saw the preview I was mostly under the impression that he’d get a couple good sentences out, but he even threw a Van Driessen gag out there.
I can sob about how fucking phenomenal his range used to be, only I have to acknowledge he’s one of the last living visionaries worth caring about at this point. To have his name on things like this is privilege enough besides money. So, yeah. Obligatory hand clap.
I can see how this adventure unfolds and how hard it’ll jab at our society while literal planes are falling from the sky. Hope it resonates somehow because I highly doubt viewership will peak in any way across any platform.
I guess I nuked my initial posting of the preview when I was doing a cleanse, and I do remember bits and pieces of what I said.
Admittedly, I was dismissive before. But I also think the preview we got (or the one I saw anyway) was premature for what they’re trying to go for. It’s not a series you can dumb down to a six minute clip simply because the network has nothing else as notable going on. The single only PR this fucking show had was articles with Mike Judge and Greg Daniels’ namesake on them to jingle the right notoriety keys.
I don’t think it’s just that I wasn’t paying much attention to the first preview, and the whole Luigi Mangione month we had suddenly changes things. To be honest, I was expecting artistic shots taken at the man to be relatively half-assed. And even if not the case... you shouldn’t need an [adult swim] cartoon with Mike Judge’s name on it to say “fuck the government and our insurance companies.” You should be the one saying that.
That’s something I *kinda* posted about the series before and still stand by that much.
I can be a moody prick about a lot of things, in all fairness. I probably wasn’t in the right spirit during the preview, and this is still entertainment that’s soaringly political. I know a certain online clique that’s gonna be walking on eggshells trying to talk about this show lol. Or maybe not even try at all.
Wasn’t expecting Judge to be hands on with the voice acting, let alone playing the antagonist. When I saw the preview I was mostly under the impression that he’d get a couple good sentences out, but he even threw a Van Driessen gag out there.
I can sob about how fucking phenomenal his range used to be, only I have to acknowledge he’s one of the last living visionaries worth caring about at this point. To have his name on things like this is privilege enough besides money. So, yeah. Obligatory hand clap.
I can see how this adventure unfolds and how hard it’ll jab at our society while literal planes are falling from the sky. Hope it resonates somehow because I highly doubt viewership will peak in any way across any platform.
