Love (Netflix) TV Show • Page 9

There was a lot less "wtf! Don't do that" this season.

 

Eh, I don't know about that, it got pretty even during the second half of this season

It fucked me up a little bit and made me think whenever Gus mentioned that everything prior to his trip happened over the span of three weeks

 

Idk I felt like every other episode last season was painful, this one was more gradual and then major ouchies.

 

I found myself saying "Britta is the worst" just about the same amount this season.

 

Wolf Parade playing during the Shrooms episode

 

The whole soundtrack is fantastic. I was so happy to find it on spotify.

 

Started this yesterday and finished season 1. Starting season 2 tonight. Being holed up in a hotel for a conference has its perks.

I want more Bertie and Aria. They're my faves.

Live update: focus group scene with Bertie and juice guy is awesome hahaha

 

yes! he's underutilized imo

 

Bertie and Chris are the best characters on this show and I understand not having a plot revolve around Chris at this point, but I was really hoping there would be more focus on Bertie this season than there was. Gus and Mickey are exhausting, I know they're the main characters but sometimes I feel like they could break their stories up a bit more

 

His one liners this season were unreal. Very easily the most quotable character

 

Been enjoying this season. Going to finish it up tonight.

 

Watched the first half of S2 last night. Really enjoying it. Spoonman is the best as always.

 

Yeah Chris seems like a good bro

If he gets more screentime watch them turn him into a deplorable piece of shit like everyone else

 

No :(

Bertie is still a good person Im pretty sure

 

Yeah her too

 

I really wish Kevin was focused on more in this show just a bit.
Hopefully the "turning this work friendship into a real friendship" line is a hint that we might see more of him next season. He's great whenever he speaks or does anything.

Also at the end of S1 I really couldn't stand Gus because he was being a shit person but now its almost the exact opposite and I hate a lot of what Mickey has done especially involving Dustin. He sucks.

 

Mickey cheating is awful but I have no sympathy for Gus when he's completely self-absorbed and incompetent in everything he does. By the time he actually goes to the support group it's too late to redeem his character.

 

Man, idk, it's easy to watch the show and yell at these characters. But I've been there before, and I'm sure at some point you guys have too. The point of these characters, imo, is that they keep making these dumb choices to make something work, when it clearly isn't, shouldn't and won't, like real people do and it's a bit self-reflective for me to watch them go through these various situations and social encounters and be like "Gus is an idiot for doing that!....wait...I did that just a few years ago or in my last relationship. I know what that feels like."

 

I guess I thought that's the point of the show... loving someone isn't easy.

 

Yeah to say these characters are all bad people for doing shitty things and claim you've never done anything shitty seems unbelievable.

 

I mean Gus is annoying but his only hang up this season was that he was a tiny bit ignorant about having a relationship with someone with addictive personality traits. He really wasn't uncaring or unsupportive. Not that big a deal imo. Last season his thing with Heidi and Mickey disgusted me but this season Mickey was the piece of shit in that regard.

 

This show is really good, but the characters are just so unlikable. I know that's the point, but it's really the only reason I can't like this show as much as I do Lady Dynamite and Master of None (and Louie and Atlanta). Also, it's just not funny, but that's more of an observation than a critique.

 

Yeah this season wasn't very funny at all imo

 

How many people decrying what pieces of shits Gus and Mickey are were enraptured by Breaking Bad and Mad Men and the Sporanos and It's Always Sunny and Friends and How I Met Your Mother? Part of this show's aim is to be an unflinching or unfiltered look at the actual personal struggle to be better and how hard that can be, how tv Show and movie character hijinks may come from reality, but that reality is really goddamned hard and nasty sometimes. The characters don't have the alluring veneer of a Don Draper and their shittiness isn't excused by comedic sitcom tone/learning a lesson at the end of an episode like someone on Friends or Scrubs. That isn't to say it can't be hard or frustrating to watch, which, yeah, it's a tv show that can be mentally grating and I get someone not liking it because of that. But to complain about the characters on this show making horrible decisions and being selfish and unaware of the extent of their destructive tendencies is like complaining Mad Men is about people in suits.