Zoey’s Infinite Playlist

[stannc]

Some initial thoughts because I was bored and I watched the pilot:

-Hey, that’s not Emma Stone
-Wow, they paid for a Beatles’ song? Will they have to replace it if it still streams after a few years?
-They had to do the WHOLE Beatles’ song, not just a verse and chorus
-“Coder” seems like such a derogatory term the way they use it
-it’s a good thing I had a wide broadband connection because the plot device used to communicate with her father used all six lanes when I saw it screaming down Fifth Avenue
-I miss Cop Rock

[Diner]

On Monday, January 13, 2020 at 6:25:29 PM UTC-5, stannc wrote:

-Hey, that’s not Emma Stone

Maybe not, but I am definitely not complaining.

 

-it’s a good thing I had a wide broadband connection because the plot device used to communicate with her father used all six lanes when I saw it screaming down Fifth Avenue

Yeah, the second I saw Peter Gallagher was playing the father, I knew they would find a way to have him sing by the end of the first hour.

(Did he ever sing on The O.C.?)

 

-I miss Cop Rock

Well, I miss Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. But with Skylar Astin on this show, it's like a bit of it is living on.

This isn't a great show so far; despite its sky-high production values, the pilot had its clunky moments. 

And with its mystically directed, do-good heroine, it could turn into a musical version of God Friended Me. 

But it's endearing enough that it makes me want to see what comes next.

[Doug Fields]

You guys are better men than me.  I was out at the 20-minute commercial break, never to return.

 

I am quite obviously *not* the target demo for this show, no matter how many Beatles tunes they use to try to lure me in.

 

Doug Fields

Tampa, FL

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[David Bruggeman]

I'm apparently not the only one who kept confusing Zoey's *Extraordinary* Playlist with Nick and Norah's *Infinite* Playlist, a rom-com with Michael Cera and Kat Dennings as the title characters..

FWIW, I've seen neither.

David

[Dave Sikula]

I'm not sure where I fit into this. I saw an extended commercial and thought it was one of the most vile things I've ever experienced.

And I've sat through all those SNLs with Wiig and McKinnon.

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[M-D November]

I have to remain neutral on this, as the creator/writer is a friend of mine from our theater camp days.

[PGage]

My shameful secret of this TV season is that two of the only three new broadcast shows I have watched (and the only two I watched or will watch to completion) were musicals (Perfect Harmony and Zoey). There are so many reasons to hate (or at least be aggressively indifferent towards) these shows, and yet both shows hooked me. In the case of Zoey, what got me was not the music or the cloying sweetness, but the show’s early commitment to deal with death in a head on manner, and as a (the) core through line of the season. We are not at the end yet, and I will have to take any positive thing I have to say about the show back if the finale brings us a miraculous cure, but I doubt that it will. The show would be ten times better with less sugar, but I kind of get why a network would want that frosting to cover such a bitter cake. Oh, and also, Jane Levy. But mostly the death thing.

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I have to remain neutral on this, as the creator/writer is a friend of mine from our theater camp days.

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[stannc]

I’m still waiting for the M through Z episodes of NBC’s “A to Z”.

[Diner]

Just saw the finale, and I found it very moving. They dealt with the death thing without a flinch. And the closing titles revealed a new dimension that just added to its richness.

And even though I know it was done with computers, the single-take final number - done on a multi-room set, and lasting maybe nine minutes - was a real bravura piece of work. Somebody deserves an Emmy for that.

I had reservations too, and not just because of the sweetness. I felt the Lauren Graham character was written very inconsistently, veering from villain to bestie. And I strongly disliked the "Zoey jumps on a conference table and sings Billy Joel" episode because it fiddled with the concept too much and humiliated a main character who I didn' t want to see hurt. 

But I am very, very glad I made the journey.

On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 10:48:06 PM UTC-4, PGage wrote:

My shameful secret of this TV season is that two of the only three new broadcast shows I have watched (and the only two I watched or will watch to completion) were musicals (Perfect Harmony and Zoey). There are so many reasons to hate (or at least be aggressively indifferent towards) these shows, and yet both shows hooked me. In the case of Zoey, what got me was not the music or the cloying sweetness, but the show’s early commitment to deal with death in a head on manner, and as a (the) core through line of the season. We are not at the end yet, and I will have to take any positive thing I have to say about the show back if the finale brings us a miraculous cure, but I doubt that it will. The show would be ten times better with less sugar, but I kind of get why a network would want that frosting to cover such a bitter cake. Oh, and also, Jane Levy. But mostly the death thing.

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:20 AM M-D November <mdnov...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have to remain neutral on this, as the creator/writer is a friend of mine from our theater camp days.

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