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Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots
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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 235024" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>I could catch you up. It'd take about 10,000 words and an hour or so to write, but it's Tyler Perry--nothing really has changed. The characters move from place to place and talk a lot....things blow up and people shoot at one another...nostrils flare and eyes turn to angry slits...and yet despite everything in every scene seeming so high-stakes and dramatic, you realize an hour later that nothing really happened! </p><p></p><p>I think I lapsed into hate-watching toward the end of the most recent season, but it's hard to tell if it's true hate-watching, or if I'm watching for the same reason you can't resist looking at car accidents when you drive past. Part of it is intentional on TP's part, of course--he doesn't intend for the show to be high-brow drama. But being watchable and being well-done do not have to be mutually exclusive. It has been so long since we last dropped in on those high-strung nutcases that I can't recall what I disliked the most (probably the Benny/Malones stuff), but for every weak story like that, you have the complicated Jeffery/Justin/Madison triangle that has the perfect amount of TP envelope-pushing combined with the "same scene over and over" feeling. So yes, I plan to watch; my cable guide says they're doing two episodes back-to-back. And since I'm 99% sure this stuff was filmed before the lockdown, the staging won't be all awkward and tentative like the daytime soaps I've been watching.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 235024, member: 27"] I could catch you up. It'd take about 10,000 words and an hour or so to write, but it's Tyler Perry--nothing really has changed. The characters move from place to place and talk a lot....things blow up and people shoot at one another...nostrils flare and eyes turn to angry slits...and yet despite everything in every scene seeming so high-stakes and dramatic, you realize an hour later that nothing really happened! I think I lapsed into hate-watching toward the end of the most recent season, but it's hard to tell if it's true hate-watching, or if I'm watching for the same reason you can't resist looking at car accidents when you drive past. Part of it is intentional on TP's part, of course--he doesn't intend for the show to be high-brow drama. But being watchable and being well-done do not have to be mutually exclusive. It has been so long since we last dropped in on those high-strung nutcases that I can't recall what I disliked the most (probably the Benny/Malones stuff), but for every weak story like that, you have the complicated Jeffery/Justin/Madison triangle that has the perfect amount of TP envelope-pushing combined with the "same scene over and over" feeling. So yes, I plan to watch; my cable guide says they're doing two episodes back-to-back. And since I'm 99% sure this stuff was filmed before the lockdown, the staging won't be all awkward and tentative like the daytime soaps I've been watching. [/QUOTE]
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