Spoilers!!
The first season dosen't start off that bad. Yeah that whole story we are linked because of sex becomes really old after two episodes ( unfortunately that idea is continued throughout several seasons and drives some major plot points) it is not such a great theory and i really do not understand the big deal about it , but it has some good stories such as one character been in the closet because of her career, another one been unfaithful and another one cheating on her fiancé.
Season 2-3 improved on the characters and had some really good and memorable story lines The only thing that annoyed me quite a bit was that stupid licking song which you noticed, the actors even felt uncomfortable with.
The problem in my opinion occurred with season 4. The new character introduced, did not leave an impression on me ( at least not positive)and i felt most of them were note likable. that stupid movie plot. The wasted new transgender character. This could have been the chance for the series to explore real transgender issues and it started off well, but the actress/ actor( i don't know how they identify) can't act and has no charisma. This could have been one of the most liked and unique characters.Also the story line that they gave the character. WTF. That is what i mean with tone, they want the audience to take LGBT issues seriously. Mentioning important issues such as " don't ask, don't tell" and then they give the other characters really unrealistic stories. If anyone argues, that this is a realistic storyline, find me one person that was female lesbian, then started her transition to become a man and got accidentally pregnant by their boyfriend. I did some research and could find no-one, maybe there are one or two people out there that experienced that exact same situation, but this is not at all relatable to the audience.
Then the character Shane, don't get me started on Shane. Seriously, everyone, everyone, literally everyone want to have sex with her, although she looks like a homeless junkie. Woman that get married want to have sex with her/ have sex with her and of course the mother and bridesmaids as well. Not only dose she have sex with them, no, no. She is apparently sooo amazing, that these women literally chase after her / fight for her on the day of the weeding
Now i know that some might argue that this is the unique humour of this show, but again, TONE because at the same moment, you have a soldier losing her job because she is gay. Those two things don't match
Finally the thing that annoyed me the most is the ending. Not because it is ambiguous but the reason for why it is ambiguous. The reason is that they wanted to have spin off and therefore purposely did not expose who killed jenny so people need to watch the new series. that itself would have been excusable, if they did not start season with showing jenny's dead!!
So you spend the whole season wanting to find out why she died and this is the ending you get And to really p you off, they have all the main characters walk on screen smiling. Like " ha ha we just wasted hours of your life". I mean you can have spin off and still have a good ending to your show!
All of that said, i think, that netflix should maybe do like reboot of the show but have more realistic story lines, have more relatable characters.. Maybe have it set in a different time period, deal more with the religious aspect .I think that something could be done with this concept .
The first season dosen't start off that bad. Yeah that whole story we are linked because of sex becomes really old after two episodes ( unfortunately that idea is continued throughout several seasons and drives some major plot points) it is not such a great theory and i really do not understand the big deal about it , but it has some good stories such as one character been in the closet because of her career, another one been unfaithful and another one cheating on her fiancé.
Season 2-3 improved on the characters and had some really good and memorable story lines The only thing that annoyed me quite a bit was that stupid licking song which you noticed, the actors even felt uncomfortable with.
The problem in my opinion occurred with season 4. The new character introduced, did not leave an impression on me ( at least not positive)and i felt most of them were note likable. that stupid movie plot. The wasted new transgender character. This could have been the chance for the series to explore real transgender issues and it started off well, but the actress/ actor( i don't know how they identify) can't act and has no charisma. This could have been one of the most liked and unique characters.Also the story line that they gave the character. WTF. That is what i mean with tone, they want the audience to take LGBT issues seriously. Mentioning important issues such as " don't ask, don't tell" and then they give the other characters really unrealistic stories. If anyone argues, that this is a realistic storyline, find me one person that was female lesbian, then started her transition to become a man and got accidentally pregnant by their boyfriend. I did some research and could find no-one, maybe there are one or two people out there that experienced that exact same situation, but this is not at all relatable to the audience.
Then the character Shane, don't get me started on Shane. Seriously, everyone, everyone, literally everyone want to have sex with her, although she looks like a homeless junkie. Woman that get married want to have sex with her/ have sex with her and of course the mother and bridesmaids as well. Not only dose she have sex with them, no, no. She is apparently sooo amazing, that these women literally chase after her / fight for her on the day of the weeding
Now i know that some might argue that this is the unique humour of this show, but again, TONE because at the same moment, you have a soldier losing her job because she is gay. Those two things don't match
Finally the thing that annoyed me the most is the ending. Not because it is ambiguous but the reason for why it is ambiguous. The reason is that they wanted to have spin off and therefore purposely did not expose who killed jenny so people need to watch the new series. that itself would have been excusable, if they did not start season with showing jenny's dead!!
So you spend the whole season wanting to find out why she died and this is the ending you get And to really p you off, they have all the main characters walk on screen smiling. Like " ha ha we just wasted hours of your life". I mean you can have spin off and still have a good ending to your show!
All of that said, i think, that netflix should maybe do like reboot of the show but have more realistic story lines, have more relatable characters.. Maybe have it set in a different time period, deal more with the religious aspect .I think that something could be done with this concept .