I'd say the first season of the show is pretty good? The rest have their moments but also a massive assortment of the worst tropes of genre TV, which is extra-ironic because the whole concept is very meta and self-aware, and they regularly have characters mention when they encounter said tropes. (My favourite line from a scene where Penny, who is psychic and can enter people's dreams, drops in on one of Quentin's for reasons that I don't remember: "If you would just shut up for two seconds, this sex dream would pass the Bechdel Test.") But they get through the first book and part of the second in the first season, and the rest of the trilogy would be way too expensive for the show's budget, so they kind of run out of plot and start doing deeply stupid things to the characters.
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Date: 2019-04-19 09:28 pm (UTC)I'd say the first season of the show is pretty good? The rest have their moments but also a massive assortment of the worst tropes of genre TV, which is extra-ironic because the whole concept is very meta and self-aware, and they regularly have characters mention when they encounter said tropes. (My favourite line from a scene where Penny, who is psychic and can enter people's dreams, drops in on one of Quentin's for reasons that I don't remember: "If you would just shut up for two seconds, this sex dream would pass the Bechdel Test.") But they get through the first book and part of the second in the first season, and the rest of the trilogy would be way too expensive for the show's budget, so they kind of run out of plot and start doing deeply stupid things to the characters.