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Has anyone watched this yet? It stars Dax Shepard and Lake Bell? It premiered April 16th at 9:30/8:30 on ABC. I wasn't won over by the first episode and haven't watched the 2nd one yet, but it seems contrived. I like Dax Shepard, but Lake Bell doesn't do it as the wife /city girl. It's like a modern Green Acres.
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Has anyone watched this yet? It stars Dax Shepard and Lake Bell? It premiered April 16th at 9:30/8:30 on ABC. I wasn't won over by the first episode and haven't watched the 2nd one yet, but it seems contrived. I like Dax Shepard, but Lake Bell doesn't do it as the wife /city girl. It's like a modern Green Acres.
Exactly my initial take on it.
And, yeah, Lake Bell seems woefully miscast in this. She's better at playing airhead *******.
Another Bell would have worked better in the role; namely, Shepard's wife, Kristen.
They should adopt a pig as well.
Exactly my initial take on it. And, yeah, Lake Bell seems woefully miscast in this. She's better at playing airhead *******.
Another Bell would have worked better in the role; namely, Shepard's wife, Kristen.
They should adopt a pig as well.
Ironically she created and executive produces the show
I've watched and it's ok. I like the original Green Acres better, always. I'll watch more but I think only because I watch Black-ish and it is on right after.
Just too dumb for me. The entire premise just irritated me, and I like the leads, enough to really want to like it (and try it).
So they inherit a rural property, and give up their jobs and entire life in the city to move to it, without having ever seen it once. It didn't take a brain surgeon to predict it was going to be a ramshackle money trap, falling apart. Yep.
And the cliches just kept getting worse from that point.
If you want to attract viewers, come up with a more innovative reason for them to move to the country. This trope is worn out.
Just too dumb for me. The entire premise just irritated me, and I like the leads, enough to really want to like it (and try it).
So they inherit a rural property, and give up their jobs and entire life in the city to move to it, without having ever seen it once. It didn't take a brain surgeon to predict it was going to be a ramshackle money trap, falling apart. Yep.
And the cliches just kept getting worse from that point.
If you want to attract viewers, come up with a more innovative reason for them to move to the country. This trope is worn out.
I killed the Season Pass after the first episode.
To be fair, it wasnt quite that simple. He was laid off and made it out to her like they were inheriting a very nice ranch. He basically conned his wife into moving
That might not change much but it wasnt written like "green acres is the place to be"
As a resident of the region this show stereotypes, I watched the first episode with trepidation. I do like the actors, but man, this show is very tone deaf in this time of sad divisions between the various parts of our nation.
1) Why do some characters have Southern accents? Couldn't the actors have at least tried to do a Nebraska accent (which is essentially standard American unaccented english)? Or does a southern accent somehow indicate "rural" to the nationwide audience? Gah, this is really irritating.
2) Why on earth was a lone milk cow wandering loose on an abandoned farm? Are urban people under some weird impression that every farm has pretty dairy cows out in a pasture, and that the individual cows would wander over to a neighbor's house like a dog or cat? I suppose it could happen, but it is spectacularly unlikely.
3) No farm people would ever use the term "dead" to describe soil. They would say the soil is alkaline, or that it has degraded, or that it is in desperate need of specific minerals or that it needs amendments. No one would say "dead", because that is inaccurate.
And etc.
I think Bell was trying to show how clueless urban people can be in a rural environment. She's correct, but she should have tried harder to get the rural environment right.
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