Pen15: Season 2, Episode 1 “Pool” (B-)
I saw two episodes of this season from season one – the pilot and the installment that earned a writing nomination last year – and I put off starting this season even though I was pretty confident that it was going to crack the Best Comedy Series lineup this time around. My feelings towards it are about the same, that it’s mildly entertaining but not exactly my kind of comedy. Apparently a lot has happened since I last tuned in, namely a shared sexual experience that both Maya and Anna have been told by the impossibly cool Brandt not to tell anyone about, which of course is the opposite of what they did. It should say something, I suppose, that this is the only one of the seven episodes that were Emmy-eligible that weren’t submitted for consideration as part of its Best Comedy Series bid, which indicates that the best is likely yet to come. If there’s one thing about this show that stands out more than anything it’s that its characters like to talk, especially about the things that they’re instructed by others not to talk about, and when they’re confronted with a truth they don’t want shared, they double down and aggressively fight it. The drama of, say, not being able to go inside a house while wet is highly exaggerated here, making minimal problems seem like the biggest deal in the world. Six more episodes isn’t a huge commitment, and hopefully I’ll become more endeared to a show a lot of people really like by the end of it.
I saw two episodes of this season from season one – the pilot and the installment that earned a writing nomination last year – and I put off starting this season even though I was pretty confident that it was going to crack the Best Comedy Series lineup this time around. My feelings towards it are about the same, that it’s mildly entertaining but not exactly my kind of comedy. Apparently a lot has happened since I last tuned in, namely a shared sexual experience that both Maya and Anna have been told by the impossibly cool Brandt not to tell anyone about, which of course is the opposite of what they did. It should say something, I suppose, that this is the only one of the seven episodes that were Emmy-eligible that weren’t submitted for consideration as part of its Best Comedy Series bid, which indicates that the best is likely yet to come. If there’s one thing about this show that stands out more than anything it’s that its characters like to talk, especially about the things that they’re instructed by others not to talk about, and when they’re confronted with a truth they don’t want shared, they double down and aggressively fight it. The drama of, say, not being able to go inside a house while wet is highly exaggerated here, making minimal problems seem like the biggest deal in the world. Six more episodes isn’t a huge commitment, and hopefully I’ll become more endeared to a show a lot of people really like by the end of it.
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