Dang, I just got to episode five last week too. Although, I had a feeling they would cancel this even from the first episode, so I’m not too surprised.
I feel it was decent, but it’s a hard premise to pull off imo. Most notably I feel this show would have landed better a few years ago. Some of the bits were cheesy in ways that don’t necessarily land as much these days.
Maybe the issue it had was that it was trying to write to too broad of an audience? It’s going for a niche of nerds that maybe want to learn a bit more about what things are actually like inside these gaming companies, but then I feel some of the humor is washed down to be more palatable for even kids to watch. It had Rob McElhenney and David Hornsby from It’s Always Sunny which were great casting picks, but the writing humor they were delivering was very PG in comparison to It’s Always Sunny.
I can see producers and writers wanting to avoid a comparison to Silicon Valley for instance. I feel this is probably why they went at it from the angle which they did, but the show a much harder time landing with its PG writing. They didn’t give themselves a ton of wiggle room either by writing it to be geared towards WoW and maybe some other MMO fans specifically. As I feel having other game projects the big studio is working on could at least have let them pivot the narrative. I feel at times some of the material could even have been applied to say Riot or Mihoyo, but from what I saw it felt very WoW based mixed with some Big Bang Theory level of humor.
Dang, I just got to episode five last week too. Although, I had a feeling they would cancel this even from the first episode, so I’m not too surprised.
I feel it was decent, but it’s a hard premise to pull off imo. Most notably I feel this show would have landed better a few years ago. Some of the bits were cheesy in ways that don’t necessarily land as much these days.
Maybe the issue it had was that it was trying to write to too broad of an audience? It’s going for a niche of nerds that maybe want to learn a bit more about what things are actually like inside these gaming companies, but then I feel some of the humor is washed down to be more palatable for even kids to watch. It had Rob McElhenney and David Hornsby from It’s Always Sunny which were great casting picks, but the writing humor they were delivering was very PG in comparison to It’s Always Sunny.
I can see producers and writers wanting to avoid a comparison to Silicon Valley for instance. I feel this is probably why they went at it from the angle which they did, but the show a much harder time landing with its PG writing. They didn’t give themselves a ton of wiggle room either by writing it to be geared towards WoW and maybe some other MMO fans specifically. As I feel having other game projects the big studio is working on could at least have let them pivot the narrative. I feel at times some of the material could even have been applied to say Riot or Mihoyo, but from what I saw it felt very WoW based mixed with some Big Bang Theory level of humor.