Edit : After watching the upfront's preview , I'm going to clarify a few points, the trailer indicates that the script has been rewritten a lot, not that it's a surprise, but they've apparently took off some good parts and replaced them with cliche ones. I'm highly dissapointed by NBC as this script was full of potential but they, instead, decided to turn it in some mainstream-CBS-type bullshit (and it's miscasted, but that's another problem).
Look, it's Sophie Winkleman,she'll play Charlotte.
The concept is a bit doll, with a few vibes from How I Met Your Mother. Each episode starts off into the "Soulmates.com" agency which, you can guess, is there to find your better half. The Soulmates agent asks Charlotte a list of questions in order to find her the perfect mate. She is then going to tell a story to answer a question and bam, you got a Charlotte Payne's episode. Well, it doesn't sound so good on paper but the pilot was actually really funny.
The pilot's question is "Would you consider yourself an honest person?", and Charlotte does a pretty good job answering it. For some unknown reason, the lucky girl has been proposed to nine times and the whole point of the episode is to discover why .
And here comes why Charlotte Payne is better than Ted Mosby. They dropped all of that ethical part that's starting to seriously get on my nerves in How I Met Your Mother . As someone cool said, comedy is there to let your mind speak, to express all of the horrible feelings that you can't say in your day to day life and if you have to take them back at the end of the day, it's just not worth saying them.
These not so nice people are still very endearing (a bit like the Bluths although the comparison might a bit too flattering) and the storyline is going to be hard to drain out. All in all, Charlotte Payne is a promising sitcom with some rather provoking characters that seems to be getting some positive attention over at NBC and will probably make it next season.
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Ted might not be the funniest character in HIMYM, but you need a "normal" character who reacts to the crazy shit of the weird guys like Barney. The Office wouldn't be funny just with guys like Michael Scott, Creed and Dwight. You also need characters like Jim and Pam to make it feel real. Even Michael Bluth and his son were pretty normal compared to the rest of the family. Comedies without realistic characters can't surprise because everything is possible and nothing is believable. Like most of the crap on Comedy Central.
ReplyDeleteVic Mackey is reading me, great.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you, although I don't think this "normal" character has to be so conventionnal, like say, Ted. If there is too big of a gap between the crazy and the normal, I think it can't work either.
Mitch Hurwitz said himself that Michael in AD was the craziest of all the Bluths and that it was hard to pass someone so crazy inside as normal but it was why AD was working so well.
hey if this is nbc please un cencell my name is earl and get the arigenal carachtors please just make one last season so i can find out what happends at the end of season 4 please this is a little boys dreem i cant sleep at night nowing that i dont no what happen so please i cry every time i think about it.
ReplyDeletehey if this is nbc please un cencell my name is earl and get the arigenal carachtors please just make one last season so i can find out what happends at the end of season 4 please this is a little boys dreem i cant sleep at night nowing that i dont no what happen so please i cry every time i think about it.
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