He’s sitting in a chair backwards. He gets young people like me.
Impressions:
All this show is accomplishing is making me appreciate the trashy friend’s sister show more. Both for the pacing, and for weirdly, feeling more genuine, though it absolutely has the chance to ruin that by how it handles this exact thing presumably in its next episode. I suspect it’s not going to be a twelve minute conversation sitting in a room that basically boils down to “Hey, being depressed and a loner is bad, so why don’t you cut it out?” It’s so reductive and superficial, and then ends on having him yell how much he wants to grope girls, dragging both down. “You don’t understand me or my hobbies.” “Yes I do.” “Oh, then I am honor bound to listen to you.” This is not how people act, especially not depressed, hostile people. It’s insufferably smug.
I have to keep harping on this because 90% of the episode took place in those two rooms with two conversations. There wasn’t emotion. There wasn’t actual back and forth. There wasn’t an epiphany. The protagonist here just said “Hey, man, I was sad once too, but I got better. You should too.” And that fixed everything. I’d be more receptive if this was a small part of the story or aimed for first graders needing to learn how to share, but as something consuming half the entire episode and then followed by the second half of the episode being a victory lap, for his greatness, it’s pretentious at best, masturbatory at worst. If you want to take on a heavier topic like depression and isolation, bring your A game.
