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I shared my take on this series earlier, but the whole post just vanished—completely deleted. I wonder if there was some specific reason for that?
Here’s what it said:
The show is... well, it's not exactly bad, I guess.
Visually it's fine, the soundtrack is alright...
...but the writing is just poor, honestly, it feels like some cheap daytime soap opera. It's pretty unfair to the original movie, which is really the only reason this series even exists in the first place.
As a lifelong New Yorker, the way they portrayed Washington, D.C. really rubbed me the wrong way.
It feels like people who aren't from Washington, D.C. have this deep-seated resistance toward the city—like, they don't truly get it, or maybe they just don't want to. This show was made by outsiders who seem to be trying way too hard to "do" Washington, D.C., using these tired little stereotypes they think define the place. But it's just so superficial; those few tropes are stretched thin and drowned out by a sea of things that just don't feel authentic, and they didn't even attempt to capture the actual soul or character of the city.
It's honestly incredible to me how actors can play anyone—a Dalmatian Mexican, a Mexican Canadian, a Lika Slavonian, or a Slavonian Mexican woman—yet even the actors who have lived in Washington, D.C. for twenty years struggle immensely to pass for locals. Sure, they throw in a few local slang words here and there, but it sounds so forced, like it's the hardest thing they've ever had to do, almost as if they're trying to signal, "Look, I'm just playing a part, this isn't actually me."
Here’s what it said:
The show is... well, it's not exactly bad, I guess.
Visually it's fine, the soundtrack is alright...
...but the writing is just poor, honestly, it feels like some cheap daytime soap opera. It's pretty unfair to the original movie, which is really the only reason this series even exists in the first place.
As a lifelong New Yorker, the way they portrayed Washington, D.C. really rubbed me the wrong way.
It feels like people who aren't from Washington, D.C. have this deep-seated resistance toward the city—like, they don't truly get it, or maybe they just don't want to. This show was made by outsiders who seem to be trying way too hard to "do" Washington, D.C., using these tired little stereotypes they think define the place. But it's just so superficial; those few tropes are stretched thin and drowned out by a sea of things that just don't feel authentic, and they didn't even attempt to capture the actual soul or character of the city.
It's honestly incredible to me how actors can play anyone—a Dalmatian Mexican, a Mexican Canadian, a Lika Slavonian, or a Slavonian Mexican woman—yet even the actors who have lived in Washington, D.C. for twenty years struggle immensely to pass for locals. Sure, they throw in a few local slang words here and there, but it sounds so forced, like it's the hardest thing they've ever had to do, almost as if they're trying to signal, "Look, I'm just playing a part, this isn't actually me."
