Paul Curran

Oooh it’s the 50s and they smoke. Oooh they didn’t say the F word or screw on 50s TV but Amazon loves both! I Love Lucy could make 60,000,000 people laugh without these elements but Amazon writers think F@c& is elemental to their writing. And why do they show the characters having sex for 2 seconds before cutting to the morning after? Oh. Realism. Amazon revels in producing soft porn such as Ted Lasso where it’s a funny show crutched by lathering of F bullets (Britain’s Official National Word) and a second season scene of Keely masturbating to her phone. Yeah, I remember the episode of cheers where they catch Diane pleasuring herself in Sams office. The Amazon remaking of Cheers will have them naked on the couch and Clift saying F you to end an argument. Yeah these are my complaints. I don’t like the gratuitous language and sex of streaming shows. As to The Ricardo’s, it’s a good enough show but from the start I felt like it was trying to show how they could nail the imitation of the period v just telling the story. It gets a bit Hallmark movie when there’s never a hair or costume out of place. Didn’t hold enough interest to finish in one sitting. Not sure if it’s compelling enough for to go back for the second half.

Gag me with a spoon overdoneness plays like a send up of period piece TV shows with the standard Netflix signature of people fornicating outside within the first 10 minutes. I stayed through the first episode to see if I cared more for the characters but the cartoonish look of the show nearly overwhelms. Maybe I’ll watch more maybe not. I hit escape to avoid the automatic play of the next episode. Too sweet, too dress up, too technicolor at first glance.