This is where I landed on it. Better than Big Bang Theory, worse than Silicon Valley. I found it to be a pretty watchable workplace comedy, and if it didn’t capture game dev well, it did capture a certain funhouse reflection of what people think game dev might be, and that’s what it needed to set the characters into motion, letting the actors cook. I know people giving it shit for its two best episodes not starring anyone from the main cast, and while true, they were two really good episodes and the floor of the main show is adequately high.

Now, in fairness, I’m not in love with IASIP and sort of checked out a long time ago, after they “died” on the cruise ship, so Rob and David Hornsby acting “similar but different” was no problem for me. I do think we were just about at the point where ending MQ makes sense, though. The show didn’t really have the bones for the characters to withstand a lot of growth, and the comedic situations for them as-is had sort of played themselves out. Obviously, for a sitcom, that’s the time to bow out. Going forward, I would love to see Charlotte Nicdao in something produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.