A stellar breakdown!! I also think the Dropout is an absolute masterclass in how to make Good TV from unicorn of an expert Liz Meriwether. She is doing some of best creative work of any showrunner in the game right now. I mean the jokes alone…
as a fat person who is vehemently anti-fatsuit, i must confess i still just had to watch the thing about pam anyway, and was absolutely hooked from start to finish. ultimately, they could have just gotten an actual fat person to play the role (i really didn't notice any stunning transformation post-plastic surgery, and thought the biggest transformation came when you saw Current Pam) BUT i feel still sort of okay about the whole thing because a.) it wasn't over the top and b.) it wasn't part of the comedy at all. i actually think renee's voice sounds way more like the real life leah askey, but even still she really embodied pam and brought her to life in other ways.
one thing that stuck out to me was that late in the plot russ is described as a tan/dark skinned latino, which confused tf out of me because the whole time i just assumed he was a white guy. yk, because he's played by a white guy. (who completely and totally embodied russ perfectly otherwise - i mean the voice even was spot on - and who i already loved from billions.) but still, that was weird.
anyway thanks for the great roundup! much of what i watch has ended or is on hiatus so now i have some shiz to fill in the gaps!
A stellar breakdown!! I also think the Dropout is an absolute masterclass in how to make Good TV from unicorn of an expert Liz Meriwether. She is doing some of best creative work of any showrunner in the game right now. I mean the jokes alone…
as a fat person who is vehemently anti-fatsuit, i must confess i still just had to watch the thing about pam anyway, and was absolutely hooked from start to finish. ultimately, they could have just gotten an actual fat person to play the role (i really didn't notice any stunning transformation post-plastic surgery, and thought the biggest transformation came when you saw Current Pam) BUT i feel still sort of okay about the whole thing because a.) it wasn't over the top and b.) it wasn't part of the comedy at all. i actually think renee's voice sounds way more like the real life leah askey, but even still she really embodied pam and brought her to life in other ways.
one thing that stuck out to me was that late in the plot russ is described as a tan/dark skinned latino, which confused tf out of me because the whole time i just assumed he was a white guy. yk, because he's played by a white guy. (who completely and totally embodied russ perfectly otherwise - i mean the voice even was spot on - and who i already loved from billions.) but still, that was weird.
anyway thanks for the great roundup! much of what i watch has ended or is on hiatus so now i have some shiz to fill in the gaps!