Black Books
So I'm the slowest netflixer ever. I mean they had that heavy use scandal where they'd slow you down if you moved too much product through the system. I wouldn't know. They call me up just to see if I'm still breathing. At least I think it's them on the other end of the line...
I got Black Books a 1/2 hour comedy series on the recommendation of the other Jen a long time ago. Well when Jen was out of town last week and my parents were gone and the kids were at their mom's... I popped in the first disc. It took me like two episodes to warm to it at all, but luckily I was tired and lazy and didn't feel like getting it up to put Halo-3 back in. To be fair it took them like 3 episodes to really introduce the three main characters. I do like it. I mean I'm not going to stick it on my Amazon wish list or anything, but it was good.
The one thing I didn't like and I won't ever like is the laugh track. I'm sorry didn't the UK get the memo that they are sooo late '70's? I mean seriously, obviously location shots with all kinds of laughter on it. I'm not talking polite laughter at one's joke at a staff meeting. I'm talking two pints too many gonna shit yourself laughing. I mean some of it isn't that funny. Tack on a serious laugh track and then at first the laugh track is funny, but then no...
This post really doesn't have any ending so I'll just stop here.
I got Black Books a 1/2 hour comedy series on the recommendation of the other Jen a long time ago. Well when Jen was out of town last week and my parents were gone and the kids were at their mom's... I popped in the first disc. It took me like two episodes to warm to it at all, but luckily I was tired and lazy and didn't feel like getting it up to put Halo-3 back in. To be fair it took them like 3 episodes to really introduce the three main characters. I do like it. I mean I'm not going to stick it on my Amazon wish list or anything, but it was good.
The one thing I didn't like and I won't ever like is the laugh track. I'm sorry didn't the UK get the memo that they are sooo late '70's? I mean seriously, obviously location shots with all kinds of laughter on it. I'm not talking polite laughter at one's joke at a staff meeting. I'm talking two pints too many gonna shit yourself laughing. I mean some of it isn't that funny. Tack on a serious laugh track and then at first the laugh track is funny, but then no...
This post really doesn't have any ending so I'll just stop here.
posted by J.R. at 10:45 AM
1 Comments:
Is it a "British comedy" thing? I seem to remember that Coupling (the British version, which was much funnier than the American version) had one too.
-The Other Jen
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