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Episode Title: Game On
Once Upon a Time... Homeland used to be good... Seriously. Back in the day, oh around early 2012 (The Emmys for 2011), Homeland shocked the TV community by being nominated in place of Dexter. That was a tough year. Game of Thrones was up for it's second season and Breaking Bad just finished it's 4th season (probably the best in my opinion). Homeland surprised further by beating Emmy regulars Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Boardwalk Empire for the grand prize. That prize was deserved. While Season 1 of Homeland had some occasionally soap opera ridiculousness (the middle episodes of S1 was... weak to put it mildly), the closing episodes more than made up for it. It was a modern retelling of the Manchurian Candidate and it updated it superbly... (which is amusing because Homeland is supposedly a direct remake of Prisoners of War, an Israeli TV show.) Fast forward to 2013 and it's a little sad to see how far Homeland as fallen (although the Emmys apparently seems to still keep giving it nominations...).
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Episode Title: The Wedding
There we go. This is more like it. This is more of what I was looking for in this series. The episode wasn't completely predictable like the previous two episodes but we're back to the early episodes 2 or 3 where everything is the cringe worthy moments had to make me pause the video. Some of Stuart's antics are sincerely annoying by now but this time... things are atleast different. He develops and, once again, we see quite a bit more of his past coming out in his character. What really irritated me was actually Christine Woods' character. But there's atleast some development as a result which is something the series didn't do enough in the early episodes when it had seriously painful scenes. But back to Stuart...
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Episode Title: Long Beach
This episode baffles me. It sincerely does. Honestly I consider this particular episode the worst so far and likely the worst out of the series (since there's only 8 for S1). So the premise is that Stuart is having some construction work done and he decides to try to befriend the workers... because he's scared of them. Well ok, maybe he's not sincerely scared but he would like to try to "belong" with them to not feel so alienated around them. This reminds me of the episode in The Ricky Gervais Show (sorry I don't remember exactly which one) in which Stephen Merchant talks about being frightened by blue collared workers because of their physical strength. The skit and subsequent talk about that was charming but this episode in Hello Ladies just felt like an overly drawn out version of that Ricky Gervais bit.
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Episode Title: Pool Party
I must admit that Hello Ladies is gradually getting a little stale on me. It's starting to become a little too easy to predict the content of each episode. Stuart will come up with a scheme to meet women. It'll work just for a little bit at first but things don't go exactly to Stuart's plan or things aren't moving along fast enough for him. Thus, he tries to force the situation and this makes him super awkward but he's so concentrated on his goal to meet women (specifically hot model women) that he doesn't notice how badly he's screwing up the situation. Then he'll either get flat out rejected or leave out of frustration and find out that things would have turned out far better if he didn't push it.
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Episode Title: The Dinner
My jaw dropped within the first 30 seconds of this episode. I... won't be able to do it justice describing it but I need to describe it. Jessica is going out dressing well, Stuart comments on it and asks where she's going. Jessica says she and a few of her actress friends are going out to a gay club because they don't want the hassle of being hit on by men all night. Stuart instantly thinks that he would have no competition at the place and RUSHES TO TAG ALONG.
My. Jaw. Dropped. Stuart... this is a new low point for you.
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Episode Title: The Date
I'm going to be honest here. I did not enjoy this episode. Now... apparently there's a higher power who is screwing with me... Do you remember in one of my Dads view logs I mentioned how big of a douche Seth Green's character is? (If you don't read my Dads view logs... Seth Green's character is supposed to be this loveable sarcastic snarker but he's really just a douche). Stephen Merchant's character... is a douche... So not only am I irritated by one dick character who is poorly written... I'm also irritated by another in a properly written show... What are the chances that I happen to pick two shows who are, craft wise, totally opposite ends of the quality spectrum but have main characters who irritate me in very similar ways. Ugh... Actually, speaking of quality assessments, as of episode 3 I'm unsure how I'm to judge Hello Ladies. But I'll get to that in a sec... first... I need to explain why this episode was so painful.
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Episode Title: Foul Play
This... show... has... no shame. In a very bad way and not in ways the Family Guy writers probably intended...
