We know Diablo Cody. She's the one that got famous with that Juno kid. She's smart, a lot intelligent and her mind is a terrific machine expressing thru modern writing and fictitious characters her own experiences and her interesting point of view as an observer. And now, she joined forces with Steven Spielberg in a so daring project. Having a SPIELBERG name in the show doesn't necessarily mean that it's good, just means that things are some way easier. Anyway... there's something that keeps punching my head: why is Spielberg in it? I mean... this show is completely out of his style.
Tara is another desperate housewife, but instead of having 4 friends also desperate, she has 4 different personalities, each one of them with their own problems. After watching entire first season, my general impression is that things got really interesting just after the 8th episode and that happened just because I forced myself to keep watching it cause I could see the great potentials on the show, but I couldn't feel it till that time. The show lacks of straightness, I mean... you don't know if it's a comedy, a drama, a dramedy... or whatever. Until 7th episode, despite some great acting level, something was missing and everything in it was always "a half": half of drama, half of comedy, half thrilling, half interesting, half funny... a bunch of "halfs" that together wasn't giving a "whole". There are shows that writers know how to travel thru these different kinds of styles as natural as a linear plot, but seems that Diablo was lost someway in her creation. On the last 4 episodes, drama was the highest point and that was comforting because some things just stopped being a blur in a point that I was not pushing myself to understand the point of everything anymore. We can feel that Diablo just relaxed on her ideas in the last episodes, because things were flowing with no pressures, and that's the tone that I was expecting during entire show, so I hope she keeps herself relaxed for the 2nd season.
About the actors, well... At first this show got my attention because Toni Collette is in it, she is awesome, and great roles is all what she needs because she's a lot versatile and for someone being Tara, Alice, Buck, T and the other strange one... there must be a lot versatile and she's doing an excellent work and is holding entire show on her back, her performance is mesmerizing as Tara or as any of her alters, mainly as Alice and Buck. Keir Gilchrist, as Marshall, is being a gem in the show... Although the show suffers from some problems, the subtlety under the character's teenage homosexuality is a very interesting thing that only Diablo would be able to explore amazingly and shameless. Kate (Brie Larson), is a very interesting character, dealing with those teenage existence crisis, never knowing what to do, what to want, what to expect.
The show also worths attention just for the interesting fact that Diablo's handling entire show not only as a creator but as a producer and writer - and maybe as a director in the future, who knows - but I think that after Juno and her Oscar, she's overrating herself and her capacities a lot in this project. It's not a bad show, but it's far from being one of the best things. In my opinion, the show still needs improvements inserting more substantial facts, replacing blank fields with things that would make audience keeps their attention or expecting something far from the obvious as happened just in the last four episodes. It was hard to know what was the point of entire show as its plot is a huge thing for something that seems not so interesting or different from what we're seeing in television right now. I repeat, it's not a bad show, and not an excellent one either, but it has excellent potentials to be something much better than it's being and I'm hopping for it.
Tara is another desperate housewife, but instead of having 4 friends also desperate, she has 4 different personalities, each one of them with their own problems. After watching entire first season, my general impression is that things got really interesting just after the 8th episode and that happened just because I forced myself to keep watching it cause I could see the great potentials on the show, but I couldn't feel it till that time. The show lacks of straightness, I mean... you don't know if it's a comedy, a drama, a dramedy... or whatever. Until 7th episode, despite some great acting level, something was missing and everything in it was always "a half": half of drama, half of comedy, half thrilling, half interesting, half funny... a bunch of "halfs" that together wasn't giving a "whole". There are shows that writers know how to travel thru these different kinds of styles as natural as a linear plot, but seems that Diablo was lost someway in her creation. On the last 4 episodes, drama was the highest point and that was comforting because some things just stopped being a blur in a point that I was not pushing myself to understand the point of everything anymore. We can feel that Diablo just relaxed on her ideas in the last episodes, because things were flowing with no pressures, and that's the tone that I was expecting during entire show, so I hope she keeps herself relaxed for the 2nd season.
About the actors, well... At first this show got my attention because Toni Collette is in it, she is awesome, and great roles is all what she needs because she's a lot versatile and for someone being Tara, Alice, Buck, T and the other strange one... there must be a lot versatile and she's doing an excellent work and is holding entire show on her back, her performance is mesmerizing as Tara or as any of her alters, mainly as Alice and Buck. Keir Gilchrist, as Marshall, is being a gem in the show... Although the show suffers from some problems, the subtlety under the character's teenage homosexuality is a very interesting thing that only Diablo would be able to explore amazingly and shameless. Kate (Brie Larson), is a very interesting character, dealing with those teenage existence crisis, never knowing what to do, what to want, what to expect.
The show also worths attention just for the interesting fact that Diablo's handling entire show not only as a creator but as a producer and writer - and maybe as a director in the future, who knows - but I think that after Juno and her Oscar, she's overrating herself and her capacities a lot in this project. It's not a bad show, but it's far from being one of the best things. In my opinion, the show still needs improvements inserting more substantial facts, replacing blank fields with things that would make audience keeps their attention or expecting something far from the obvious as happened just in the last four episodes. It was hard to know what was the point of entire show as its plot is a huge thing for something that seems not so interesting or different from what we're seeing in television right now. I repeat, it's not a bad show, and not an excellent one either, but it has excellent potentials to be something much better than it's being and I'm hopping for it.