Saturday, April 06, 2024

"Glamorous"

Oh.  Dear.  This had so much saccharine it makes me jittery.  It was like Disney meeting R-rated content.  Listed as a comedy-drama it was pretty much all broad comedy for the first six episodes.  Very, very broad.  Took me almost all of the first season to buy into these characters being anything beyond two-dimensional.  Scenes were bathed in light so bright, with so much pink and yellow, that I felt like I was having a Miami Beach hallucination.  The cast had potential.  Lead Marco Mejia is interesting and earnest.  Supporting player Jade Payton is charming.  Ayesha Harris brings needed groundedness.  But vets like Diana Maria Riva and Kim Cattrall seemed constrained.  And they are amazing ... usually.  The young folk were presented as hyper, teeny-tiny clothes wearing, very occasionally drug using drifters consumed with romances and drama over doing their jobs.  Just didn't appeal.  Took until episode seven (of ten) before it finally clicked in.  Too little, too late.  By the time they dropped some of the nonsense the train had left the station.  It was cancelled.  One season and done.  The sad thing is that it could have been so much more.

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