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After 3 episodes? Hardly. The Office fell off... and fell off badly and it was obvious.
Wasn't blown away initially by tonight's episode, another Chang story, this one without Britta or another character, and when I read it was going to be a Chang noir style I was very excited, but it wasn't quite film noir-y enough for me... I expected much more music, heavy dark shadows, etc. It had some good moments, but I wish they had a real noir story rather than Chang just being crazy. The focus on Chang this season seems too forced, I think they wanted to get it from "how do we get Chang into this world believably" and when they settled on the security guard, they made that happen over the initial episodes so hopefully it gets dialed back a bit. If Chang has his own B/C-Story every episode I'll be pretty disappointed.
The A-story also seemed repetitive at first, another "the group isn't getting along and are fighting again"... and while that will probably always be a basic story the show deals with, it felt very familiar at first. It didn't feel that way at the end, however, and by pointing out that they're all kind of bad people at times and can be really mean.. it made it less about "the group is fighting" and more "this group of jerks kind of sucks, but there's still love between them"
Am I the only one who absolutely hates Shirley? I cringe whenever she speaks because of her voice, I get tired of the Christianity, and she's my least favorite character by a thousand miles.
The repeated jokes on Todd might have gotten old if they didn't slowly reveal more and more details about him.. his newborn, taking his insulin, he was an Iraqi war vet, and it all made it worth it, I'd like to see Todd becoming a recurring character they bring up from time to time. Michael K. Williams as the professor has been good to me, but not that laugh out loud funny.. he's saying funny things and I like his jokes but I'm not dying of laughter.
