This show is good to have going on in the background, it's easy to follow and pleasing to watch due to the aesthetics-focus of the director. After completing the first season, I was left with feelings of discontent. I realized that I had not formed meaningful connections with any of the characters. Maybe it's because the director was more concerned with creating a cast of pretty, stylish and liberated millenials... but there wasn't any solid development. Even for the main character.
In the last few episodes, Ulysses finds a boyfriend, and the two go on a spree of constantly vollying declarations of love and passion for each other. It quickly became cringey and I began to dread scenes with the two together. This would be fine if I was watching a hallmark movie, but Ulysses along with his friend Carly are both sardonic, which made it seem unrealistic behavior. Also his new boyfriend gives him a key to his apartment, and Ulysses breaks down in tears. I guess that should signify he had a past of having rejection and bad relationships, but the viewers were never informed of this or shown this so how are we supposed to feel for Ulysses? And then, in the blink of an eye, the two break up, and Ulysses is heartbroken.
I however wasn't, because I never was able to form any sort of bond or connection to him. He was through the whole show a surface, shallow character. Not saying he was a bad person, but all I ever got from Ulysses was an aimless youngster who smokes a lot of marijuana, enjoys fashion, and gossips with Carley about his love life. It never evolved into anything deeper than that.
Carley is another character who is portrayed to be daring, yet her whole shtick is very contrived and cliche. She does sex cam shows? OOOoooooo! How taboo! She finds out she's a dominatrix? Scandalous! She's a struggling actress? Gosh, she must be very jaded and too cool for school! Other than her equally stylish garb, thats about as deep as her character is.
By the end, she kind of randomly breaks up with Jethro, and I suppose we are supposed to feel sad for the both of them? Not so much. Like Ulysses, I couldn't feel deeply for a character that is..... man I can't think of the words, but all these characters lack that something that draws you in to feel committed and concerned for them. In one of the episodes, as the main characters head to palm springs for a party, Ford asks Severine if she would like to go to Coachella. She rebuffs his proposal, saying "why would I want to do anything like that?" to which we see the rest of the riders in the car wriggle in discomfort. What kind of raging monster doesn't want to go to Coachella? And this to me perhaps best symbolizes my issues with the cast. Its like the director was trying hard to take us behind the curtain of being a millenial, but his perception of what is an interesting 20-something is of someone who would fit right in at Coachella, and I think that says it all.
In the last few episodes, Ulysses finds a boyfriend, and the two go on a spree of constantly vollying declarations of love and passion for each other. It quickly became cringey and I began to dread scenes with the two together. This would be fine if I was watching a hallmark movie, but Ulysses along with his friend Carly are both sardonic, which made it seem unrealistic behavior. Also his new boyfriend gives him a key to his apartment, and Ulysses breaks down in tears. I guess that should signify he had a past of having rejection and bad relationships, but the viewers were never informed of this or shown this so how are we supposed to feel for Ulysses? And then, in the blink of an eye, the two break up, and Ulysses is heartbroken.
I however wasn't, because I never was able to form any sort of bond or connection to him. He was through the whole show a surface, shallow character. Not saying he was a bad person, but all I ever got from Ulysses was an aimless youngster who smokes a lot of marijuana, enjoys fashion, and gossips with Carley about his love life. It never evolved into anything deeper than that.
Carley is another character who is portrayed to be daring, yet her whole shtick is very contrived and cliche. She does sex cam shows? OOOoooooo! How taboo! She finds out she's a dominatrix? Scandalous! She's a struggling actress? Gosh, she must be very jaded and too cool for school! Other than her equally stylish garb, thats about as deep as her character is.
By the end, she kind of randomly breaks up with Jethro, and I suppose we are supposed to feel sad for the both of them? Not so much. Like Ulysses, I couldn't feel deeply for a character that is..... man I can't think of the words, but all these characters lack that something that draws you in to feel committed and concerned for them. In one of the episodes, as the main characters head to palm springs for a party, Ford asks Severine if she would like to go to Coachella. She rebuffs his proposal, saying "why would I want to do anything like that?" to which we see the rest of the riders in the car wriggle in discomfort. What kind of raging monster doesn't want to go to Coachella? And this to me perhaps best symbolizes my issues with the cast. Its like the director was trying hard to take us behind the curtain of being a millenial, but his perception of what is an interesting 20-something is of someone who would fit right in at Coachella, and I think that says it all.