Happy! (TV Series) Tallahassee (2019) User Reviews

Brilliant.

[harleyyeager-56009 · 9/10 · 8 April 2019]

I love where this show is going. Its building up to be a crazy season!

I like it

[dre504 · 9/10 · 9 June 2019]

Yeah its diffrent from the first season, but i like where this is going. Its more violent, not my favorite thing but i can filter it out. I mean the first season was over the top so i can imagine that its hard to top that. It isnt perfect and sometimes i just filter certain parts, but overall, its fun stuff

"What happened to the fun?"

[tquinton1 · 6/10 · 4 April 2019]

There is a point in this episode where Nick Sax turns to Happy and says "What happened to the fun?" and that is exactly how I felt watching it. While there were some entertaining moments(Blue wanting to become a cowboy got a chuckle out of me) the whole thing just felt uneven and uncomfortable, while the first season drew me in very quickly, after two episodes I'm still waiting for the plot to get rolling. Also, in Season 1 there was always at least one big scene of Nick beating the crap out of thugs per episode, sometimes there were two or three, but there really hasn't been a big fight scene in either of these episodes which is kind of disappointing. The day with Haley plot also felt kind of needlessly dark, not funny, just cruel, which is a staple of this series I just don't feel it hit the mark nearly as well as last weeks outing. There are still some great performances, and Christopher Meloni did a good job directing, but all in all this was a weak episode. Here's hoping next week brings better things.

UnHAPPY!

[nathanielscorch · 11 April 2019]

Wow, I'm blown away but not in a good way. HAPPY! was, and I mean WAS such a fantastic show. I used to be a HUGE fan. I LOVED IT! It was my favorite show. I actually bought the entire first season and saw every episode at least three or four times. It was a non-stop hysterical show. Nick and Happy had me on the floor with the clever and humorous dialogue. The writing was quirky, surprising and fantastic. It was an exciting, violent, intelligent, scary ride and I was laughing whenever Nick or Happy talked. I told all my friends about this show. Unfortunately, I watched the first two episodes of second season and I can't watch it anymore. It's kinda like when Michael left "The Office". It was such a perfect show that I could never bring myself to watch anymore because I didn't want the memory of the show to be sullied by bad writing. The writing of HAPPY! has taken a swan dive into mediocrity and sick humor. I watched both episodes of new Second Season twice, in case I missed anything, and am so disappointed. It's lost its heart and became a "Preacher-American Gods-Killing Eve etc." wannabe, shock for shock's sake show that thinks shocking an audience is equivalent to good writing. . I got some bad news for the writing staff of HAPPY! They'll never be as outlandish, shocking and "mind-blowing" as"Preacher" and "American Gods" Meloni and Oswalt are ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL in this show! I can't say enough about how fabulous they are! The show is at its best when it centers around THEM and their chemistry together. All else is bunk, boring and doesn't interest me. They are the CENTER of this show and should have the most screen time. Fans care about Jesse. They don't care about Hank's rock collection and his wife's kleptomania. Fans care about Rick and Daryl and couldn't care less if Rosita and the priest find love. Fans care about Rami Malek in "Mr. Robot", his sister, not so much. It seems Sonny Shine and peripheral characters took up more screen time than the character whose name the show is titled. I can visualize the creative team in a room saying, "How about we do this or that outlandish thing to blow people's minds and show viewers how outrageous, crazy, cutting-edge and hip we are. Ha, Ha", instead of coming up with a good story with characters we can empathize with emotionally and follow. I hate it when bad writing ruins my favorite shows like it did for "Walking Dead", "Dexter", "Preacher", "Mr. Robot", "Breaking Bad", "Battlestar Gallactica", "Penny Dreadful" and "Sneaky Pete". I couldn't get to fourth episode of "Killing Eve" before I couldn't take anymore of the stupid writing and the moronic, incompetent main character. First Season of HAPPY! the characters in outside world were more believable. Now EVERYBODY is a cartoon and stupid. The interrogators of the horrified nun were ridiculously cartoonish, unbelievable and what I call "forced funny". That means unnatural, usually written by people who aren't naturally funny in real life, who think people would think their joke is funny. "Sin City" was able to pull off these type of characters, but in HAPPY! it's forced and feels fake. Good writers know that a good story with characters you care about and that can cause the viewer an emotional impact is a far harder task to accomplish than coming up with shocking and "mind-blowing" scenes meant to "blow minds". I'm secure enough in my manhood to admit that there were WONDERFUL scenes in First Season between Sax and Happy that I actually cried. I would love it if someone would tell me what was so funny about the two episodes I saw. (OK, I did laugh at the bleach joke). Nuns with ISIS bomb jackets blowing up in horror? I guess I'm supposed to laugh at the nun's gruesome deaths and them hitting each other struggling to survive because the writing geniuses thought it would be HYSTERICAL if they played the happy "Dominique" song over the horror. I saw that coming before it happened. They've done that joke so many times before. Look up "American Horror Story nuns Dominique song" on YouTube. They did it better. The writer who came up with that idea for the Second Season Opener probably thought he was coming up with an "original concept" that would "blow minds!". I guess I was supposed to laugh at the braindead and perverted idea of Sonny Shine, dressed in a gay Cardinal's outfit, marketing Easter somehow at the Vatican to a willing Pope. Ha Ha (fake laugh). What's next? Sonny at Shriner's Hospital? I guess I'm supposed to laugh at the"funny" headlines they were showing after the nun's gruesome deaths like "The Sound Of Murder", "Holy Smoked, "The Frying Nuns", etc or the priest eye-balling the little altar boys. I get it!. Pedophile priest ha, ha (another fake laugh). How long did it take to come up with that brilliant humor? What was cool about the First Season was the world outside of Happy had some semblance to reality and there was a dividing line between fantasy and reality. Now EVERYBODY is a cartoon. I'm writing this as 3rd episode comes out with the great Ann Margaret. I haven't seen it and I won't, but I'm willing to bet $100 they didn't write a dignified role for an actress of her standing and she's going to come across as some crazy,unrealistic, buffoonish cartoon character. I may be wrong, and I apologize if the writers DO dignify her with great writing and a part worthy of her acting skills, but I doubt it. I'm not usually wrong about these kind of things. When I like a meal, I can usually taste it if some kind of noxious foreign ingredient got in the mix and ruined the great taste I had for the meal. First episode, after Dexter found his wife dead from Lithgow, I knew something was wrong with my show within first 10 minutes of episode and found out they hired new writers. Couldn't watch Dexter anymore because I couldn't handle the horrible writing and how writers change the recipe of a show I lovd. Same with Second Season of "Sneaky Pete" and the favorite shows of mine I mentioned earlier. I saw writer Scott Gimple for a few minutes on "Talking Dead" talking about, I think "barnacle zombies", and I knew instantly this guy was out to lunch and didn't really understand why fans watch "Walking Dead". I could go on. SOMETHING has happened to the wonderful recipe of HAPPY! and to the tasty dish I couldn't wait to eat. Whoever the writer was, who was the most INFLUENTIAL in the First Season of HAPPY!, it's sad but I'm not tasting his ingredient as much anymore. He's either lost his creative mojo or other chefs, writers and producers are ruining the recipe. I like the old Coke recipe best. I wish they didn't mess with something that was already great.