Nobody Wants This

I wasn't a fan, but the missus liked it.

Season 1 is so so good

The first season was really well done all around. The second season maintains the high quality acting and style of the show, but the story falls apart. They ended up just completely re-doing the same exact story as season 1, but worse. Thankfully, season 3 made some progress, but then made some frustrating decisions I hope they resolve in season 4.

S1: 70 / S2: 63

The side characters have more character than the main characters.

A really strong rom-com. The romance is believable and feels genuine, with some more mature nuances than you usually get in these kinds of shows/movies. And it does that without sacrificing the equally important part of the rom-com formula, the comedy. The leads get a decent amount of humor, but the supporting cast (as with all rom-coms) gets to do the bulk of the comedy work and they are hilarious.

Such a strange rom-com...it's actually funny. The banter between the two leads feels almost real, and when it veers into the territory of one of the seemingly innumerable rom-com cliché situations, the writers always skillfully steer out of the skid, and it ends up as--*gasp!*--actual comedy. Always good to see Timothy Simons, though I wish he got to curse more, like he does in Veep. Poor Tovah Feldshuh, having to play the cunty Jewish matriarch--too unsympathetic to ever be actually amusing.