House of Lies? Well I have given up after watching one and a half episodes. Funny? In what way. The only funny thing is to wonder why the producers came up with this bovine load! Don't misunderstand me I have nothing per se against sex, nudity and foul language on screen when it's put together in a clever way but this show just hangs on those three features while adding nothing extra. The only thing that might have been worse is that the studio refrained from adding canned laughter, though that is a small mercy. Thanks but no thanks. I think I shall stick with Mad Men and the Good Wife, shows that at least present some intelligent material and plot development. I am not one who insists on empathy with the characters; after all I enjoyed watching the Untergang movie with zero empathy for Adolf Hitler. That is not the point; what is on offer in this show for half an hour a week? We all know that business consultants are full of it in real life and most often they are hired at great expense either to substantiate plans that a firm has already made or to destroy a plan if there is an executive level rivalry going on. In the 1 1/2 episodes I have seen nothing of that cut and thrust action one would expect, As a comedy it sucks, one would do better for laughs with Frazier or even 2 ½ Men. Are we supposed to laugh at the scene of an ex-wife being goosed by her ex-husband in a washroom or at loutish behaviour in a restaurant? Fawlty Towers where art thou? Where are the witty exchanges? Okay some of the reviewers love the show. So be it, live and let live, each to their own taste. For me this is off the list.
Review of House of Lies
