I was really looking forward to this one. The first 2-3 episodes really made you think that they were setting up a great story.. and then, they didn't.
It honestly, it made no difference to me that they were gay - It was a little lazy that 99.4% of all the characters had the same secret - what was truly a waste was that EVERYTHING was glossed over for the relationship drama - Character development/traits were cut shot or tossed out the window, the baseball was wedged in between scenes (with no stakes!) as if they were like, Oh yea, this is supposed to be A League of Their Own.. and the potential conflict that they set up was lazily concluded or just thrown away 5 seconds later. I don't know if connecting scenes were cut or it was just lazy writing??
The dialogue and vibe were all very modern, I'm assuming it was a choice, but it kind of sucks you out of the time period - but in the beginning, I was rolling with it, thinking it was going somewhere, but when I realized that it wasn't, the whole thing became a bit insufferable.
There are good individual scenes, I laughed, I hoped, and the show had a good look, but it was pointless.
They also wasted Molly Ephraim.
This show had major potential and they threw it away for a typical relationship melodrama.
It honestly, it made no difference to me that they were gay - It was a little lazy that 99.4% of all the characters had the same secret - what was truly a waste was that EVERYTHING was glossed over for the relationship drama - Character development/traits were cut shot or tossed out the window, the baseball was wedged in between scenes (with no stakes!) as if they were like, Oh yea, this is supposed to be A League of Their Own.. and the potential conflict that they set up was lazily concluded or just thrown away 5 seconds later. I don't know if connecting scenes were cut or it was just lazy writing??
The dialogue and vibe were all very modern, I'm assuming it was a choice, but it kind of sucks you out of the time period - but in the beginning, I was rolling with it, thinking it was going somewhere, but when I realized that it wasn't, the whole thing became a bit insufferable.
There are good individual scenes, I laughed, I hoped, and the show had a good look, but it was pointless.
They also wasted Molly Ephraim.
This show had major potential and they threw it away for a typical relationship melodrama.