Discombobulated-Wing t1_ja040yt wrote on February 25, 2023 at 9:05 PM

Anyone else feel downright uneasy watching this show?

The way every character frantically makes self-aware comments about themselves, as if they're the audience reacting to their own behavior in real time, is painfully annoying. It takes you right out of it, sucks all the oxygen out of the scene, leaving no room for a breath of sincerity. The writing is overly self-conscious, too eager to make meta commentary on everything going on at all times, which ends up coming off like a basic sitcom desperate to sound clever.

DrSheetzMTO t1_ja0gp3z wrote on February 25, 2023 at 10:35 PM

Psychologists are generally pretty self aware and since the show is about psychologists and their friends/family it kinda makes sense.

Discombobulated-Wing t1_ja1kagi wrote on February 26, 2023 at 3:45 AM

But they could convey that self-awareness without making the dialogue so contrived.

bashar_speaks t1_ja1cvay wrote on February 26, 2023 at 2:43 AM

Yes, I gave up after two episodes. At first I liked the premise but then saw the show is endless scenes of people feeling sorry for themselves or being cringe in some other contrived way, mixed with crass random swearing and toilet humor. Go to the subreddit and any criticism is downvoted to hades, then there's a bunch of mindless astroturfed enthusiasm.

It seems like a lot of shows are like that these days: they try to be sentimental and sensitive, but then they throw a bunch of gross "humor" in there too. Or there's a lot of superficial political correctness, but at the same time all of the characters are horrible people who treat each other like crap. It's so jarring and tone-deaf.