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mhdonkin
Reviews
Casual (2015)
The protagonists are awful people
About halfway through the 2nd series, you wonder what it means about you that you're continuing to watch this show. The story is interesting and it's entirely watchable, but the protagonists are awful people. Selfish, narcissistic and very unaware or uncaring of the feelings of others. The brother is meant to be the 'screwup', but the sister is far worse. Absent mother, a therapist who sleeps with everyone inappropriate she can and the daughter is avoidant and has multiple lovers she mistreats, even though she's a teenager. By the end of series 2, you'd be happy if they were killed off and Leon was spared. Unlike in most shows where you grow to like or empathize with the characters. In this show, it's the opposite.
Package Deal (2013)
Why?
Most of the reviews are spot on. This show is both completely predictable, but also embarrassingly far fetched. It's predictable in the sense that you know exactly what each character will say in any given situation in every scene. An 8 year old could write the dialogue.
Whilst, the story lines are so far fetched, it feels like they were trying to go for something different, but it just became completely silly. Ie, a big and tall coffin salesman?? WTF? A lawyer who apparently regularly seeks advice from a murderer client (who happily pays $300 an hour to listen to him whine), then lets him escape, gets a drug conviction as part of a prank, but is still practising law....phleasse. A 30-something who doesn't work and isn't planning to, because once he was a house-husband...ohkaay.
I feel like since streaming services, a lot of really crappy shows are being produced. This is one of them.
Watch it like you would a car crash. Be warned!!