I don't know what to say about this show. Or, yes, I can say a lot about the show, but I get to feel like Jekyll & Hyde. This is because of the massive difference between Season 1 and 2. They are like night and day,
Season 1: The idea behind the season makes sense. A goofball God and his helpers that get everything done behind the scenes.The world they created and the whole miracle work made sense.
The jokes was great and Steve...well...he was perfect as God.
I like the idea of God who has personal problems, and his relation to his own creatin: Earth. The whole shows is centered around this, and I love how they both portray other gods and worlds, as they also portray the whole idea behind "miracles".
Season 2: The show is horrible! The creators clearly thought that changing the world and settings would be great, and they could be creative....THEY ARE NOT!
Its clear that the creators had a great idea with Season 1, but Season 2 is a horrible cliche and shows their lack of creativity. The basic idea is that the world is dumb and the characters is somehow aware of this. If you had seen "A Million Ways To Die In The West", you get the picture. Yeah haha, the doctor doesn't know anything about medicine haha he is dumb.
They thought they could be as funny as Seth McFarlane, but they are not. The jokes doesn't work, and the actors just goof around. They are great actors, but the manuscript is so poorly written, that they have nothing to do. The whole point is to make fun of "The Dark Ages" and how dumb they were, as seen with someone with knowledge from the 20th century. There is no story arch with God and his wish to destroy earth or anything. No, its a a guy who shovels poop (apparently duing the day and not by night, as it was usually) and his daugther who wants to be a doctor. It feels like the jokes and the story was made by teenagers, for teenagers without any clue about the Dark Ages. I hate this, as people back then was not "dumb", nor were the people who lived in the Stone Age or any other age. its only "stupid" if you see the world from our modern perspective and put our own norms into it. Yeah, then everything seems stupid. it seems stupid that everyone hated Charles Darwin for his new theory, it seems dumb that they invented the tin can before the tin opener (one of the two people know by now as a tin opener). Yeah, everything seems dumb this way.
The problem is that the writers are not good at making meta-jokes. Seth MacFarlane is a master at this, and Family Guy is mostly based on these sort of jokes. Thats why his western worked. He already knew how to make a movie, in which a character (him) is set in a world he finds dumb and deadly - but everyone else is unaware of this. The writers of Miracle Workers are not. The world seems flat, there is no real story to tell.
For me, they missed out on a great idea about God and his miracles set in a time when religion was way more serious than it is now. They had a created a great universe to play with, but failed completely.
I Give it 6 stars. 8 for Season 1, but Season 2 is so horrible i have to retract two stars.
Season 1: The idea behind the season makes sense. A goofball God and his helpers that get everything done behind the scenes.The world they created and the whole miracle work made sense.
The jokes was great and Steve...well...he was perfect as God.
I like the idea of God who has personal problems, and his relation to his own creatin: Earth. The whole shows is centered around this, and I love how they both portray other gods and worlds, as they also portray the whole idea behind "miracles".
Season 2: The show is horrible! The creators clearly thought that changing the world and settings would be great, and they could be creative....THEY ARE NOT!
Its clear that the creators had a great idea with Season 1, but Season 2 is a horrible cliche and shows their lack of creativity. The basic idea is that the world is dumb and the characters is somehow aware of this. If you had seen "A Million Ways To Die In The West", you get the picture. Yeah haha, the doctor doesn't know anything about medicine haha he is dumb.
They thought they could be as funny as Seth McFarlane, but they are not. The jokes doesn't work, and the actors just goof around. They are great actors, but the manuscript is so poorly written, that they have nothing to do. The whole point is to make fun of "The Dark Ages" and how dumb they were, as seen with someone with knowledge from the 20th century. There is no story arch with God and his wish to destroy earth or anything. No, its a a guy who shovels poop (apparently duing the day and not by night, as it was usually) and his daugther who wants to be a doctor. It feels like the jokes and the story was made by teenagers, for teenagers without any clue about the Dark Ages. I hate this, as people back then was not "dumb", nor were the people who lived in the Stone Age or any other age. its only "stupid" if you see the world from our modern perspective and put our own norms into it. Yeah, then everything seems stupid. it seems stupid that everyone hated Charles Darwin for his new theory, it seems dumb that they invented the tin can before the tin opener (one of the two people know by now as a tin opener). Yeah, everything seems dumb this way.
The problem is that the writers are not good at making meta-jokes. Seth MacFarlane is a master at this, and Family Guy is mostly based on these sort of jokes. Thats why his western worked. He already knew how to make a movie, in which a character (him) is set in a world he finds dumb and deadly - but everyone else is unaware of this. The writers of Miracle Workers are not. The world seems flat, there is no real story to tell.
For me, they missed out on a great idea about God and his miracles set in a time when religion was way more serious than it is now. They had a created a great universe to play with, but failed completely.
I Give it 6 stars. 8 for Season 1, but Season 2 is so horrible i have to retract two stars.