Quote: lofthouse @ July 19 2013, 2:55 PM BSTDefinitely. The first third of ep 2 was flat but it steadily improved and the last third was very very funny.
Watch to the end people!
Isn't the idea of paying professional writers to write things for money that they are able to make 30 minutes of comedy be funny for 30 minutes? Yes, I know, dramatic tension, story arc, setup, tension and resolution, a lot of Robert McKee stuff. But a 30 minute studio sitcom should be funny for most of the thirty minutes. If the first ten minutes are entirely mirthless, claiming that it got better later, even if true, says either that the scriptwriters should give back part of their fee, or the script editor should get out of Starbucks and do some script editing. No one picks up an episode of Fawlty Towers and says, "yes, I know this is shit, and this, and this, and this, but it gets better at the end, just you wait".