The Resort S1 — 2/5
...and final season...? It managed to pick up speed halfway through when it threatened to switch the main character to a charming yet bumbling Mexican man, the Memory Detective, but it only allowed him to become co-lead, forcing him to share screentime with the two people we had already been forced to know, dwelling in grief and no longer in love and making bad choices and jfc what a slog those two were, damn. Yada yada, compelling mystery that goes nowhere and doesn't connect to the main narrative yada yada but listen, on the other side of 'something weird is happening in movies,' something weird is happening in TV: shows that feel like comedies, that star comedians, but are actually just dramas (but still want to dip their toes in comedy). I'd say it started around the time of... 'Better Call Saul'? Heavy things that have the feeling of lightness to them. But, you know, it's that artistry thing again, and mastery of tone is that most untouchable of intangibles.
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