Dang, I just got to episode five last week too. Although, I had a feeling they would cancel this even from the first episode, so I’m not too surprised.

I feel it was decent, but it’s a hard premise to pull off imo. Most notably I feel this show would have landed better a few years ago. Some of the bits were cheesy in ways that don’t necessarily land as much these days.

Maybe the issue it had was that it was trying to write to too broad of an audience? It’s going for a niche of nerds that maybe want to learn a bit more about what things are actually like inside these gaming companies, but then I feel some of the humor is washed down to be more palatable for even kids to watch. It had Rob McElhenney and David Hornsby from It’s Always Sunny which were great casting picks, but the writing humor they were delivering was very PG in comparison to It’s Always Sunny.

I can see producers and writers wanting to avoid a comparison to Silicon Valley for instance. I feel this is probably why they went at it from the angle which they did, but the show a much harder time landing with its PG writing. They didn’t give themselves a ton of wiggle room either by writing it to be geared towards WoW and maybe some other MMO fans specifically. As I feel having other game projects the big studio is working on could at least have let them pivot the narrative. I feel at times some of the material could even have been applied to say Riot or Mihoyo, but from what I saw it felt very WoW based mixed with some Big Bang Theory level of humor.

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 5 points 3 months ago

had a few really good bottle episodes, but i guess i get it. wish they’d give a 2hr special to close out the story though.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've not watched the latest season but I'm fucking gutted about this, it's my favourite sitcom atm. I'm surprised they've cancelled it but it seems a lot of people don't see it the way I do

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The last season was complete garbage, it’s not surprising it got cancelled. They’d run out of ideas and were just circling the drain. The entire last season could have been one episode and lost nothing.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 3 months ago

Ahhhh...that changes it. I wish shows would just quit when they ran out of ideas

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 0 points 3 months ago

Not surprising given how bad this last season was.

They made most of the characters, especially Dana and Rachel, insufferable. They made Brad even more of a comic book villain but just pathetic, and the whole thing with the new testers and carol just went nowhere and was stupid.

The poppy/Ian/Storm thing was just dumb.

The whole season was a dumpster fire.