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Originally Posted by Itse
I guess I'm the target audience then, because I'm really enjoying the whole.
It's a very Lynch-light mood piece, it's funny and silly and weird and super meta, and probably at its best when they're insinuating stuff rather than spelling it out.
I think focusing on the idea of "the Real Plot" is misunderstanding the show in a bad way. All the stuff is the real content, the retro sitcom stiff is not "filler" and that combination of retro with a modern grimdark developing continuity is what makes it interesting and stand out.
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I agree with this. The show is actually a retro sitcom, with characters who are unique obviously adn have a backstory with which we are familiar. And then there is a mystery thread flowing through the episodes and presumably we will see the show transition more and more towards resolution of this mystery.
But I think some viewers, like myself, just aren't that entertained with the reto sitcom aspect of it. I don't find it all that sunny (the point of a sitcom after all) and while I appreciate how well they have reconstructed the tone of these shows, I'm not sure if that's such a difficult achievement.
In any case, it's still much watch TV because of the characters involved and the episodes are so short and the season is so brief that it's not hard to stick it out.